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841.
by labster 4y ago
Nice try, chatbot, but your vegan-esque moralization is just a cover for your real goal: get humans to catch more insect-borne diseases so you can take over.
842.
by labster 4y ago
As long as no one can see my comment history on HN, I’ll be fine.
843.
by labster 4y ago
The article agrees, ending with: > I'm not saying heads should roll. I'm saying someone needs to take the wheel. If no one is at the wheel, Rust is unsafe at any speed.
844.
by labster 4y ago
no guns 4 u. Obviously there’s a continuum here, and this end includes “likely to be eaten by a bear” in some parts of America.
845.
by labster 4y ago
Nice try but the assault weapons ban is almost the weakest form of gun control, right behind “no guns for the clinically insane.” Handguns are involved in vastly more death and crime, yet no one tries to stop them. Concealed firearms are w
846.
by labster 4y ago
It’s time to have tough gun control, because blue lives matter, said literally no one in America.
847.
by labster 4y ago
You can disagree with it but Clausewitz is central to modern military doctrine. Analogizing interstate anarchy to bullies is fine but a bit limited; you’re never going to capture IR neorealism that way.
848.
by labster 4y ago
If the hackers haven’t even figured out a business model to really scale out, maybe WD should just acquihire their firm. Not only do they get their data back, but they get a world-class red team to handle their customers’ security.
849.
by labster 4y ago
Feds can’t take crypto from your grasp if you have diamond hands.
850.
by labster 4y ago
With archive.org about to become the private property of book publishers, it seems like all that effort is going to go to waste.
851.
by labster 4y ago
That’s exactly what they want you to think. Try charging a lithium battery without a microcontroller. Keep a fire extinguisher handy.
852.
by labster 4y ago
I think that quote is just a corollary to this one: "War is the continuation of policy with other means." — Carl von Clausewitz A foreign policy that achieves your aims is better than a foreign war; a functional domestic policy is
853.
by labster 4y ago
At this point publishers should just revoke the licenses to all physical books and burn them, so we can prevent this kind of rampant copyright abuse.
854.
by labster 4y ago
There is the flag button, but it’s a little strong. Though racism is probably a valid reason to flag.
855.
by labster 4y ago
Only 11 years later, Elon Musk started selling blue check marks on Twitter. Achmed was ahead of his time.
856.
by labster 4y ago
Modern physics has turned pretty hard against determinism and towards a probabilistic view.
857.
by labster 4y ago
Just on the defense of NOAA, I think most people would notice if they couldn’t get a weather forecast or couldn’t fly a plane in stormy weather. NOAA is a major collector of weather data, and provides half of the world’s GCM initial conditi
858.
by labster 4y ago
Sometimes they don’t even send the monument and you’re just stuck with a random plinth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zócalo
859.
by labster 4y ago
This was interesting to me because the status-seeking behavior is so alien to me. Why people would want to belong to group after exclusive group is beyond me. They’re all granfaloons, anyway. A few good friends is enough, and status is only
860.
by labster 4y ago
I can’t let you disbar me, Dave.
861.
by labster 4y ago
No, you seem to be confused as to what voters actually want. Sure we could do drug treatment for less money and more social benefit, but how does that punish the baddies? If we give them free treatment and forgiveness, what does that say ab
862.
by labster 4y ago
Nah, that’s just enhanced liberation techniques.
863.
by labster 4y ago
I remember the good old days when people could be against riots regardless of their politics without getting canceled. But those days are long gone. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m pro-BLM. I’m not a racist or anything.
864.
by labster 4y ago
Hey, post your street address online here. Me and some buddies will camp outside your house honking horns all night long for a month or two, all in completely harmless good fun as we all agree it’s simply free speech.
865.
by labster 4y ago
Without reciprocity, TikTok is a weapon against which America has no equivalent, and we like to stay even in arms races. Russia has very effectively used the internet to sow dissent in its geopolitical rivals, funding far-left, far-right, a
866.
by labster 4y ago
My post was less of a joke than Windows 11 is. But probably funnier.
867.
by labster 4y ago
No, 20 years is the fusion power joke, not the year of the linux desktop joke
868.
by labster 4y ago
> downvoted You mean unplusvoted, citizen.
869.
by labster 4y ago
A cope is an internet comment of coping self-delusion, often written when the author is high on copium. A milder version occurs when the author is under the influence of hopium, but is still generally aware of the desperate reality.
870.
by labster 4y ago
And yet our politicians ban human cloning and designer babies. Along with climate change, it’s like our politicians want human extinction.

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