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by howaboutnope 5y ago
And HN buries the thread. How surprising. (and before someone comes out of the woodworks to punish this statement of mine in a dead thread, another HN custom: when a 2 hour thread with 7 points is on page #2, while this can't be found
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> I'm in a big American city, and I remember that until the online kids and snarky liberals started moralizing about mask protocol, there wasn't as much resistance to wearing masks among right-wing crazies. In Berlin, you could
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> if users have to carry that load and seed your stuff they'll have to waste their own storage. Waste? They'd be using storage that would otherwise most likely be sitting there, unused. Or in other words, wasted.
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Thanks, and sorry for being so abrasive; but just like my quote could be taken as "supporting Kasparov" (but wasn't meant that way, I would have to read up on him to have a stance), I misunderstood your response as an oblique
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Yeah, who does he think he is, some kind of human being?
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> Perhaps quoting Hannah Arendt in the OP context is not the slam dunk some think it is. I don't even know what that means . Do you disagree with anything of her I quoted, then actually interact with it. You spent 2 comments not do
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> I've always been a little confused about whether or not these authors asserting that propaganda "destroys truth" believe they personally know what is true and what is false Not all propaganda. I mean, the White Rose call
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> Our political team is completely immune from this effect because our team is morally superior, more intelligent and better smelling than those people. You would do well to familiarize yourself with Hannah Arendt, rather than just repea
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> It has frequently been noticed that the surest long-term result of brainwashing is a peculiar kind of cynicism – an absolute refusal to believe in the truth of anything, no matter how well this truth may be established. In other words,
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Even then, the misunderstanding is in reading the question "is this story BS?" as "is influencing BS?", not in the definition of bullshit.
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> My life's work is not what I've made, it's who I am when I sit in front of a blank file. If I lost everything, I would have lost nothing. -- Kroc Camen
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> I’m sure they’ve heard every idea imaginable. And they didn't try the one that is the actual subject of this subthread. > asking “why don’t they just do this?” is not productive That doesn't make your answer to it valid. &
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> If Tony the Kellogg’s tiger had an instagram account, we’d find it totally normal. This is way too broad a brush. I find these parasocial relations a sign of alienation and rootlessness, here or there, and I'm sure there's pl
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That's not the "battle" for allowing users to tag Public Domain content, and to have moderators confirm that status where it applies in the case of legal disputes, because they never even fought that "battle".
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With the amount of people who don't care about the difference between 10ns and 10ms calling themselves developers, I'm sure even Clippy would be the perfect IDE for some of them, so that's not saying much. Apart from the lack
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> People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. -- Adam Smith
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> it’s a lot easier to Monday Morning quarterback decisions made 20 years later I'm not doing that. I was around and paying attention, and I remember Colin Powell sweating trying to sell this story about scary mobile weapons labs to
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Of course you shouldn't forget them. But if you want to honor them, also don't forget people who resisted starting a war of aggression which ended up causing two orders of magnitude more lives lost, helped create ISIS and other th
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> See what gross inconsistency is tolerated. I have heard some of my townsmen say, “I should like to have them order me out to help put down an insurrection of the slaves, or to march to Mexico;—see if I would go”; and yet these very men
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> You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn the
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> would you prefer DDR to be crushed militarily as well, instead of just giving up the ghost in 1989? Why are you assuming I wouldn't have prefered the Nazis to have "given up the ghost" as well? Are there any signs of the
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> Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it. The assertion
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Turned out alright for Nazi Germany. As a German, I'm absolutely grateful the Nazis were crushed militarily, rather than, you know, still reigning.
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> Possession counts for a lot more than theoretical legal legitimacy. So in your mind, the act of murder "counts for a lot more" [0] than someone's right to their own life, and theft does not exist, since whoever possesses
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> Can’t wait for the comment thread here about how the US gov is actually worse than the CCP > Not worse, just as bad in a different way, it has nothing to do with geography. It is just that absolute power corrupts absolutely, regardl
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Being against the CCP isn't being against China, to the contrary. And what more expertise other than "they murder dissenters" do you need? Hannah Arendt mentioned this: that people who can't be mobilized by the simplifie
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> Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. -- Simone Weil
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> It's more like someone at some point stops being open to change, which allows some breathing room, but eventually they'll prefer to stick to what they know rather than having to learn something new. That could justify anythi
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> but rarely is a change in UI/UX objectively bad We're not looking at a box with unknown contents that we would need to go by probabilities. We can just look at the thing. > The article you've linked has been fairly cr
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> hearkening to the good old days of when UI/UX was good, which just so happens to coincide with when they really started getting into computing Nah. I started out with Workbench 1.3, which was flat. Because they literally hadn&#x27

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