Niten

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by Niten 8mo ago
Yes and like every good conspiracy theorist knows, the inability to point to evidence is all the more proof of the conspiracy. Leave. You're a net-negative to this website.
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by Niten 8mo ago
Your "blah blah blah" comment below really speaks to your level of sophistication, on this and I'm sure other topics too. You have no place in polite society. Get lost.
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by Niten 10mo ago
Additionally, it's crucial to recognize how Hamas's health ministry numbers never distinguish between combatant and civilian deaths
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by Niten 1y ago
This is dangerously unhinged hyperbole. What comment by DHH says that you, personally, don't "belong in public spaces"? Be specific.
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by Niten 1y ago
> One person who was a major funder of RubyCentral pulled funding because they were upset at RubyCentral platforming DHH Yes. To de-obfuscate, they sent a message that he should be cancelled. It backfired spectacularly, as it rightfully
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by Niten 1y ago
Why should one trust her? What's her full name and the reason for deferring to her expertise? And yes I'm aware her posts have made it to the top of HN many times in the past. That I've seen, they've all been unhelpful v
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by Niten 2y ago
> The article you linked to is pure propaganda - Hamas' charter changed a long, long time ago No, it's not "propaganda". It's factual reporting that happens to be inconvenient to Hamas apologists. It's also
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by Niten 2y ago
Hamas is a terrorist, Islamist organization with the explicit goal of genocide against Israelis: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/ha... The blood of the Palestinian civilians tha
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by Niten 2y ago
Media Bias Fact Check ranks Reason as a "Right-Center" biased website with a "High" rating for factual reporting: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reason/ They certainly approach stories with an edito
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by Niten 2y ago
Is this a principle you apply universally? For example, do you oppose U.S. companies providing technical support for Ukraine's justified war aims, such as Starlink? I've seen no indication that simply protesting is seen as "n
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by Niten 5y ago
By the same logic, a far-right person could complain about a "veneer of neutrality" in the mainstream press's coverage of, say, the Proud Boys. But that would be ridiculous. Some things really are objectively stupid as hell.
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by Niten 6y ago
It's a device for smuggling in a new concept (enforcement of equal outcomes) using a word that sounds similar enough to "equality", representing an older and unobjectionable concept (equal opportunity), that it should provoke
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by Niten 6y ago
This is a tangent, but what's the financial rationale for setting up this kind of an arrangement instead of a donation?
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by Niten 6y ago
Oh, well nice, then
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by Niten 6y ago
Is there any data on how many of these new users are WhatsApp refugees vs. Parler refugeees vs. some other category? In principle it shouldn't matter. But I'm worried userbase demographics will determine from which quarter the nex
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by Niten 6y ago
Does that create an account with end-to-end encryption? If not, it's not a replacement for Signal at all.
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by Niten 6y ago
> Parler sought out extremists from the get go Can you share evidence of this? Because it clashes with all the messaging I've seen from Parler.
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by Niten 6y ago
> 3. Hit by car. Unneutered pets are much more likely to escape randomly and get hit by cars. Even pets that normally do not run away from their owners. Is there evidence of a causal relationship here?
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by Niten 6y ago
Of course vandalism is a form of violence. I haven't yet read into the details of this case, and I may end up siding with the protestors once I have. But I do not abide the corruption of language for whatever political ends.
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by Niten 6y ago
> If anyone has better references on the frankly astounding technical accomplishment that the CRIS Passenger Reservation system, please share. Huh? You've described a run-of-the-mill, moderate-scale reservation system. This is not &
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by Niten 6y ago
> The gender pay gap is a statistic that requires some nuance to evaluate If only nuance were present when politicians on the left make misleading or false statements like "women (are) paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same
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by Niten 6y ago
If Twitter's censorship really has no relevant effect beyond its platform, then why has there been such a push to get Twitter and others to deal better with Russian bots following 2016? Are these people mistaken? Does what's allow
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by Niten 6y ago
The only thing that terrifies me more than Trump is the number of my tech industry colleagues who seem to think we can and should abuse our power to shape public discourse.
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by Niten 6y ago
"Affirmative action", in the common understanding of the term, refers to non-race-blind processes in admissions and so forth. If, while controlling for all other variables, a person of race A has a different chance of being admitt
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by Niten 7y ago
> Company that is flush with that much cash couldn't find new roles for the 'small number' of people that were impacted? The third sentence in the article: "Google didn’t specify how many roles are being cut and said
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by Niten 7y ago
"Democratically elected" is a really odd way to say "defied a referendum on term limits and rigged an election".
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by Niten 7y ago
No. Evo Morales is a would-be dictator who ignored term limits and rigged an election to stay in power. He was forced out of power because the Bolivian army refused to kill Bolivian people to suppress protests against him. The facts to coun
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by Niten 7y ago
Yeah that's a limitation of Android at present, but check out what's coming in Android Q: https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/device-locatio...
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by Niten 7y ago
> Further, because there are well-known and deeply entrenched cultural biases that risk derailing this careful study and therefore any initial assumptions that coincide with these cultural biases must be eliminated before serious work ca
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by Niten 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what was the application?

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