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by jshevek 10y ago
>. when a single person down-votes another persons comments in mass in a short period of time, or on a sustained basis. Revenge down-voting, that is. You are assuming a person's motives based only on behavior.
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by jshevek 10y ago
> finally be an escape from nation-states and the games they play with their citizens as pawns. With our current culture, this will not last long.
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by jshevek 10y ago
> It is pretty much the least defensible position, and all it takes is a strongarm threat of blowing it in half with a nuclear weapon to make them pay attention to you. What retaliatory force do you have if your space station inhabitants
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by jshevek 10y ago
Yes, yet another reason to support GitLab
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by jshevek 10y ago
Yes, burn in is not a problem. I've owned many OLED devices, and the only one to get any kind of burn in used older technology. It happened when I changed the settings so the screen would stay on when plugged in. It was barely visib
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by jshevek 10y ago
Not in my experience. Years ago I had one device that did get burn in, but it faded over a couple of weeks back to a perfectly normal screen.
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by jshevek 10y ago
This link still seems to work, I suspect (?) it is the same content: https://github.com/bsima/allmail
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by jshevek 10y ago
I took the parent's comment to be describing github as a technical site, not HN.
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by jshevek 10y ago
My immediate thoughts exactly, so I reread to confirm the parent said "consider" removing the code. I think this is reasonable. While considering the removal of unused code, we should should keep the code that handles unlikely fa
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by jshevek 10y ago
It seems to me that you and Dang may not agree on Dang's statement. You say that any words are allowed on HN, while Dang said: "I think the casual slur of 'minorities' counts as flamewar material." and I would still
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by jshevek 10y ago
I don't see anywhere on this page that someone claims that they set out to make that point. Bshimmin did not say "one of the main points of that video", they said "one of the main points of contention of that video.&qu
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by jshevek 10y ago
As long as all data sources are treated equally, I don't see a 'net neutrality' issue with caps. I'm happy to be shown to be wrong, here. If you combine caps with special treatment for data sources (ie, they don't
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by jshevek 10y ago
> An analysis of the video documented that most of the scenes shown in the video were taken in neighborhoods with predominantly black and Hispanic populations They said they filmed 10 hours of video and then apparently chose the worst in
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by jshevek 10y ago
> You will never win a war on vice. Maybe, (depending on your definition of "war"), but we can culturally transcend vice.
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by jshevek 10y ago
What you trust is the app store manager. The entire ecosystem doesn't need to be walled off in order to achieve that.
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by jshevek 10y ago
I agree it is unlikely that it would be able to compete with Google Now. I see Samsung having more success putting this into their appliances.
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by jshevek 10y ago
>if you're trying to imagine that you're running or biking through an area I mean videos in the general sense. I watch 2d videos (while using fitness equipment) on a VR headset and find it enjoyable. The best part is blocking
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by jshevek 10y ago
Current iPhones don't have the requisite hardware, but future iPhones might.
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by jshevek 10y ago
Watching videos while working out on a machine at the gym is also a great use case.
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by jshevek 10y ago
Poe's law.
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by jshevek 10y ago
False dilemma fallacy
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by jshevek 10y ago
You are correct, and this is a cultural issue which goes far beyond this one poster.
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by jshevek 10y ago
> This is a well discussed problem. It is true that this is well discussed, but usually those discussions center on anecdotes and shoddy statistics rather than meaningful evidence. The prevalence of all of this biased discussion simply l
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by jshevek 10y ago
Assuming that the cause of disagreement must be due to the other party's ignorance is a sign of unjustified, arrogant certainty of one's own position.
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by jshevek 10y ago
Among decent, rational people the presumption of innocence is a function of their normal human relationships. There is nothing special about assuming someone is innocent until sufficient evidence is presented.
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by jshevek 10y ago
The quality and condition of various aspects of a person's body (particularly teeth) can sometimes be indicators as well.
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by jshevek 10y ago
> by people who want black people to be arrested at a higher rate than whites You seem to know an awful lot about the motives of people who disagree with you.
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by jshevek 10y ago
They do it to white people, and they do it without shame, just as they do to black people.
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by jshevek 10y ago
It sounds like you've bought into a narrative unsupported by facts.
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by jshevek 10y ago
Do you think that everything can be divided into "evidence" and "anecdotes"? There is at least a third category: Outright lies. The speaker in this case is incentivized to lie to increase their listenership and make mor

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