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by zyx321 12y ago
Then I am part of the problem, I guess? Because yes, I would argue that we shouldn't be paying attention to the trolls. They aren't poisoning the discussion because they aren't part of the discussion. They are trying to disru
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by zyx321 12y ago
At the same time, it's very hard to feel sorry for her if she built her career on it. And it's very hard to take the very real problem serious if you got people like Sarkeesian (and Zoe Quinn, and Leigh Alexander, and so forth) po
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by zyx321 12y ago
Well, my GPS navigation app seems to know the speed limit most of the time. Remember, even if the system isn't perfect, it can still outperform a human.
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by zyx321 12y ago
Because it doesn't fit into anyone's narrative. Pro-Zoey - You really don't wanna bring up any legitimate criticism of her when you could be playing up the victim narrative. Anti-Zoey (AKA mysoginists) - The man is obviously
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by zyx321 12y ago
So just let me just get this right... You believe that an article that describes both sides' claims without judging either is "harassment" and that instead of something that "can be used [...] against either side" w
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by zyx321 12y ago
It's not really "unsourced." MundaneMatt did post a screenshot of the takedown notice he received. (EDIT: It's linked in the article, of course. Just in case anyone didn't find it because they didn't actually r
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by zyx321 12y ago
It's not no much about tone as it is about making a genuine, intellectually honest argument without resorting to ad hominem insults. Hell, one of the reasons I like coming to HN is precisely because the general consensus here is in man
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by zyx321 12y ago
Can we please keep this us vs them bullshit off HN? The linked blog, whether you agree with it or not, keeps a reasonably neutral tone throughout (even if the author's frustration is obvious). Agreeing with it does not automatically ma
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by zyx321 12y ago
Yes, they have the info you give them. And info that others give them about you. And info that they gather from you without your knowledge. And whatever they can infer from the aforementioned info. Which they will save forever. Good thing
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by zyx321 12y ago
Indeed it does. The startup thing to do when faced with a $5k surplus is to spend $50k on marketing. Remember, you don't want to build a sustainable business, you want to make an exit or die trying.
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by zyx321 12y ago
Because the Nokia 3310 (and to a lesser degree the 3210) were the iconic devices of the cellphone, just like the iPhone 4 (with iOS 6 or earlier) is probably the most iconic phone of the smartphone era. And even if you were told to think of
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by zyx321 12y ago
Okay, "all of them" might be an exaggeration, but it's certainly true of Uber in particular.
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by zyx321 12y ago
Only a publicly traded company would be subject to Dodge v. Ford. ...or startups that have publicly traded corporations as investors (which is approximately all of them). Don't delude yourself into thinking you can trust a co
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by zyx321 12y ago
Short answer: No. If faced with a choice between money and doing the right thing, corporations are legally obligated (c.f. Dodge v. Ford) to pick money every single time.
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by zyx321 12y ago
Yes, but that's an SSL "design flaw" that's been known literally for decades. Go take a look at your browser's trusted root certificates some time. Everyone here likely knows on a cognitive level that SSL is pretty
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by zyx321 12y ago
Well, it wouldn't be a real Uber clone without a blatant disregard for laws and regulations, now would it?
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by zyx321 12y ago
Yeah, that's kind of a must-have feature. Even if I wouldn't want to support Vox Media after the recent controversy, there are sites that simply won't work unless you disable (or at least manually fine-tune) your filters.
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by zyx321 12y ago
The problem is that marketers exist to make you buy a product that you otherwise wouldn't. The hat of a marketer is not always that of a professional liar, but frequently enough that you do well to be wary of them. Much like police hav
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by zyx321 12y ago
Dear mods, do you <i>have</i> to revert to the misleading clickbait titles? When I clicked the link, it was titled "NFL announcers keep mistakenly calling Surface tablets iPads" (which is what is actually happenin
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by zyx321 12y ago
But aren't prices in Russia less than half of those in EU/US? I remember that region locking controversy a few years back, where people bought the cheap eastern European boxed copies over the Internet and found that they wouldn&#x
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by zyx321 12y ago
To be perfectly honest, I am surprised to learn that twitpic is owned by a different company than twitter itself, which is precisely what trademark law is supposed to prevent.
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by zyx321 12y ago
HN policy is to always use the original title, no matter how dreadfully sensationalist or inaccurate it is.
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by zyx321 12y ago
Well, my first instinct on the design puzzle was something among the lines of http://xkcd.com/149/ I was a little surprised to get a "no such command" error, especially after finding out the actual solution..
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by zyx321 12y ago
He probably could, if he really really wanted to go to jail.
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by zyx321 12y ago
In reply to a dead comment: The most common definition of natural numbers is "positive integers." I do agree that 0 is important enough that it would have merited a mention at least.
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by zyx321 12y ago
If you're an Arch user, why would you learn a language that won't ever compile on anything other than OSX?
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by zyx321 12y ago
I've found that jokes tend to get downvoted on HN. Your post seems to be still in the black.
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by zyx321 12y ago
>And if you do reboot frequently but then at one point it doesn't work ? Then you restore from yesterday's backup. It's probably still on-site. If a kernel live patch fails, you might not notice for a long time.
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by zyx321 12y ago
It's a price and usability problem. The basic functionality (SSL Client Certificates) is built in to all major browsers and servers. Enabling it up takes only a few hours and doesn't require any third-party software or hardware at
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by zyx321 13y ago
Well, Americans have a funny definition of state. I will however make no judgement whether one definition is more correct than the other.

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