hackissimo123

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by hackissimo123 6y ago
My favourite example of all time of journalistic shamelessness is ABC reporting that Robin Williams's were "respectfully asking for privacy" following his death, while a banner at the top of the same page advertised live aeri
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
The family of Philando Castille might disagree with you.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
This times a million. "If you invent a weapon, eventually your enemies will have it."
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Hypothetically, let's suppose that the entire Internet was controlled by one private company. (This is very plausible - I see no reason why couldn't have developed this way if history had gone slightly differently; in fact I think
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I fully agree; was just trying to give a direct answer to what I perceived your question to be.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I'm not denying that the phrase was uttered at least once by someone in the US at some point in the past. I refer you to my other post in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23573675
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Too late to edit: it was actually 53 years ago, not 70. My bad.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I agree, but how? Everyone I know uses WhatsApp. If I close my Facebook account I lose my only method of contacting a great deal of people who I used to know and don't want to lose touch with. How do I get off these platforms when no-o
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
This blog post[1] tried to figure out a number back in 2016. (Warning: that's not the only thing the post discusses; avoid if you've already had too much culture war.) To quote: "My guess is that the number of organized white
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
It has no history for Americans. It's a completely obscure reference that no-one had heard of a month ago and Trump almost certainly didn't make intentionally. Anyone who pretends otherwise is either deliberately lying or deranged
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I'd add that if you think that "looters are going to get shot" is code for "black people are going to get shot", you're implying that only black people can be looters. Who's the racist?
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Wait, I can't use my own domain name? I was thinking of checking Hey out, thanks for saving me the bother.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Oh, please. Walter Headley is so obscure he doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. The closest he's got is a page for the phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts", which wasn't created until after Trump ha
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Trump used the the phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" as part of a longer series of Tweets about the riots. The same phrase was also said at least once before, by an obscure racist 70 years ago whom no-one had
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Am I the only one who read the headline and thought this was going to be something about Craigslist?
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I believe the preferred term these days is "tie dinner of color"
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Are you open to non-US remote (specifically, Europe)?
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
"adult"
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
> It apologized for doing it's job badly and publishing materially false statements as fact. Does that mean they'll also be apologising for The 1619 Project?
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
And if we didn't get upset about everyday human rights violations, China wouldn't currently be herding people into concentration camps. Wait...
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I speak five European languages including German. What you say is the opposite of the truth - English has far more Latin influence than German. By one estimate around a third of English words are derived from Latin (via Norman French, tha
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Fuck, I need to proof-read my posts better. I got it the wrong way round - the European countries not listed are the ones that speak Latin languages.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I think the residents of Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and the entirety of central and eastern Europe (except Romania) would be surprised to hear that they don't speak a Latin language.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
That too. And it illustrates another reason why extreme inequality is bad: even if you're a total psychopath with no concern for anyone except yourself, it's not in your interest to live in a society with extreme inequality - un
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
> If you look out the window of your car (or house) and see homeless people (or mobs) - that isn't inequality. I don't understand your reasoning. If some people are homeless while others have houses, how is that not inequality?
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
In some nations there absolutely is.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Does "remote" include outside the US?
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I don't find it hard to believe that Google does things like this, but can you be more specific? What experiment can I run myself to verify that this happens?
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I'm struggling to picture what a "non-flat 3-edged" knife (bayonet?) looks like. Do you have a link to a picture?
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Where do you get free food?

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