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by A_COMPUTER 9y ago
Periscope is pretty awesome, I watch livestreams of protests, get realtime info on events. What's funny is how often you see something as it's happening, then later when "witnesses" are interviewed about it, how often th
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by A_COMPUTER 9y ago
It's pretty simple, we moved left too fast for even many on the American left, and there was a backlash. Most people want to do the right thing, and the left's brand is "nice for people" but past a certain point people n
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by A_COMPUTER 9y ago
The alt-right is as much a reaction to a complacent, consistently-losing right wing establishment as it is to the rapid leftward shift of american politics in the last 13 or so years.
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by A_COMPUTER 9y ago
By the way, many campus sexual assault protests are very political, the ones that demand removing presumption of innocence, both at the university policy and even at the legal level. That is just about as political as you can get.
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by A_COMPUTER 9y ago
>this has been a conservative talking point for a long time. It was addressing the exact ideology and behavior that is coming into fruition now, and we should have listened. In the early 90s people watched as the fringe slowly leaked out
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
I think they're working out how they're going to justify what they're going to do with his movement after he's no longer in charge of it. In the last year about three different times I have seen people making the same ar
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
Do none of these people have an adult in their life to tell them doing this is a terrible idea
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
Did it get easier recently? I tried getting into this about six years or so ago and found it really hard to get started. Finding appropriate applets (MUSCLE applet I guess was the common crypto one), incompatible cards and readers, etc.
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
>So, if you start thinking down that line, if someone threatened murder, you’d probably take that off the platform. If someone threatened assault, you’d take that off. But if a presidential candidate threatens to imprison an entire relig
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
He is doing the same thing to NPR, and by extension NPR's listeners, what he was doing to low-info right-wingers: telling them what they wanted to hear, whether or not it's true. He's good at it. He wants you to believe that
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
An observation on the right is that any organization that is not explicitly right wing will over time drift into being left wing. I think it's correct.
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
Almost all the constant complaints I see fall into a couple categories: 1. forced reduced-functionality or questionable UI choices on a project 2. imported the buggy, unexpected behavior of previous Windows releases into the Linux world. I
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
Exclusive homosexuality analogous to human homosexual relationships is rare in nature. There are animals that are extremely promiscuous and have sex with anything else regardless of its sex, and there are animals that form homosexual relati
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
Mincome is not compatible with businesses and political parties that rely on an endless stream of low-skilled immigration.
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
That didn't sound like a Sarah Palin speech, not even remotely. What it sounded to me like was Richard Nixon, who proposed a similar thing for similar reasons, but couldn't get the proposal past the Senate: http://www.a
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
Honeywell stated a couple things that clearly violate consent, and could reasonably be described as rising to the level of legally actionable. I was very critical of some of the weak discounting of the possibility of JTRIG-style character a
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
https://motherboard.vice.com/blog/jacob-appelbaum-utopia-int... >in the US, I’m fairly certain I’ve had a black bag job on my apartment, my mother was arrested and jailed supposedly for unrelated charges, and – at a
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
I just read your comment again, and you're lying. "Tricked by an obvious parody article." That's compatible with "stupid" but not with "uninformed". You were also being a smartass about it, which is r
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
How many of those people left the country permanently because of constant harassment by government agents? How many lost their girlfriend when she got freaked out because a guy with night vision goggles was spying into their apartment in th
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
Why don't you just openly call him stupid since that's what you're implying, or just not post at all if you can't refrain from doing so.
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
I'm legitimately sorry for singling you out, in isolation it's not that big of a deal at all, sites can try different things and that's great. My complaint is more that this seems to be happening a lot lately, and there is al
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
Generally nobody has to be reminded that many on the right aren't fans of free speech. But people have to be constantly reminded that there are people on the left that aren't fans of free speech.
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
You're not wrong, but you've got a political blind spot if you don't think there are people on the left that do the same thing re. repackaging and resubmitting ideas, or if you don't see the contingent of the left that i
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by A_COMPUTER 10y ago
I don't know how to phrase this in an HN-approved positive way, but I think it needs to be said: the graphics are disturbingly infantilizing if this site is supposed to be for anyone over the age of 9.
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
Why do you discriminate against other kids by only feeding your kids
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
I don't believe that restricting free flow of ideas is compatible with an ostensibly democratic government. So it is more like, I consider it an unfortunate side-effect of freedom that people can say things I find of negative value.
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
This story reminds me of many interactions I had with Japanese as a lost and confused foreigner in Japanese cities big and small.
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
I personally saw an Amiga still in use in a public access studio in 2005. It was being used to show announcements. The function of it today could be trivially replaced with a raspberry pi and a bit of custom software, but I can say that the
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
The article didn't mention that this is also being done to short-circuit the overwhelming opposition (using nakedness as a wedge) to trans-people in locker rooms of their identified gender.
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
If only crypto users were as vocal and organized as gun owners. We could call our organization the National Rijndael Association.

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