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by illirik 6y ago
So you believe that there is absolutely no form of speech whatsoever that should be protected as free speech?
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by illirik 6y ago
There's a difference between "you shouldn't do hate speech" and some sort of 1984/V-for-Vendetta mechanism to ensure that nobody ever does hate speech. Laws and ethics are not the same thing.
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by illirik 6y ago
> No, it's predominantly white-driven top-down (upper 20% income bracket) classism run amok, proping up specialist careers and pretending to be about "caring" and "wokeness". I'm pretty sure most people are
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by illirik 6y ago
The laws in the United States are pretty convoluted, and I don't think they align with human rights all that well, especially given the treatment of imprisoned folks or asylum seekers. However, I do think that causing mass hysteria for
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by illirik 6y ago
I agree. I think both the elected government and these monopolies are actively harming people. However, eBay's refusal to sell children's books with racist caricatures is not the vanguard of some effort by those power structures t
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by illirik 6y ago
What information in these children's books is undermining dictatorial governments? The government isn't censoring e.g. Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States or Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago - thes
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by illirik 6y ago
The line is rather stark. eBay choosing not to facilitate the sale of books containing racist caricatures is not in the same ballpark as a government suppressing ideas. It’s not even the same sport.
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by illirik 6y ago
The “weapon” here is just basic conscientiousness. A publisher decided to stop publishing some books because they denigrate people, and eBay decided that they did not want to be facilitating the sale of books that denigrate people. We are n
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by illirik 6y ago
The working poor simply don't have the safety net of good credit or wealthy families that the vast majority of HN commenters do. If you're living paycheck to paycheck and get a $400 surprise expense, you don't have $400 just
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by illirik 6y ago
Chicago as well, at least buildings on Lake Shore Drive.
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by illirik 6y ago
A lot of it is due to the "frozen" part of frozen pizza. There's a ton of what amounts to materials science happening in your frozen pizza. Find a local pizza joint that makes their dough from scratch and bakes in a brick ove
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by illirik 6y ago
Great article, always love to see the law of large numbers fail! You mention that the solution "requires all clients to cooperate" - wouldn't it be in the client's best interest to cooperate (maximizes the probability th
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by illirik 6y ago
I daily drive a 1997 Dodge Ram pickup, with roughly a quarter million miles on it, and it still works perfectly. My previous vehicle was a 1984 Ford F350, which I purchased for $800 in 2017 and then subsequently drove from Seattle to North
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by illirik 6y ago
I just have two Seattle Mariners bumper stickers on my truck; haven't been pulled over since putting em on, so they must think I have enough misery as it is! /s I think the real issue is that it has been decided somehow that it is
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by illirik 6y ago
"dev", "designer", "manager", etc. aren't interchangeable machines in the same way that compute instances are; they're human beings! Would you personally work for this "AWS for employees", w
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by illirik 6y ago
More recently, see the development of reverse factoring, where the customer initiates financing for its purchases from its suppliers. It's dangerous, as you can imagine; if the customer can't pay for its invoices, instead of being
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by illirik 6y ago
I'd love to hear the answer, as I have never seen a satisfactory explanation for this strange phenomenon.
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by illirik 6y ago
Massive baseball fan here. This has basically destroyed all confidence most serious fans have in the ability to keep playing. They created a 110-page manual, which included all sorts of minutiae, but not when to cancel a game! Ultimately, e
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by illirik 7y ago
Play pinball. It's a fun hobby with a fantastic community that lets you leave the house, travel to conventions and tournaments, and make good friends. https://pinballmap.com/ helps you find places to play.
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by illirik 7y ago
I personally love wearing kinda dumpy clothes I get from the thrift store. Some of my friends make shirts that I buy, or a local bar I frequent is selling shirts, but apart from that I just go 100% thrifting. I spend hardly any money, am mo
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by illirik 7y ago
I live in West Seattle, and there are technically two - there's also a drawbridge for pedestrians/cyclists/two lanes of traffic. Both are pretty new, and work well; the Magnolia situation, on the other hand, is a lot tougher.
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India Loses Contact with Chandrayaan-2 Mission During Moon Landing Attempt(nytimes.com)
7 points by illirik 7y ago|0 comments
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Bullfrog County, Nevada(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by illirik 7y ago|0 comments
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by illirik 7y ago
There is also an issue with the 777X engines, as reported by the Seattle Times. This could cause a lot of pain for a lot of people in Renton and Everett. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein
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by illirik 7y ago
There's a number of big differences between a modern IBM mainframe and commodity servers. For one, the architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture
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by illirik 7y ago
The memes were about shooting slave owners, both in the American context and others. Similar to the Dave Chapelle skit.
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by illirik 7y ago
The Seattle Times has a great app for this. That said, if you don’t live in Seattle, not all the news will be of interest, but they’re a great model for what a good newspaper / news site is.
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by illirik 7y ago
Also, conditions outside of the plane should matter. The Tupolev you listed was typically poorly maintained and flown to places like Irkutsk or Arkhangelsk, taking off from and landing onto short or poorly maintained runways, often in winte
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by illirik 7y ago
I don't want to be dismissive, but is there a good TLDR on this, preferably in written form, or any other resources you'd recommend? I'd love to catch up on the science, but listening to six hours of podcast might cut into my
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by illirik 7y ago
Toyota design as a whole has gone bananas since ca. 2015. Example (2019 Rav4): https://t1-cms-1.images.toyota-europe.com/toyotaone/euen/toy...

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