horseLOGIC

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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
My studies show that you must have a community of adult children who throw a tantrum when they encounter something they don't like, combined with a group of exhausted parent moderators who let them have their way, against better judgem
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
I'm glad to hear that the system indeed at least works equally badly for "both sides". It wasn't clear to me at all. I refuse your attempt at categorizing me. This isn't a battle. I don't want any "pro-SJW
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
Again, the moderation does not deny being involved. I will concede though, I technically can't tell . However, if "a few flags" really can push an article from the front page down to page 10 within the course of five minutes
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
It wasn't the user flagging that caused this, it happened from one moment to another: http://hnrankings.info/17399895/ The moderators do not deny being responsible for it.
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
Fair enough, I don't understand the technical details. The posts were hidden from the frontpage, by moderators, through whatever mechanism. Why? Not as technical question, but why was decision made to hide it? What's the argument
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
You have entirely sidestepped the question: Why did you flag the original post? It "got attention", but so do a lot of front page articles and they don't get flagged. > What arguments does moderation have to moderate HN?
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
Wait, so it got the "mild penalty" (which resulted in its immediate disappearance from the frontpage) because it was a follow-up ? The post to which it was a follow-up also got flagged. Why? Because "users" flagged th
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
To be fair, in many rural places you don't want to fall out of the norm on any spectrum and there's no opportunity for practically anything. That's why you move out .
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
Yes it has.
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
There's actually not that many opportunities for internships on C/C++ compilers. I mean, maybe the GCC people will take you, but... yeah.
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
I'm disappointed with their race-based criteria, in my perception Arabs/Middle-Easterners ("looks like a Muslim") rank far higher on the oppression scale than Hispanics.
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
> But how common is it actually to pretend to be a gender you are not for something like this? Who says it's a problem? It's not up to anyone else to judge my motivation for changing my gender. If I want to change my gender for
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
Just put your preferred pronoun on your twitter page, and as long as it's not male and the gender you were assigned at birth, you should be good to go. As soon as that internship is over, you can just change back. That's what ge
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
I was making a general point, but even then you shouldn't need to have a "verifiable track record" just to say something mildly controversial without getting fired.
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
That some person calls for the firing isn't the problem, but it's the faculties following through with it. It's the infantilized "student customer" along with a long-standing infiltration of sectors of Academia with
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
Kids don't always do what they're told, but they're inclined to believe what they're told. Acting out on a false belief nevertheless can be done willingly. Similarly, the parent telling their child to do such a thing a
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
That's... simply untrue. First of all, people kill themselves for all kinds of reasons, all the time. Secondly, people are willing to sacrifice their lives for a perceived greater good. Martyrs are revered in many cultures around the w
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
It can easily be "worth it" if by sacrificing half a million children you get to save half a million and one child . Despite what you might want to believe, Mrs. Albright is neither stupid nor evil. It's also really an unf
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
I'm not sure I get your point. When I research human sacrifice, I must tacitly condemn it, because that's the civilized thing to do? Human sacrifice is really just obsolete technology. It just doesn't really work, as the Az
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
You presumably quote that as if there was a contradiction there, but there isn't. We have fairly recent cases of children willingly blowing themselves up in Syria. All it really takes is the promise of a glorious afterlife, possibly
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
Do you, really ? When do you ever search for just "string"? You're going to add some context, like "split string C++". Now maybe you'll say Google should know you're programming in C++ all the time, so ha
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
The headline is of course wrong, they didn't remove it fully, they removed it from one paragraph. More interestingly, they removed another sentence from that paragraph: "[...] providing our users unbiased access to information.&qu
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
I fully it expect it to allow it, but you can't just pick one line out of the whole text and be done. For instance, what's the definition of processing? How does it cross-reference with the whole body of other EU regulations? Etc.
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
> Did you actually look into the GDPR before jumping to these conclusions about the effects on your business? The fact that I have to look into the GDPR already proves my conclusion to be true. I fully expect there to be few if any i
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
It's not inconvenient, it's costing me money . I don't want your data, I need to collect it and store it to comply with other laws, now I need to verify that the particular way I collect and store that data isn't
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
I don't actually use Facebook, but I'm under the impression that you can post to just the people who are your friends or just a set of friends. There's certainly the possibility to at least not broadcast to the whole internet
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
I'm unhappy with this because now I have to do a lot of extra work verifying that I'm not breaking some law, then implement changes in both code and license agreements, then get all the users to agree. I've had zero profit
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
I chuckled at that sentence as well. It's not that the tech sector is rational, it's that a lot of the people working in it are desperate to maintain a self-image of being a rational, scientific-minded person. Then, if some evid
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
I can see why people are desperate to "prove" that the supposed election meddling or the Cambridge Analytica scandal is causing Facebook to fail, but the data just doesn't show that at all. People make a big deal about privac
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by horseLOGIC 8y ago
It is a questioning of the merit of debate versus just plain virtue signaling. The last sentence summarizes it pretty well: "The idea of “debate” imposes an adversarial framework on online interactions, as well as privileging logic as

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