sammaeliam

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by sammaeliam 6y ago
Yeah, actually, I would. Since HN doesn't provide a "delete account" feature, why don't you do everybody a favor and just ban this account?
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by sammaeliam 6y ago
I've been a moderate in 1995. At no point did I buy into ideology that we currently associate with the alt-reich.
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by sammaeliam 6y ago
You call it self-censorship. I call it opsec. In case you haven't noticed, we don't live in a "liberal democracy". We live in a police state, where anything you say or write can be held against you, and you're lucky
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Social Cooling(socialcooling.com)
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by sammaeliam 6y ago
If this is really the problem conservatives claim it is, there's a simple solution: Get a backbone and delete your social media accounts. Most platforms (unlike HN) provide account deletion functions (though some keep them well-hidden)
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by sammaeliam 6y ago
If you get kicked off social media, the mods are doing you a favor.
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by sammaeliam 6y ago
Wasn't David Brin the author who wrote about Switzerlad getting nuked in Earth because they helped rich pigs avoid taxes? #HelvetiaDelendaEst
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by sammaeliam 6y ago
When somebody asks you about passion, they're asking you if you're willing to work unpaid overtime. Case closed.
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by sammaeliam 6y ago
You'll have to pry my Slackware desktop from my cold dead hands.
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by sammaeliam 6y ago
Who do rich people expect everybody else to buy their products if they're broke after paying down student loans, paying rent, and paying all the other bills? Henry Ford figured this out a century ago. What's your excuse?
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by sammaeliam 6y ago
You still haven't learned to spell "loser", and you have yet to learn patience. You've still got a long way to go.
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by sammaeliam 7y ago
Good. Let's kill off browser fingerprinting and third-pary JavaScript, too. Adtech delenda est.
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by sammaeliam 7y ago
Sure, YAML sucks. But so do XML (remember that?) and JSON. CSV sucks, too. I think the real question is which format sucks less.
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by sammaeliam 7y ago
Considering all of the malfeasance we've seen on the part of companies providing data-hungry web apps, I'm going to pass on using Slack for anything I'm not required to do in order to keep getting a paycheck. My professional
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by sammaeliam 7y ago
I read it, and I lurked in the thread in question. It looks more like HN called you out on your bullshit. Why do you even need a SPA for a blog? Who are you trying to impress?