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by fivea 5y ago
> I've been seeing a suspicious amount of mentions of Hetzner on HN lately. (Just an observation.) I never get tired of praising Hetzner. Their prices are remarkably a fraction of AWS's equivalent products,and their pricing mod
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> How would you know? How do you know someone hired to drive a remote vehicle is being exploited?
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> But she wasn't charged with anything? I don't understand why the feds have to destroy her business and take all the family funds. Wasn't the "business" a shell company used to launder money from flip scams, and
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> No, he means the raw unedited videos, like the ones on channel he linked. Is it though? Things don't magically disappear from raw footage. Either you edit it out or not show inconvenient footage. I mean, all this gaslighting requi
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> It's like saying the least toxic venom on the planet is the pinnacle of non-toxicity... I mean it's still venom. If all you see is toxicity, wherever you look around, then perhaps that warrants some introspection and a review
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> If anything, the GP feels unpleasant for trying to present its parent comment in the worst possible light, in an overly snarky tone. Pointing factually and patently wrong assertions is not a personal attack nor being toxic. A comment o
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> The main thing I've noticed on HN is that having a contrarian mindset is rewarded, even in situations where it doesn't add to the conversation. Is it really being contrarian, or supporting multiple views in intellectually sti
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by fivea 5y ago
> Well first, you took a well-meaning article discussing how HN can be toxic. You can look at the article as an attack on a forum's reputation, and consequently on their users, by fabricating baseless blanket accusations of being a
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> Although, you have to give him credit for a few well-justified bans from figures sometimes seen here on HN... That's like praising someone who threw out the baby with the bathwater to give him credit on an outstanding work filteri
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> I challenge you to find one nazi flag there. You mean in the videos extensively edited and cherry-picked to hide any reference to Nazi flags or any hate symbol?
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> It's a person nonchalantly talking about killing homeless people as a viable solution to homelessness. Do you have a link or not? You're running in circles about he-said-she-said, but the only concrete info you shown so far b
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There's a far more charitable interpretation (and explanation) of this: broadness. People who know too little don't know how to get to the happy path, let alone stay in there. People who know too much know extensively where the ha
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> Literal example. They weren't saying "we should kill homeless people", but (...) Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and given that it only took a reply to water down the initial bombastic claim, unless
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by fivea 5y ago
> Metafilter isn’t toxic at all unless you have the wrong opinions. Echo chambers have that effect on people.
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> Do you agree that the question “who cares what X says?” Perhaps I've become desensitized, but "toxic" is not a synonym for "not supportive". Being dismissive of something or someone, or not agreeing with someo
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by fivea 5y ago
> If you have a lock with no keys, it is secure, since it can't be opened. As soon as you have one key, the lock is less secure, because now the lock can be opened. No, not really. Your simplistic example fails to acknowledge that
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> Again, CORS does not protect, the SOP does :-) This is simply false. You are somehow wrongly assuming that only same-origin requests exist or are needed. This scenario never existed in the real world beyond the scope of small personal
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> CORS does not protect anything from anyone. The same-origin policy stops code from one site reading resources from another site. CORS selectively removes that protection – it decreases security. This comment comes off as either disinge
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by fivea 5y ago
> Python core library development is filled with asshats who like to deprecate naming conventions in later versions rather than just improving the existing libraries and keeping the method names the same. I think this is a gross misrepre
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> (...) I don't think he's against renewables but (...) It really makes no difference what's the youtuber's opinion on renewables. The point is that the arguments made by the YouTuber are completely pointless and mean
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by fivea 5y ago
> HTTP/2 came out in 2014, and since then I still haven't seen it used in production in the jobs I worked at. I'd already be happy if I could use IPv6.
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> Probably easier to stick to bash rather than the overhead of learning new set of commands that I need to learn from scratch. That's all fine and dandy until your shell script grows beyond a dozen lines of code or so. The moment th
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> A deeper dive: they aren't renewable, they're at best rebuildable I find your YouTube video neither insightful nor informative. It reads as a string of desperate attempts at gotchas, only possible by repeatedly moving goalpo
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> they are siloing to comply with Chinese laws. No, not really. Companies operating in China silo their services because Chinese laws demand access to servers, and by siloing the company ensures that the Chinese regime does keep it'
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> Math, big-O, and proofs are programming concepts. If you want a shallow understanding of whatever (...) take a coding bootcamp. But know that after a few years your skills will be out of date and you will have a hard time keeping up wi
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> Do you honestly think that's true? Think? I know for a fact it's true. In fact, do you know a single company operating in China that doesn't silo away their China operations?
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> 1. Siloing off the EU facebook, with no contact with the US That's already business as usual with China, but companies like Facebook have absolutely no problem with that silo as it protects them and benefits their bottom line. But
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> According to standard economic theory, shortages only happen when pricing mechanisms fail. No, not it isn't. That assertion is fundamentally wrong at many levels. It seems you're confusing the intro to economics definition of
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> Finally! The free market at work! Cryptocurrency has liberated us from the evils of government controlling money! Isn't this more of a kin to a 21 century's take on piracy and privateering?
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> LinkedIn probably has a net benefit for your career by keeping up to date and checking the messages once a week, but I cannot get over the awkwardness of seeing total BS stories and thousands of replies saying "YES! AMEN!".

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