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by hartpuff 10y ago
I honestly can't tell if this is meant to be serious or not. It's not proper discourse on HN, or it insults people's intelligence, to have a minority opinion? What?
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by hartpuff 10y ago
(as in posts that don't make any argument, whether you agree with it or not, or add anything to a discussion) Let's say someone here posts "fuck off" or "you're an idiot". Please explain how that can be
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by hartpuff 10y ago
> he's being downvoted both because HN users disagree Which is probably the usual reason people downvote. And it's a shit reason. Downvoting (ie, trying to bury or hide a post) because someone says sumfing u don't wike is
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by hartpuff 10y ago
Is ABP being paid by the advertisers whose ads they're allowing? I honestly don't know. But it's unlikely they're blocking ads they're being paid to show. > Since you apparently hate capitalism, I'm curious
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by hartpuff 10y ago
Well it's about as "logical" as saying it's okay to kill people while in the army, so it must be okay to kill people in any other situation too.
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by hartpuff 10y ago
> What if a hungry person decided to smash up a $5,000 vending machine to get a sandwich or a coffee? Did they legalize smashing up $5000 vending machines if you're hungry too? > Does the Italian government pay for the repairs? D
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by hartpuff 10y ago
I'm not seeing the same logic you are. If someone is hungry (or pretending to be), why would they want to break into your home and sleep in your bed, rather than steal food?
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by hartpuff 10y ago
I assume you mean AJRF. Just because those two examples are unacceptable doesn't mean "wow, get real" is acceptable. If you disagree or don't understand why someone said something, then either forget about it, or reply t
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by hartpuff 10y ago
Who said the default reaction should be offence then? Who even said rituch was personally offended by it? If someone doesn't recognize it as relatively harmless banter (which may be a matter of opinion anyway), then why would they not
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by hartpuff 10y ago
You "get real". Not everyone is from an English speaking country or can differentiate 'earthy banter' from sincerely offensive epithets online.
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by hartpuff 10y ago
> And that's why it's a bit silly to have ideological positions about currencies Indeed. I think Bitcoin would be given the time of day by a lot more people if there was a lot less political whackjobbery surrounding it, and mor
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by hartpuff 10y ago
The point is, unlike with Bitcoin, people with Euros do not have any significant ideological opposition towards dollars, or acquire Euros because they believe it is superior to or will one day replace dollars. > That's still good fo
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by hartpuff 10y ago
Then why does it only happen using bitcoin? Actually, scratch that, because it doesn't even matter. Wherever you want to lay the blame (anywhere but bitcoin) it's a problem for anyone using bitcoin, making it more useless than (
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by hartpuff 10y ago
> It doesn't matter. I can pay with bitcoin on Steam. I can pay with Dogecoin with one additional step. >It makes bitcoin more fungible and thus viable as a currency. Isn't using Bitpay just a way of exchanging bitcoin for d
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by hartpuff 10y ago
> If you read slightly further you will see: Good point. Because I mentioned two words that appear at the top of the page, that means I obviously didn't read any further. If you read the article you'll know that nowhere does
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by hartpuff 10y ago
While we're all busy checking our facts, the site you linked to does not state the quote is "false", it says it is "extremely unlikely".
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by hartpuff 10y ago
Thanks for your reply. That's an argument about 'sex sells' though. Like car exhibitions or Microsoft Xbox conventions using scantily clad women. What I meant (and I think the parent of my post was talking about, though I c
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by hartpuff 10y ago
> It is funny how many technologies are introduced the mass market by relating to sex. This kind of claim is often made (often by smut mongers), but I don't remember (though may have forgotten) ever seeing any examples that really b
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by hartpuff 10y ago
> Your claim was that innocent simply meant not found guilty, which is incorrect. What I said is: "by definition, the people being tortured, not having been found guilty of any crime, are innocent". Which is not incorrect. I&#x
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by hartpuff 10y ago
> That word does not mean what you think it means. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/presumption_of_innocence One of the most sacred principles in the American criminal justice system, holding that a def
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by hartpuff 10y ago
> I was just pointing out that "specifically to torture innocent people" was misleading and wrong. What are so-called 'black sites' set up for then, if not to torture people who have not been charged with let alone co
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by hartpuff 10y ago
No, I will not come up with another word or phrase just because you will not accept innocent .
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by hartpuff 10y ago
Why I should use "unconvicted", which implies possible guilt, for people who have not even been charged with anything, but are simply imprisoned and/or tortured indefinitely?
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by hartpuff 10y ago
I was thinking more generally, about the fact that these sites are set up and used specifically to avoid due process. I mean by definition, the people being tortured, not having been found guilty of any crime, are innocent.
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by hartpuff 10y ago
AIUI the CIA is not supposed to operate domestically, so the comparison between the two is not exact (I don't believe the CIA would operate domestically the same way as the KGB did anyway, though, but the KGB was basically just helping
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by hartpuff 10y ago
> The CIA is a sickening and surprisingly amateurish organisation. Their actions over the past decades have ruined the United States' international moral authority. I'm not even sure that's true. I think the perception of
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by hartpuff 10y ago
Well you lose marks (metaphorically, I don't mean downvotes) for talking about copying another site and doing it better, and then not naming your own site, perhaps because you don't want someone to copy it and do it better. (Unles
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by hartpuff 10y ago
Pretty lazy site. Four posts total, about the same number of affiliate links to Fiverr and Digital Ocean, and no examples of how he put this guide into practice in his other (unnamed) "successful site", referred to on his About pa
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by hartpuff 10y ago
It's not just you, and probably not even just an American thing. I personally think of the The Times when I see "The Times", but I'm British, like the author of this Medium article. I know why it happens, but it's
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by hartpuff 10y ago
If you're living in an area where having a fridge and TV is rare or unusual, if I understand you correctly, then I'd say you're living in a very poor area, not a 'typical' or even average place.

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