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by oska 7y ago
Also, from the Guardian's coverage: > Google has argued that defamation threats can be used to suppress information that might help customers steer clear of bad businesses, and that it should only remove reviews with a court order
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Australian dentist granted court order forcing Google to unmask anonymous critic(sbs.com.au)
2 points by oska 7y ago|1 comments
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by oska 7y ago
I noticed the same thing. Maybe I should have got a quote from elsewhere as it's not particularly well written. Nevertheless, it still gets the concept across.
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by oska 7y ago
Yes, agree that using the word 'narcissist' instead would have been better. Psychopaths don't necessarily feed on drama or crave attention.
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by oska 7y ago
This is the 'Grey Rock' strategy: > So, how do we escape this parasitical leech without triggering his vindictive rage? Gray Rock is primarily a way of encouraging a psychopath, a stalker or other emotionally unbalanced person,
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by oska 7y ago
And the USA is the most exploitative country. By far. It's odd watching US Americans (I presume) attack China while defending their own country's horrendous record (witness your cavalier setting aside of the CIA's evil doin
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by oska 7y ago
> I don’t really understand comments like this. And I don't understand how you don't understand. It was a very simple point that was being made - that the US has projected far more violence outside its borders over the last c
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by oska 7y ago
Detergent is more harsh on your skin than (real) soap.
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by oska 7y ago
> The main thing I've noticed is that natural fabrics don't pick up smells nearly as badly as synthetics. This is especially true of wool.
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by oska 7y ago
> May as well just say The Earth would be better off if people had never existed if you're going to go that route. No, that most certainly doesn't follow. It's entirely usual and normal for an amount of something in a sys
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by oska 7y ago
The only one of the four the GP listed that I could see as meeting your criteria is 'assassinating foreign agents'. And I would see the requirement to do that (to meet your criteria) as very, very rare.
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by oska 7y ago
I think my main issue is the shift in focus away from a transaction (people paying for a product or service) to reducing people to simply being sources of money. Also, the idea that fans or admirers should be converted into people who pay
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by oska 7y ago
> Monetizing fans is really hard on passion alone. > ... you often can't monetize them at all without significant re-activation effort I find talk of monetising people extremely off-putting. Also (not meant as a personal attack),
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by oska 7y ago
They won't swap you to a 737-MAX if they don't own any of that aircraft. Delta, your example, does not have any in service and has not ordered any. It's not hard to find out which airlines use the plane and which don't.
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by oska 7y ago
It's quite easy to look up which airlines use this aircraft and which don't.[1] And further, which airlines are major purchasers of this aircraft (e.g. Southwest, Flydubai and Lion Air). And then avoid flying those airlines. [1]
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by oska 7y ago
The hardware remains fundamentally flawed.
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by oska 7y ago
I agree with you. This plane is fundamentally flawed and the reason such a flawed plane went into production was to reward short-term, sociopathic thinking and earn short-term profits (which ended up blowing up in their faces anyway). Taki
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by oska 7y ago
So does this mean the submission was administratively flagged? Not criticising, just asking for clarification on what being judged as 'not substantive enough to be on topic for HN' entails.
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Why lightning disproportionately kills the global poor (2016)(theatlantic.com)
1 points by oska 7y ago|0 comments
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by oska 7y ago
These videos are very good. Thanks for the suggestion.
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by oska 7y ago
Providing up to date news about an epidemic is one of the most valuable services of the media. Calling this type of news 'clickbait' is quite bizarre in my opinion. The sources I've been reading haven't been sensationali
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Our face mask future: Do they really protect from pollution and infection?(theguardian.com)
2 points by oska 7y ago|0 comments
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by oska 7y ago
Very wise. You can see the level of VC control in the company and how they are only continuing to increase their influence as they head towards the IPO. The VC funders want their monetization payout. It's somewhat alarming considering
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by oska 7y ago
Plus being a betrayal of their user-base which is heavily weighted towards young and impressionable learners. And, by the way, a betrayal of their initial promise, that they would never do advertising (expressly stated in the first promo vi
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by oska 7y ago
Well said (although I wouldn't have included the bit about evolution). I wondered if the GP had ever heard of Jeremy Bentham and his Panopticon as I read their comment.
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by oska 7y ago
Hmmmm... [1] [1] https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2170455672
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by oska 7y ago
> What if Charles Ponzi himself would have personally invented a (real) cure for cancer or something before he died? This is a pretty strained argument. The much more likely scenario would have been Ponzi claiming that he had invented
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by oska 7y ago
This is interesting, from his wikipedia page [1] : > After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Yoshimura's nonfiction chronicle of three previous tsunamis on the coast of Sanriku, Sanriku Kaigan Otsunami received an influx of
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by oska 7y ago
I dislike this formula of "Stopped reading after ..." that I seem to be seeing more frequently. Why not just make your criticism of the quoted text straight up? Why the rhetorical flounce out of the room?
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3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics [video](lexfridman.com)
187 points by oska 7y ago|21 comments

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