crocodiletears

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by crocodiletears 7y ago
I'm similarly attached to the WSJ's weekend edition. It's a good highlight reel for the week's news, and avoids most of the hyperventilation the NYT seems prone to. If you've read both, how would you compare the two
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by crocodiletears 7y ago
Affluent pedophile cult conspiracy theories have been a staple of fringe right-wing elements, and the militia movement for some time. Especially recently they've been associated with the populist wing of the Republican Party (pizzagate
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by crocodiletears 7y ago
You aren't wrong about that. I've used a couple late-model trucks (Silverados) at various points, but I prefer to early oughties Rangers and F150s for just that reason. I don't think that the diminished utility of sideloading
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by crocodiletears 7y ago
I think the Cybertruck looks like a fantastic SUV, but here would be my critiques of it as a competitor in the pickup truck: As oft stated, the slope of the bed's walls makes side-loading difficult. This may not seem too significant da
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by crocodiletears 7y ago
This is a bit tangential to the topic at hand, but do you believe that their previous experience at DARPA made the company's culture/workflow distinct from other startups in any significant way?
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by crocodiletears 7y ago
I've emailed you via hn àτ crocodile.observer
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by crocodiletears 7y ago
Likewise. This article caught my eye, because it describes a phenomenon similar to one I've observed locally over the past year. I'd be curious about how well this meshes with what you've seen. We have a fleet of (at least) 3
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Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
True, but I like to qualify my assertions when making statements like that. People often unpack complex claims in such a way that they make the wrong assumptions about the reasoning behind them. I believe that the assertion is Moreso true f
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
I think a lot of the confusion around Japan's culture often stems from the fact that from the outside, to casual observers, they seem so culturally integrated with the rest of the world; yet don't seem to have assimilated many (if
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
This isn't a statement against your other critiques of Seattle's government. In fact, I have no standing to speak on them given I've never been to the city. But I'm be quite weary of criticisms against city's handli
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
I agree with you there, but I don't think you can say much better about any other news source, unfortunately. They just lack a lot of the 'subtlety' publications like CNN have. They'll never be a paper of record like the
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
Slanted though it may be, Fox's reporting is generally about as on the level as their contemporaries, and their written articles are a notable step up from their tv coverage. They've even received some praise from Sy Hearsh for ha
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
Because caffeine consumption is usually a given in the general population, and significantly weaker than more specifically engineered and harder to acquire prescription drugs. Three pots of coffee in an hour is a poor equivalent to taking r
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
Don't get me wrong. Leaving isn't worth it yet. Still quite a ways off.
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
I mentioned in a previous HN thread that there likely wasn't a line Facebook could cross that might make me delete my account. I'm not there yet, but I'm willing to admit before that I was wrong. If I posted on Facebook, I wo
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
If we can edit, and it's reliable, we (those that can afford it, not I) will. I don't think that's a conversation that we as a society can really have while delivering much impact. A more salient set of questions to me, is ho
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
Dismissing someone as a possible Russian agent has to be the laziest response to ever have become a meme online. Such paranoia prevents good-faith engagement over reconcilable differences of perspective while simultaneously allowing us to d
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
I too, am leery of accepting this incident as a deliberate attack. The Chicago Tribune wrote a less hyperbolic article, indicating that they were forced to print a stripped down version of their paper[0]. An NBC reporter reached out to Trib
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
I honestly couldn't speak to differences between the two services. I used Slack for one semi-professional community in particular a few years ago, but have since used exclusively Discord, due to its ubiquity. I do recall that I immedia
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
Discord isn't just for gamers. Though that's where it started, its robust community management features have made it's a go-to for online creators looking to engage with their audiences. It's especially prominent among Y
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
Hardly. I use multiple search engines specifically because I lack trust. While I'm more than likely to take the papers of record at their words, I've known more than enough police officers, journalists, and armchair philosophers t
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
For general queries, I use Searx.me. Occasionally I'll use Google if Searx is down, or I need technical information that I need search operators for. For current events, I use Searx, Bing, Yandex, Yahoo, and Baidu (if I'm really d
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by crocodiletears 8y ago
I can't think of any concrete red-line that Facebook could cross. I've never been a techno-utopian, and the Snowden leaks were the catalyst that drove me to learn programming. I recall being in my early teens, when I went to creat