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by noptd 4y ago
Sounds synonymous to "speech that could anger people". What a load of bollocks.
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by noptd 4y ago
Is the style more important than the content? Seems like he wrote it with multiple audiences in mind and I don't see how that detracts from his claims or message.
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by noptd 4y ago
>My line of thinking is that takes the power away from the individual. Takes the power away from Apple you mean. If Apple cares that much about privacy, as opposed to their bottom line under the guise of caring, then they can implement a
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by noptd 4y ago
That's a problem better solved by providing more granular, user-controlled limits on app permissions at the OS level than by locking down the 'ecosystem' and further removing users' control over their own devices.
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by noptd 4y ago
Given the number of social services and amount of support available, I highly doubt that even a sizeable minority of these crimes are survival-related.
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by noptd 4y ago
This comes back to scarcity as the root cause. If there were an abundance of alternatives in the same price range, shitty landlords couldn't get away with letting their properties deteriorate to such a condition. The deadbeat landlord
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by noptd 4y ago
>A claim like that needs supporting evidence. I see no reason why segregation among different members of a single community is natural. Considering that in-group-out-group psychology has been humanity's evolutionary default for tens
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by noptd 4y ago
>Lazard is generally regarded as pretty credible. No they're not, as already pointed out in response to your other comments (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32092280 ), yet you continue to cite them as an a
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by noptd 4y ago
You should include this disclaimer as you commented below >I should admit that I drove for only a month so that readers can properly weigh your experiences when forming an opinion.
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by noptd 4y ago
>sinophobia Purposely conflating China and the CCP, when the parent was criticizing the latter, is disingenuous at best. >mindless anti-China ranting And there goes arguing in good faith...
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by noptd 4y ago
>After four days, 25 000 fake visits from customers had been registered with Facebook. But they had neither shut down nor warned the owners of the made-up pharmacy - Swedish Radio News' reporters. When the reporters log into their a
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by noptd 4y ago
>Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by noptd 4y ago
>Slack is one of the most secure Electron apps currently in existence at the moment, they have been... And from your other comment >we in the Slack Desktop team Seems misleading to declare something like this without a disclaimer th
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by noptd 4y ago
Slack crashes (unresponsive white window -> hard reload) for me at least once a day on the latest MacOS and Intel MBP, and it seems a common occurrence for many of the coworkers I talk to.
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by noptd 4y ago
If you put an end date like the PP mentioned, then I think that's on you. "<Start date> - current" prevents that problem nicely.
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by noptd 4y ago
>Obviously we don't want to make things harder for already disadvantaged communities, but we simply can't let Walmart off the hook when they specifically tell their employees to complete transactions even when they suspect frau
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by noptd 4y ago
Comparing blatant theft of physical property to a possible financial scam, the latter of which the company has nowhere near the context required to make a determination on, seems a bit disingenuous, no?
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by noptd 4y ago
How so?
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by noptd 4y ago
Odd that you think this is some sort of gotcha given that the best predictor of future behavior is, in fact, past behavior.
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by noptd 4y ago
Could you share any interview links for those interested but not familiar enough to find the info on Google?
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by noptd 4y ago
So the crux of your argument is that it's more likely that a virus with that type of predisposition occured in nature in a specific area around the Wuhan market as opposed to being sampled from one of many areas, potentially modified,
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by noptd 4y ago
>the limited evidence to conclude that the lab leak hypothesis is increasingly unlikely. Any citations to share? I've only seen peer-reviewed evidence shared in this comments section that contradicts this claim.
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by noptd 4y ago
>But we've pretty much established that it was a virus of natural origin You keep repeating this sentiment even though there are other comments that provide evidence to the contrary, that we haven't established that at all. Do
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by noptd 4y ago
> There isn't really a story here. YouTube just kind of blindly accepts any and all DMCAs regardless of whether the claimant has legitimate ownership or not. Sounds like a compelling story to me.
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by noptd 4y ago
Or more likely - all of the above.
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by noptd 4y ago
I couldn't disagree more. I'm far more concerned about device vendors leveraging encrypted DNS in order to remove my ability to intercept and filter DNS resolution on my own network. For example, I'm sure Google and pretty mu
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by noptd 4y ago
>you can in some cases copyright the digitisation of out-of-copyright photos I don't have an opinion in either direction but it seems unnecessary to criticize the disagreement of others when even your own link refutes your claim, as
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by noptd 5y ago
>now i'm typing random shortcuts (like reassigning tickets, changing status or whatever). This happens to me often and it's absolutely infuriating. I'd prefer a blocking spinning wheel of death over that nonsense. It'
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by noptd 5y ago
How about you explicitly state your point? Sea lion-ing is typically frowned upon on HN.
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by noptd 5y ago
>as another commenter stated, there's a good argument against all of these words too. As far as I can tell, the other commenter was actually making the opposite point (reducto ad absurdum).

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