kthxbye123

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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Lately there’s been a burst of intense anti-journalist sentiment generated by various tech plutocrats who would prefer to be free of public investigation or criticism. This sentiment trickles down to professional class workers with aspirati
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Is there a reason we can't say “penis” in HN titles?
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
290 of which are “how do we solve the Jewish Problem”
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
So true. When someone gets mad at me online for saying that black people have genetically bad IQs or that it’s ok to run over protestors with my car, that’s the dark hand of the CIA at work.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
The US has plenty of other intelligence agencies.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
The DNI is a political appointee and this one in particular is highly politicized, his statements are partisan political statements intended to support the President and the GOP and are not necessarily representative of the views and analys
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
OP posted a dumb motivational essay based on a bullshit hagiography of a guy whose day job was to mass murder civilians. If you’re cool with that then your moral framework has a screw loose, sorry.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
I'm more interested in hearing about the philosophy which comforted Vietnamese civilians who had to live their lives under constant American terror-bombing than I am in hearing about the philosophy which comforted the bombers.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
It is nearly impossible for a public figure to win a libel suit in the US.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
The NY Post story included personally identifiable information like addresses, e-mail addresses, SSN numbers, etc. The NYTimes story did not contain any such PII. Twitter did not block discussion of the NY Post story, and did not block stor
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
"120 years long history of investigative journalism" I should have known I was being trolled; my fault for taking the bait.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
This is a joke, right? The Daily Mail?
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
No, it's universally considered a far-right tabloid, similar to the Daily Mail or the Sun in the UK.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
The provenance of the files is not questioned by far-right political operatives like Sean Davis who are pushing this story in the first place, but to anybody with half a brain cell and an ounce of skepticism the whole story stinks. Just lis
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
the top policy guy at Facebook is a lifelong Republican political operative
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Duck Stamp Artists Turn to Spent Shotgun Shells to Meet New Pro-Hunting Mandate(audubon.org)
4 points by kthxbye123 6y ago|0 comments
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
I think quite the opposite. We give far, far too much cultural deference to megalomaniacal executives and petty business tyrants; it’s refreshing to see them called out on their bullshit. More refreshing would be seeing more CEOs, founders,
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
There are no Dyson spheres or nuclear powered spaceships, but there are a hell of a lot of climate deniers. If we’re weighing what part of his legacy, the part that had a negative effect on a very real crisis of human suffering is going to
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Buffet is just as much a predatory monopolist as any of them, with the added bonus of having made some of his billions by ruthlessly squeezing the working poor through exploitative mobile-home rentals and foreclosures. Just because his home
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
So much so that we fought a titanic war with hundreds of thousands if not millions of casualties to end it!
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Eugenics and College Admissions in the UK(lrb.co.uk)
1 points by kthxbye123 6y ago|0 comments
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Just as an FYI, this account is a well known fake persona run by MEK cultists in Albania, not really a great source of info- note that it immediately began boosting a completely unsubstantiated theory that the explosion was caused by a depo
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
It's extremely hard. Proenneke was a talented craftsman who had spent his whole life working as a mechanic and carpenter. He wasn't an office-bound DIY enthusiast.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Actually they’re advocating for protecting people from predatory corporations that adversarially target and exploit their customers with weaponized psychology, bit of a difference In a democracy, the people (and their legitimately elected r
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
I guess we have different definitions of “bad” (which you seem to be defining more as “not appreciated in its own time”), because I think it is a genuinely good movie with a successfully realized artistic vision, rather than a piece of empt
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
There are plenty of people who (correctly, I think) consider the movie to be superior to the book (as both entertainment and as a genuine artistic accomplishment). You may be catching flak from them.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Nah, it sounds like OP was basically a ripoff artist- not smarter or more industrious, just more amoral. Pretty scummy way to make a living, hopefully it’s not viable from now on.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
There’s over a hundred and twenty years of antitrust enforcement in this country. Why does HN insist on reinventing antitrust law from their own intuition about what “anti-competitive” means?
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
There are an incredible number of people on HN and in Silicon Valley who clearly believe that black people are on average genetically inferior to whites and Asians and also think they're being incredibly clever when they tap-dance arou
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Not if your conception of the nation only includes white people...

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