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by n4r9 10mo ago
It's not simple; you're claiming that this is what defines being "straight". That's not obvious to me. I can imagine a world where straight men are interested in the current genitalia and not bothered by previous ge
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by n4r9 10mo ago
Hard to address evidence that's behind the paywall of an organisation where there's concerns over editorial independence. I found an archived copy of the article you linked [0] only to find a nested link [1] for the meeting with P
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by n4r9 11mo ago
As far as I can tell, the prosecution's entire case relies on an unfounded grand conspiracy argument. That by running a newspaper which supported democracy, Lai was implicitly calling on the US to impose sanctions on China.
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by n4r9 11mo ago
> automatically uninteresting to me as a straight man Why are you so sure you can extrapolate your personal preferences to all men across all time? Is it inherently impossible that a society could develop to become more open-minded about
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by n4r9 11mo ago
I wonder if that was some inspiration for Iain M Banks' Culture series, in which citizens are able to change their sex at will over the course of about a year. Banks wrote specifically about what this signified for civilisation: > A
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by n4r9 11mo ago
> One example given by Altman was meeting another father and hearing that this dad's six-month-old son had already started crawling, while Altman's had not. That prompted Altman to go to the bathroom and ask ChatGPT questions a
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by n4r9 11mo ago
This may be true. I personally didn't get any hint of LLM usage from their writing. Even where they use em-dashes it's for stuff like this: > there is - in my observational opinion - a rather dark and insidious slant to it That
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by n4r9 11mo ago
I'm not really sure I see your point, then. An organisation like the FSF is going to be pretty resource-strapped, so it makes sense that they're selective about where to maintain a public presence. Why should they stay on Twitter
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by n4r9 11mo ago
May be a domain issue? If you're largely coding within a JS framework (which most software devs are tbf) then that makes total sense. If you're working in something like fintech or games, perhaps less so.
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by n4r9 11mo ago
I think we have different opinions on what's fun and what's boring!
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by n4r9 11mo ago
I roughly agree with you on that (with the caveat that e.g. opposing army generals can be enemies but admire and respect each other). I disagree that Meneth was saying what you said.
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by n4r9 11mo ago
I disagree. If you take statement X to be "you don't like them" and Y to be "they're your enemy". Then OP said "Just because X is true, it doesn't mean Y is true". In other words, "X does no
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by n4r9 11mo ago
I think that Obi actually actually gave Vader's saber to Luke. Obi collected it after maiming Vader in Mustafar.
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by n4r9 11mo ago
Yeah, I'm having to pinch myself a little here. Another slightly odd example it picked out from your history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10735398 It's a good comment, but "prescient" isn't
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by n4r9 11mo ago
> muskets were a new and unproven technology The sword is not as clumsy or random as a musket; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
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by n4r9 11mo ago
Same on firefox on Windows 11
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by n4r9 11mo ago
Yeah, you do. It's still pretty unfriendly imo - you're forcing a user to express disapproval to get something useful, without telling them what useful thing they're going to get by clicking it. It's par for the cour
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by n4r9 11mo ago
Deutsche Bahn has a good contact page: https://int.bahn.de/en/help/contact Conversely, Virgin Media's is well into the "f** off" realm: https://www.virginmedia.com/support/help&
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by n4r9 11mo ago
But if you then keep mowing the lawn regularly, those seeds won't be able to compete with the grass.
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by n4r9 11mo ago
It's hard to tell whether it's still really a town square, since the only information we have about X's usage is tweets from Musk.
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by n4r9 11mo ago
Lots of good lesser-known stuff on Netflix if you wade through the crap: * The Devil's Plan * Alice in Borderlands * Extraordinary Attorney Woo * Brassic * Back to Life * Intelligence * Black Doves * Top Boy * Mo * The Breakthrough * B
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by n4r9 11mo ago
What strategies could FSF employ to "fix things from the inside" on Twitter?
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by n4r9 11mo ago
Indeed. In the language of the post I linked [0]: it's currently an occasional problem, and it risks becoming a widespread rot. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44743651
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by n4r9 11mo ago
A lot of people believe that Trump represents their values. They might be dead wrong, but it's what they believe that counts.
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by n4r9 11mo ago
Could you explain what you mean, please?
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by n4r9 11mo ago
That's a good point. I'm talking specifically in the context of deploying code. The potential for senior devs to be totally overwhelmed with the work of reviewing junior devs' code is limited by the speed at which junior devs
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by n4r9 11mo ago
> it does feel weird to have more than 50% of social housing in the capital allocated to people not born in the country It's worth adding the context that more than two thirds of that 50% have a British passport [0], and that around
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by n4r9 11mo ago
I'm struggling to make sense of what you're saying. Is there something concrete - some subtlety - that I missed? I searched HN comments for mentions of "CQRS" over the past year. It's mentioned very infrequently out
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by n4r9 11mo ago
Your misrepresentation of opposing views betrays a lack of intellectual openness. For example: > liberals are in favor of practically unlimited immigration Do you think "liberals" (are you from the UK btw?) are in favour of 5 b
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by n4r9 11mo ago
Exactly what I've been worrying about for a few months now [0]. Arguments like "well at least this is as good as what humans do, and much faster" are fundamentally missing the point. Humans output things slowly enough that ot

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