thebokehwokeh2

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by thebokehwokeh2 6y ago
I don't understand what Bevin means by this. Is he being sarcastic?
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by thebokehwokeh2 7y ago
> Yes, extremist bigots do tend to favor deplatforming: they just want to deplatform a different group. > Surely we can behave better than the bigots? In a vacuum, I'd agree. As in, in the real world, I would agree. If this were
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by thebokehwokeh2 7y ago
I'd argue that in this case, it deplatforming absolutely worked in the way intended. There are 2 factors at play here. People who are willing to argue in good faith, and people who are simply trying to put forth an agenda regardless of
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by thebokehwokeh2 7y ago
I'm sure it was successful in Vancouver. It's elsewhere where it was losing money.
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by thebokehwokeh2 7y ago
Assuming now that we are past the point of no return and the world has gone mad voting in people who will do the opposite of what is necessary, what is left to do? Do we all simply wait for the inevitable like frogs in a slowly boiling pot?
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by thebokehwokeh2 7y ago
If you took time to read the summary in that README, you'd get all the citations you could want. In the face of all the horrific reports coming from those jail cells, tell me how actively supporting ICE is not. Hell, name even one gove
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by thebokehwokeh2 7y ago
The most obvious one and one which I believe would systematically kill illegal immigration is simply penalizing businesses which employ illegal immigrants. Either with harsh fines or even possibly jail time. ICE is simply trying to pull wee
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by thebokehwokeh2 7y ago
Immigration enforcement, yes. ICE immigration enforcement though? > This government agency is actively committing numerous crimes and human rights violations, in contravention of both US and international law. ICE conducts random violent
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by thebokehwokeh2 7y ago
Seeing that you use "woke" as a slur, I take it you are pro-ICE?
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by thebokehwokeh2 7y ago
When people say this, what exactly does this mean? If you break Google up into Gmail, Search, Calendar, etc... what stops those from within, who have intimate knowledge of the innerworkings and HR related matters within Alphabet as a whole,
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by thebokehwokeh2 7y ago
Absolutely agreed. My current job is far and away the least technically challenging/complex/interesting work I've done in my 15 year career but it's the most monetarily successful because of stellar sales and marketing a
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by thebokehwokeh2 7y ago
Stickiness of brand also depends on the target audience. For brands who seek premium audiences, this is true, but for mass appeal lowest-cost persons, such as those who use all of the aforementioned listed, because of the lack of competitio
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by thebokehwokeh2 7y ago
I'd argue that in this case, intention is far less important than the outcome.
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by thebokehwokeh2 7y ago
I think the opposite is the case here. There seems to be a deep sense of pride from Chinese in particular who are able to "game the system" so to speak. There is indeed a majority of the populace who may just be normal folk workin
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by thebokehwokeh2 7y ago
> if there's nothing to worry about then why spend tens of trillions of dollars to stop it? Extremely shortsighted thinking. If we're talking about cost, this should be the argument: tens of trillions < the future of humanit
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by thebokehwokeh2 8y ago
You're obviously committing a straw man fallacy. But based on this line of arguing, you're implying that young blood has actual biological benefits. If so, can you back this claim up at all?
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by thebokehwokeh2 8y ago
The fundamental problem with capitalism (not just in silicon valley) is that access to capital is what defines winners and losers. Of course I'm being simplistic and there will always be underdog stories, but the reason any company bec
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by thebokehwokeh2 8y ago
If motorcycles were safer, I would agree with you. A fender bender or flat tire in a car is one thing. The same thing in a motorcycle is almost certainly either fatal, traumatic, or life-altering levels debilitating. They don't call mo
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by thebokehwokeh2 8y ago
or a second referendum.
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by thebokehwokeh2 9y ago
I agree with prototype inheritance. I don't know how you avoid `this` and `class` though, especially with all client side code heavily relying on these. I don't know about you, but coding in mid 2000s where these things didn'
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by thebokehwokeh2 9y ago
> To game this, you would have to create tons of accounts upvoting bad arguments, downvoting good ones, and overloading the links to biased secondary sources. Like what's happening in Reddit? This is not too difficult to do. The pro
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by thebokehwokeh2 9y ago
I think where facebook messed up is, by default (because it's the only thing that makes them valuable), set entire user permissions as public.
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by thebokehwokeh2 9y ago
For one, I don't think most people are acutely aware that this is what is going on. The HN reading crowd is the enlightened technical elite. We know that this is the transaction which occurs whenever we do something for "free&quot
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by thebokehwokeh2 9y ago
OP said simply this: > Treat others with respect. I guess you're implying that you disagree and that you should be a dick to everyone else?
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by thebokehwokeh2 9y ago
> using it as a easy way to exchange value This is what I was referencing. Nobody will ever use bitcoin as a means of exchange if the price of a car today is 30% less than it is tomorrow. The most important thing with a means of transact
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by thebokehwokeh2 9y ago
What are the anonymity characteristics of bitcoin? Can't I simply traverse the blockchain (which is essentially a linked list) to see which address transacted with which?
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by thebokehwokeh2 9y ago
I always find it hilarious when I see comments like these popping up on threads about bitcoin/crypto. The libertarian conspiracy theorist's first straw to grasp is this bizarre idea that "fiat" is inherently valueless. I
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by thebokehwokeh2 9y ago
Bitcoin trading has, and will forever be a sham, which is sad, because its original purpose would have been world changing.
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by thebokehwokeh2 9y ago
> An alternative view is that this is just the free market expressing itself through cryptocurrency If anything, the bitcoin experiment has shown how easy it is for entities with disproportionate amounts of wealth to completely overwhelm
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by thebokehwokeh2 9y ago
> It's way better bubble since in the center of this bubble some random nerds, not snobby privileged Harvard-type Lehman Brothers top managers. You're being incredibly naive. Programmers are not the ones moving the needle on t

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