hardnose

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by hardnose 4y ago
"...as long as you agree with us about everything"
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by hardnose 4y ago
Let me make a counter argument - the signal to noise ratio was always awful. Look at UseNet, at Eternal September. What changed wasn't the signal to noise ratio, but rather how the internet judged reputation of speakers. We went from f
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by hardnose 4y ago
Seems like a recipe for elitism. The groups of interesting people would be virtually impossible to get into, and the pleb groups would be boring. One of the things that worked about internet discussions of the past is that they prioritized
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by hardnose 4y ago
>we'll have to ask ourselves if giving that much power to the individual a safe endeavor What's the alternative? Every collective effort is a series of individual efforts.
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by hardnose 4y ago
Do you have any source information for this? As far as I understood, the Wright brothers started out by building hobbyist gliders in consultation with fellow aviation pioneer Octave Chanute. I checked the Wikipedia entry, but the only refer
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by hardnose 4y ago
Isn't that a bit like saying that every innovation depends upon milk? I guess, technically, every innovation does begin with a baby drinking milk, but it seems like a stretch to attribute the innovation to the milk, rather than to the
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by hardnose 4y ago
Every breakthrough starts from government funded initiatives? Wilbur and Orville Wright disagree.
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by hardnose 4y ago
Wow, Musk's getting coverage on HN. Let's check it out... ...oh. OK. Hmmm. Starting to get a little worried about the neutrality of coverage. It's never good when technical issues and technical projects get polluted with poli
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by hardnose 4y ago
If I was served malware by Facebook, I could definitely contact Facebook for assistance, and even sue them if necessary. And the point about "URLs I dont know" is exactly my point - the move towards hosting content on websites of
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by hardnose 4y ago
How safe is bladerunner.social? Do we know who runs it, what their privacy policy is, where the data is housed, etc.? If I clicked that link, and bladerunner.social served me malware, where is the "throat to choke"?
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by hardnose 4y ago
I don't want to be a Stanford art major who describes people they meet in passive-aggressive terms like, "clear skin and dead, vacant eyes".
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by hardnose 4y ago
One of my first real entries into "the industry" was as a beta tester for WC2:ToD on Mac OS. Warms my heart to see its included here. Shout out to all my Burning Blade bros from the ladder days!
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by hardnose 4y ago
It's considered shhhware
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by hardnose 4y ago
Nerfing the world will only nerf it for the powerless. The power elites will always have full power devices, flying cars, all of that. There is no alternative to freedom.
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by hardnose 4y ago
A combination of beeswax and microcrystalline wax (made from petrolatum) works the best, but beeswax alone will provide fine water repellency, just slightly less durability and ease of application.
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by hardnose 4y ago
"This is a noble pursuit—I wish we would civilize the women in my home country on the subcontinent." OwO
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by hardnose 4y ago
The missile knows where it is... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ
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by hardnose 4y ago
If this is the case, would we expect to see lingering side effects in adults who were afflicted by gut issues like Crohns disease in their youths?
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by hardnose 4y ago
>Why would you introduce your children to anything associated with Elon Musk? He makes good stuff, and doesn't frequently go on weird aimless rants motivated by clearly disguised personal animosity. So there's that.
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by hardnose 4y ago
The goal here of flagging Tesla up front seems entirely obvious, and to be expected of vindictive modern media in a panic over the loss of their monopolistic control over media discourse.
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by hardnose 4y ago
One glance at the edit history on the Project Vertias entry will prove the lie of this theory...
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by hardnose 4y ago
So, no thoughts on how Musk's attitude seems remarkably consistent with the speech and actions of the internet's founding minds, I take it?
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by hardnose 4y ago
I don't know how much you remember about the transition from BBSes to the internet, but the heavy handed moderation of FidoNet is one of the exact reasons we all flooded into UseNet when it started to become available, and most likely
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by hardnose 4y ago
> government, FANG, it's all the same If you believe that, then you also support efforts to force big tech to respect freedom of political speech, yes?
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by hardnose 4y ago
Credit scores are not determined by the government. If a credit ratings agency took that step, it would harm them because Twitter posts are unlikely to represent a meaningful variable when predicting someone's creditworthiness. Don&#x2
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by hardnose 4y ago
Developing a technology that can do that doesn't infringe on anyone's liberties. Failing to develop that technology, leaving it to China or some other authoritarian state to do, would be more likely to harm liberties, wouldn'
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by hardnose 4y ago
I feel like this response deliberately avoids the point I was making, in favor of kicking up confusion. He grew up on the internet. At a time when everyone was turning their internet web pages black to protest censorship. At a time when &qu
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by hardnose 4y ago
>Not just sanitizing, but sanitizing to US social mores. Not to US social mores, to some weird averaged out amalgamation of Western social mores. In the US, firearms are very normal and a regular part of life, but try doing a YouTube str
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by hardnose 4y ago
>I was pretty firmly of the theory that his real motive re Twitter was basically narcissism, and I'm still not sure that's wrong. Why is it so hard to believe that Musk genuinely believes in exactly the version of "freedom
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by hardnose 4y ago
>The implication is that Google is gathering personal data to then then sell it to third parties. No, the implication is that Google collects as much of your personal data as possible, stores it forever, and monetizes it. You can tell be

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