hopler

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751.
by hopler 8y ago
There is no safe dose of heroin. It doesn't matter how pure it is if you can buy enough to kill an elephant at they grocery store.
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by hopler 8y ago
Next up: advertisers making deals with wannabe influencers to post ads for free, to give the influencer "exposure" to help them get paying ad deals in the future. The usual art business climate.
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by hopler 8y ago
What is a "bro"? Is advertising a male business?
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by hopler 8y ago
Quora's whole model is "like Stack Exchange, but with venture capital for a big IPO". Everything after the comma explains why Quora is junk.
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by hopler 8y ago
Without public knowledge and pressure, there is no check on authoritarian abuse and the law has no teeth.
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by hopler 8y ago
That's horrid. The BBC producers admitted they knew they were putting him in harm's way by republishit the video, and they intentionally went ahead anyway instead of taking a few minutes to fix the video.
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by hopler 8y ago
Please stop with the chauvinist stereotyping. Brits aren't special in this regard.
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by hopler 8y ago
Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-American?
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by hopler 8y ago
This is not a uniquely British phenomenon.
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by hopler 8y ago
> at least if the prisoner himself so chooses is the missing part in most cases.
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by hopler 8y ago
There is an obvious difference between protecting people by tracking their identities in captivity vs harming people by publicly shaming them by immediately parroting the authority'sallegations.
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by hopler 8y ago
My grandmother is pretty good with navigating text; constantly changing animated UIs are what confuse her.
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by hopler 8y ago
Link for the readers with deja Vu about this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18715008
764.
by hopler 8y ago
Where are the trends in your worrying trends? Those facts have been status quo for 50-1000 years or more.
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by hopler 8y ago
That's a recipe for the destruction of society. It's a good thing that people development a reputation visible to would-be mates.
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by hopler 8y ago
Matching by income and education has been implicated in increasing autism ("assortative mating") Your idea sounds good, but it won't get traction because people love the titilation of looking at pictures. It's why most p
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by hopler 8y ago
Tinder promotes the ancient practice of polygamy, very effectively. The highest status males are having sex with many many women , and the major of males are having less than their peers of the last did. Women hold mostly steady but are mor
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by hopler 8y ago
Opiates aren't a catastrophe because they are illegal, they are a catastrophe because government prosecutes the victims and not the perpetrators (manufacters/dealers).
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by hopler 8y ago
Kids but juul (not marijuana) becausee people like marijuana?
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by hopler 8y ago
People who work at the major employing sectors and eat food are not a small demographic. What is "Whole Foods" territory? The "Blue wave" flipping 40 congressional seats was the major story of the 2018 election.
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by hopler 8y ago
Really? They beat up conservatives and vote for laws to prevent them from getting married or health care?
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by hopler 8y ago
So strange. If everyone knows it, it's not news, so why publish it?
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by hopler 8y ago
In my decades of programming experience in the commercial sector, I have seen very little readable code. Rush to market and insecure competitive "anyone as smart as me would understand my code" is standard.
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by hopler 8y ago
In USA this is called gonzo journalism, and artistic form that decimated journalism by replacing it with literature that is more fun to read and write but less useful.
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by hopler 8y ago
Free speech (expression is not in the Constitution) is not predicated on consent. If sex is a protected act of expression, than so is any kind of physical assault.
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by hopler 8y ago
It's not a narrative, it's a forecast. It reflects a belief that divinely inspired human intelligence will win over evil. MLK was an activist, not a historian. If justice was the same as history, we wouldn't have a word for j
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by hopler 8y ago
Punjab, Szechuan, Hunan, if they've opened a restaurant, we know it.
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by hopler 8y ago
I would not be comfortable having an arbitrary personal friend of the CEO sitting in on my important meetings.
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by hopler 8y ago
Did I read that right? Amazon handed control of Alexa to a group of students running a non secured server on the Internet? That's OK if users explicitly opted in, but I doubt Amazon warned users about that.
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by hopler 8y ago
The page containing the pointer's value is needed, not the string.

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