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by xref 6y ago
Parler could of course get back on AWS/Apple/Play Store if they chose to moderate their worst element, but the CEO decided they won’t do that. I’d guess at least part of his reasoning is because they wouldn’t have enough remaining
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by xref 6y ago
> tech companies can snuff voices out of existence lol what? I can’t even name a single person who has no method of communicating due to “tech companies”. Even Stormfront is still online.
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by xref 6y ago
> Twitter/Facebook are virtual social-media monopolies People repeat this a lot which is ironic because they’re doing it on HN. Or Reddit. Or Disqus. Or innumerable other special interest forums. I don’t even have an FB/Twitte
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by xref 6y ago
Wished a lot more outlets did this because Twitter embeds rarely load for me on mobile. For ex in Apple News or Safari any Twitter embeds are just a spinning loading wheel of death
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by xref 6y ago
> If there were a large, vibrant community of public squares You’re exercising your free speech in one right now. I don’t even have an account of any of the “monopoly” ones.
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by xref 6y ago
Sarcasm doesn’t work too well in a text medium, but if taken at face value Simon Wiesenthal would disagree with you
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by xref 6y ago
> I don't understand what people don't get about the 1st amendment. A right to free speech, is set in stone in the US Constitution It seems like you yourself may be having a little 1st amendment confusion, it has no bearing on
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by xref 6y ago
You’re not required to have an SSL cert behind cloudflare anyway, CF provides the cert the browser sees. You then put a self-signed cert on your origin and CF will accept it.
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by xref 6y ago
Is this where we spitball hypotheticals even if no inclination to execute them has ever been shown? “Trust me, they are interested in murdering you and extracting your vital fluids for profit. It may not be their strategy today because it c
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by xref 6y ago
As the op said, your contacts could choose to become Apple customers. As the op also said, there are probably easier/cheaper options.
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by xref 6y ago
Once you’ve lived the reality of how convenient, accessible, and secure mail-in ballots are, there’s no reason to bother with polling stations
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by xref 6y ago
Uhh, none of your links suggest the aim of the BLM movement is to “topple the government”. Also portland is on the wrong coast from “the government”
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by xref 6y ago
Your comment is the same superficial “hey I’m just asking questions!” deflection that a lot of lazy intellectualism resorts to. “Maybe eugenics is a good idea because we can create a biologically superior human, we should at least discuss i
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by xref 6y ago
Awesome thanks that’s really helpful! Reading the article I had to google what a “focus puller” was, like did they have their hand on the lens turning the focus wheel the whole shot down the hallway? That video explains it much better. Thou
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by xref 6y ago
Or “just require at-risk groups to isolate so the rest of us can get back to our lives.” Sometimes the callousness and selfishness is truly heartbreaking.
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by xref 6y ago
You’re both right, the Citizens United ruling said cash was speech according to the 1st amendment if it was an “independent expenditure” ie Super PACs etc. You can’t donate unlimited amounts directly to a candidate, but you can to “independ
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by xref 6y ago
I thought this article had some good counterpoints about the claim Bitcoin uses too much energy https://www.coindesk.com/the-last-word-on-bitcoins-energy-co... > Dams can only store so much potential energy in the form o
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by xref 6y ago
Keep in mind that requirement is because we can’t eradicate yellow fever like we did smallpox, and hopefully covid. Yellow fever is endemic and has natural animal hosts which we can’t control
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by xref 6y ago
Ehh I don’t know if we’ll get there. I mean people don’t have to prove they’ve had a measles vaccine to travel, which is much more dangerous than covid. This all being predicated on enough people actually _getting_ the vaccine that we reach
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by xref 6y ago
You’re possibly being downvoted because you lay it at the doorstep of “the right” when the problem is bigger than that. But thanks for more directly making my original point that, as the GP’s post shows, many people’s working definition see
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by xref 6y ago
Are you referring to Kevin Hart who bailed on the Oscar hosting gig? I mean, he publicly said a ton of _rough_ homophobic stuff and eventually he was held to account for it. That said, the Oscars went on as scheduled, I saw Hart in Jumanji
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by xref 6y ago
Is this “the gay cabal are grooming our children to be homosexuals” thought train, but against vegans? What’s the point of such broad generalizations/conspiracies?
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by xref 6y ago
People have been hiding behind internet anonymity since its earliest days, long before the “cancel culture” boogeyman was dreamed up
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What’s being cancelled? If Netflix doesn’t pay to distribute a specific movie it’s “cancelled”? It’s still being released, nobody bought-and-buried it like National Enquirer or something. Also I streamed Kingdom of Silence about Khashoggi o
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by xref 6y ago
Since the article doesn't seem to address it, the email was sent from “happyholiday@gocladdy.com” and tried to trick users with the kerning between “d” and “cl”, here's a screencap where the address is shown in a different font h
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by xref 6y ago
It was sent from “@gocladdy.com” and tried to trick users with the kerning between “d” and “cl”, where are you seeing it was an internal address?
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You might notice the enormous rigid wingsuit in those videos...
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by xref 6y ago
We had a problem where HikariCP was slowly recycling db connections but failing to open new ones. Guess what happened when the app ran long enough the final conn in the pool closed...
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by xref 6y ago
The OP literally chose to make it a contest, complaining MacKenzie wasn’t doing as much as him percentage wise.
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by xref 6y ago
I doubt the killer was thinking about quantum computers or teams of programmers unmasking them back in the 1960s. Heck at that time it still wasn’t public that the allies cracked Enigma/Purple during WWII in the 1940s

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