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by useragent86 5y ago
Dick? Is that you?
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by useragent86 5y ago
Sneer , v. t. 1. To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person.
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by useragent86 5y ago
Nonsense. It's your choice, as a reader, to refuse to entertain it as an honest discussion, just because you don't like its style. And it's your choice to ascribe bad-faith intentions to the writer just because you don&#x27
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by useragent86 5y ago
> The Knowledge Graph is made up of sources (see the list here: https://kalicube.pro/trusted-sources ) and by working on your own KG entry and feeding it more information, you'll be strengthening your own KG entry fo
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by useragent86 5y ago
To me, having to manually make links between notes doesn't seem unstructured, nor does it seem self-organizing. What if it doesn't occur to me to make a link in A pointing to B? Then if I'm reading B and looking at its back
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by useragent86 5y ago
Emacs is a Lisp machine. Even Firefox during its XUL heyday was not as customizeable as Emacs is. Nowadays, with browsers using WebExtensions, browsers are laughably inflexible by comparison. Here are a few topics for you to consider: * F
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by useragent86 5y ago
I've been using the term noob for decades. Reading your comment is the first time I've ever seen anyone compare it with boob . There is a big world out there, with lots of different people using words to mean things.
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by useragent86 5y ago
Magit is the king of staging and unstaging. You can even use it on remote systems via TRAMP.
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by useragent86 5y ago
The link says that iPad Air 2 and later are supported. Does this mean that the original iPad Air is vulnerable? There must be many of them still in use for Web browsing, video, games, etc.
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by useragent86 5y ago
You walk into a convention center. The greeter at the door hands you a banana cream pie. A few moments later, you're hit in the face with a banana cream pie. After the sense of shock subsides, you hit the nearest person in the face
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by useragent86 5y ago
Agreed. It's like, imagine being out in public, in a town square, having a conversation with a group of people while others mill about. Suddenly, you're hit in the face with a rotten tomato. You have no idea where it came from,
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by useragent86 5y ago
> A single downvote can turn something gray and make it appear like an unpopular side of the discussion when it's not controversial at all except in the opinion of one downvoter on a mission or something. Yes, exactly: even a single
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by useragent86 5y ago
> The latter is deliberately trying to undo other votes, distorting the system. That's begging the question: What is distortion in the system? Isn't a system with both upvoting and downvoting one designed around everyone tryin
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by useragent86 5y ago
I'm an American, and he's mostly right, and I'm not offended, because it wasn't nasty and wasn't about me--it was just a harmless, general observation. What is this world coming to if we can't even discuss regi
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by useragent86 5y ago
Of course not. On HN, joking is a very serious matter.
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by useragent86 5y ago
These are distinct issues: > for a lot of people there is no truth > I don't believe in your religion or any other > The bible is written by people, translated by people, and interpreted by people...the fidelity of the text is
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by useragent86 5y ago
> Sorry to have to say this but anyone who tells you you’re going to hell isn’t a Christian. I left the church over similar feelings so I identify. But for the record and the benefit of anyone else who might need to hear this, you’re not
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by useragent86 5y ago
What did Christ say about eternal judgement? John 12:47-49: "If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects Me and does not receive My
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by useragent86 5y ago
No, you're gonna need a citation for my statement; I already know it to be so. You can google as well as I can. I'm not here to win an Internet argument, merely to inform. Whether you agree with me is not my concern.
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by useragent86 5y ago
Sir, you win the Internet today. :)
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by useragent86 5y ago
It's well known that North America has more and larger forests today than it did a few hundred years ago.
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by useragent86 5y ago
[Note: 9 minutes after posting this comment, deep in a thread that's 9 days old, this comment's been downvoted. What's going on here? I'm guessing some kind of bot, because I can't imagine a human being following
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by useragent86 5y ago
> > But according to dang, because people on both sides perceive a bias against them, HN must be unbiased. > I've never made that argument. You certainly have. It's one you make frequently, with copious citations of your
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by useragent86 5y ago
Well, drive-by downvoting, effectively censoring comments one doesn't like, is certainly a continuation of bullying by other means. Of course, cleverness is frowned upon 'round here.
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by useragent86 5y ago
You're entitled to your opinion. Nevertheless, I think it's an obvious conclusion borne out by observation of the political spectrum and conversations on HN. One could even say that your reaction lends it credence ("He must
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by useragent86 5y ago
> You are making best (but unreachable in today's political climate) the enemy of good. From another perspective, you are doing that: fossil fuels will be a necessity to some extent, if not forever, for centuries more. They are use
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by useragent86 5y ago
Don't you understand that there are many people who, deep down, feel that destroying the fossil fuel industry is an absolute imperative, consequences be damned? For example, here's one in this thread: https://news.ycom
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by useragent86 5y ago
> From climate activists' perspectives, if oil companies are less trustful that any permits they're issued will be valid long enough to complete their projects, and it makes them more hesitant to start new infrastructure projec
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by useragent86 5y ago
> If the US economy is weaker, while other economies are getting stronger, our influence in the world will be impacted (economically, militarily, culturally). To many people, that's a feature, not a bug. (The CCP being one of them,
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by useragent86 5y ago
> Down voting is supposed to be used to indicate a comment has no relevance to the conversation. Actually, it's not. It should be, but it's not. In fact, on HN, downvoting purely to signal disagreement, without offering any r

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