vinhboy

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   by vinhboy 10y ago

   FYI, this has happened about 2 years ago. Bot networks have been used to mine bitcoins, and IT managers have gotten in trouble for using their company/school computer networks to mine bitcoins.
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   by vinhboy 10y ago

   Yes we disagree. I think people ignore him because they think he's wrong. Not because they are not political. I am sure some are, but not all. And because his "wrongness" is being used to spread misinformation, people have to
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   by vinhboy 10y ago

   I am not even sure what your argument is. I am saying he can publish whatever he wants and challenge whatever climate science he wants. That is his absolutely right. But if people think his work his crap, and want to ignore him, then that&#
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   by vinhboy 10y ago

   I did not say anything about suppression. Avoidance and dismissal is not suppression. No one is suggesting suppression or censorship. But we should be free to exclude, dismiss, and ignore information we find harmful or irrelevant.
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   by vinhboy 10y ago

   I don't think you are going out on any limb at all. That statement is terrible, because of all the reasons you listed. I think it's pretty dishonest to pretend it's still a "wait and see" kinda thing.
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   by vinhboy 10y ago

   Look at the top comments on that article and you can easily see why people want to avoid him. He may believe in climate change, but his work is being used to justify climate change denial. That's like trying to convince people to vacci
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   by vinhboy 10y ago

   I don't agree with that. If I was an old person, and I bought a house at 30K, and its paid off after years of hard work. It would freaking suck if my tax bill is suddenly more than what I can afford to pay, forcing me to move. That&#x2
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   by vinhboy 10y ago

   > You’d need bubble wrap so the money would’t flop around during the exchange. Best thing I read all day.
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   by vinhboy 10y ago

   > Sometimes I can't tell whether I'm an ethical and honest person, or whether that's just an excuse for not being rich. LOL. I ask myself this question every time. I look back at my life and wonder, was there any chance I
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    This story is fascinating to me. I also run a couple of these "wordpress" informational type sites, but never in my dream did I thought about publishing fake news to make money. Too bad I was not smart enough to get into this busi
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    I also picked a Prius EV. It think that was a mistake. A Volt would have made my EV driving percentage way higher.
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    I've mentioned this before in another thread. It does not matter if it was less than 1% of facebook content. The problem is, it's also every where else. Have you guys seen the front page of Yahoo lately? And also, some how this cr
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    You're asking me to believe that companies think about long term benefits over quarterly results. You may be absolute correct, but I have a time hard believing it.
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    That's a valid point. I guess I am just hoping that viewing and sharing fake news is also socially unacceptable. Kinda like how you should be ashamed of telling people you got your stock picks from a palm reader or something like that.
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    Isn't there a bigger incentive to keep fake news since it attract eyeballs and make them money?
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    I find it odd that a lot people think discerning between real and fake news is hard, or has some sort of insurmountable "gray area" filled with slippery slopes. We've done it for pornography, and it has worked really well. I
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    Your thing about fact-checkers being ignored is very true and something I had not thought about. It is kinda hopeless when things are constantly debunked and people still believe it. I guess I don't really know what a solution would lo
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    Thank you for making a more balanced statement than I made. I only mentioned "right wing" because I didn't want to be coy about who I thought was the main offender. Obviously you are correct that it happens else where as well
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    What you said is very true. I also been extremely frustrated with a lot of the sites in that category, i.e. "eHow".
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    This is my exact sentiment as well. I was very surprised.
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    Thank god we are finally focusing on this issue. I can not believe we allowed right wing propaganda sites to publish so much false information for so long. Anyone who denies the existence of this is being dishonest. There is no way you can
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    Thank you for saying this. I didn't want to respond to him because this answer seemed so obvious. I am glad others see it.
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    Thank you for saying this. I needed this today. I am so damn sick of people trying to wiggle out of the "racist" label. Economic anxiety is not an excuse for racism.
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    Yea, I never understood why that database has names attached to it. What's the point? It seems unfair to me that teachers, or people who work in education and other, usually low paying, public service jobs gets exposed like this. If th
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    Wow. I admit it. I went all these years without actually knowing the meaning of the word "reactionary". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary It's one of those words you think you can derive meaning
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    I agree with you. Even when it's negative news about things I don't like, I always wait to get all the facts before throwing out random theories or excuses. Like that whole Trump sexual assault video. When it first came out, I tho
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    Is anyone else troubled by how impulsive[0] we are? Look at the original thread on this issue[1]. Hundreds of comments and conspiracy theories. And this is on HN... I am troubled by how the internet has enabled us to gossip on a global scal
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    I am not sure what you are saying, and I really don't want to watch that video. Can you be explicit? I want to know what you are thinking.
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    I heard about this poll, but I haven't paid attention to it. You got me reading up on it. Now I can't sleep...
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    by vinhboy 10y ago

    I would be more surprised if the margins are huge. I have come to expect team politics to give us close margins. I would be surprised, in either a very happy or very sad way, if instead the margins are big.