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by ygaf 9y ago
Not a downvoter, but I wouldn't change browser over those things, the browser is too important to any real computer nerd. An alternative browser would have to be open source, maintained by a major group, and have functionality that eve
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by ygaf 9y ago
Interesting price to pay for taking a class, is it part of any particular degree? On the other hand I guess you really get to learn how your government watches you.
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by ygaf 9y ago
For a politician it's good opsec (maybe not great, for the bother it is). Interpreting your post charitably, I questioned whether Pence had these rules as a politician or all life long. From TA: "During his 12 years in Congress,
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by ygaf 9y ago
Isn't the question whether he is obliged to change license? It's not pushing ideology to sit on the license you are using.
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by ygaf 9y ago
No opinion on its microtransactions, but I couldn't believe it when that game became an esport. For one, I looked down on mobile games (is one of them really this good?). And you've got a casting team and studio audience to watch
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by ygaf 9y ago
It is the use of "counterexamples" that doesn't make sense.
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by ygaf 9y ago
Analogies aren't "pointless".
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by ygaf 9y ago
umatrix here. I saw 1 cookie (from techreview itself), although enabling googletagservices/etc leads to more techreview cookies. Enabled everything google and it still wasn't good enough for them. If it's not google doing the
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by ygaf 9y ago
In the last two days I've encountered unprecedented resistance to adblockers (more accurately script blocking) around the net.
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by ygaf 9y ago
> The light of the sun is confined to a limited area and its light acts like a spotlight upon the earth. They're skimping on a lot of detail here. And their animation shows the earth's illuminated area squishing like a bean bag
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by ygaf 9y ago
>because they hacked the voice mail of a girl who was murdered, and therefore delayed the police investigation. This sounds like a fabricated implication. Lots of people (famous ones) were hacked, and I can't find a sign that delayi
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by ygaf 9y ago
Thanks for the response, I posted to a non-front-page thread knowing you specifically (if no one else) might see it. I would like to know what you mean by subverting the racism / acknowledgeing it, without tinkering with the developer&
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by ygaf 9y ago
The author(Shaun) is very reasonable, as are the SJWs who expand on the vid in response to 'secretagentlucario'. But even after that user's efforts to discover what the problem in problematic is, they fail to make it clear. E
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by ygaf 9y ago
Every factor can be captured, but can we agree what isn't superiority? e.g. buying an ipad (vs a samsung tablet or whatever) to be the same as everyone else, is not a reflection of the virtues of the ipad. I would say the (simpler) w
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by ygaf 9y ago
Sigh. Disingenuity aside, you don't need a visible post calling out an invisible one.
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by ygaf 9y ago
(non-combative post) Traps were originally a feature of 4chan; something you had to look out for. I'm sure the word existed in real life too, but 4chan is how most people find it. If anything, traps existed before trans-words entered p
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by ygaf 9y ago
(sctb's request acknowledged, replying to a separate poster) Why vouch for a post demonstrating such creepiness? And making a strange ad-hom. Nothing worth resurrecting as a HN post. I'm not even one who had flagged it.
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by ygaf 9y ago
>pretending you don't know the word "trap" I'm not pretending to not know the word; it made sense on sight to me as "someone who fools you". Easiest term around. And that is clearly a concept of its own no
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by ygaf 9y ago
>If you think it was a witty remark and not unsolicited... You should be able to see that the first post is an opening for humour. Speaking of decency and respect, the word "trap", as opposed to being an insult, is a compliment
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by ygaf 9y ago
No, that's an ancient 4chan meme (source: haven't been there for years). It was a witty remark and not unsolicited. I'm wondering whether you've been digging through his profile just now, or you keep a list of people gu
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by ygaf 9y ago
Deleted my post, which doesn't really refute the parent, I was just tilted by his shameless soapboxing. You do wonder how a thread on John Raines becomes one on Wikileaks.
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by ygaf 9y ago
>It might sting sometimes, but people who are willing to argue with you are much more beneficial to the organization for the most part. >The thing about shit code is it costs 2x, 10x, 100x of technical debt later. I'm on board wi
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by ygaf 9y ago
>Good developers don't like to write bad code. Good developers produce something. (and I'm condemning myself there)
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by ygaf 9y ago
Why is a warning downvoted?
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by ygaf 9y ago
>If they're lying, the police will figure it out. If they're not, then they won't. What's so odd about just letting idiots be? I know where you're coming from. However this article is not like facebook randos pos
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by ygaf 9y ago
The Bible teaches this too.
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by ygaf 9y ago
For the sake of argument, let's say that Amazon "destroys communities" (I'm more inclined to believe the posts that blame Seattle itself, also "rent increase" sounds to me like a natural phenomenon that one com
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by ygaf 9y ago
I should have wrote "how to collect". I thought I remembered a mozilla employee asking HN to let them know if their anonymisation methods were adequate (not necessarily in that latest thread).
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by ygaf 9y ago
And they need help in collecting theoretically anonymous data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15071492
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by ygaf 9y ago
>I belief it is disingenuous to try to discuss such issues without addressing the elephant in the room. Anyone would agree. >I also felt the imagery (angry mob/pitchforks/etc) more than subtly pointed in that direction. This

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