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by mjfl 6y ago
14 years ago free speech was one of the most celebrated rights in the hacker community. That's why things like Wikileaks were built. Today, several people in this thread seem to believe that the info on Hunter Biden's laptop shoul
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by mjfl 6y ago
unlike stealing tax returns?!? or wikileaks?!?! which US courts said was treason?!
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by mjfl 6y ago
why?
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by mjfl 6y ago
> No sensible person believes blocking QAnon nonsense is a "scandal." It's not QAnon, and the fact that you made that statement betrays your political biases. Think of the harm you could be causing by your attitude. If the
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by mjfl 6y ago
Is that what police are doing all day? Walking around and hitting people with batons and shooting minorities and drinking blood?
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by mjfl 6y ago
I don't think it's working nearly as badly as you think.
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by mjfl 6y ago
awfully pedantic to see going from a revolver to a glock as a slam dunk.
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by mjfl 6y ago
a Glock is militarization? A glock is not militarization. By semi auto I understood they meant a military style semi automatic rifle because of the context of the conversation. Police may carry these in their trunk, but I've never seen
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by mjfl 6y ago
ah yes, the Taser, a famous weapon of war
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by mjfl 6y ago
I've never seen a cop walk around with a semi auto.
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by mjfl 6y ago
This is not the case. Where I live and across the US, cops are wearing the same uniform they've been wearing for 40 years, driving the same cars they have for 40 years, and are armed with the same guns they've been wielding for 40
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by mjfl 6y ago
seems buzzwordy
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by mjfl 6y ago
What leverage do landlords have in enforcing payment, if no one would move in if they evict a business? I certainly would only pay very discounted rent until society reopens and I think it would be insane for anyone to suggest otherwise.
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by mjfl 6y ago
cross-immunity
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by mjfl 6y ago
> That's true but you were fooling yourself. When did I fool myself? What are you talking about?
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by mjfl 6y ago
As a young guy who was a full time remote worker for about 6 months, and also very honest with myself: I was more distracted as a remote employee. I wasn't as focused as I needed to be and when I was on site working next to the guy I r
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by mjfl 6y ago
advancement doesn't imply environmental degradation, in fact it means the opposite.
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by mjfl 6y ago
As time goes on, some people will continue the same way of life as before, think of the sentinelese islanders, while the richest people will experience continuously accelerating quality of life gains. Thus, inequality is guaranteed to incre
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by mjfl 6y ago
Seems to focus way too much on the bystander effect as a straw man example of "human evil". A much better picture of human evil would come from studying war rape, especially that of a victorious army. Any victorious army. Think So
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by mjfl 6y ago
The "thirst for power" is too much of a normie thing for Mark Zuckerberg to be interested in. I feel like he has this genuine delusion that Facebook serves this higher purpose and wants to see it through until people agree with hi
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by mjfl 6y ago
Wasn't there was some sort of metoo thing that happened with Page, Brin, and Schmidt right before they all stepped down?
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by mjfl 6y ago
9gag's web UI is way better than the new Reddit UI
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by mjfl 6y ago
The problem with null results and boring results is that there are too many of them.
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by mjfl 6y ago
This article argues what I believe is the opposite of the truth: that corporate research productivity is correlated with anti trust enforcement. I think this is very wrong! Bell labs really fell apart AFTER AT&T was broken up. Xerox par
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by mjfl 6y ago
If someone is an angry drunk but able to control their emotions when sober, isn't it sort of cruel to get them drunk to expose this part of them?
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by mjfl 6y ago
With tokamaks, there is a concept of confinement time. It turns out that plasma is not stable in a standard donut configuration and it likes to twist and break the continuous column, sending all the plasma shooting at the walls. The confine
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by mjfl 6y ago
In my opinion it would be crazy to pay $50k of tuition for a few zoom lectures per week, and I think a lot of colleges are aware of this. In response, many of them seem to be doing a "hybrid" approach, where undergrads are allowed
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by mjfl 6y ago
Your student didn't want to be involved in programming competitions because they are unglamorous, not because the environment was hostile to her, as your story demonstrates.
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by mjfl 6y ago
You got downvoted, but it's very clear to me that the reason students avoid math club is because it is unglamorous, not that it is hostile to them.
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by mjfl 6y ago
> You are linking to your own submitted HN story linking to an article? There's nothing wrong with this. Hacker News doesn't need karma police. Stop.

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