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by vacri 9y ago
> declining respect for freedom of expression ... as opposed to the glory days of... when? A few decades ago, when blacks could say whatever they wanted, as long as they said it at the back of the bus? ... or was it when women's o
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by vacri 9y ago
You seem to be rebutting a rebuttal without having read the grandparent comment. "What about the nazi ban?" is a non-sequitor in context.
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by vacri 9y ago
Fascism rose well after the Atlantic slave trade ended.
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by vacri 9y ago
Swing voters, the folks who decide every election in a modern democracy, would disagree with you.
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by vacri 9y ago
> Note NASA controlled the moon missions with an IBM 360/95 that had something like 5 MB of RAM, 1GB of disk, and about 6 million instructions per second. And an army of technicians available around the clock to keep it working. W
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by vacri 9y ago
So sad to see something described as 'archaic styling' just because it's not 'flat design' garbage.
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by vacri 9y ago
> So much for believing in "due process". Due process is not a synonym for don't do anything nor no consequences .
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by vacri 9y ago
As a member of neither continent, I find it beyond bizarre that in Europe, they're perfectly capable of determining from context whether someone called a 'nazi' is just having a slur thrown against them, or is actually a foll
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by vacri 9y ago
> The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology. So basically Cloudflare are removing their services because of libellous statemen
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by vacri 9y ago
> There were no banner ads There were, however, tons of animated 'under construction' banners, which gave the same 'visual noise' problem.
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by vacri 9y ago
Weird that this anecdote has people disagreeing with it. I guess people only buy for brandname-bragging when YSL is on a handbag, or Ferrari is on the bonnet, but never when Apple is on electronics. Never mind that Apple's greatest suc
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by vacri 9y ago
> You almost nailed it, until you mentioned Apple users wanting a brand name. I guess that's the stereotype though. Last year a colleague of mine ordered an Apple laptop, for $2800 (AU). Then he found out about the touchbar, which
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by vacri 9y ago
> People who live in houses typically charge at home. There are plenty of houses out there that use on-street parking.
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by vacri 9y ago
You don't see a difference between $40 and $170 for a family that lives paycheck-to-paycheck?
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by vacri 9y ago
> There is no good reason to treat web servers differently than store fronts. LinkedIn should be able to control who accesses their web servers and how. These two statements do not agree with each other. An owner of a brick-and-mortar
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by vacri 9y ago
The GP did not call it a "Public service", but a service that was public, and the further context around the comment made it abundantly clear they were talking about access, not government provision. The very first thing you did
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by vacri 9y ago
> Oh, are you equating copyright violation with major theft, murder and associated felonies so heinous that there is actually a separate body of international law to address it? Please don't do that. And java shouldn't be cal
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by vacri 9y ago
Bundled software isn't 'free-as-in-beer'.
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by vacri 9y ago
The 400-block is 69% free, after 28 years of development. If we're ever in the position where we need to free up just one more code , then we're already consuming beyond our capacity and will need to sort out an alternative anywa
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by vacri 9y ago
It's a miniscule bit of humour that consumes 1 of 31 used slots in a 100-slot block, in an area of tech that isn't even remotely drowning in 'fun stuff'. What does it really matter? There are plenty of perfectly serious
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by vacri 9y ago
> I would presume that leaving from a shore in search of another one (and knowing nothing on where that could be) would have been an extremely dangerous attempt Yet it was how the Polynesians settled the Pacific.
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by vacri 9y ago
You've got some pretty strong mythologising going on there. It's not really worth continuing with someone who thinks that an empire that massacres tribal natives = racist and unaccepting, whereas an empire that massacres urban nat
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by vacri 9y ago
It's no secret that Britain stripped India of its wealth. I wasn't saying the the British were a benevolent empire. But to imply that India dropping from 23% GDP from 1700 - 1940 was all Englands fault is grossly misleading. You&#
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by vacri 9y ago
> The mongol empire was one of the most inclusive and peaceful empires in human history. It lasted less than 90 years and spent that time expanding via the sword. The population of China dropped drastically in only 50 years of Mongol r
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by vacri 9y ago
Most of the numbers in the link are the bodycounts of soldiers, not civilians. And the count for 'slavery' is laughably small and only deals with slaves executed as punishment; far, far more slaves were worked to death in the fiel
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by vacri 9y ago
> S3 data..? Delete it. O_o > ... Make it read only. The primary use-case of s3 is reading objects. This would not be a deterrent for quite a few use-cases > ... Pretend to delete it, but make recovery possible for x days. St
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by vacri 9y ago
> I couldn't shake that feeling I got from my first gig in programming. That feeling that I am actually the one making this work, and I'm also perfectly capable of talking with people and selling it-- and yet they make million
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by vacri 9y ago
I think the title is phrased badly. You wouldn't say "most businesses don't work", because business is obviously doing just fine. Yet it's true, since most businesses fail in the first few years - 80% by some calcul
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by vacri 9y ago
> The people who want caps are devs learning and experimenting. Then AWS is not focused on their use-case. You can make the argument that they're throwing away potential business here, but AWS is already the gorilla in the room, a
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by vacri 9y ago
If you're out of credit, what happens to your data-at-rest? You know, the stuff you're storing in their block storage, where they charge just for storing it? Should they just purge your data?

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