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by ok_dad 2y ago
If we wouldn’t do that for Russia, which I suggested years ago and was massively dragged for it on HN, then why would we do it for Italy? I don’t agree with poisoning DNS, but there are way worse things happening on the internet that we don
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by ok_dad 2y ago
No, I'm saying you're derailing the conversation with your "empricism", congratulations. That's what you people do around here. If there are simply a few examples of the "danger" you people claim, then why
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by ok_dad 2y ago
I personally wonder if people were arguing and complaining that America was moving left or failing back when racial integration was the big fight. I’m sure there were people arguing that letting non-whites drink from the same water fountain
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by ok_dad 2y ago
There’s a company doing that in Hawaii, I think it’s called “shift energy”. I interviewed with them, it seemed like a great operation, but a bit hobbled by being a startup in Hawaii. I respect it though, I’d do the same.
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by ok_dad 2y ago
I regret that you think that, but I’m not explaining to you why you’re wrong, it’s as pointless as you trying to convince me that I’m demonizing anyone with that comment.
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by ok_dad 2y ago
Sometimes things get messy discussing important topics, we should err on the side of sunshine rather than darkness for these discussions. HN has a lot of powerful and wealthy people who have a responsibility to protect the system they relie
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by ok_dad 2y ago
Nice steel manning, of course transgender people without bottom surgery don’t walk into nude spas. If you find a single example, great, find me the hundreds of examples you folks claim there are which threaten you. You’re not arguing honest
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by ok_dad 2y ago
This will blow your mind: in Hawaiian culture, transgender people held a place of honor and respect. Hawaii is part of America (illegally overthrown), so there’s a cultural history of transgender people that you can point to here that is re
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by ok_dad 2y ago
Are you kidding? There are so many VCs here who have the resources to push for fair treatment of immigrants and foreign visitors! HN is the perfect place to discuss this.
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by ok_dad 2y ago
Eh, I just ignore those who don’t add to the conversation. If they add something useful, even being self absorbed, I consider it. Sometimes even an American has a nugget of wisdom we can learn from, believe it or not. I don’t really want to
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by ok_dad 2y ago
Unfortunately, a lot of countries are doing a similar thing as these countries, there’s a lot of authoritarians taking over all over the world. I think people should talk not only about the history or events in one country, but also talk ab
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by ok_dad 2y ago
Jesus H. Christ, people are taking the wrong idea from those types of stories! Those are cautionary tales of giving corporations too much power, and letting them take over the government. These stories are meant to show that when a sociopat
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by ok_dad 2y ago
I gotta say, I don’t get that perspective. The content is one thing, but YouTube is super reliable for me, streaming or watching. I can easily stream in 4k 60FPS from OBS and YouTube has never had issues ingesting it, though I generally do
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by ok_dad 2y ago
Same. I actually like that Apple locks down everything to their own devices, in general, because I believe (from my limited knowledge; I am no insider) it's more secure. Perhaps not, but I trust Apple to release products that are fairl
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by ok_dad 2y ago
At this point in my life, I've realized that anything they advertise that is actually a new thing (not a TV or a toaster with slightly better features) is just going to be some consumable or gadget that I don't want or need. Most
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by ok_dad 2y ago
I must also be a caveman, I have at most 4 windows open, they are pretty much full screen, and I swap between them with a mouse. I don't even have that many browser tabs open at any given time, maybe 5-10 max. I feel old when I see kid
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by ok_dad 2y ago
... with all of us.
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by ok_dad 2y ago
> Food was only available at prices that the poor could no longer afford. > It lead to the Revolutions of 1848. Too bad politicians today don't read the history books they want to burn, they might save their own skins.
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by ok_dad 2y ago
Yea, don't feel too bad, you're just unlucky that your mistake was so public, most of us have these kinds of mistakes weekly in a more private setting. I think everyone who knows anything about how optimized Python is would be imp
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by ok_dad 2y ago
yep!
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by ok_dad 2y ago
Edit: this is wrong, I was thinking/merging the idea of the '*' into this one, my bad. -- original below -- > What's the advantage of stopping someone from naming the parameter when they pass it in? From what I have s
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by ok_dad 2y ago
Well, I have literally never seen someone use ideologue in a non-pejorative way, but here it is. Anyways, I would delete my previous comment, knowing you meant no offense, even if I don't think I am an ideologue, or that you could have
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by ok_dad 2y ago
I would have thought the USA government wouldn’t shoot itself in the face, but look at the current stuff going on. I’m not sure they wouldn’t fuck over all the users of GPS at this point, including themselves.
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by ok_dad 2y ago
I believe they could select the level of degradation with SA, you could even turn the non encrypted channel off IIRC. Luckily, it seems they stopped including the feature in newer satellites, so that’s good at least.
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by ok_dad 2y ago
I care more about airplanes, ships, trucks, and things of that nature. People will be able to get along fine with no GPS, a large ship transiting the Panama Canal will NOT be fine without GPS.
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by ok_dad 2y ago
Shit, NASA does space stuff, it fails sometimes! Do we want to only fund things we know to be 100% easy to do? And don't fucking tell me, "we already landed on the moon once, how hard can it be?" because this shit is really f
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by ok_dad 2y ago
Russia seems to be using the same "missing in action" trick as the USA used in Vietnam. "They're not dead, we just misplaced a few tens of thousands of soldiers!"
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by ok_dad 2y ago
Could the USA still turn on Selective Availability for GPS? I am not up to date with the newest satellites, but to me this is more of a threat than anything else. I know there are alternative systems, can most GPS devices use GLONASS or Gal
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by ok_dad 2y ago
The main problem with VPPs is that the people hosting the DER (distributed energy resource) equipment aren't the customers, they are the resources. The companies using VPPs don't really give a shit about the resource, other than t
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by ok_dad 2y ago
So simple! Just as easy to do it as saying it right?

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