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by robonerd 4y ago
Vampire fetish stuff seems harmless to me, but I'm not surprised Visa and Mastercard don't want to get into the weeds of determining the difference between special effects and actual self-harm / mutilation. There is a whole
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by robonerd 4y ago
> This is how people want it. Some people sure. Maybe even the "twitter consensus" or "HN consensus", but I think you should be very careful about taking apparent consensus on these sort of social media platforms a
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by robonerd 4y ago
> for someone who is not allowed to own one (a "prohibited person"). The way it works with firearms, purchasing a gun on behalf of somebody else (not as a gift) is illegal regardless of that other person's legal status a
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by robonerd 4y ago
> But I have a hard time believing all black market guns, or even the majority, are stolen from residences. Many are likely stolen from cars. Leaving a gun in the glove compartment isn't terribly uncommon in America, nor are car
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by robonerd 4y ago
> "Stolen guns account for only about 10% to 15% of guns used in crimes," 3.6 roentgen per hour? That's actually significant...
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by robonerd 4y ago
> If I purchase for myself If that is your earnest intent when you bought it, then ostensibly it would be legal. However... Laws aren't computer code; gray areas get hashed out in court. How often you've done this and the a
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by robonerd 4y ago
Buying a gun for somebody else is legal if it's a gift. But if it's a "gift" in exchange for some favor or service, that doesn't count. No quid pro quo.
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by robonerd 4y ago
I read that as "dedicated server[process]" not "dedicated server[hardware]" While the latter would obviously imply the former, it's really the former that increases the complexity of managing whole affair. D
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by robonerd 4y ago
One person who criticizes Mozilla mentioning politics is not a legitimate excuse for you to paint the entire class of people who complain about Mozilla with that brush. Ironically, doing so is vaguely fascist, in the sense that fascists lo
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by robonerd 4y ago
He has a pro- whoever is paying him to 'consult' slant. He is not a principled man; he is a mercenary.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> vaguely fascist users I've seen this one before, a GNOME apologist insinuating that anybody who wants thumbnails in the GTK filepicker is probably a 4chan user. Is this the new trendy way to dismiss criticism of software? Insi
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by robonerd 4y ago
'FOSS Patents' aka Florian Mueller is a mercenary blogger, a shill for hire.
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by robonerd 4y ago
I blame ORMs. ORMs are promoted by scare mongering novice developers away from learning SQL in the first place. I'm ashamed to say I fell for it for a few years. When I eventually learned SQL it was like a fog being lifted from my
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think it's mostly praised for the stylish action and shameless violence, not the story.
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by robonerd 4y ago
It seemed like a deliberate invocation of the 'kick the dog' trope. While crude and lazy villain writing, to invoke the trope so deliberately shows a degree of respect to the audience. It says the movie isn't going to wa
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by robonerd 4y ago
The Jason Bourne films were fast-editing driven adult action. The character was an emotional blank slate infused with innate combat and spycraft knowledge, perfect for the audience to self-insert into for a power fantasy. What really dro
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by robonerd 4y ago
Sounds like you want more detective stories, not superhero stories. Smart hero defeat the evil brute using his whit is a common sort of story if you know where to look, but Hollywood does seem to be on a superhero glut for the past 15-20
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by robonerd 4y ago
Does anybody really believe that workplace debates will sway the votes of senators?
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think masterminds are often bald with large heads to suggest exceptional intelligence. Baldness helps show that their head really is big, not just their hairstyle.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> It definitely seems that the default reaction of any authoritaian/police-state environment like mainland China is to clamp down on things and restrict information whether or not it's necessary. That tactic loses them the be
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by robonerd 4y ago
> intentional or reckless. Yes, that would cover all lab leak possibilities, wouldn't it? If we assume the premise of a lab leak, then logically they either they did it on purpose or it was an accident. The union of intentional
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by robonerd 4y ago
Taiwan is Chinese, but they're not communist Chinese. They are the Republic of China, not the People's Republic of China.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Did Mozilla bring this back? Last I heard, Firefox Send was shut down due to malware/etc moderation issues. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-s... > Firefox Send has been discont
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by robonerd 4y ago
> If all else fails, I will have to switch my servers to online-mode=false, and add an authentication plugin to verify usernames 'manually' (instead of my server asking auth servers upon player login). This may require my play
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by robonerd 4y ago
Isn't the whole point of the new Microsoft account system that Microsoft now more or less knows who is actually behind each Minecraft account? I refused to migrate my account, but some of my friends have reported being made to hand o
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think/hope any server running in cracked mode (online-mode set to false: https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Server.properties ) won't have this chat reporting. At least, it would surely be broken for anybod
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Well, there's always MineTest I guess (edit: a high-quality [...] Minetest has a lot of potential, but presently it is very rough around the edges. As it stands, Minetest is for hackers to roll their own minecraft, not a ready-
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by robonerd 4y ago
> You are encouraging people to "think" something that you personally know not to be true. I am encouraging people to think something I believe to be true 99.99% of the time. It's called a generalization, and it's no
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by robonerd 4y ago
What is your basis for this trust? If it's a general faith in the good nature of other people, then I respect and envy that. But lacking that faith, I see a system where federal oversight is nonexistent and state oversight is probabl
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by robonerd 4y ago
The marijuana testing lab industry is rife with fraud, it doesn't give me much confidence. (Flower could be compromised too, but I think the less processing done before purchase, the less chance there is for something to go wrong.) DI

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