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by musage 9y ago
And then you still can't quote a poem without double line spacing, because blank lines are paragraphs, and line breaks are ignored. The HN markup is really lacking.
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Anyone remember Opera, and the magic it could do to fit just about anything into the tiniest viewports? If a mobile browser can't handle nowrap text, demand the browser to be fixed, instead of playing whack-a-mole on every single comme
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> You'd be surprised how crazy CPS is if you aren't wealthy and white. When people say they have nothing to hide, they're also saying they have no abuse of power to confront, and nobody who is persecuted to stand with in s
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It's so. much. worse. http://www.worldtribune.com/archives/chinese-president-snubs... https://www.quora.com/Did-Mark-Zuckerberg-really-ask-Xi-Jinp... > In China this privilege is nominally give
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That's because corporations don't have volition and don't take actions. People in them do. And the responsibility remains with those individual people.
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Just because it's normal here doesn't mean it's not what it is.
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> without really taking the time to say anything about the parent comment. I see this a lot on HN, including the whole "but my intentions" dance. "Contributing to the discussion[sic]" by talking past a comment, and th
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What facts? You boast about might being right like a caveman, and call that progress. You're not even capable of hearing the words of truly progressive people, and what I criticize the US, European countries and others for, I could nev
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> what you're describing has been the case for decades by now; Does that make it even the tiniest bit more acceptable, or does that mean it's really high time to stop it? Being an apologist kind of hinges on that, and no need t
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If you are an apologist for what is the equivalent of having hundreds of people in trenchcoats following every person on the planet, detailing their every public move and storing it forever, you don't have any reasonable expectation of
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What about some actual data? The article does offer data, not a "narrative".
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Einstein did patent inventions, around 50 are known. He also worked at a patent office for 7 years. I think you still have a point, I also don't think patents necessarily equal innovation, but Einstein simply is not the best example fo
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Einstein was born in Southern Germany, with ancestors that had been there for centuries. German Wikipedia describes his family as "assimilated, non-orthodox, Jewish-German middleclass" and quotes him as being grateful to his town
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I also think that trust is better than obedience, and that insight is better than rules. Sometimes there can be a rule first and insight later, such as "don't run into the road until you're old enough to understand why",
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by musage 9y ago
> We need acceptance—not from everyone, but at least from the people we are most trying to help. If people were worth saving they wouldn't need saving. I need acceptance from myself, to be able to look myself in the eye, and I have
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by musage 9y ago
Everybody dies. Most people don't ever live. > You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause
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by musage 9y ago
The only safe way is to not take nude pictures in the first place. What does this FB thing protect against? In practice? Upload the images as a zip file, message "hi, here's X in the nude, remove all fruit from htappletp:/&#
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Technology, and the obesssion with it and being "dynamic" was absolutely a cornerstone of Nazism. You don't know the first things about it is all.
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> As a Dutchie my Internet is largely unaffected by the FCC. Which in turn doesn't affect my outlook or my agreement with GP. I don't want to convince you either, I just want to route around you.
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> But even with murder, the law doesn't stop murders before they happen, No, but it does outlaw it before it happens. The question isn't "is it happening at the moment", but "should it ever happen".
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by musage 9y ago
> Before the gas chamber was the firing squad. Before that was the noose, the axe, and the guillotine. That doesn't answer any of the questions posed.
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by musage 9y ago
> to pretend that they are the first (or the worst) when it comes to dodging taxed is rather silly. Who did? Name one actual instance where one actual person did claim they're the first to ever do that.
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> A search for the keyword ElsaGate turns up little more than r/Conspiracy threads, which is a warning flare IMO. So is the fact that you either lie so blatantly, or did look into this so little. I told you about it, the ball was i
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by musage 9y ago
> This is the short version of how the conversation, but suffice it to say that the teammate decided he was in control and wanted the team lead to convince why he should implement a private variable in a class. The teammate decided they&
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does that change what I just said? you don't even acknowledge it, neither that it was gotten wrong the first time. like that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what he did, it matters what you think he wanted to happen in r
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ElsaGate, enabled by Google and Disney (which owns at least network which owns at least one involved channel) and consisting faked videos for toddlers for strategic destruction and some sort of weird grooming. needles? taping people up? hum
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To get subsequently smeared to hell and back. Oh, and he didn't even share it publically. He shared it with an internal group discussing these issues . It was then "leaked", and everybody piled on. And you now took part in e
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> I have no idea by what mechanism these would traumatize children Well, you just watched a bunch. You didn't watch the theme of drugging and raping people, mutilation, dissociation, murder, incest, blood, and on and on and on, over
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That's a pretty strong up thing to say in light of child abuse grooming videos. Which is why I assume you say it ignorantly since you are nowhere near up to speed.
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> Almost no-one has questioned whether these videos are indeed harmful to children. Then feel free to question it. Since this refers to a large body of videos, make sure you did your homework. Just some random things from the top of the

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