leibwiht

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by leibwiht 8y ago
I am absolutely SHOCKED, I did not expect this in a million years. Why would I ever have any reason to believe the government isn't telling me the truth? And, as a law-abiding citizen, I can't imagine what they'd even want wi
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by leibwiht 8y ago
That's very silly. Between all of the people capable of spying on you, it's exactly your own country that has the most ability to harm you. The Chinese government can't arrest you if you're not in China, but your governm
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by leibwiht 8y ago
>I fully support that if I put something on the internet and I am the creator of such content, I should be allowed to remove that content I created if I wish. I disagree. Whatever is put on the internet belongs to everyone on it, just be
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by leibwiht 8y ago
I almost never discuss anything important with people outside of extremely close and likeminded friends because of the current political climate. I worry about being ostracized/alienated by them for not believing in the same things as
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by leibwiht 8y ago
you missed the part where they broke all my extensions which will apparently literally never be ported due to missing API functionality
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by leibwiht 8y ago
i don't want a cultural revolution!!!! please god no!!!!!
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by leibwiht 8y ago
Political trickery? In tech? Surely you must be joking.
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by leibwiht 8y ago
That would be good, except that if you told anyone about it, they'd probably be horrified.
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by leibwiht 8y ago
The title of this is extremely amusing to me because I've only ever thought of online moderators as basically the lowest form of life, almost exclusively petty tyrants and ego-tripping jerks who try to flatter and ingratiate the people
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by leibwiht 8y ago
Isn't it extremely obvious that getting someone else to hold the bag for you reduces your own risk?
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by leibwiht 8y ago
Alternatively, it's exactly because modern people would be horrified at what those three groups agree on that it is an excellent argument.
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by leibwiht 8y ago
The idea that the citizens of the United States are somehow responsible for what their illegitimate government does is ridiculous. The people who actually will have to physically coexist with the refugees and the people responsible for thei
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by leibwiht 8y ago
Uh, people have their livelihoods destroyed and lives ruined for having unpopular views all the time. James Watson literally had to sell his Nobel prize because he was destitute, Curtis Yarvin was disinvited from Strange Loop, to name two e
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by leibwiht 8y ago
It's even worse for Tor users, logging into Discord makes me solve about ten or twelve rounds of reCAPTCHA. It's maddening.
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by leibwiht 8y ago
One use is for things like OpenGL, where there's no specific library called "opengl", since every hardware vendor provides their own implementation.
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by leibwiht 8y ago
You also need another computer, which kind of defeats the purpose. That's like saying you don't need wine when you have VNC.
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by leibwiht 8y ago
Rallying against objectively "fake" news doesn't do anything about the much more serious problem of the way that mainstream news is less than truthful in more subtle ways, such as under-reporting or not reporting things that
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by leibwiht 8y ago
What a dreadful name.
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by leibwiht 8y ago
Ideological convictions are not the same as smoking or child porn. Proving that smoking is wrong is easy. Proving that an entire ideology is wrong is not even possible, because "right" and "wrong" in this sense are subje
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by leibwiht 8y ago
>Trust journalists with a good track record Do these journalists work for large mainstream media corporations that are all owned by a shockingly small number of partisans, by any chance?
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by leibwiht 8y ago
Yes, you're right, as long as it's not the government's boot grinding my face into the pavement, then everything is fine.
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by leibwiht 8y ago
It's more than just the absence of a like/dislike system, visibility of posts is directly determined by how much discussion they generate - for threads this means its position on the board stays higher for longer, so more people s
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by leibwiht 8y ago
Why on earth wouldn't someone looking for a job where 90% of the people are males advertise mainly to people that are also males? Also, I didn't know being advertised at was a civil liberty. I wish the ACLU would spend less time o
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by leibwiht 8y ago
>It's as if these people had never heard of the Streisand Effect. It's not that they don't know about it, it's that the quote in question is an overt threat and the entire point of it is that the person it is said to
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by leibwiht 8y ago
Why is this on the second page when it has >400 points + 135 comments in 2 hours? It was at the top position on the front page at first. Did someone manually alter it?
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by leibwiht 8y ago
>It would be nice to see the black bar on HN. Seconding this. He was a great programmer, and deserves to be remembered.
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by leibwiht 8y ago
His sister's facebook page has a post memorializing him.
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by leibwiht 8y ago
There is additional proof, from his sister's Facebook page, but I'm not sure I want to link it here because it seems rude to link his family's pages to random people. Is there a moderator here whose email address I can messag
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Terry Davis has died(templeos.org)
634 points by leibwiht 8y ago|198 comments
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by leibwiht 8y ago
I have to ask - does anyone actually use half of the C++ features? Exactly how much of C++'s 1600-page specification can be attributed to its success?

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