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by pmachinery 6y ago
It would be a boring world if everyone just agreed with each other and had the same opinions. > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usual
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by pmachinery 6y ago
The election isn't simply between those two parties, and with just a handful of seats going differently Labour could have had its first Prime Minister since 2010. That's a win.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> I suppose that this "right-wing Tory supporting organ of Rupert Murdoch" is "effectively defend[ing] Corbyn and his policies" for a simple reason No, as I stated in that sentence you are quoting from, that is exactl
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by pmachinery 6y ago
In case anyone (else) is wondering why a right-wing Tory supporting organ of Rupert Murdoch would effectively defend Corbyn and his policies by implying Labour was recently defeated because it secretly promoted right-wing policies to the vo
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by pmachinery 7y ago
It's unfortunate that HN is still plagued with posts like this (and worse) about "Chinese", "China", "CCP" or even "MSS" that would (I hope) not be tolerated for one second if the words were, say
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by pmachinery 7y ago
> Hacker News supposedly has a rule against shallow comments and yet for some reason knee jerk requests for sources with no additional substance to drive the dialogue forward are considered 'reasonable'. There's also a rul
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by pmachinery 7y ago
Are you selling a potentially illegal pandemic ebook and hoping to profit from a competitor being taken down? Baseless paranoid accusations are easy, and completely missing the point of a post - annoyance at low-effort junk posted to HN by
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by pmachinery 7y ago
A one post fake blog about absolutely nothing[0], knocked-up five minutes ago, on a garbage domain extension registered a few weeks ago, exploiting the clickiest topic of the day and posted to HN. Who's the coronavirus spammer here, ex
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by pmachinery 7y ago
> Hardcore Firefox fanboy since its humble beginnings. Same here. And although I may stick with it due to my loathing of the alternatives, I'm increasingly sick of it. The complaints about the new URL bar/bookmarks toolbar were
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by pmachinery 7y ago
The topic is not Captain America saving the world again, it's Chinese medical supplies to Holland. That seems like something the Dutch have far more stake in than Americans. And a country that has dramatically more at stake by permanen
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by pmachinery 7y ago
> https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/should-you-wear-a-fa... > This may lead some members of the public to be lax about ... washing their hands frequently and thoroughly. Moreover, donning [a] mas
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by pmachinery 7y ago
EU law applies to nearly 30 countries. Does that make it "international law"?
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by pmachinery 7y ago
I already hated the design before that but persevered because the text was at least readable, but gave up bothering at the point you mention.
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by pmachinery 7y ago
> The EU and the US comprise several nations, so why does that not make sanctions "international"? For the same reason sanctions agreed on by Russia, China and North Korea (also a group comprising several nations) would not mea
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by pmachinery 7y ago
There are no international sanctions against Syria, simply EU sanctions and US sanctions. Countries that aren't the US and in the EU don't have to abide by that any more than the US or EU has to abide by dictats Iran or Russia or
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by pmachinery 7y ago
> this would not be the first time Which the laughably biased article illustrates with Iran's "infamous" seizure of a British ship. Not the earlier British seizure of an Iranian vessel, which the Iranians were simply respo
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by pmachinery 7y ago
I think they're assuming Frigidaire is pronounced with a hard G, which is fair enough if you haven't heard it spoken before.
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by pmachinery 7y ago
Advocating against the use of other protective measures - condoms, helmets, safety belts - because they're not 100% wouldn't be given the time of day, and it's high time people stopped tolerating or even assuming good-faith f
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by pmachinery 7y ago
> but why specifically the United States? [...] but why specifically the US? Possibly because, as it says in the second line of the article, the US now has the highest number of confirmed cases (more than 124,000 currently, from around 6
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by pmachinery 7y ago
Sorry, I just saw this now. Misunderstanding I was. Thank you.
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by pmachinery 7y ago
Some people may be courteous enough to wear a mask when sick, but most people wearing a mask in Asian countries are not sick and being courteous, they are (sensibly) trying to avoid becoming sick.
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by pmachinery 7y ago
Likewise the .bat file (which I only clicked on accidentally because I thought it was going to be a virus/wipe the drive).
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by pmachinery 7y ago
> false sense of security - gives the person the impression they are protected and allows them to lower their guard in other area's that they might now if they weren't wearing it. Using this argument bullet poof vests and helme
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by pmachinery 7y ago
> It looks like Iceland has about 1% of its people infected. Apologies if I've misunderstood something but your link says 473 cases, which is more like 0.1% of the population.
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by pmachinery 7y ago
It's unbelievable to me it hasn't already been postponed. I expected it weeks ago, along with the postponement of Euro 2020. Nobody in their right mind should even be remotely considering holding a major global event this year.
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by pmachinery 7y ago
> Surgical masks are useless for protecting the wearer from infected people They are not useless for protecting the wearer, and this anti-vaxer level dangerous misinformation needs to stop. It's like saying condoms are useless for p
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by pmachinery 7y ago
> I think anyone who thought critically about it could see through this. Any five year old knows some protection is obviously better than none. It's unbelievable that some people went along with such utter, obvious dangerous stupidi
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by pmachinery 7y ago
> A few weeks ago I was told that flying into Amsterdam there were no temperature checks. Same with flying today around US. Singapore was doing that months ago... I don't know who is handling this better, but Singapore also has peop
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by pmachinery 7y ago
Why is that absolutely incredible?