davvolun

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by davvolun 3y ago
That depends on the structure. There are no 1st Amendment issues with Amber Alerts or weather alerts pushed to my phone, for example. But if CNN or Fox News are allowed to post to this proposed service, now we've got a different animal
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by davvolun 3y ago
And, if I may, I think the point is that is all well and good, but for reliability's sake, a publicly, not privately, controlled alternative to any of the above (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, etc.) should be carefully
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by davvolun 5y ago
> Governments should earn their taxes the same as a person should earn their income So you're coming from the perspective that individual minimum wage is wrong, and applying that assumption everywhere. Thanks, but I absolutely disag
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by davvolun 5y ago
> This becomes a minimum wage for nations Why is that a problem? > removes the incentive to compete to be the home of corporate headquarters No, it shifts the means of incentives. It's no longer a race to the bottom tax rate. As
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by davvolun 5y ago
Exactly, pensions were considerably more common in the 1960s also, but at the end of the day, I don't really care if my retirement is actually funded by a pension or a 401k or by stuffing dollar bills under my mattress, I want to know
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by davvolun 6y ago
As is nearly always the case with these types of conspiracy theories, never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. More charitably, you can explain most of these actions (maybe excepting Robinhood's ac
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by davvolun 6y ago
Right, wrong, or whatever, welcome to America. What, today, is stopping a billionaire from parking nearly anywhere they like and then just paying the fine, over and over? Or, beyond that, the quality of civil or criminal defense you can exp
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by davvolun 6y ago
> Who decides when a mask is needed/not needed? The elected authorities, whether local, regional, state, or federal, preferably as advised by trained and trusted experts. > Should we always be forced to wear masks going forward g
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by davvolun 6y ago
That's kind of the thing though. > Signer agrees to become contract murderer unless pre-empted by local laws and regulations. I'm over-exaggerating, and I get the value when it's prohibitively expensive to write a TOS when
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by davvolun 6y ago
You're arguing "slippery slope." The answer to any slippery slope argument, when asked "when does it stop" is to just choose a point to stop. (And in the case of a representative Democracy like the U.S., the choice
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by davvolun 6y ago
You seriously don't think "we should decrease the number of people born with Down Syndrome" is a morally defensible position either? I don't think "we should decrease the number of people born homosexual" is a
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by davvolun 6y ago
Unless you have better evidence than Keith Olbermann to back your statement, I think we're done here. I'm not going to go back and forth about Twitter followers as a valid metric for gauging public opinion on genocide...
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by davvolun 6y ago
"not allowed to exist at all" doesn't mean what you seem to think it does. Nothing you have said bears any more discussion.
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by davvolun 6y ago
Keith Olbermann, currently hosting on the mainstream news channel of YouTube (/s) after being evicted from actual mainstream news, is the opposite of strong evidence. Further: > "The hate he has triggered, the Pandora’s box h
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by davvolun 6y ago
> People are alarmed by these moves because they represent a wider trend in which the left increasingly does not recognise the right as politically legitimate, i.e. they do not believe non-leftists should be allowed to exist. Those two t
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by davvolun 6y ago
Sure, as long as we have the tooling available for students to get there too (which, I think we do, or pretty quickly can).
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by davvolun 6y ago
And just for encryption, you can self-sign. Obviously that doesn't work for the web, but "TLS cert feudal lord" doesn't track for me at all.
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by davvolun 6y ago
googling for 'man date' to read the manual page on date always gives me a second thought.
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by davvolun 6y ago
> If you want to say that something exists you need to define that thing first. I have yet to say anything, in one direction or another. You're saying a monopoly cannot exist given a free market. You define what you mean by "mo
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by davvolun 6y ago
Regarding your edit > Unless granted by a government, monopolies don't exist in free markets. You made that claim, it's your responsibility to prove it first, not everyone else's to disprove it after you've made a fla
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by davvolun 6y ago
At least three of those four have an undeniable technological/VC subject matter, clearly relevant to HN (WeChat, Peter Thiel, and TikTok) I'd have to read them all to be certain, but 2 stories on OP's side and the 4 stories y
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by davvolun 6y ago
Hackers talk about tech. Tech can't be separated from people and politics anymore than anything else can.
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by davvolun 6y ago
Why is this marked as a dupe, when the "original" doesn't mention the other 6 VPNs leaking data? Yes, UFO VPN's leak in this article is based on the "original" article, but I looked at this to see if it include
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by davvolun 6y ago
Even under the most generous reading of Trump's statements, how in the world would it be remotely possible to "inject disinfectant" in any way? His speculation, particularly in an area where he has no expertise (but of course
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by davvolun 6y ago
That's not necessarily true. The article on MedPageToday barely notes it, but the actual study clearly spells out that only about 46% of patients were included in the study as having a final results (either death or discharge). As note
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by davvolun 6y ago
Going off the article alone, it would be hard to notice this, but the conclusions of the actual study are based on patients with a final results (either death or discharge), but that only includes about 46% of the cases. Specifically, as no
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by davvolun 6y ago
Just to back up your statement, from the actual study, under Limitations: > Fifth, clinical outcome data were available for only 46.2% of admitted patients. The absence of data on patients who remained hospitalized at the final study dat
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by davvolun 6y ago
If you're treating FB as the arbiter of truth, that's a you problem. The internet allows a wealth of information, and you should not trust FB as the arbiter of information anymore than you should absolutely-without-question trust
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by davvolun 6y ago
This is a very disappointing thread on Hacker News. First, the article is title "State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronavirus." Immediately sensationalizing the title to imply this coro
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by davvolun 6y ago
"We've noticed that Joe Everybody didn't make any rent payments prior to their birth or after their death. [HIGH RISK]"

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