orcdork

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by orcdork 8y ago
Nothing like redirecting the conversation by implying there's "outrage" that's somehow "manufactured", yes? Particularly because it sidesteps the things the company actually did (areas razed to the ground inclu
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by orcdork 8y ago
Why shouldn't the bureaucracy be fed? These companies make money off of it. I don't see any justification for your position besides a nebulous wish for Europe to have an equivalent of google/facebook, and to be honest, beside
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by orcdork 8y ago
It's like following a search result to experts exchange on the age of stack overflow.
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by orcdork 8y ago
That feels like whitewashing part of the blame that applies to engineers and product developers. We don't get to say "oh it's those pesky money people, how dare they", while drawing a salary from the same pockets.
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by orcdork 8y ago
"Sometimes its possible to care so much that you lose sight of what is important." Oh come on.
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by orcdork 8y ago
Googling for 'Musk "south africa born"' ( https://www.google.com/search?q=musk+"south+africa+born" ) seems to have articles on both sides of the argument (including one calling him the real life
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by orcdork 8y ago
So any contract is fair and there is absolutely no chance of coercion or intimidation by a party with an unfair negotiating advantage?
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by orcdork 8y ago
Like every comment on youtube recipe videos, here's another random person telling us how wrong everyone else is and how to do it better.
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by orcdork 8y ago
The couple of things that spring to mind is accusing one of the cave rescuers recently of being a pedophile for no particular reason and without any proof, and a fairly well shared article by his first wife on his behavior. From what I&#x27
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by orcdork 8y ago
He's smart, and also a monumental dickwad. I'd expect people that dislike him to do so for the latter, not the former. (i'm on that boat too)
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by orcdork 8y ago
When you devalue the issues that people actually living in third word countries face, you can make your own privilege sound a bit less like one.
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by orcdork 8y ago
That part felt petty & mean spirited to me. If anything the person was playing "the game" in the way it should be played, yet the author felt the urge to unnecessary ridicule them (even anonymously so).
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by orcdork 8y ago
The key phrase in "grab a bike, ride to some isolated forest in France" being "in France". Shouldn't French citizens, through their laws and officials get to choose who gets to grab a bike and live in the french for
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by orcdork 8y ago
You can see the original fact sheet of the investigation here ( http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-4782_en.htm ). The reasoning for the investigation is at the bottom. There were two complaints and an independe
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by orcdork 8y ago
Branching conversations? In my internet discussion board? I agree with you but there's other ways to do this than yet another unrelated comment.
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by orcdork 8y ago
Or: "Here's a list of all our referral links"
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by orcdork 8y ago
"London [...] still notorious for violent street crime" Which I find fairly strange all things considered - the crime index ( https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings.jsp - admittedly this might not be the most a
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by orcdork 8y ago
Nothing like trying to ridicule people that care about privacy, while hiding behind an "/s", huh?
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by orcdork 8y ago
Ok so... There's no "BBC fee". Theres a TV Licence fee. You don't need to pay it if you don't own a tv. Or you own a tv hooked up to a playstation. There's also many other (legal) reasons to not pay for it. The
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by orcdork 8y ago
What about "evil capitalists" using their advantage unfairly to stifle & crush competition, keeping their profits high, while keeping salaries artificially deflated for the majority of workers. But ok, let's just create t
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by orcdork 8y ago
These read like cold-reading for money - broad generalisations that apply mostly because of their broadness.
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by orcdork 8y ago
I recognized your user name from the other thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17095217 ), it looks like you've made up your mind (to the point where your comments where ridiculous enough to be deleted) and no
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by orcdork 8y ago
Refute what exactly? A bunch of assumptions and pseudo-statistics?
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by orcdork 8y ago
What a bunch of redpill bullshit.
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by orcdork 8y ago
And people say devs are not grounded in reality - how dare those fat car plutocrats force workers to show up at 9. What is this, the mid to late 90s?
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by orcdork 9y ago
Poor, persecuted homophobes.
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by orcdork 9y ago
I want a society where this kind of backwards, reductive and downright hateful notions, passed as "free speech", "politics" or just "speaking my mind, bro" have no place. And i do want (and in some cases expect
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by orcdork 9y ago
How dare they kick out the guy that's so anti-gay marriage, he donated money to that "cause".
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by orcdork 9y ago
Your example is the result of years of government failure to provide adequate funding and support to the health system, not some kind of fantastical moocher, using ambulances for no reason.
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by orcdork 9y ago
How about no?

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