mylidlpony

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by mylidlpony 1mo ago
Notice how they didn't donate the money, but explicitly wanted collaboration. Such careful phrasing, methinks.
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by mylidlpony 1mo ago
Well, there were some tells... [0] [0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/basecamp-didnt-just-ban-poli...
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by mylidlpony 1mo ago
I think a better fitting definition of what it is – notably absent from this entire comment section – is virtue, or rather vice, signaling.
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by mylidlpony 2y ago
> you should at least make sure that the new things you make don't net harm people or the world That's rich coming from pg. Is he really in a position to dispense this valuable advice? Did he ever look back at his contributions
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by mylidlpony 2y ago
There is a simple answer: HN is getting targeted by state-level actors and moderation team is asleep at the wheel, utterly unprepared to act against such a sophisticated threat. Perhaps someone should email dang, that ought to solve it!
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by mylidlpony 2y ago
Hahahaha, what? Most of western news sources are blocked in russia after they published Bucha reports. They are literally jailing people for mentioning it on personal vk pages and such.
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by mylidlpony 3y ago
immediately gets caught and extradited to us
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by mylidlpony 3y ago
You can add suppressing on hn to the list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37785072
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by mylidlpony 3y ago
I think him taking down your starlink access when you are using it is a much more risky part for countries. Already happened to Ukraine as well.
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by mylidlpony 3y ago
When "perceived enemies" don't care about this problem and exploit fossil fuel dependency to gain leverage over other countries it worsens the problem in realpolitik sense. It is unwise to just hand wave this aspect away.
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by mylidlpony 3y ago
>Someone burns a koran You should look up who gives money to people who do that, and what political movement they represent. You should then look up this book [0] and who also gets money from the same group of people. I'm sure a lot
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by mylidlpony 4y ago
I googled the phrase 'Portugal drug treatment' and found out what I was suspecting from the start - which is, everything I saw previously was correct and they indeed decriminalized all drugs up to certain weight and still jail dea
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by mylidlpony 4y ago
Your eyes have no value in this conversation. If you can only back up your claims with "trust me bro", they are irrelevant.
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by mylidlpony 4y ago
Do you have any links to back up those claims? Every single article about Portugal's drug situation I've seen seems to disagree with you.
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by mylidlpony 4y ago
That's the oldest authoritarian trick in the book, pretty much any successful business in russia got the same fate for example. They even tried it with nginx.
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by mylidlpony 4y ago
I mean, that part isn't really surprising or noteworthy. Lots of people in russian prison don't deserve to be there (the ones detained on protests, political cases etc).
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by mylidlpony 4y ago
> It's not about who's fastest, it's about who stays in the end And that's where authoritarian regimes get you. People usually aren't that invested in a conversation, or in disproving firehose of falsehoods style
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by mylidlpony 4y ago
Same with all of the russian protests.
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by mylidlpony 4y ago
I saw some sources claiming that was a hack, but not sure how credible that claim was.
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by mylidlpony 4y ago
TBH I would consider this type of fraud of a more Robin Hood variety. Companies that still encourage weak security practices like sms 2fa (or even worse, just hoover your PII under the guise of it) should be defrauded of their money as much
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by mylidlpony 4y ago
> because there's nothing they can do about it Are you talking about the China that bought huge areas in ports around the world? The same one that has secret police stations as well?
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by mylidlpony 4y ago
It's not because of free speech, if you look at every top comment in this thread you will find plenty less than agreeable ones, more than usual for hn in fact. I would argue the same thing happens on every thread related to Musk, Trum
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by mylidlpony 4y ago
There's a whole bunch of russians moderators of protest channels who get raided because they think telegram is secure, while in reality it's very easy to leak your phone, which can be used to find where you are. And now they want