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by ygaf 9y ago
Reduce HN's frontpage from 30 threads to 10 (then three interesting threads become one) and stop pages loading so fast; they need to become slower (I'm sure people have ideas how to achieve that).
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by ygaf 9y ago
>It’s a constant struggle for Tor to recruit “everyday” users of Tor, who use the service to evade commercial surveillance. Those users provide valuable “cover traffic”, making it harder to identify whistleblowers who use the service, an
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by ygaf 9y ago
If that's what the driver did, I'm sorry for my ignorance (different poster).
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by ygaf 9y ago
Replying to matt, not sure why his post was flagged (aside from veering off my topic): >People protesting against Nazis aren't... >That means... You theorise a lot about the opposing side on this one occasion, that is contrary to
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by ygaf 9y ago
This is why I couldn't believe that terrorism was invoked. (for a second, before accepting the unscrupulous cleverness of it) Terrorism is when a message is sent to the people at large, not what happens between warring protestors. T
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by ygaf 9y ago
The equivalence the gp is making is between businesses, not clients. Businesses obviously are accountable to someone if they must serve gay people. It has already been pointed out that gays are a protected class, but deliberately(?) missing
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by ygaf 9y ago
It's just the word itself. I've been straying from the substance and rigour of HN to the rabble rousing of FB and twitter.
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by ygaf 9y ago
Let's just say after the fatiguing year of outrages we've had, I'm tired of everyone's justice.
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by ygaf 9y ago
I was thrown by your claim, but that all makes perfect sense.
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by ygaf 9y ago
Law and order bring us the closest to justice. This "negative peace" is just the absence of perfect justice.
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by ygaf 9y ago
He's making an equivalence between violence in the vicinity of protestors and violence in the vicinity of protestors. Is terrorism the next english word that americans ruin?
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by ygaf 9y ago
That's what it is, and people are greedier still thanks to the notion of perfect partners.
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by ygaf 9y ago
Replying to the deadpost: >They've literally _never_ accidentally reported in a direction that was opposite their editorial spin. You won't find any news outlet who will err two ways.
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by ygaf 9y ago
I hope dang does not feel more pressure as HN becomes an ever-more precious forum on the whole internet.
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by ygaf 9y ago
To clarify Paint's appeal; in addition to this list https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14845533 , if you want to drag a square selection of something somewhere else, paint is probably still the goto app in 2017. If n
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by ygaf 9y ago
Not on-topic, but definitely. English is like C++, it's a monster. Apparently Germans managed to revamp their own written language very recently.
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by ygaf 9y ago
>Require non-free or proprietary drivers? You bet I do, and thanks. I might start using that version instead of official debian + arcane ritual of copying stuff to lib/firmware during installation.
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by ygaf 9y ago
The native-English-speaking world is doomed to never have the motivation for this bilingual stuff.
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by ygaf 9y ago
>Even if the video calls for none of those, you mean? ...Eh?
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by ygaf 9y ago
I never got started with twitter, because it just didn't make sense, without a bit of practice using it at least. Thanks for confirming it is a general mess.
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by ygaf 9y ago
Sure humans haven't evolved, but the parent poster didn't say that. Society has evolved. We still make desperate actions during wartime, meanwhile during peacetime we are even outraged these days when death row prisoners have thei
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by ygaf 9y ago
Don't preach to users that $ISP is bad, just tie the inconvenience in to lack of net neutrality.
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by ygaf 9y ago
Perfectly put. I rarely read submissions myself but I refrain from asking about them.
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by ygaf 9y ago
Happy hat-birthday America!
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by ygaf 9y ago
>The merits of the stack are determined by both intrinsic factors and the market Sure, but isn't Java basically the biggest language in the world? And it can't "limit development velocity" more than C++.
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by ygaf 9y ago
If "thought leader" is on their resume, they better have a ted talk or something under their belt. I cringe at "influencer" because it's so plainly evil, and influencing is just "marketing" of ideas.
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by ygaf 9y ago
The thing is, it's not just giving someone a chance, it's giving someone a chance at the expense of someone else. It's simple to hire the optimal person, it's impossible to decide who should get to be employed in the gra
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by ygaf 9y ago
Can you quote any part of the article relating to the second half of your post? Doesn't even have to be from the end.
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by ygaf 9y ago
Seconding this, the use of predictable actually makes me think the article isn't worth it.
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by ygaf 9y ago
There's nothing wrong with the analogy (except being dramatic). edit: this isn't agreeing with the parent poster, as a police state is about the level of control, not whether violence is used which is a fact of policing anyway.

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