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by hacknat 7y ago
Makes sense, cows are bad for the environment, no matter how far away they live from you.
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by hacknat 7y ago
Isn’t robo calling about to be illegal?
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by hacknat 7y ago
It’s important to remember that the stock market != the economy. You know who would be the first to say that? Warren Buffet. Warren Buffet is actually a big believer in not making macro economic predictions. It just so happens that if you
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by hacknat 7y ago
They are clearly both, just as newspapers were before them (heck they had classifieds and personals while I was alive, that's a platform). The editorial section of a newspaper is a platform, but a highly curated one, because of resourc
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by hacknat 7y ago
No they don't. A huge section of the population is not on Twitter and gets their news from old media.
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by hacknat 7y ago
No idea why you're getting down voted. This is a cogent, valid point.
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by hacknat 7y ago
Yes, but why isn't Twitter allowed to curate political content? They have a 1st amendment right to do so. Just like every newspaper before them got the right to curate who got published in their editorial section.
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by hacknat 7y ago
I don't buy those numbers for a second, and I certainly don't buy that everyone on Twitter is following political discourse. I have a Twitter account, but I only follow a very narrow slice of systems programming news.
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by hacknat 7y ago
Funny. Yeah, they're not. Political ideology is not a protected class in US law.
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by hacknat 7y ago
I’m confused. What technology did twitter replace? Oh it didn’t? This is completely new, the ability to communicate to this many people at once? Okay so what ancient rights are being trampled exactly? If anything we probably need to be cens
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by hacknat 7y ago
This was very unsettling to read.
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by hacknat 7y ago
You can adjust pid scores in userspace or turn it off, there's literally nothing else you can do.
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by hacknat 7y ago
One problem with Linux in low memory situations is that the OOM killer is a really blunt force instrument. It would be nice if it were a lot more configurable. Simple OOM scores don't cut it, IMO.
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by hacknat 7y ago
The information that LinkedIn has about me isn't something I care to keep private, i.e. my accomplishments. I don't share any personal information on LinkedIn, and LinkedIn doesn't really ask for any, other than maybe email a
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by hacknat 7y ago
I would say that banking in the US is good from a financial products perspective (we have lower banking fees than the Commonwealth), however our consumer financial products lag (i.e. credit cards, checks, online banking, etc).
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by hacknat 7y ago
I think market retribution would take care of their decision pretty handily. I also think the same is true for Republicans. Twitter could never survive the market retaliation if they banned the Republican Party, but they have every legal ri
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by hacknat 7y ago
What does free speech have to do with this? Cloudflare and other companies have 1st amendment rights as well. One of them is that they can serve customers as they like, as long as they are not violating the rights of a protected class. Poli
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by hacknat 7y ago
Pretty ignorant thing to say. People are more complicated than that, even people who’s main goal is conquest and subjugation.
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by hacknat 7y ago
I definitely wasn’t making the argument that anyone was arguing for slavery, just that notional definitions of moral progress are much more complicated than simple economic metrics. There is so much more that goes into what is “right” and “
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by hacknat 7y ago
I like this list. I’ll add advertising and porn to it for myself. Porn because of the social stigma (I actually think porn has provided some value to society), and advertising because on scales worth automating it is mostly lying.
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by hacknat 7y ago
Well I can definitely tear down this definition. “Advancement” doesn’t mean anything. What does it mean to advance culturally or organizationally without already having morality defined? Also raising standards of living? Is that all we’re a
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by hacknat 7y ago
You can always set your defaults for your editor.
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by hacknat 7y ago
> I don't really understand why it's surprising I don't think anyone is that surprised, but that doesn't mean that it's right. > I would try my hardest to change the direction from the inside out or I would le
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by hacknat 7y ago
Yeah, these got popular with GitHub on bigger projects. It’s like lawyers for these organizations aren’t sufficiently well versed enough in the laws around open source to realize they’re already protected, so they apply contracts law, which
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by hacknat 7y ago
Themselves.
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by hacknat 7y ago
This article is basically a complaint masquerading as advice. > There once was a company with 34 employees and 34 different titles Don’t be coy with us ;) We know who you’re talking about. Presuming that all tech hiring is broken, and th
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by hacknat 7y ago
I like the idea of throwing better. The whole point is reducing boiler plate so that a conditional return can be made. Something like this: f, err := os.Open(filename) throw err This allows alternate signatures easily. I also
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by hacknat 7y ago
Why is that deep state-y? He doesn’t even make a secret about it. He has literally said he wants regime change in Iran no matter what.
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by hacknat 7y ago
Publicizing a low level attack on a weapons system is a ham fisted attempt at ratcheting, and it will probably work. I think it’s fairly likely we end up in a war with Iran, since Bolton has pretty much said that’s what he wants.
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by hacknat 7y ago
You publicize your attacks when you’re trying to start a war. Why is there a huge US troop build up in the Middle East right now? Make no mistake, John Bolton wants a war with Iran, he has said so in the past. This is exactly what happened

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