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by daxorid 7y ago
The Hacker News Officially Permitted Opinion on the matter of obesity is that it's not the fault of the obese. Responsibility lies with society, or the media, or GMO crops, or Trump, or something, ANYTHING other than personal choice. A
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by daxorid 7y ago
A fair argument, as far as it goes. The Whig view of history is quite popular, but history is sometimes cyclical. It took about five years for the cultural zeitgeist of Germany to swing from extremely liberal to extremely fascist starting i
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GDP per capita is a poor measure of productivity, and doesn't consider externalities. SF is pretty good at producing emotionally manipulative adtech to opt every Internet and smartphone user into a global panopticon, and also quite pro
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by daxorid 7y ago
I am also having a bad feeling that Linus Torwalds is next No, he successfully capitulated to the mob and pinky swore that he will no longer use big bad meany words that might offend the children who currently police the LKML. Who you sho
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by daxorid 7y ago
TSLAQ is actually quite happy with this number, with the stock down 5% AH. The multiple on this stock has it pegged to be an extreme growth company, but 5% annualized delivery growth with shrinking ASPs is decidedly not a "growth"
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by daxorid 7y ago
That's a fine argument, as far as it goes, but in practice it's applied spuriously, unevenly, and unfairly. One of the principals involved in getting Yarvin deplatformed from Strangeloop, Steve Klabnik, is a communist, supporting
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by daxorid 7y ago
I've never heard of someone getting kicked out for offering a controversial but considered opinion on something "Kicked out" is stronger than what usually happens. More like "disinvited". Yarvin/Strangeloop i
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by daxorid 7y ago
I'm sure every single man posting on this website has an example of a time when they shared how they were feeling, or were vulnerable, to some women, and had it blow up in their face. I have. Yes, but you're not allowed to talk
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by daxorid 7y ago
even if for a short duration Nobody will unwind their balance sheets in any substantial or meaningful way, ever. QT ending because asset values came down 10% from all time historical highs should make this abundantly clear. It's a po
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by daxorid 7y ago
8chan's primary crime is not being sufficiently popular. The Christchurch killer livestreamed the event on Facebook, and the enormous well-funded content moderation apparatus within failed to shut it down until well after the innocents
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by daxorid 7y ago
> Isn't the point of HN that it doesn't host the usual hateful garbage? Sure, but HN also shouldn't host the usual political "hot takes" the GGGP pointed out. What's happening here is that unsubstantive comm
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by daxorid 7y ago
> Any Asus beats any HP laptop The HP Spectre line runs Linux out of the box with full device support. Asus is hit or miss. Otherwise, yes, you're absolutely correct.
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by daxorid 7y ago
online advertising is pretty low on my list The threat that Google's tracking infrastructure represents is not limited to ads. If they stayed in their proverbial lane and used their panopticon exclusively to sell me things, many of u
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Carrying it around has stiff penalties. What are the penalties for carrying bullion?
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by daxorid 7y ago
Our tribe isn't exactly immune to this. From Steve Jobs' 90 hour work week pride, to gleefully giving our employers free advertising on our swag t-shirts. It's always fun to remember that although it's easy to watch the
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by daxorid 7y ago
2007 EfNet #java was an absolutely magical place. Honestly, I think things started declining when the original jjava bot got wiped :( RIP, jjava. But yes, IRC channels in those days didn't take kindly to questions from people who didn&
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by daxorid 7y ago
There is nothing more cruel than taking away the one resource a person cannot ever recover: time. Creative, or even corporal (e.g. 20 lashes), punishments are A. more effective, and B. less cruel, than prison time.
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by daxorid 7y ago
Devil's advocate: The moral reasoning behind restraining the government from denying speech and other rights is that the government is a monopoly (in this case of force). This reasoning extends to restrictions on the ability of other m
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by daxorid 7y ago
This is demonstrably untrue, as 2010's SAFRA effectively nationalized 80% of student debt. Direct Loans by the government, not private lenders, comprise almost all of the student debt market, as of now. https://en.wikipedia.
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by daxorid 7y ago
> and has never before been possible in the physical world People have been hiding information and assets via buried treasure for millennia, with the key (location) only accessible in the brain of the one burying it. Is it easier now? Su
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by daxorid 7y ago
It's increasingly difficult to do this without incurring contempt from our bootlicking judiciary. You're gambling on the temperament of your judge if you do this.
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by daxorid 7y ago
A possible downstream effect of this: Pingdom appears to be alerting VERY late, at least for us. I'm guessing with 8% of the web affected, their alerting systems aren't prepared for this many simultaneous alerts.
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by daxorid 7y ago
1. Buy 8 of them with large-capacity SD cards, hoping to make an awesome Ceph cluster. 2. Build said Ceph cluster. 3. Become disillusioned with both SD and USB I/O. 4. Place all of them in storage. 5. Buy 8 Tinkerboards, hoping to make
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Indeed. My business is currently being targeted by these ambulance-chasers, but we are not a college with a well-staffed IT department; we are an ecommerce business with a single front-end developer on staff. Annoying, to say the least.
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The non-opioid-epidemic portions of rural America are very much like that.
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It's a bimodal distribution; if you have mechanical or electrical issues, they are generally quite good with service. God help you if you need body work, however.
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by daxorid 7y ago
Strongly agree. I'd like to point out that his Spec House project is only one of many things he's involved with. The blacksmithing, woodworking, and other videos are equally great. One video in particular is ostensibly about con
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by daxorid 7y ago
HN has quite a few infosec professionals who have obtained a fair bit of swag and gotten reasonably drunk on CrowdStrike investors' dime at various security conference booths/events/parties. The SG&A line item in their fi
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by daxorid 8y ago
Not to go all MRA here, but nobody cares. Nobody's going to bother with the research and meta-analyses required to get to the bottom of the matter. Our health concerns are of no concern to this society. And while many states are legali
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by daxorid 8y ago
It can also cause liver damage As opposed to the liver-sparing lifetime of alcoholism? Principle of least harm comes into play, here.

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