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by orbat 9y ago
> bigoted academic clique Ah, everybody's a bigot but the actual bigots
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by orbat 9y ago
Ahh, right, now I get your point
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by orbat 9y ago
My point was that it sounds likely that something like the industrial revolution would happen after the abolishment of slavery, when there's more pressure on people to be inventive. Not that it has to happen immediately
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by orbat 9y ago
What's ironic about it? The only real sources of income most sites now have are either ads, donations or subscriptions. Ads are often intrusive and usually make the site much heavier to load, donations don't usually work very well
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by orbat 9y ago
Telling companies that they can't terminate user accounts without a redress or data recovery mechanism (which is what my original point was) isn't a restriction on free speech any more than us telling corporations they can't
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by orbat 9y ago
Started late 18th century, after several decades of European countries and US states abolishing slavery ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slave... ). Why, when do you think it happened?
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by orbat 9y ago
People seem to have the laughable idea that somehow only government censorship is bad, or that corporations aren't capable of censorship in the first place because they're private entities. I mean, yes, the world will look like
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by orbat 9y ago
So instead of actually reading the article that I linked to that explains the concept, you decided to argue semantics? I'm fine with you not wanting to educate yourself, but don't pretend your answer was somehow a good rebuttal if
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by orbat 9y ago
And conveniently forgetting that docker is written in Go, so the binary also has the runtime and all used libraries baked in
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by orbat 9y ago
Claiming that private institutions aren't under any obligations for reasonable conduct seems to be a very uniquely American ideation; that somehow only the government is bound by higher ideals, and businesses can do what they please wi
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by orbat 9y ago
"There is no such expectation/pressure on women" is a bit of a blanket statement, and I highly doubt it's true; see e.g. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11406568/Why-wo... . We
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by orbat 9y ago
This sort of suggestion is usually countered by pointing out how big/unique/different the US is, hence things that work everywhere else in the world just won't cut it. Which I understand to an extent, but often it sounds more
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by orbat 10y ago
The point was that you should be be asking whether you should be doing something in the first place
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by orbat 10y ago
What, exactly, is the problem with the <table> tag in the first place? Been a long, long time since I last touched HTML
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by orbat 10y ago
Producing copies of an already existing digital good is, for all intents and purposes, free. Creating the original most definitely is not, and that's the issue here
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by orbat 10y ago
_coördinating_ Completely, unabashedly unrelated, but I honestly can't remember the last time I saw dieresis in the wild. Is this a regional thing?
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by orbat 10y ago
- how do you prove planned obsolencence? That sounds like a witch hunt waiting to happen It's trivial to prove for for e.g. inkjet printers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence#Programme... . The Ph
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by orbat 10y ago
If the general public was smart enough to draw their own conclusions about, well, anything, Trump wouldn't be a viable candidate
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by orbat 10y ago
Would you actually want drug research to _not_ be regulated?
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by orbat 10y ago
Referring to people as "it" is fairly common in colloquial Finnish, and there's no sordid associations there
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by orbat 10y ago
I can't produce the set of all humans on Earth either, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Both real and natural numbers can be reasoned about despite their infinite size (and we even know that e.g. there must be "mo
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by orbat 10y ago
Except it's not even that "simple", which was the whole point of the article
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by orbat 10y ago
It's not a question of whether they're buggy, but whether they are better than human drivers despite the bugs
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by orbat 11y ago
Do you, by any chance, often use the word "SJW" and not in an ironic way?
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Show HN: Command line Slack web API tool(github.com)
1 points by orbat 11y ago|0 comments
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by orbat 11y ago
There are so many competing definitions of "eating naturally" that your sentence is more or less completely meaningless
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by orbat 11y ago
My thoughts exactly. Gravity's Rainbow could really benefit from a more, uh, "hypermedia" approach.
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by orbat 12y ago
But then you're left with a smart gun that's unlockable with a simple RF generator