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by doktrin 6y ago
Trolling is malicious, just normalized and give a cutesy name.
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by doktrin 7y ago
I lived in Japan for several years so I'm quite aware of the upsides of that country, and more aware than most of its dark and downsides. Ghosn is undoubtedly guilty of something, but he wasn't arrested (and subsequently rearreste
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by doktrin 7y ago
Good on him for escaping. The japanese judicial system is an outright farce and they deserve to be humiliated on the world stage.
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by doktrin 7y ago
You can always tell which pedrstrians in Oslo are visitors, because they wait for cars to slow down at crosswalks before setting foot in the street. Norwegians are so accustomed to motorists being attentive that they blindly and confidently
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by doktrin 7y ago
Agreed. Nothing wrong with writing about "old" news. Just because I / you / anyone might already know something doesn't mean everybody does, and even if we already know something doesn't mean revisiting it is p
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by doktrin 7y ago
So, like a PR rep?
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by doktrin 7y ago
Yes and no. I just began a period of what I guess you could call voluntary unemployment, due to years of neglecting my mental health. I've had all the symptoms, but have been more than a little embarrassed at even thinking of myself as
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by doktrin 7y ago
I'm another person who for whatever reason was never able to adjust to vaping. It quite literally hurts, even with modest inhales, despite trying numerous models (disposables, cartridges, expensive sub ohm systems, you name it). This a
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by doktrin 7y ago
> The Chinese news would emphasize isolated incidents of violence by the protesters during the protests, pontificate on it and publish op-eds analyzing the cause of the protests ranging from the failed economy of Hong Kong to the profoun
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by doktrin 7y ago
At a certain point I think we'll arrive at the collective realization that we all have digital skeletons in our closet. When we all stink, nobody stinks.
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by doktrin 7y ago
TIL Samuel L. Jackson is the most wikipedia'd person who's ever lived in Washington DC. That's kind of wild considering the competition includes every US president ever, among many others.
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by doktrin 7y ago
How is that not apples and oranges?
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by doktrin 7y ago
Former 15-213 student as well. This was one of the best CS classes I've ever had the pleasure of taking. Also worth noting the plagiarism detector actually did its job, at least in some of the most egregious cases that I heard of.
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by doktrin 7y ago
> It goes without saying that being a Professional Penetration Tester is one of the “sexier” jobs in InfoSec I thought this was mostly the perception from people outside infosec. The vibe I tend to get from people within infosec is that
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by doktrin 7y ago
In the US, very little if anything. Overseas, it depends greatly. I tried to use Amazon Prime in Norway, and it's a mess. The user can see all the titles, but can only play a fraction of them. I even got shafted after purchasing a movi
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by doktrin 7y ago
Yeah, 6 figures USD as a minimum basically describes SV and NYC, and that's it.
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by doktrin 7y ago
Is there an easy way to bypass the paywall? Wouldn't mind subscribing to the economist tbh, just not right this instant.
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by doktrin 7y ago
> Amazon has literally won everywhere else in the world. Disagree. I live in northern europe and haven't used Amazon since moving here. Every single product is "doesn't ship to your location" etc., there are domestic
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by doktrin 7y ago
The state to which the US tax system is an absolute hellscape becomes crystal clear when/if you move abroad. I currently live in one of those small european countries touted (often accurately, sometimes not) as a utopia, and sure enoug
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by doktrin 7y ago
I think at the absolute worst I've spent almost 10 minutes painstakingly walking through successive google CAPTCHAs before just giving up. The modern web is basically openly hostile to anonymity (or pseudo anonymity). That's one o
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by doktrin 7y ago
If you're implying that abuse by elites is some new phenomenon within the last 50 years I completely disagree. In fact social inequality has probably been more favorable and egalitarian during the last 50 years than basically any other
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by doktrin 8y ago
You could apply this reasoning to literally anything, because every organisation / nation state / what have you has at some point and in some form considered the consequences of their actions. History shows that internal evaluatio
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by doktrin 8y ago
it's hilarious that your main defense of twitter's design decisions is an appeal to twitter's own authority. "twitter is doing these things for a reason and surely these reasons are good, otherwise they wouldn't be
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by doktrin 8y ago
“User engagement” on social media platforms in 2019 is a proxy for “triggering users emotional responses and luring them into internet arguments” Min maxed “user engagement” is almost certainly a net negative for society at large
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by doktrin 8y ago
Frankly I agree. There's a lot of ridiculous hand-wringing in every thread about Huawei on HN, but unless what's reported here is factually wrong I'm not going to lose sleep over them facing consequences for a shoddy product.
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by doktrin 8y ago
> Remember that these folks are pouring all of their energy into a free product, and remember that they're sensitive to how you perceive it. I hope I live to see the day when the internet stops bringing out the worst in us. The Linu
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by doktrin 8y ago
> But I've never gone to someone's house and seen their bathroom in that condition. I broadly agree with your premise, but the nitpicky HN part of my brain feels obligated to point out that a certain amount of selection bias mi
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by doktrin 8y ago
> Everyone still runs their fool mouth same as they used to I very much doubt this is true. Yes, people run their mouth on FB and other real-name / real-identity accounts, but not to the same extent as with anonymous profiles. What
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by doktrin 8y ago
Willing to bet money the author switched to something else by 2017. For the overwhelming majority of developers Clojure is this tinker toy we fiddle with for 6 months to a year before getting bored and fed up with its limitations.
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by doktrin 8y ago
> you NEVER dunk the rice into a mixture of soja-sauce and wasabi (no matter if real or not) why not?

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