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by ls15 4y ago
If Brandolini's law is true and if there is gonna be a ministry of truth, then that ministry probably needs to grow exponentially and suck up all other ministries until all BS is eliminated. [The Ministry of Truth] was startlingl
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by ls15 4y ago
"Our truth is truthier than your truth. Therefore we need an API to override your truth."
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by ls15 4y ago
> you seem checked out, you're often absent and we don't know why - we can't rely on you for any concrete work because you aren't accountable to anyone - the rest of us are working 10x as hard as you are - part of you
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by ls15 4y ago
Banning Linux would be a threat to national security.
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by ls15 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. I think that I am not becoming an early adopter and wait for the boring iterations where safety standards are introduced.
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by ls15 4y ago
From your link: > The term may also be used to describe a person (a "gaslighter") who presents a false narrative to another group or person, thereby leading them to doubt their perceptions and become misled, disoriented or dist
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by ls15 4y ago
But he does not need the account name, right? However, Aaron Swartz is not paying for reddit servers anymore, can I have u/AaronSw then? Has been inactive for 10 years.
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by ls15 4y ago
I think I'd enjoy that, actually.
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by ls15 4y ago
I am not redefining it. I took that quote from the wikipedia page that GP linked.
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by ls15 4y ago
> manipulating someone so as to make them question their own reality. That's what he did. Telling users it is their own fault that he had to take their names and sell them. You were causing issues, because you did not log in for
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by ls15 4y ago
@pg hasn't posted on HN for two years. Can I have his username?
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by ls15 4y ago
People using throwaways, because they don't want to connect their HN identity to their TG identity?
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by ls15 4y ago
Having inactive usernames is not an actual issue when people can just use other names. He is just trying to make more money by selling them and he is blaming it on the users. "See, they did not use the names in the artificially short p
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by ls15 4y ago
Like with every other social media platform, this is not an actual issue. If the username that I would like to have is taken, I can pick another name that is not taken. It is not unreasonable to take a 3 month break from a messenger app. Se
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by ls15 4y ago
There are no such guarantees. People failed to choose a protocol that is trustworthy and fell for pseudo sometimes-on encryption. He is trying to make money while the market is going down.
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by ls15 4y ago
> Durov did mention this in a message a few months ago that username squatters were becoming a problem. This is gaslighting
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by ls15 4y ago
Probably airport-like security checks before entering a museum.
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by ls15 4y ago
Intuitively, I would say that we have passed peak online surveillance dystopia. People have kind of woken up to the topic, but of course are still not really protecting themselves and the monopolies have not been broken up yet. However, loo
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by ls15 4y ago
I wouldn't trust an engineer with my coffee.
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by ls15 4y ago
I'd assume that India has its fair share of smart people who are able to spot fallacious rhetorics and want to see the bank accounts of officials in return.
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by ls15 4y ago
My first Macbook was a tank that lasted for 12 years. The quality seemingly declined with every successor that I owned. Maybe bring someone in who is dedicated to durability? If the argument is that Apple makes money by selling new machin
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by ls15 4y ago
How popular would it be to treat people like pedos, just because of an app that they use?
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by ls15 4y ago
While they are at it, they could also get new coffee beans for the machine, clean the toilets and do some sales so we can get rid of the dedicated roles for that.
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by ls15 4y ago
I assume that many people find out themselves that they've been tricked shortly after the election and almost 4 years before the next election, when the first promises are broken. > If the politicians don't follow up, you vote
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by ls15 4y ago
Ok, fair point, but how else can we get politicians to behave better? I don't think that assigning immense powers for four years without personal repercussions for bad actors has worked very well.
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by ls15 4y ago
What are the options if that trust is abused? People emotionally trick other people into voting for them and then do whatever is on their agenda during their mandate.
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by ls15 4y ago
The biggest risk would be that a politician will be wrongfully denied participation when they actually were fit for the job. That's a smaller price to pay than living with a politician who works against the constitution.
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by ls15 4y ago
Where is that in the statement that I quoted?
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by ls15 4y ago
Were you?
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by ls15 4y ago
I am negotiating my life, not the ones of my great-grandparents.

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