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by kevinh 4y ago
Who's the fascist in this situation?
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by kevinh 4y ago
Musk has a long history of attacking journalists who write stories critical about him or his company, and he famously called a guy who helped save a bunch of kids a pedophile for criticizing his ill-advised efforts to help out. When he was
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by kevinh 4y ago
His follow-up: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1603572959758663680 "Apparently not. That's bad."
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by kevinh 4y ago
Elon Musk, within the last hour, sent out a request for a person to be doxxed with a video of someone's license plate and face. This is not a principled policy.
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by kevinh 4y ago
Those exceptions don't prove the rule. They prove that there _isn't_ a rule, but merely a high likelihood. An exception that proves the rule would be a statement like "Parking permitted between 3-5 PM."
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by kevinh 4y ago
It's perfectly reasonable for someone to be into programming and not want to have to care about the details of setting up a networking stack.
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by kevinh 4y ago
Clearly not. The guy can stop work on mIRC at any time.
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by kevinh 4y ago
Note that this particular PDF is PWYW, so keep that in mind if you enjoyed it: https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/ There's also a book for Wolf3D: https://fabiensanglard.net/gebb/ and the CP
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by kevinh 4y ago
Isn't RFK Jr. one of the people that believes that vaccines cause autism?
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by kevinh 4y ago
It's truly incredible that this easily-verifiable statement of fact has been downvoted.
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by kevinh 4y ago
There are plenty of people who just use twitter for art or science or what have you. They, by their very nature, won't be what you see the most.
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by kevinh 4y ago
Since it requires a binary choice (fill out the form or be laid off) that terminates employment if one choice is taken, it is by definition an ultimatum.
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by kevinh 4y ago
That issue that you linked shows that it's configurable now. What's the issue here?
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by kevinh 4y ago
Well, no, Larry David said what was in the script for an FTX ad.
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by kevinh 4y ago
From the website: > You could see this website as a metaphor for the effects of tourism, how humanity affects nature, or how meme quality degrades over time as they are shared.
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by kevinh 4y ago
That's quite the slanted framing. An alternate framing: one was president of the United States and one got pushed down a flight of stairs for making fun of a kid because his father committed suicide.
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by kevinh 4y ago
Depending on the thread it can go either way. There are large contingents on both sides as Musk is quite divisive.
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by kevinh 4y ago
Surely someone is writing the strictly-defined design documents.
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by kevinh 4y ago
Twitter spent more than a billion dollars on R&D in 2021, which more than eclipsed its net loss.
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by kevinh 4y ago
Please follow the HN guidelines: > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especi
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by kevinh 4y ago
What makes the Nier Automata port any more miraculous than, say, the The Witcher 3 port? This article has almost no details.
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by kevinh 4y ago
The current head of the FBI was appointed by Trump. Are you arguing that the FBI head has no power or that he's secretly a stooge of the Democratic party?
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by kevinh 4y ago
Is a man talking about his wife political? Is a man talking about his husband political? Is a person transitioning political?
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by kevinh 4y ago
It's sourced from here: https://itep.org/whopays-map/ tl;dr: Top 20% pays less in taxes in TX than CA.
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by kevinh 4y ago
Despite the criticism, this post is currently #4 on the front page.
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by kevinh 4y ago
Unfortunately, HN users tend not to care about the quality of news sources when it comes to "culture war" issues. This'll just turn into a platform for people to air grievances and repeat their ideological stance. If it makes
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by kevinh 4y ago
A year or so ago, I created an account and followed ten or so people (no tweets at that time). When I went to log in the next day, it wouldn't let me log in until I attached a phone number. As I understand it, that was a relatively com
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by kevinh 4y ago
Shadowbanning definitely happens on HN.
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by kevinh 4y ago
This is great. Presenting something abstract in the form of something familiar is always fun, and preserving the state to prevent replaying (incognito and tampering aside) makes it easier to share without everyone being a Robert.
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by kevinh 4y ago
This is being posted because people have their knives out for Unity at the moment, and this occurred while Riccitiello (current Unity CEO) was the CEO at EA.

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