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by lurk2 2y ago
I read a comment on Hacker News which suggested asking these people to provide you with their unlocked phone. The theory went that most people wouldn’t do it because they realize that they do actually have things they would prefer to be kep
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This doesn’t seem like much of a consolation to those who find themselves on the receiving end of abuse. The privateers have some incentive to make sure they do go after the right people to avoid losing the spoils, but you could conceivab
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by lurk2 2y ago
I find the vast majority of textbooks I have ever used tend to be overly verbose and graphically confused, with lots of inserts that distract from the reading process without adding any relevant information. If you read a textbook from fift
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It’s an interesting idea, but not without its challenges. This jumped out at me: > Though letters of marque have fallen out of favor, the intent they represent is still valid. Their use allowed the government to outsource defense of mili
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by lurk2 2y ago
Twitch announced similar changes in the last few months. These services aren’t viable without user-generated content, but the vast majority of that content a) isn’t worth storing and b) has a Pareto distribution where most of the earnings a
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by lurk2 2y ago
Assuming you had an interest in writing a comprehensive treatise on German philosophy, not being able to complete it in one lifetime would strike many people as frightening. It’s one of those numbers that forces you to consider your own mor
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What distinction are you drawing between government bureaucrats and the scientists who use their data? If the thesis is correct, then most demographers are wrong about the world’s population. The bureaucrats themselves might not be scientis
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by lurk2 2y ago
I saw this happen on a Minecraft server. It was an economy simulator based out of Sweden or Denmark. The administrator was committed to Keynesian economics. One day he wants to clear a desert to build a new town. To compensate people for wo
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One of the more frightening things I ever learned was that if the population of China began walking in front of you at a rate of 1 person per second, it would take approximately 31 years for the entire population to pass you. The math, roug
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by lurk2 2y ago
I used to feel the same way, but something changed in the last few years to make these videos less appealing to me; they are usually low-viewership simply because they aren’t very good. For certain subjects like religion and philosophy, the
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by lurk2 2y ago
> anything that could be seen as remotely critical of the US administration is being hushed The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide (apnews.com) 639 points 448 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/
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> If your claim is that HN is demonstrably permissive because there have been multiple calls for people to be executed then it really is a question of being able to back that up with examples Let’s accept that no such comments have ever
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> Have there been any comments suggesting CEOs "should be" guillotined as you claimed above? Fundamentally this is not a question of whether or not I can pull up specific comments that meet your interpretation of my original co
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I read this story and it struck me as suspicious for the same reason. Peter Roberts (an immigration attorney) commented on it here a few days ago: > That's extraordinarily unusual and in my experience has only happened when CBP beli
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by lurk2 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40580037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40087723
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by lurk2 2y ago
Hacker News does not censor criticism. Even when these comments get flagged and the accounts making them have a history of bad behavior, I’ve yet to see one of them get banned. When people complain about this it’s because they think Hacker
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It’s a similar thing with Switzerland and Sweden but even more confusing because the Netherlands doesn’t start with a D. It’s very rare in the English language for a country’s name to not be a part of its demonym. They also share common ste
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by lurk2 2y ago
I switched 7 years ago and haven’t looked back; not because it’s good (it’s fine), but because the alternative is using Microsoft products.
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I have seen multiple comments on Hacker News suggesting that CEOs should be guillotined.
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> If Facebook was worse than the web for users, they'd flock to the web. People go to these platforms for a reason, my point is that the reason isn't because they are walled off. It seems like you are arguing that the chief (if
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by lurk2 2y ago
Facebook is a walled garden; it requires you to sign up before viewing most content. Quora, Instagram, and Pinterest are the same way. > Another word is "walled gardens", and again, walled gardens are popular because unwalled g
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by lurk2 2y ago
I came across an interesting example of this on Reddit a few days ago. While searching for something on Google, I found a result that was posted on /r/Gifted. I saw that a moderator had suggested that the OP take a psychometric te
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by lurk2 2y ago
It was definitely there, but the scale of it was different back then and it was decidedly less mean-spirited by the early 2010s. I can remember when I first started using YouTube, I had someone from my city threaten to kill my entire family
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> Once things are put away, I fear the chances of recovering that data steadily reduce over time. I’ve run into this a lot. You store a backup of some device without really thinking of it, then over time the backup gets migrated to anoth
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I made no such argument. My argument is that the claim > These are weapons that would violate the Geneva convention, but we're okay with them to disperse a crowd. is misleading because it implies that riot agents are comparable to c
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> A party which is being attacked by riot control agents may think it is being attacked by deadly chemical weapons and resort to the use of chemical weapons. It is this danger of escalation that States sought to avert by agreeing to proh
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In 2024: Amazon was ranked #2 Google (Alphabet) was ranked #8 Microsoft was ranked #13 Amazon was founded in 1994. Google was founded in 1998. What about the statement: > Amazon and Google did emerge from the dotcom era and both outrank
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by lurk2 2y ago
> As explained in the military manual of the Netherlands, the prohibition of the use of riot control agents as a method of warfare is inspired by the fact that use of tear gas, for example, in armed conflict “runs the danger of provoking
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by lurk2 2y ago
> and pretty much any time piracy drops it's because of more effective DRM, not service. Do you have any evidence to support your claim? Music purchased on iTunes used to come with DRM. There were programs to get rid of it but they
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> What is an "ad", and how would you expect any company to remove in-video "ads" without rampant accusations of censorship? You can already do this with Sponsorblock. > If a channel posts a review of a piece of har

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