nyolfen

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   by nyolfen 6y ago

   yes, i can see the difference -- who, whom
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   by nyolfen 6y ago

   there are plenty of valid, piercing critiques of capitalism or markets, ways to highlight that things they have degraded and destroyed -- and yet you chose a critique that is not only less true than it has ever been, it is increasingly untr
3. 573.▲
   by nyolfen 6y ago

   puerto rican nationalists stormed the capitol and shot congressmen in 1954; leftists literally bombed the senate chamber in 1983; we somehow managed to persist without restricting civil liberties both times. have you ever even heard of thes
4. 574.▲
   by nyolfen 6y ago

   > "nothing good has happened because bad things still exist" https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=deaths+by+starvatio...
5. 575.▲
   by nyolfen 6y ago

   > "That's helping people" doesn't really say anything. It's extremely vague. Moreover, it's clear that not everyone helped since abject poverty and hunger are a thing, regardless of where you live. this is l
6. 576.▲
   by nyolfen 6y ago

   you have your eyes closed if you think they're only censoring the worst kinds of content, like nazis. videos have been taken down for e.g. criticizing lockdowns. it has moved well into policing acceptable thought.
7. 577.▲
   by nyolfen 6y ago

   they dlc'd the secondary/redundant AoA sensor, a critical safety feature and literally a direct cause of the crashes
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   by nyolfen 6y ago

   they may be better off in future antitrust proceedings
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   by nyolfen 6y ago

   i think you will find this thesis gaining credibility in the near future: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca...
10. 580.▲
    by nyolfen 6y ago

    fun reminder that canonical refuses to use tls on their repos
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    by nyolfen 6y ago

    specifically he is a specialist in bat biology, but perhaps more relevantly he had a very interesting conversation with a russian virologist who also thinks this is the case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SRrsr-Iug here
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    by nyolfen 6y ago

    well, then it is probably good that GP is saying that you are presenting unreliable evidence
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    by nyolfen 6y ago

    i find this line of thinking far more pathological than talking about putting your phone down or whatever — “don’t try to improve yourself, only the credentialed professional can help you”. do you actually think this way about yourself? it
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    by nyolfen 6y ago

    https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
15. 585.▲
    by nyolfen 6y ago

    that's great; the excerpt you posted, however, was phrased as a 'gotcha' -- as in, 'you thought i was talking about a gene, but in fact i was talking about a sex'
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    by nyolfen 6y ago

    i know this is supposed to be a bit of a gotcha but there really are specific genes (not chromosomes) that are strongly correlated with violent crime: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29760212
17. 587.▲
    by nyolfen 6y ago

    i don't think i'm so off the mark: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/17/bellingcat-can-say-what... > “I don’t want to be too dramatic, but we love this,” said Marc Polymeropolous, the CIA’s forme
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    by nyolfen 6y ago

    this was my impression as well. how did they get passport photos and cell phone records? my suspicion for a while has been that bellingcat is basically a way of laundering US intelligence when it is thought to be beneficial to publicly rel
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    by nyolfen 6y ago

    indeed, this is amazing
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    by nyolfen 6y ago

    my grandfather flew one over southeast asia in the 50s, and later was in charge of a team that flew u-2's and a-12's (cia version of sr-71) over china. i transcribed a letter he wrote about it, mostly regarding the mechanical expe
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    by nyolfen 6y ago

    this was also a scythian belief, and iirc some peoples of ancient mesopotamia
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    by nyolfen 6y ago

    this is an imposition of bounds on acceptable political thought; kto kovo. "misinformation" is a political label created to influence political processes. that is not to say that there is no truth, but rather that there is an offi
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    by nyolfen 6y ago

    not as visible as california
24. 594.▲
    by nyolfen 6y ago

    here's a writeup that really stuck with me for the last decade about the surprising level of organized crime in selling nitrous at music festivals: https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/07/06/inside-the-nitro
25. 595.▲
    by nyolfen 6y ago

    this reads very much as an autobiographical entry
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    by nyolfen 6y ago

    i think your experience is idiosyncratic; for most people, opiates feel very pleasurable
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    by nyolfen 6y ago

    the US state dept funds the tor project to this day
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    by nyolfen 6y ago

    ah, i think i misunderstood the framing -- i do not jailbreak for that very reason, and i leave it to others to make the case!
29. 599.▲
    by nyolfen 6y ago

    i love free software, run linux on all my pc's etc, but i like having one computer that i don't have to worry about getting owned
30. 600.▲
    by nyolfen 6y ago

    I am easily as aware of the activities of US intelligence SIGINT programs as nearly any civilian on this site, and just as reflexively critical of them as you would expect of a HN poster (my interest stems from my opposition), but I have ne