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by fapjacks 6y ago
Is it any more ridiculous than the claim that limitations on speech can somehow stop fascism? What is your bar for ridiculous claims about the possible outcomes of the freedom of (or limitations on) speech? A culture that feels it is free t
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I am on board (badum-psh!) with diffuse causality for massive and complex systems like "retail-level" (or consumer-level) import/export trade, but your point would be more persuasive with a trailhead of links demonstrating to
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I realize it's not very hip to be proud of the things we have accomplished in the United States, but that doesn't make them untrue or any less significant.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
And here we have arrived at the crux of the problem. Should we just throw up our hands and say "Then just don't use American tech"? I think this move by Uganda (and your comment) illustrate the same frustration that we in Ame
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I think it is the case, and what we're seeing online is chaff and noise and not reflective of what most American adults believe. Maybe it's Russian bots or whatever. Or children from Reddit. Or Europeans trying to dictate what the
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Well post-war Europe didn't invent the internet or land on the moon. You have your way of doing things, we have ours. Also sort of ironic that you would advocate the very same tools that the fascists themselves used to control and mani
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Cancel culture exists because it is 100% cost-free to shitpost on Twitter when people feel like their petty political issues with some person or company are in conflict with their own personal value judgments. But this isn't an issue w
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Thanks for this post, and I second this Awaken with JP recommendation.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
It's the horseshoe theory: The authoritarianism you're describing as "fascism" takes all-comers, left AND right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I agree with you on the surface, but in reading your comment, I'm reminded of feeling exactly the same way after Trump was elected, just in the opposite sense. And thinking about it, this was the same sense I had about things after Oba
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by fapjacks 6y ago
While it would be nice if this were the result, why do you imagine that Twitter would ban these accounts promoting violence when members of the American government and major media outlets openly signal boost and support the very same violen
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I think you're right, that this is actually a simple calculus about power and money (as it always has been and always will be). It's really the thing that grinds my gears when I forget myself: The duplicity and virtue signaling. T
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by fapjacks 6y ago
How quickly we forget the past. Trump took to Twitter specifically because he believed none of the news organizations were reliable narrators of his messaging.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Wow! Well, add me to the list of people jealous of your students! Not so surprising to discover you are in the Netherlands, however, as it seems to fit the mental model I have from my limited exposure to your country. :)
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Hello, I've stumbled across your comment and happy to see that enough time has passed that my reply is unlikely to be read by anyone but you. I am a very similar position as you, being a self-taught programmer, living a very "cont
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Congrats on trying something new after your burnout.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Just a heads up to OP... Discogs is definitely a mom-and-pop endeavor in more ways than one. If one were nimble enough, I am almost certain they could not keep up with a more featureful competitor that shaved off the (many) pain points of b
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Interesting, so which technologies do 16 and 17 year olds learn in HS CS courses?
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I'm honestly wondering if this is top-tier HN trolling. If so, well done.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
They're suggesting a pricing model from the perspective of running this business instead of a pricing model from the perspective of using this service. Subscriptions are worth way more to a (tech) business than one-off purchases.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
"Life is worth losing." -- George Carlin
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Were you born and raised in China? If not, this is the lamest reply ever. Using any "race card" is never okay, not only because it is just a perversion of appeal to authority, but also because your ethnicity does not impart any sp
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I have no idea. Perhaps you could research this and report back your findings?
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by fapjacks 6y ago
NO! Beware! It has been demonstrated by multiple research groups [0] that Pi-hole DOES NOT stop this tracking by your televisions. I hated having to type that sentence. The future is stupid. [0] https://twitter.com/random_
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Hello! I would like to recommend to everyone one of the few utilities I've found in the last few years which blew my socks off, called x2x [0]. It is a small console program you can use to link your X session with a remote session (ove
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Like looking at a jeweler's workshop and asking "Why all these shitty little hammers? Don't you know how well a sledge works?"
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Yeah this is an interesting side effect: I just use the recommended defaults in spamassassin with my self-hosted mail server and it does a much better job than gmail of properly sorting mail between inbox and spam folders.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
The way people get around this apparent "shadowban" behavior is by creating a separate legal entity of some form to be the publisher of each app or extension or channel or whatever. It seems that once you are shadowbanned, you are
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... The centerpiece of which is "Your process/idea/thinking must consult our oracle of moral rightness and adhere to its adjudication" which is why it's so useful to woke culture proponents as a political tool, beca
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Your comments are all dead and I vouched for this one, but it's clear from your comment history why. Nobody likes reading "angry programmer" comments here because you're just not special around here, so nobody has to bea

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