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by polartx 4y ago
Nah. OP _almost_ finessed his mistake, almost. What the subtext says to me is that the assistant director, or whoever OP talked to, was well aware that OP was just some rando passing through, (probably through experience working in cities),
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by polartx 4y ago
I would say the title is disingenuous the same way clickbait is. A suggested alternate could be, “the time I wandered around somebody’s worksite until the inconvenience of my presence outweighed the crews’ Canadian-level non-confrontational
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by polartx 4y ago
Uhh, thing is, that’s been going on for the better part of two years now
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by polartx 4y ago
I can’t speak for TikTok (as I’m not a user), but I haven’t met anyone that would consider YouTube’s recommendation algo any good at all. I believe most users share the experience of pausing their scrolling to deliberately say “Don’t recom
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by polartx 4y ago
Unless we learn otherwise, (as I think at HN we can generally assume users are who they say they are), it sounds like the OP has experience and expertise in exactly what the article is describing. As much as we might want to believe in the
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by polartx 4y ago
And what of parents that are commuting here or there with children in tow? I don’t think Americans are ready to see our cities become the two-wheeled circuses many tropical Asian countries are known for.
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by polartx 4y ago
Hey, I’m sorry and I’d genuinely feel bad if my comment seemed like I was targeting you; I will re-read and look for ways to communicate better. I wasn’t being mean-spirited, truly. I was just trying to convey my feelings about how we all
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by polartx 4y ago
>Your comment completely lacks morals Try not to regard things in such an all-or-nothing perspective. At worst it indicates a psychological disorder, at best—a high conflict personality. Either way, it wont benefit you or the people that
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by polartx 4y ago
> supposed to? According to whom? If that admonishment had the desired effect and had occurred in his PayPal days, we wouldn’t have SpaceX, Tesla, etc etc etc
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by polartx 4y ago
Exposing a vulnerability in a public forum is the fastest way to patch said vulnerability. You don’t have to be a security nerd to connect the dots
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by polartx 4y ago
I wish I didn’t have to scroll this far to find your rational perspective. Lets take the famous LockPickingLawyer of YouTube, is he responsible for every crime where the thief defeats a lock that he has demonstrated the weaknesses of? I wo
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by polartx 4y ago
Negatory, chief. The legal term “copyright infringement” was created precisely because bootlegging media could not meet the criteria for theft, (ie a pirate is not depriving someone else possession or ownership of the media that they copy).
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by polartx 5y ago
I made a circuit and wrote some simple software for for repurposing old hard drive motors as super smooth rotary encoders, but it never even occurred to me to use the same motor I/Os for reading the rotation speed and direction as outp
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by polartx 5y ago
Who is the arbitrator that determines which classifiers enjoy the protection of ‘hate speech’?
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by polartx 5y ago
>It benefits groups to use terms...to have power over minorities Name calling doesn’t exert power over anyone , it is ultimately up to the name-callee how much power he/she allows those insults to have over them. That is *not* to c
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by polartx 5y ago
I remember reading an anecdote on Reddit about a child commenting on how Katy Perry was pretty, only to be argued with by her (very overweight) mother and aunt. The two adults then attempted to persuade the child by arguing that Katy Perry
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by polartx 5y ago
Do you even adblock?
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by polartx 5y ago
>Ah! so that is what responsible gun owner's gun safety looks like - 2 dead 1 wounded I know you’re being sarcastic, but *yes*, that is responsible gun safety in a scenario where deadly force is required (which is why he was acquitt
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by polartx 5y ago
There are hunting rifles, and there are sport rifles. >They are optimized to deliver a large number effective rounds down range, from a variety of positions at a variety of distances. This is precisely where a blanket term like “assault
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by polartx 5y ago
You were incorrect about the thing which was the thesis of your comment! Not just incorrect but reality was in the exact opposite state as your comment portrayed it! When a person manages to be wrong so efficiently, why on Earth should they
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by polartx 5y ago
That’s what separates America from many places. While you say to the property owner, “property is not worth a human life”. We say to the burglar/arsonist, “is property worth [your] human life?” Also assault rifle isn’t a thing. The t
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by polartx 5y ago
>Threatening unarmed people with a gun a) he never threatened anyone. In fact, he demonstrated better gun safety than, say, a Hollywood actor/producer 3 times his age. b) how can you claim the crowd was unarmed? Of the 3 people that
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by polartx 5y ago
“The obsession“ is over the still yet living patrons/associates/partakers of this particular “dead horrible person”. And the intrigue that, perhaps finally, the wealthy elite may face actual consequences to the morally bankrupt
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by polartx 5y ago
>in which this was the only option aside from getting fired I don’t believe an ill conceived script was his only option. And the rub for most people in these comments is that the code he wrote should have never made it to his fingers—h
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by polartx 5y ago
I’d choose a world with his legacy over Zuck’s ten times out of ten.
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by polartx 5y ago
The article cites the recent murder of politician David Amess as the purpose for revisiting discussions about banning anonymity on social networks. But Amess was stabbed to death by a Somali migrant with ‘religious and ideological motivatio
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by polartx 5y ago
>I'm pretty sure diseases went ahead of the colonists in many cases and wiped out entire civilizations before the colonists ever made contact. Even if it didn't wipe out literally everyone, it would have significantly destabili
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by polartx 5y ago
“To the tens of thousands of people whose phones were suddenly and inexplicably bricked: my bad. You see, it was almost the weekend and although I had 3 days to responsibly approach this problem, I had already pulled several late nights, I’
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by polartx 5y ago
Why would he write and _publish_ this?!? Is this some kind of humiliation fetish? These are things that should maybe be admitted in a confessional, or therapy.
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by polartx 5y ago
The fact that he was running production code and not writing the result to any kind of log file, which would only take a couple more lines of code, one more dependency (if he wanted to skip some time rolling his own), and a couple of megs o

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