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by verisimi 3y ago
Have you ever heard of community gardens, or community anything really? This is where people voluntarily contribute to what is perceived as some communal good. The key word is 'voluntary', ie without coercion, force or manipulati
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by verisimi 3y ago
I'm not really fine with taxes or subsidies at all. I certainly don't think that state officials have some special insight to judge the best way to spend communal funds... of course their pensions feature highly in worthy expend
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by verisimi 3y ago
You want people's taxes to subsidise cheap charging. Of course you are fine with taxes on gas. I guess whatever the state says, goes. Reality be damned. The state's reality be blessed.
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by verisimi 3y ago
> > But it wasn't the case that thousands maybe millions of people could be compromised (or spied on by governments) in one go. > And? Besides you being hysterical. What happens? from the article: > Among the apparent targe
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by verisimi 3y ago
> Anything you do offline is at risk too. Of course! But it wasn't the case that thousands maybe millions of people could be compromised (or spied on by governments) in one go. The trend towards online everything, is equivalent to
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by verisimi 3y ago
I have to wonder whether there is ever a point that can be reached where people in general realise that any stuff one does online is at risk. Private info, finance, cash, sharing of personal information, health info, etc is all better done
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by verisimi 3y ago
Fantastic comment, thanks
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by verisimi 3y ago
I know... But when you think about it, it is renewable! I mean, even fossil fuels are renewable eventually....
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by verisimi 3y ago
The cynicism doesn't seem that fair in this case. Re HN becoming like Reddit.. Perhaps there is a generic 'cynical feeling' in the air with technology, with feelings of distrust about the intentions of governments and corpora
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by verisimi 3y ago
Yes, corporations and the state working together is concealed fascism. We can choose red or blue, but nothing changes.
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by verisimi 3y ago
Well, I feel sorry for real kidnappers. Who's going to take them seriously now, when it is so easy to fake?! :) In all seriousness, the solution to this and other tech dystopia issues seems obvious to me. It's un-teching thin
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by verisimi 3y ago
> I just figured it'd be nice to have a single relatively short place to address the most common myths about tidal-locked planets, and particularly their climate, for easy reference. Well that's nice and all, but this sort of e
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by verisimi 3y ago
Who has the truth that they can judge something to be a lie? Or is all this just a political football?
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by verisimi 3y ago
When I someone says 'leader' I think another suckass follower yesing their way to the top. The environment, morals, humanity has nothing to do with their actions.
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by verisimi 3y ago
> However, Knuth's text itself shows that these three tractates were not yet canonical in this period. No other Biblical book is quite satisfactory, and the meaning of the story remains unclear. That's the Knuth, the whole Knu
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by verisimi 3y ago
Yes, this is surely the case. The more money and power at stake, the greater the likelihood that those remaining in the competition will be especially aggressive, as this is the trait that has gotten them so far.
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by verisimi 3y ago
I can't really reply fully here, as my comment is flagged, and I'm accused of starting a flame war by even replying to this already charged story. It doesn't matter that the academic that who did the initial research is clea
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by verisimi 3y ago
You're missing the point of what I'm saying I think. The idea of 'equal' is a false one because things aren't equal, can never be equal. It sounds good to say 'equal' but its just not the way humans are.
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by verisimi 3y ago
Are you arguing that adding an anthropological interpretation over the top of the automatic testing adds value? Or that it is a fudge to make the automatic testing fit whatever criteria are required?
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by verisimi 3y ago
Via DNA, it says. But I can't get to the bottom of why DNA analysis is considered to be solid, when there are examples of it being quite flawed, eg with these twin sisters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isa5c1p6aC0
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by verisimi 3y ago
> In a new review paper, anthropologists tally all of the fossils that have been clearly identified as Denisovan since the first discovery in 2010. The entire list consists of half a broken jaw, a finger bone, a skull fragment, three loo
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by verisimi 3y ago
I don't understand your comment. You seem to be saying I'm unclear or something. Have you read any of my comments? I'm as explicit as I can be on this site. However, if you are trying to say something more specific, please
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by verisimi 3y ago
I want to know what factors are in play in managing information on this site.
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by verisimi 3y ago
Using this site, I created a custom range search. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=custom&page=1&prefix=true&... For comments less than 1 month, I see the option to upvote, for older comments I don't. How
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by verisimi 3y ago
It allows it for 1 month.
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by verisimi 3y ago
I think what you say about downvotes is true. Eg a comment will be popular one minute, and then suddenly it's not. I also get the issue that my overall karma goes down, while recent comment values stay the same - which could be malic
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by verisimi 3y ago
His name is 'Beningo' - meaning "benevolent , kind" from https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/spanish-english/... also benign.
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by verisimi 3y ago
I hope, at the end of all that, people start to consider what really matters. Which has only ever been 'local' - being right with oneself, and trying to do right with one's lived, 3d reality. Seeing technology as a tool to
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by verisimi 3y ago
The thing is, is this story even true? We know that media outlets want some sort of legislative process that will designate their content as truth (tm), to create a sort of moat from unsanctioned information. To get support for that, you n
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by verisimi 3y ago
The wider internet is pretty dead to me - is it much more than a bunch of corporate shop fronts? It's largely become TV, or the mall. You have to work hard to get something that's interesting. And credit to hacker news, this is

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