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by drcongo 10mo ago
This is the most Hacker News thread ever. Endless comments from people who didn't read the article, the criteria, and in some cases apparently the title, leaping in to shout about how these books aren't banned.
542.
by drcongo 10mo ago
The HTML fragments aren't random.
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by drcongo 10mo ago
I'd vote for them.
544.
by drcongo 10mo ago
Really?! They've always made a little bit of sick come up for me. Marc Andreessen has always been a grotesque parody of Lex Luthor.
545.
by drcongo 10mo ago
Oh, I had that happen fairly recently.
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by drcongo 10mo ago
Love how they drop this news right before everyone goes away for the xmas holidays and it kicks in right as you come back. Or before you come back if you live outside the US.
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by drcongo 10mo ago
I miss those. Anyone know if it's still possible to get the models etc. needed to generate them?
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Dominatrix turns tech founder to combat revenge porn(bbc.co.uk)
16 points by drcongo 10mo ago|1 comments
549.
by drcongo 10mo ago
No idea if this has ever been tried, but a GDPR "subject access request" requires a company to hand over all the data they hold on you, which technically should include all your photos, media, messages and everything.
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by drcongo 10mo ago
The horrible writing style here makes it really hard to get through, but it's worth it.
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by drcongo 10mo ago
All enemies are people you dislike and / or people who do things you don't like. This does not make the opposite true, not all people you dislike or who do things you don't like are your enemy. The statement "all cats ar
552.
by drcongo 10mo ago
You've entered into a logical fallacy there - the parent was saying that not liking someone or what they do is a prerequisite for them becoming an enemy. They did NOT say that everyone you don't like is your enemy, which is the
553.
by drcongo 10mo ago
You'd need to be a psychopath to work there in the first place, so I doubt any of them have any feelings about this at all.
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by drcongo 10mo ago
There's a sizeable cluster north of London on there - trying to work out why, I suspect it may be the proximity to Bedford Aerodrome and the fact that it's a very farming centered area and aerial photos can be very useful to farme
555.
by drcongo 10mo ago
What was the shark doing in the street?!
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by drcongo 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans
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by drcongo 10mo ago
Out of curiosity, do you know if these events get taught in history lessons in American schools? I'm by no means throwing shade here - I'm a Brit and our history lessons barely mentioned the unending list of atrocities Britain com
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by drcongo 10mo ago
I got downvoted on here not so long ago for mentioning time as an emergent property of quantum consciousness so maybe it's controversial.
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by drcongo 10mo ago
Keep following through the logic... You manage to hook someone who absolutely knows you're a scammer, and they keep responding to you taking up precious time you could be spending with someone who is actually likely to give you money.
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by drcongo 10mo ago
That's exactly what I was thinking of!
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by drcongo 10mo ago
My theory is that they deliberately make Windows so shit to filter out anyone with taste. Once you have a userbase of people who don't know better, you can sell them any old crap. Like Teams.
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by drcongo 11mo ago
Every time drug prices come up on here someone posts this explainer without mentioning the eye watering cost of the insurance.
563.
by drcongo 11mo ago
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.
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by drcongo 11mo ago
It's an interesting point, but "US govt can create money out of thin air either via congress approval or fed interest rate" has spectacular knock-on effects that you'd need to wilfully ignore. I recommend David Graeber&#
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by drcongo 11mo ago
Not to mention the awful stock photos on the home page, and the word salad on the about us page: https://imo.im/about_us.html
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by drcongo 11mo ago
I pay as much tax as I can, and claim for none of the allowances I could. Some people actually understand that their tax is important. edit: I'm not in the US, but there's a lot of brits with your attitude too.
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by drcongo 11mo ago
I got grilled by cops in LA once for walking on the sidewalk. Apparently nobody does that there.
568.
by drcongo 11mo ago
https://omen.fandom.com/wiki/Thorn_Industries
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by drcongo 11mo ago
He says a lot of things, most of it lies.
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by drcongo 11mo ago
I think we (and probably HN in general) aren't the target audience here. Last time I met up with some non-tech friends, Peter Thiel came up a lot in the pub chat - a year ago I'm not sure they would have known who he is. The more

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