finite_jest

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by finite_jest 5y ago
Not de jure, but it seems they are trying to make it so de facto.
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by finite_jest 5y ago
FYI, Canada does not have a president. Trudeau is the prime minister. However, you are right in that his quote (which I think was in French originally) is just awful name-calling.
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Perhaps, I'm really not sure how often would that happen though. I actually think the analogy is a relatively good one. Parallels also also run for the question of how much "paternalism" do we want (the limits of "for-yo
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by finite_jest 5y ago
> If a seatbelt doest stop you from dying in 100% of car crashes, I don't understand why they're mandatory? Interestingly, your comparison is relevant, but you are responding to an argument which I don't think is being mad
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29753183
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Yes, that is true. There was a discussion of this issue on HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29744347
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by finite_jest 5y ago
That makes sense, as Google's extension to RCS does have a form of "end-to-end" encryption.
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by finite_jest 5y ago
I believe they are blocking links to the websites in an SMS message.
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Thanks :-)) lichess.com was a typo on my part, sorry for that.
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Do you mind checking l̶i̶c̶h̶e̶s̶s̶.̶c̶o̶m̶ lichess.org? It's a popular online chess website, as the name suggests. A Reddit post from a month ago claims it is also blocked. [1] I think that would be hilarious. [1]: https://
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by finite_jest 5y ago
According to the video, links to Odysee (a YouTube alternative) and Free The States (an anti-abortion websites) are blocked. People on Reddit [1] also corroborate this. Corporate censorship exists, it is generally biased politically, and is
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Except that "Read Across America" is Dr. Seuss's birthday, and "Dr. Seuss Day" is the other common name for it? And, what about the rest of the events? I think you are merely trolling, and not really arguing in good
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by finite_jest 5y ago
That's a fair point. I guess you could try to correct for that by giving more weight to references by non-Christian authors. However, I believe with almost any reasonable measure you choose, the KJV Bible has a very high literary value
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by finite_jest 5y ago
> British coloquialisms that are not taught abroad What are some examples of those?
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by finite_jest 5y ago
For that, as an alternative solution, there is [1] by @jermaustin1, and [2] by @dangrossman. [1]: https://hnnotify.xyz/ [2]: https://www.hnreplies.com/
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by finite_jest 5y ago
You do have a point. But one could certainly also argue that "Impropriety is the soul of wit." :-)
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by finite_jest 5y ago
As a non-native English speaker myself, I totally understand and sympathize.
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Not really, they most likely did it for ideological/virtue-signalling reasons. You are right in that they probably did it in a way that would hurt their profits the least. Their statement [1] explicitly says they are doing it after con
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by finite_jest 5y ago
I know that it was killed by Reagan's FCC, but I really don't have a good understanding of their motivation. The Wikipedia article quotes someone in the Kennedy administration as saying: "Our massive strategy [in the early 19
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by finite_jest 5y ago
To test that hypothesis, we can also try to estimate the size of the vocabulary of the users based on their comments. Vocabulary size is probably roughly correlated with intelligence. It is kinda biased against users who don't live in
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Although HN is awesome generally, it really could use a redesign :-) The experience on phones with a smaller screen is far from ideal, and there are some weird display issues with the Algolia search. Some essential functionality like option
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by finite_jest 5y ago
There is that. But there's also the "forever redesign" problem. It goes roughly like this: the designers would always advocate for a redesign, as it is more exciting, and also because it creates more new tasks/jobs for t
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by finite_jest 5y ago
You may not need scraping. HN has a rudimentary but functioning API [1], and there is dump on BigQuery [2]. [1]: https://github.com/HackerNews/API [2]: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/
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by finite_jest 5y ago
If we are being fair, I think it is quite clear (as far as humanities go) that overall the Bible's literary value is much higher than the book in question. If we do a PageRank-like ordering of all books based on quotes and cross-refere
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by finite_jest 5y ago
I don't think censorship really has much to do with copyright. A book can certainly be in public domain, and still be censored. It is mostly about infringing the restricting the ability of individuals to choose what they would like to
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by finite_jest 5y ago
I simply think Amazon should not censor books, and people who are against censorship should try pressuring them into not doing that. As for government intervention, at least for the case of Amazon banning books, it seems practically infeasi
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by finite_jest 5y ago
On (1), that quote is quite irrelevant to the current discussion, and I don't want to get into that. I'm glad that we all agree that burning books should be condemned. On (2) and (3), neither of these are true in reality, and most
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by finite_jest 5y ago
That's one of most amusing conspiracy theories I've heard in a while :-)
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by finite_jest 5y ago
There is a counterargument to that: Craig Wright. He openly claims to be Satoshi (almost certainly fraudulently), and he seems to be doing kinda OK. [1] [1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/06/miami-jury-rules-in
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by finite_jest 5y ago
As per LinuxBender's comment [1], ExoneraTor [2] tells us it hasn't been a TOR relay in 2009 either. I think Szabo is the most likely Satoshi candidate. He seems to have disappeared from public view since March, despite being a pr

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