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by codefreeordie 4y ago
This seems like one of those times to go with Betteridge: no.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Oh, it is very likely that there's all sorts of things of that sort that he doesn't recall. And lots of others that he probably recalls but not with enough certainty to talk about under oath. Whether or not he approved a particul
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
presumably because they want also to stop other EU countries' airlines from running the flights as well.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Do you have any evidence this is fake?
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
because on HN, you are required to be a democrat and support all democrat causes.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
for sure. It'll be really interesting tomorrow to see how much tech and media end up suppressing this story too. Presumably, just like with the story this is all about, they'll just ban all mention of it and delete everybody&#x2
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Normally, the dupe detector only detects dupes that have actually been "seen" edit: here's dang himself on how the dupe detector ignores things that haven't had their chance in the sun yet: https://news.ycombi
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
No, this will almost certainly not hit the frontpage. The dupe detector has already started removing all the threads, even though on other topics it only engages after a topic actually gets picked up. Every effort will be taken to suppress
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
more likely as retaliation for what is currently underway (or in anticipation of the retaliation coming)
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Yep, housing is one of the few things whose relative price has increased, primarily because the planet is the same size now but there are more people. In other areas, people were absurdly more wealthy in 2016 than in 1916 -- in terms of the
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Heya @dang, is this what you were referring to when you said that you moderated without regard to viewpoint? Deleting 100% of posts from all on one side while boosting even pure personal attacks from your side? Please read those guidelines
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
There is some good material in that book, and it is written in a manner that appeals to a wide audience, so the book does some good, but generally, Kiyosaki is a salesman (of himself as a genius) above all else, and often gives hot takes th
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
This story makes the fundamental error of assuming that a country and it's government are the same.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
It isnt really public land. It's government land. And it's reachable by the government, its owner. Government likes to pretend it is "the people" or "the public" on occasion to add legitimacy to it's act
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
The scare quotes are in the original headline, but they're pretty obnoxious and misleading. The person claiming that Twitter is taking it seriously is an activist who has historically criticized Twitter's lack of taking it serious
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
And will undoubtedly have all his posts killed in a day or so, and probably be threatened with banning by dang if he doesn't change his views
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Dorsey's Twitter claimed to be pro free speech and fair, and yet apparently it was fine for Twitter to ban only one side then. As per usual, the true story is "it's good when my guy does it and unfair and evil when the other
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
The trend of adding bespoke touches to warehouse packaged orders is cool, but the reason hand-written thank-you cards have meaning is because of the thought and effort that goes into them. Mass-produced hand-written notes don't carry
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
This would all work today, though if it became a trend, manufacturers could start adding vehicle integrity checks into the power-on sequence that would refuse to start if modifications are detected -- and if they had the first-party compone
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
All the way back in 1998, when the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was being rammed through, we warned the world that this would be the result -- that the law which prohibits circumvention of "access control technology" in things
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Love the downvotes for speaking the obvious and transparent truth. Of course, the reason is obvious -- the sexist and racist trash that inhabit this place and who won't be satisfied until male babies are drowned in the river at birth
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
No, we should not keep trying to eliminate prosperity for the human race out of some religious fear. We should instead abandon the modern anti-humanist religion and return to the one human superpower, discarded 40 years ago to our great cos
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Because they're required to save almost half the spaces for women, but they don't have to save almost have the spaces for men. Women will be aggressively recruited to fill the mandatory slots. Not worth looking for men at all, yo
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
I remember when the existence of this group was a "conspiracy theory"
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
The notion that the "billionaires" "don't work" and "don't contribute" is patently nonsense. (Especially since the chosen villain is Jeff Bezos, and I'm pretty sure that Amazon didn't magick
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
On the one hand, items as close as some of these, you're truly just guessing, and taking the exchange rate an hour earlier or later could change the result. On the other hand, my average was about as close on the close ones as the non-
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
We don't work as hard as we used to, we don't produce like we used to. Our society has gone from one of growth to one of decay. You can't do as much when you want to work a few hours a day a few days a week with seasons of ti
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Turns out, lots of people want to follow Trump. He was always very popular amongst people who aren't welcome on places like HN (which is why he seems so deeply unpopular and yet gets so many votes and overflows so many stadiums) Also t
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
That was true of solar power 20 years ago, too. But eventually, we got there. We will probably get there with carbon capture too. Though I do agree, we should focus more heavily on nuclear power now, because it is much closer to ready-for-
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
"Solutionism" is a fantastic word for this particular slur, since it gets to the heart of why technological solutions to our problems are not considered: because they might solve the problem, thereby robbing the politicians of the

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