oniMaker

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by oniMaker 10y ago
The point is that it would seem ridiculous to start from nothing and jump to such a counter-intuitive theory.
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by oniMaker 10y ago
Occam's razor would immediately discard quantum theory. Does that make it false?
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by oniMaker 10y ago
https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
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by oniMaker 10y ago
Profit and population control, mainly.
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by oniMaker 10y ago
Another petty fiefdom where dissenting opinion is quashed.
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by oniMaker 10y ago
Unfortunately your common sense is in the minority of opinion here. HN is plagued by overeager engineers who endlessly discuss the how without addressing the much more important why . Why bother having a pet at all if you're not goi
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by oniMaker 10y ago
Can you expound on that?
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by oniMaker 10y ago
It's not surprising that the "educated" skew blue. The institutions in this country preach ideology in addition to teaching practical skills. We all know which direction the majority ideology follows... http://www.
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by oniMaker 10y ago
Is there evidence of the interview actually taking place? Why was his own lawyer not allowed to attend? If he's alive, then someone has certainly mentioned to him that the Internet is going crazy about this. Why doesn't he simply
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by oniMaker 10y ago
Unfortunately, yes. Most people do not understand the importance of protecting even the speech they disagree with.
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by oniMaker 10y ago
That's what I'm saying. They have rights to their platform, and we have the right to use it or not. That's why I linked to an alternative.
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by oniMaker 10y ago
Exactly. They get to choose what's on their platform, and we get to choose whether to use it.
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by oniMaker 10y ago
People who believe in freedom of speech.
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by oniMaker 10y ago
Not to my knowledge. The platform is very young though. You could propose this idea to the founder.
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by oniMaker 10y ago
Not to mention the fact that Twitter will censor views that it does not agree with. Don't support companies that engage in censorship. There's already an alternative available, and it's growing: https://gab.ai It
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by oniMaker 10y ago
As mentioned in this thread, the temptation to ask "what if?" is huge, and we all have built-in cognitive strategies for dealing with it. If this ability didn't exist, coping with non-fatal mistakes could easily overwhelm us
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by oniMaker 11y ago
We need all of them. Keep going until you reach the end.
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by oniMaker 11y ago
You can defeat their ad-blocker blocker by disabling javascript. In Chrome, go to DevTools (CMD+Option+I). Press F1 for settings then check "Disable JavaScript" and reload the page. There are similar ways to do it in other browser
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by oniMaker 11y ago
I'd just like to note that this article has given us a fine new phrase to put on the shelf of useful business culture metaphors, right next to bike-shedding and dog-fooding. Bear-feeding!
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by oniMaker 11y ago
The code written to control the LIGO detectors was all python.
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by oniMaker 11y ago
All non-Facebook jobs would allow you to say the same thing. If you truly find it morally reprehensible, please let me encourage you to pay attention to your inner compass. There are many, many other places for a software engineer to work.
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by oniMaker 11y ago
This is the most alarming and interesting point for me: "Facebook will market you your future before you’ve even gotten there, they’ll use predictive algorithms to figure out what’s your likely future and then try to make that even mor
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by oniMaker 11y ago
"Mere" is a bit much. You're not an immortal superhero. To answer your question: a non-technologist pays someone like you to fix it. Much like the way most people bring their cars to mechanics instead of spending hundreds of
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by oniMaker 11y ago
None of those technologies are bulletproof. Tor can be (and at least partially has been) compromised.
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by oniMaker 11y ago
Where would you house the wireless endpoints? How would you obscure their source? These aren't magical devices. They're still real-world physical objects.
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by oniMaker 11y ago
The message is probably one we can all get behind in principle. However, the internet has a real, physical infrastructure that is definitely owned and operated by behemoth organizations like governments and private corporations. In fact, th
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by oniMaker 11y ago
What does that have to do with my short analysis of Amazon's tactics? It's rude to call someone heartless without basis in fact.
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by oniMaker 11y ago
Many articles have been written by many outlets over the past decade on exactly that topic. Here's one by The Post, for example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/wal-...
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by oniMaker 11y ago
Remember this is being published by Bezos. It's a great tactic to frame the closing of these stores as afflicting the poor and downtrodden. Woe to the wretches wrought by way of Walmart. But wait! Perhaps there is a way they can be sav
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by oniMaker 11y ago
You could buy and hold until a stock went to zero, for example. Edit: Whoever is downvoting obviously has never seen this happen. There was just an article about it on HN the other day, describing how Dragon lost it all when the company the

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