thomassmith65

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by thomassmith65 5y ago
Re: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30256016
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Update on the ongoing DDoS attacks and blocking Tor exit nodes(meta.stackexchange.com)
11 points by thomassmith65 5y ago|3 comments
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
I don't know StackOverflow's Tor practices. Given the post's title, I was disappointed to finish reading the post and still not know. If I had read the same post with a title like "Ask HN: is Stack Exchange (Stack Overfl
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
It probably does, sadly.
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
It's beside the point. What if you had connected? What if an endpoint with a different IP can connect? The standard here ought to be that the title accurately reflect the content. This post does not. I don't take HN as the kind
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
@dang? Can someone please fix the title? Something like "I have been unable to connect to Stack Overflow using Tor today" would be appropriate. The title at the moment is rash speculation. One doesn't expect HN to be perfect,
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
Then along came Bulletin Board Systems and then the Internet, and all that changed. No BBS ever changed diddly squat. Even the internet had minimal impact on politics until the 2000's. The entire comment just sounds like specul
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
I can use this to blackmail my ransomware victims. Cool! /s On a related note: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30049343
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
16 years later ... It took me around five years of online language practice to become bilingual. To each his/her own, and maybe I'm some kind of elitist, but I personally wouldn't trade that for five years of exposure
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
To a company as comfortable as Google, the fact that users want to find relevant information, as opposed to watch ads all days or buy products, is an inconvenience. There is incentive to keep users on-site as long as possible; "our eng
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
Whether one agrees with that interpretation of Canada's rights depends on how serious a public health threat one feels this pandemic is. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it s
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
Is this an attempt to goad people into making further disparaging blanket-statements about another segment of people? The web could use less of that, in my opinion.
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
That sounds like a different Steve Jobs. For starters, the Mac has a notch now.
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
A sobering thought. As Robert Burns put it: "Many and sharp the numerous ills Inwoven with our frame; More pointed still, we make ourselves Regret, remorse and shame; And man, whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
Yes, we've vaccinated five billion people, but all we have is a bunch of peer-reviewed studies and statistics! What about all the valuable retracted studies and social-media hearsay? /s
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
I don't code much in C++, but I have to imagine the verbosity of its 'const' syntax is the real problem. Syntax aside, if a variable is not actually variable, it's arguably a lie to declare it as something other than c
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
I'm tempted to look up a telephone number for some official there and call to debunk this. It seems like low-hanging fruit.
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
The devices I've seen with color e-ink need to intermittently flash the screen. I could live with a slow refresh rate, but having my screen flicker black once or twice a minute is a deal-breaker.
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
The majority of Canadian judges probably agree with you. I think this ruling is as much to do with the judge and the case as with differences between the Canadian and American legal systems. People in any two countries often overestimate or
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
obviously be totally unconstitutional I'm not a lawyer, but if there are no American laws to prevent the amount of verbal abuse to which a parent could subject a child without losing custody, it would surprise me. Heck, this Ch
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
the new digital town square. If Youtube is a town square, it's a town square where sane people are unwelcome while morons and lunatics get a spotlight, megaphone and flyers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
Consumers do not want the subscription model. Consumers never wanted the subscription model. That will strike some here as obvious, but it's the important point in all this. The root issue is that big tech has too much power. It is t
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Types of non-fiction news features(ohiostate.pressbooks.pub)
2 points by thomassmith65 5y ago|0 comments
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
The less people respect social media like Youtube as a "public square", the better. In reality, this is the discussion these services foster: 10. Preston Arsement: Minecraft vlogger 9. Logan Paul 8. Dude Perfect: Comedy pranksters
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How two siblings discovered Roman treasure of Valsadornín in Palencia (2018)(english.elpais.com)
1 points by thomassmith65 5y ago|0 comments
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by thomassmith65 5y ago
The experiment I want to see is one where (1) the same set of test queries is run on multiple search engines (2) for each query result, the result links from all engines are combined into a single document (without including information abo