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by nailer 1y ago
Sure they are. They’re both just people using whatever power they have to shape the narrative.
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by nailer 1y ago
Sure but the public pressure “against the IDF” was manufactured. That’s an important point and relevant to the current discussion.
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by nailer 1y ago
Are you saying the donation wouldn’t have an effect?
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by nailer 1y ago
The public pressure against “the IDF” (but really against Jewish people) came from Qatari sponsorship of US higher education. If you dislike AIPAC you should dislike Qatar much more, for their budget is much higher.
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by nailer 1y ago
Or journalists everywhere shaping stories to their own biases.
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by nailer 1y ago
The ‘vast majority’ using GUIs as mentioned by the parent doesn’t preclude individuals using CLIs.
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by nailer 1y ago
The source of funding is mentioned in the article.
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by nailer 1y ago
Except tabs versus spaces, which ended back in 2021 we all decided the best indentation was the emoji corn.
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by nailer 1y ago
Sure, but if you measure that for a ten thousand people (controversially, ten thousand people that aren't already programmers may be better) you can get a good idea of what is efficient and what isn't.
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by nailer 1y ago
That sounds like they were on https://www.professorwatchlist.org - what's their page?
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by nailer 1y ago
No. Wikipedia themselves say not to cite Wikipedia, because Wikipedia is a wiki.
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by nailer 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45554559
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by nailer 1y ago
Tastyface. See earlier in the thread.
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by nailer 1y ago
I’m stating you’re concerned with trivial matters.
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by nailer 1y ago
As I already mentioned you could just ask people that live in SF: https://x.com/andercot/status/1977098477399327009?s=46
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by nailer 1y ago
Wikipedia isn’t a reference. Also you missed this earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553429
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by nailer 1y ago
What’s the first commandment again? I’m pretty sure murder and calls to murder are about as antithetical to Christianity as you can get.
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by nailer 1y ago
> leftists professors" and promoting their harassment That’s an incredible inversion of defending students from professors demanding conformance to their political beliefs rather than educating. https://www.professorwatch
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by nailer 1y ago
It’s a moral imperative to call out evil. It’s a gross inversion to pretend otherwise.
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by nailer 1y ago
But that’s not true - it was uncharacteristic. There are many instances where he was kind to someone being openly aggressive towards him and one where he made fun of Paul Pelosi.
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by nailer 1y ago
Downtown SF has been bad since Covid, as anyone that’s been there before and after can attest. Salesforce has a building in downtown SF. Wanting to have it be something close to pre 2020 levels of crime is very much precedented.
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by nailer 1y ago
I'm pretty sure murder is wrong.
803.
by nailer 1y ago
Yes, Dang has been manually unflagging stories recently so HN has become a very different place in the last half year or so.
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by nailer 1y ago
FWIW I agree Kirk shouldn't have made fun of Paul Pelosi. I think Kirk probably wouldn't be proud of his own behaviour there.
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by nailer 1y ago
Do you want to post an example? Kirk would defend students being harassed for unrelated political matters - eg the most recent case on his channel was an Agriculture major who had to take some kind of 'equity in agriculture' class
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by nailer 1y ago
The Kirk assassination was awful, as well as the plainly false things said about his life by some parts of the media. But nobody is obligated to have a particular political opinion and Kirk himself would have pointed out that civil disagree
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by nailer 1y ago
There is no ‘purest form of open source’. There is software that meets the open source definition and software that doesn’t. If you’re on HN it’s surprising you’re not aware of this. stallman is from the free software movement which doesn’t
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by nailer 1y ago
Larry Sanger, Wikipedia’s cofounder has many - https://larrysanger.org/nine-theses/
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by nailer 1y ago
"Since RedHat doesn't want to answer to us" First rule of having someone reply: spell their name correctly.
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by nailer 1y ago
Awesome. I’m glad it’s changed!

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