samcday

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by samcday 7y ago
I'm sorry that my forceful language offended you so much. Let me assure you I am 100% not a fascist :) Democracy doesn't actually work a "certain way". There's many forms of democracy all over the world. Given that
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by samcday 7y ago
Kinda bummed that you weren't joking. The tone of these threads is pretty depressing and I could have used a little pick-me-up. Anyway, I'm not a climatologist, but from what I understand we will be seeing significant global ramif
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by samcday 7y ago
Sure, there's been plenty of scares in the past. Many of them even seemed extremely legitimate and had plenty of esteemed voices behind them. But let's not talk in the abstract here. We're talking about climate change now .
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by samcday 7y ago
When I asked if you were a lawyer, I was genuinely curious. I figured if you were linking legislation without actually pointing out specifics, then it might be because your point was so blatantly obvious that only a dummy would not see it a
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by samcday 7y ago
I just want to say I hear you and think there could very well be some interesting nuances that we could discuss. But I have a policy of not engaging with throwaway accounts. If you want to send me an email and discuss this further, then gre
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by samcday 7y ago
I see your point, but I disagree. The people involved in XR are British citizens. If they were to go to China and start performing acts of civil disobedience, they'd simply be deported (or worse). Instead, they're trying to effect
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by samcday 7y ago
I wasn't trying to make the case that it's the best way of doing it. Nor was I even implying that it's a particularly good way of doing it. But I do think that sometimes, it's the only way of doing it. Also as an aside,
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by samcday 7y ago
Reminds me of the proverb "Honey attracts more flies than vinegar" I wholeheartedly agree with you that taking the time to really connect with an individual so that you can then grapple with their beliefs from a place of deep, sha
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by samcday 7y ago
Well, for starters, you are literally quoting me out of context. How about quoting me properly instead of making yourself look ridiculous? > Of course, you are completely entitled to your opinions, but I'm not going to engage them b
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by samcday 7y ago
I'm going to assume you're joking here, this definitely made me chuckle :)
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by samcday 7y ago
> I don't think they made many friends. I don't think they're interested in making friends. They're interested in trying to persuade more people to stop eating the flesh of sentient creatures when our diets don't
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by samcday 7y ago
Out of interest, are you a lawyer? I'm really struggling to see how you can interpret the language of the page you linked to include non-violent activism. Could you tell me specifically which sections of that legislation you think appl
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by samcday 7y ago
The level of negativity and hostility in the comments here is really disappointing to me. I agree that XR are definitely pushing the envelope on what we consider to be reasonable activism and protest. However, I also think that the old adag
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by samcday 7y ago
Of course, you are completely entitled to your opinions, but I'm not going to engage them because I don't think you're really interested in having an open discussion about this. Why do I say that? Because in response to a pre
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by samcday 7y ago
This hypothetical situation is bordering on the absurd, I think. XR has made it abundantly clear what they intend to do, and when + how they intend to do it. I'm not going to say it's impossible, but I would venture that the chanc
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by samcday 7y ago
> If you're an activist, and you live in a democracy, why wouldn't you affect change more meaningfully by participating in the democracy you live in? You seem to be suggesting that there's a "right" way to partic
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by samcday 7y ago
Stories like this are kinda amusing when you consider that what it essentially boils down to is this. Some collections of carbon imbued with sentience are squabbling over who "owns" some other collections of carbon that were senti
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by samcday 7y ago
It depends on what other value adds they bolt onto their "Firefox Pro" offering. Just for Firefox itself as it currently is, if there was some official way to pay for it, I think $5-10 (some small multiple of a cup of coffee deal)
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by samcday 7y ago
Finally, a proper way to vote with my wallet in the browser wars. I'm sure Firefox can make more money from me individually by allowing me to pay them, rather than funneling me through Google for some eyeball $$$s, especially since I&#
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by samcday 7y ago
This is depressing. It feels to me like the number of tech unicorns that have been caught red handed doing something immoral/unethical/illegal is starting to outweigh the ones that haven't.
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by samcday 7y ago
I really don't want this to come across as rude, but consider this. Your comment is pretty extreme capitalism apologia. You don't have to be a complete socialist to reasonably consider the idea that maybe a private individual bein
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by samcday 7y ago
I'm not sure it's really worth engaging a throwaway account that is throwing around unsubstantiated "facts". You're just feeding the trolls ;)
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by samcday 7y ago
I thought they go by "Arm" now? Their website seems to indicate as much.
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by samcday 7y ago
"I’m a different guy. I’m fun to be around. Once I couldn’t even cry. Now I can." This really punched me in the feels. It also sucks that Justin preferred not to share his last name for fear of retribution for possessing some fung
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by samcday 7y ago
... but but then what happens when that tree dies?
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by samcday 7y ago
But now you have two completely independent code paths. Both of which will need to go through the same maturation phase that the ST folks evidently went through with mmap. And if the code needs to evolve for other reasons, potentially both
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by samcday 7y ago
> I'm not that interesting I disagree. Your thoughts on this topic have gone to the top of HN. To me, that implies you're interesting enough to be able to write thoughtful pieces that a bunch of other online armchair commentato
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by samcday 7y ago
The selfish part of me wishes that the media would stop reporting on the endless procession of privacy violations / attacks by Facebook. It doesn’t seem to change a damn thing (Facebook revenue, DAU, etc seem to just keep going up). Al
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by samcday 8y ago
At least he's saying something. You can be cynical and argue he's just trying to get out ahead before the poor decide to eat the rich. But either way, the US needs more people with a platform to be saying this kind of stuff, whate
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by samcday 8y ago
I guess once we have T-1000s coming back to kill people we'll know that it's time to start putting the brakes on AI.

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