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by ythn 9y ago
Saying anything politically uncorrect, for one, will draw accusations of bigotry, sexism, racism, and more...
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by ythn 9y ago
Wouldn't abolishing them create an out of control copycat shovelware economy worse than the app stores? I mean, if you can blatantly rip off other people's IP
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Car companies seem exceptionally bad at both software and hardware. Not only does the tech lag years behind the industry, it's horrendously designed. Like, your media network should be airgapped from your critical systems, but in pract
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Sometimes people group it with piracy since technically it's a DCMA/DRM violation
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> But let's be honest, 99.99% of Kodi and Plex use is purely for pirated content. Otherwise, I'm not sure where everyone is getting all these non DRM digital downloads. Do you count digitizing my existing DVD collection with Ha
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by ythn 9y ago
Does 2a include maxing IRS limit?
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What if it wasn't 50/50 though, and the flight instructor took actual measurements and found that 80% of praised cadets did worse on the second try (vs. no praise) and 80% of scolded cadets did better on the second try (vs. no sco
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by ythn 9y ago
> There is still just as much hate on the site except now it is just seething under the surface Yeah but if your vast majority of users doesn't see it or know where to find it, who cares? I've been a reddit user for 2 years and
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by ythn 9y ago
If mass created from "pure energy" is always in matter/antimatter pairs, why is the ratio of matter/antimatter so skewed in favor of matter?
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This comment reads like the ravings of a pedant who is unable to relate to the layman.
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Been a loyal AMD user ever since my first laptop which had an Athlon64. They've always given me great performance at a fraction of the cost of Intel.
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This is very well made. I don't know what I was expecting, but this really impressed me.
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Reminds me of ex-[fill in religion] online forums. It basically filters on people that hate [fill in religion] and so it portrays only an extremely negatively-biased ("toxic hellscape") view of [fill in religion].
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by ythn 9y ago
You could think of a gun as just a malicious piece of mechanical engineering. You could think of the software in the article as a malicious piece of software engineering. My point still stands.
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How many people have been deported under Trump? I'm having trouble finding any statistics on it
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"Guns don't kill people, people do" "Code doesn't cause people to be arrested, people do" True in both cases, but also true in both cases that guns/code are used as enablers of the evil deeds.
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Well, somehow we've decided "positive discrimination" aka "affirmative action" is a "good" form of discrimination, otherwise there would be less diversity (which would be "bad")
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> No sacrificing video quality or freshness required. Just drone battery life
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> To solve the problem of inner city poverty, we need to take public money and give more of it to some privileged college-educated person who likely doesn’t even live in the neighborhoods plagued by poverty? On the flip side, though, str
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by ythn 9y ago
What about: C) Someone is a gifted tattoo artist and you want to learn the craft from them, but you don't have any money to pay them. So the tattoo artist takes you on as a full-time paid intern, making a non-living wage
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Is being paid a non-living wage better than being paid nothing at all? Say I am a one man shop. I would like an assistant, but I don't actually make enough to pay the assistant a "living wage". My options are to hire an assis
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by ythn 9y ago
The sword cuts both ways. How would you feel if a company with ties to churches started discriminating/firing liberals who are pro-abortion because they are "murder advocates"?
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re: most banks
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> What happens when you run into a site that won’t accept your algorithmic generated passwords? You maintain a public file that has metadata that is meaningless to an attacker. Metadata such as min/max length restrictions, etc.
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> Compare it to an algorithm, where your attack surface is "every service." If one password is compromised, they all are. My password for Amazon is "f3cfcb6ZUZ^". What's my algorithm?
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by ythn 9y ago
I've had so many problems with my XPS 13 that I bought in 2016 that I will never buy another one. Killer WiFi card was utter crap, laptop has issues going to sleep and waking up when closing the lid (sometimes it would hang on the the
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by ythn 9y ago
Gangs will always be in business even with legal pot. Just look at cigarettes and alcohol. Both those things are legal and both those things have massive black markets to bypass the heavy regulations and taxes imposed on them.
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> How is it that the most virulent abortion haters are such staunch believers in the death penalty? Because babies are innocent by default and murderers are not?
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> Like, culturally conditioned to be dismissive of success, always seeing something negative when people achieve big things Sounds like HN: "Check out my cool new web app/hardware gizmo!" Army of critics arrive to poop o
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It's almost like we need community-level organizations for people to participate in weekly dedicated to helping people become more selfless, humble, and generally more loving humans so that their actions can then be an influence to eve

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