wearywanderer

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by wearywanderer 5y ago
I think for a politician, the best way to counter bad press is with good press. Give interviews to sympathetic journalists. And if nobody in town cares to write sympathetic things about you, then maybe think about amending your behavior.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
In the case of Katie Hill, there is the matter of the employee/employer relationship. Apparently this is also contrary to the House of Representatives code of official conduct (clause 18a): https://ethics.house.gov/pu
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
The media has been using the term 'conspiracy theory' as a slur against the reasonable hypothesis of lab leak for the past year. People generally being sick of this shit could explain why so many people are speaking out against
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
When it comes to politicians suing newspapers, it is good for the system to generally be stacked in favor of the newspapers. Sometimes that results in shitty outcomes, but the potential ramifications of politicians being able to easily shu
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> The most important term in that definition is "hypothesis", which means a hunch based on little evidence. Hunches about conspiracies... okay. Here's a hunch about a conspiracy: Jimmy Hoffa was probably killed by the
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
On the bright side, this contains an acknowledgement that 'conspiracy' is not actually synonymous with falsehood. The meanings of "conspiracy theory" according Wiktionary, my favorite dictionary: > 1. A hypothesis all
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Libertarians have substantial, though I think not majority, representation on HN. Certain themes always seem to repeat that seem related to this. For instance, likening any form of prohibition to the failed prohibition of alcohol to sugge
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
The last time I bothered to use Mozillas bugtracker, it was to report errors in the way Firefox was interacting with my screen reader. I had an utterly dispassionate tone, despite this matter being very important to me, because I had heard
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> How are you going to sell customers tickets remotely without an internet presence? With this wacky invention known as a telephone. Merely three years ago I used a telephone to order tickets on the Alaska Marine Highway (a ferry ser
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Projects like Mozilla and GNOME have naked contempt for user feedback and go out of their way to avoid and disregard it. They say we're all idiots who "want faster horses instead of cars" . But really it's about power
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
I don't know why you threw in 'young', that clearly isn't part of the equation. My retired mother and her retired friends all love to drink on the beach. It seems to be very popular with the elderly.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Software engineers were not drug tested at Amazon 10 years ago, and as far as I'm aware they never were. In what part of the country are companies required to drug test programmers? I have never heard of this being legally required
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
10 years ago when I worked for amazon as an SDE, they never drug tested me for anything. I remember that because at the time I would have failed. I guess there was a class component to who they decided test, white collar office workers d
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> Google insists on https because it keeps ISPs from [injecting any of their horseshit into my traffic.] Huh, that's precisely why I insist on https.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> This is the sort of thing, if you're not in the know than you probably dont understand the consequences. Understanding the premise and importance of HTTPS and knowing about some esoteric hidden UX of some Google software are not
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
People don't read buttons. However, I share your disdain for Chrome's chosen method; it's very gate-keepery. It requires you to be "in the know"; those who understand the danger but haven't heard of the tri
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
No plans... at least until Amazon offers them a big enough bribe.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
With the advent of this technology, it's no longer just your data that's being risked. If you have a neighbor who owns a sidewalk-enabled appliance and doesn't want it to connect online, anybody in the neighborhood with side
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Here is some 2021 thinking: If you have reason to believe the police have attached a bomb to your car, you should run from the car. Better to abandon your car forever than to attempt to defuse or destroy the bomb, something you have ZERO
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Not if you have actually seen the device and it looks like a goddamn pipe bomb, as at least some of these tracking devices do. But if your response is anything other than running, I think you belong in a psychiatric hospital. Normal peop
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
No bones about it, this is Amazon's response to > If you don't want your smart tv to spy on you, then don't give it your wifi password.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Who do you think you're fooling? HOAs are not termite damage concealed from buyers at the time of purchase. The existence of HOAs is disclosed before the sale and every single person who chooses to buy a home in an HOA neighborhood
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
This is a weird comment. You acknowledge that people enter these arrangements willingly, yet call the arrangements oppressive and wonder why anybody would submit to them. People form or join HOAs because they want to . You ask wheth
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
HOAs are a kink, for people who like to be controlled or for people who like to control others. Being in a HOA is like being in a BDSM relationship. Some people like this sort of thing.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
If you continue watching the moon's position in the sky through full lunar months, the path is sinusoidal.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
If cops want to be political lobbyists, they should do it on their own time. That's not what they're paid for. (I am aware of the lobbying of police unions, and I don't like it. Police unions are actually a great example of
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> she didn't know what it was and was concerned it might be a bomb. Given that someone has attached a device to your car without informing you of the intent of that device I think it's perfectly fair to destroy the device Fai
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
CAPTOR mines are discriminate. They can recognize different ships by sound and won't fire on friendly ships.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
I could have sworn there was a large discussion on HN when Osaka beat Williams and Williams had a freakout. But I can't find that discussion now on algolia... maybe it was flagged off, or maybe I'm just misremembering? Either way

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