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by xdennis 4y ago
> but isn't Kaliningrad part of the Russian Federation It was annexed by Russian in 1945 and had its entire population forcibly moved (a war crime even at the time).
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by xdennis 4y ago
> with invasions of Poland and Finland in 1939, and the Baltic states in 1940 And Romania in 1940.
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by xdennis 4y ago
Romania and Bulgaria only have access to the Black Sea. My understanding is that if a Romanian warship goes to a military exercise in the Mediterranean, then it won't be allowed to return, just like Russian ships can't.
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by xdennis 4y ago
Especially when the facts turn out to be faked. Only one person died at the riot: a woman protestor who was shot by an African American cop. Only later, one person later died from overdosing on drugs and 3 died of natural causes. If we wait
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by xdennis 4y ago
> You cannot let your users plot crimes. You can easily find tweets calling for trump and republicans to be killed on twitter from years ago and nobody bothered to ban those people so your statement rings hollow.
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by xdennis 4y ago
> Is there just a different set of free speech rules for the rich and powerful? Yes, just like there's one for left wing vs right wing. Trump was banned for violence for saying he won't attend the inauguration. Yet tweets calli
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by xdennis 4y ago
No. He was banned on 8th of January and left office on the 20th.
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by xdennis 4y ago
I think importantmsg is saying that he didn't use Twitter to break the law. I don't understand importantmsg's argument, but you also don't make sense. He wasn't convicted of the two things you're point to, so t
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by xdennis 4y ago
> The radicalization of my father I'm pretty sure he thinks the same of you.
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by xdennis 4y ago
He didn't pack the court. He got 3 judges in 4 years because he was lucky. * One because the elected Republicans fought to deny Obama the nomination * One because an existing Republican judge died * And one because a Democratic judge w
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by xdennis 4y ago
> Reminds me of the US General who, in WW II, insisted cavalry still had a place in warfare. Can’t remember his name. Cavalry still had a huge role to play in WW2. You didn't ride them into battle (you didn't do that in WW1 eit
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by xdennis 4y ago
> I'm okay living in a world where everyone needs access to some type of computer Some people don't want any technology at all. What happens to them in your future?
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by xdennis 4y ago
Vanilla JavaScript feels like jQuery now. Doing this was quite awkward in ECMAScript 3 and 5. > App.$.filters.querySelectorAll('a').forEach(el => el.classList.remove('selected'));
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by xdennis 4y ago
> Even extremely old browsers supported HTTPS: it was added to Netscape in 1994, and Internet Explorer in 1995 (IE2) Last year I traveled to my parents house and booted up my old computer which I haven't used from 2014. It was using
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by xdennis 5y ago
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but your vision sounds like a nightmare and not very far removed from Gattaca. > moving the trust boundary away from the control of the user entirely. I also don't enjoy it, but it w
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by xdennis 5y ago
Why do people always say this? Do you not know how expensive they are?
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by xdennis 5y ago
The argument that antiabortionists make is that it's murder. You can be against something without personally caring about the victim. If Bill kills average Joe down the street, I may not care about Joe personally, but I am concerned ab
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by xdennis 5y ago
Reminds me of the message the pope of Rome sent to the Mongol khan. It did a bad job of explaining Christianity even in it's original Latin, but since there were no Latin to Mongol speakers it had to be translated through numerous othe
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by xdennis 5y ago
Not quite. The new one also looks like an evil owl. The old one didn't have a beak.
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by xdennis 5y ago
Human rights were invented to protect the weak against abuses from the strong (who would otherwise always get their way because in nature might always makes right). I think it's a bit of a pointless concern to think about the equal pri
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by xdennis 5y ago
> He says Netflix is woke without any citations People don't do citations in casual conversations. Everyone agrees that Netflix is woke, the disagreement is weather wokeness is good or bad.
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by xdennis 5y ago
That's true that HN is moderated, but when people complain about free speech, they care more about banning content that's inconvenient vs content that's off topic or in a bad tone.
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by xdennis 5y ago
Privacy Shield died because the US explicitly believes in citizen rights, not human rights: > Agencies shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law, ensure that their privacy policies exclude persons who are not United States citi
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by xdennis 5y ago
You can do more with Android because you don't have to sell a liver to afford an Apple device.
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by xdennis 5y ago
> dependence on Google This is silly considering you can de-Google an Android phone. You can't de-Apple an Apple phone.
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by xdennis 5y ago
Often when you have to qualify something ( intellectual property instead of just property), it's because it's used as a metaphor instead of a subcategory. Intellectual property is a form of property as much as political science i
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by xdennis 5y ago
No country in the world legally classifies copyright infringement as stealing. You can call it stealing metaphorically all you want, but it's not technically that (as candlemas claimed).
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by xdennis 5y ago
So apparently you claim to be Romanian. Just one question: what is wrong with you? It seems like you don't understand that the orcs will attack us next, or you're an orc yourself pretending to be Romanian.
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by xdennis 5y ago
If this ends up killing Netflix, the new FAANG acronym is going to become very unfortunate.
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by xdennis 5y ago
That's basically what the site says too at the end. But I wouldn't blame you for not reading the whole thing, given that it's in a carousel. :)

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