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by immibis 10mo ago
Sure they could. You'd just have to answer subpoenas when the police are trying to identify a user, same as in the USA. You might get a few more of them. Recently a bunch of French people received jail time for repeatedly posting how t
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by immibis 10mo ago
Here we see an example of the law-and-order personality type, where the most important thing is to follow the law.
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FWIW the unique economic position of America is pretty much solely due to the fact it prints the world reserve currency (which is because it was geographically isolated from WW1/2) and not much to do with its actual production. When th
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FWIW it exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlistat
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> This person’s example scenario was migrating an entire GNOME environment from one computer to another. In many cases, I’d like an iCloud-style service for that. In the distant past we'd copy our whole home folder to a floppy disk
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That's correct. They are talking about the paradox of tolerance.
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Well those people now outnumber us and have all the positions of power where they get to define what truth is. Not sure what to do about it.
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There is one subtle clue. If your account has flagging enabled, then whenever you flag something there is a chance that your flag pushes it over the threshold to flagged state. If your account has flagging disabled, this never happens. This
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You can also email hn@ycombinator.com to ask "why was this thing removed?", and they answer the first few, then killfile your sending address.
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There's almost no such thing as a non-political thing. Maybe the sky colour, except that other cultures (especially in the past) have different green/blue boundaries and some may say it's green. Maybe the natural numbers (but
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Same here. I pointed out HN is the marketing arm of a capitalist investment fund and got flagged to oblivion.
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But also easier because those comments quickly become dead.
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Yes, Apple products are backdoored - not just through esoteric keys, but also because they're uploading your pictures to the mothership "to check they're not hild porn."
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Dark mode is for people who have their monitor brightness set way too high. I'm serious - try it. Only issue is that some monitors' dimmest setting is still too bright. You could also get a user-styles extension.
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The Brick Test(dlp.rip)
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When Trump pressures RIPE NCC or APNIC to deregister an IP address block, that's the end of the internet as we know it, and the return to national networks with very limited interconnection. Even Russia still has address registrations
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by immibis 10mo ago
Since it happened several years ago it would be hard to find now. Here's a different, related issue that I did find (with links to several more threads): https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/17bkv
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but it is a threat model. "This system is unhackable, if the user doesn't do the thing that hacks it" is not very useful.
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At a minimum, Intel and AMD.
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I think it's defined as someone who "is addicted" to alcohol.
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Oh yeah. A government did bad things, therefore, everything a government does is bad. Impeccable logic.
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The last war the USA won was World War 2. Yes, it can do enough damage to make other countries adopt DMCA anti-circumvention law out of fear, but it always manages to snatch ultimate defeat.
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It's not about delivering punishment. It's about suppressing certain responses. If the model is trained seeing that responses using don't contain things that previous messages say will be punished then that is a valid way to
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> The goal was never for the site to be "not dead" ok? fine then. If you think it's fine for the site to be dead then please stop spamming comments defending it. It doesn't need any defence to stay dead and such defen
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by immibis 10mo ago
So here's an example of SO toxicity. I asked on Meta: "Am I allowed to delete my comments?" question body: "The guidelines say comments are ephemeral and can be deleted at any time, but I was banned for a month for delet
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And 99% of the other stuff, that wasn't just a code dump and "it doesn't work", was also closed.
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1.5 years ago Gemini (the same brand!) refused to provide C++ help to minors because C++ is dangerous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39632959
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Deadness is the symptom, not the cause. Users don't avoid SO because it's dead, but rather, SO is dead because users avoid it. It's up to you to figure out why users are avoiding it. Hint: They've been telling you quite
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Really? Programs installed by non-administrators should go in ProgramData? The actual solution, which remains both compatible and consistent with the security model, is that you should have to be administrator and pass UAC to install a game
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Why would they be? Russia doesn't tend to fund leftist groups. If they're actually a leftist group, it's far more likely to be about Palestine and of their own accord, or because of direct government oppression against them.

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