maccolgan

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by maccolgan 3y ago
We are taking the nodejs solution too far.
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by maccolgan 3y ago
>Society has started to see sexual freedom and expression as grotesque When has it been not grotesque? It's just that “American” “norms” are actually starting to “progress” to the mean.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
No state is representative of the whole US population. Don't think the US is a united whole.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
What's stopping people from changing it?
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by maccolgan 4y ago
Almost all the world doesn't care about any of that when it comes to external behaviour.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
There's incredible amount of misplaced belief on HN that every HN reader considers the US government friendly.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
Balkanizing the internet sounds great, honestly.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
I think the CLOUD Acts essentially make them proxies of the state.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
“American” is a granfalloon.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
I really hope this doesn't become the standard for new Linux desktop users.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
It's not possible to regulate porn and sexual content because of Rights™. Things like moderation can't be enshrined in a constitution.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
RIP
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by maccolgan 4y ago
“Be truthful to your partner” is not the inverse of “Do not commit adultery”.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
You are making the assumption that deliberately causing an undersupply of road space so that people are forced to use public transit is a net virtue, while in reality it's just acting against the market.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
US is not the place to be if you want to tell others how to live their lives…
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by maccolgan 4y ago
How did you even think there was one America?
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by maccolgan 4y ago
We are talking about a mother, courts frequently force parents to act in the best interests of their children even if it's against the interests of the parents. A mother's child is not an alien unrelated in any way to the mother.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
Funnily enough only Israel has made that culture shift, but I don't think people like Haredis very much.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
Funnily enough Meghalaya Rural and Bihar is keeping us still afloat.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
Google Fonts does serve a different font based on the user agent. Depending on things like hinting and stuff. Bunny fonts would help solve that problem.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
I hope that legislators are actually technically illiterate. If they were, they'd know what kind of stuff gets posted on any underground porn torrent tracker and probably geo-fence the whole internet.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
Sounds like the competence of an average senior manager.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
I don't think Google has standing to prosecute sexual abuse. Isn't that the DA's job?
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by maccolgan 4y ago
Except the drugs I suppose.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
What makes you think everyone has agreed to them?
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by maccolgan 4y ago
>handful of companies (like Boing and Airbus) Why yes everyone should consolidate global production of _nuclear power plants_ to a handful of companies probably based in the Western world.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
I still use a custom self-designed startpage. Too bad FF killed support for them and the addon is miserable.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
Banning sites based on politics is just as bad, don't be fooled.
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by maccolgan 4y ago
>tyrannical government in the future. This seems nuts to almost everyone else in a first world country You don't live in a tyrannical government?
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by maccolgan 4y ago
>directly kill other people's children by either voting Oh really?

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