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by textphone 12y ago
Every one of these threads, here and on Reddit, ends up packed with accounts demanding "proof" of vulnerability or saying it's a silly conspiracy to say that the typical Tor install provides very weak protection.
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by textphone 12y ago
Please reduce the number of people with downvote power. Far too many people abuse them now. The site has become very hostile and it's caused entire communities to move away from HN, e.g. to producthunt. This trend will only continue if
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by textphone 12y ago
The rise in the Accelerator trend has created a ton of badly behaving accelerators around the world. Many insisting that they need to apply their own "local flavor" of business dealings, instead of directly applying the American m
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by textphone 12y ago
"Complaints have 0 global cost." That theory seems to be the essence of this entire debate.
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by textphone 12y ago
To be clear, the system I'm suggesting is about show, not tell. It requires no emotions: 1. First person drafts a solution. 2. Another person doesn't like it so he drafts an alternative solution. 3. The other developers then look
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by textphone 12y ago
Who do you really think gets more done: The people who show up to whine and criticize, or the people who hold back the whining to silently go and make their own improved solution instead? Consider that people who wine, seem to outnumber the
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by textphone 12y ago
Same reason people burn out on Hacker News. Independent developer consultants, as a demographic, significantly skews towards a larger-than-average number of people who were never surrounded by a good professional office culture. Many never