lone_haxx0r

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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
> Plenty of people may not have the same impulse control you have, and it's not their fault. If someone with bad impulse control kills another person, is it not their fault? I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you. I'm ju
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
I understand that some people are more sensitive than me, and they want to feel protected from the things that trigger them. But sometimes they ask things without taking into consideration how their demands would affect those that aren&#x27
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
If it's deceitful, I think it's fair to call it dark pattern, even if the deceit is done with good intentions.
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
And Meetup did nothing to prohibit people from posting advertisements disguised as meetups.
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
A meetup with Twitter users sounds like a nightmare.
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
... Or you could waste your time on HN instead.
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
Of course it is discrimination. Your job is to discriminate.
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
> Anyway, what I'm trying to say is IQ is bullshit, and discipline, social skills, and connections are priceless. IQ is not bullshit. It's quite good at what it does: measuring intelligence. Maybe you were referring to the idea
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
The investments they've done for something that is their resposibility in the first place. If I go to a restaurant and the food is rancid, I wouldn't be appeased when the owner tells me "we've made investments to stop th
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
Wow. Are they fucking serious? They blame federal law for not prosecuting counterfeiters instead of themselves for allowing them to run rampant on their website? (i.e. They want the federal government to do their house-cleaning for them.) I
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
Look at the history of censorship and look at the current state of affairs. 9 out of 10 times, censorship is just a tool used to suppress things that the one in charge (a person, institution, or 'mob') doesn't like, while tha
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
1. That line would still be hard to draw 2. I know many ideologies that most people would consider "intolerant" but would fall under the "tolerant" umbrella because there's a rationalization for its intolerance. In
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
Embracing Popper's thesis implies the existence of a line separating "tolerant ideologies" from "intolerant ideologies". Who is going to define that line? Knowing how the world works, I don't suspect, but I kn
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
> Of course. She is creating a lot of attention for the mismatch between scientists' (in particular IPCC) insights and recommendations and politicians (in)actions and failure to reach the goals they set themselves. Is she? I've
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
Why Twitter sucks
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
Please, provide a source for your claim of sexual harassment. (You won't because it's false)
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
Luckily, lawyers and bureaucrats don't have that much power over this industry, yet.
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
Regular people don't "have" or control any phone number, telcos do.
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
> What's your responsibility when you hand someone a loaded gun and it goes off? Zero, as long as the person: (1) Knew it was loaded (2) Voluntarily accepted to receive the gun.
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
China isn't really capitalist. Industrialized sounds like a better adjective to me. If it was really capitalist, it would have stopped being cheap long ago.
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
Straightforward in the same sense that "getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem" is "trivial"[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
RISC is a generic term for ISAs with few instructions (in comparison to CISC ISAs).
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
Using security exploits is non-coercive. Law is coercive. You go to law school to learn how people convince other people to force other people to do things.
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
And there's no such thing as a wealthy country, just distributions of wealthy people. Yet we all understand what it means when someone says "wealthy country"
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
Ok, now make it not shut itself down randomly for updates.
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
Assuming that they already use a computer and/or a cellphone, sending an email, making a call, or sending an SMS is much easier than creating and maintaining a Facebook account. I would believe it if someone didn't want to use cel
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
I'm rather young, so I might be exactly the kind of person that you were. I think it's right to shut up when "logic" hurts people's feelings AND there's nothing to gain from saying it, but when there's an
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
For example: Do you think that Cloudflare should have been forced to keep offering its service to 8chan?
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
Meanwhile, the Linux world is wasting its biggest opportunity to take over the desktop space. IMO, Unintuitive interfaces (e.g. Gnome shell), forced package management (as opposed to decentralized distribution of apps) and lack of care for
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by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
For example. Selam G., the author of the article that sparked the controversy said: """" [...] …and then he says that an enslaved child could, somehow, be “entirely willing”. Let’s also note that he called a group of chi

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