samoa42

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by samoa42 4y ago
hardware manufactureres might even be found to owe compensation for the unreasonable externalities (cracking) forced upon the customers.
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by samoa42 4y ago
virgins do still have their virginity to loose, don't they?
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by samoa42 4y ago
from another perspective; you get paid to not pollute the planet and do nothing instead. first world problems ...
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by samoa42 4y ago
as i tried to explain: it does not
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by samoa42 4y ago
wouldn't call it genocide because it is not a selective measure. but yea, "preventing births" does qualify
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by samoa42 4y ago
glory hole et.al.
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by samoa42 4y ago
> societal downsides become more and more apparent not sure, but in the greater picture of overpopulation, porn seems to be a cheap and effective measure compared to medical/physical alternatives.
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by samoa42 4y ago
i mean yes, it's suboptimal. but hardly news that for the real deal, you gotta leave the main road.
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by samoa42 4y ago
right, russians went from cyber-shady to cyber-pure-evil and now everyone has to cut ties...
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by samoa42 5y ago
also safe to say that a vast majority of ppl on the planet can't afford for-profit cancer treatment
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by samoa42 5y ago
i mean, why waste effort on curing ppl that contribute to global overpopulation.
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by samoa42 5y ago
> Contrast that to Facebook or Twitter, where only positive signals exist i've never seen a downvote button on HN. Is my browser to old or not supported?
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by samoa42 5y ago
that sounds a bit like you'd prefer a certificate guaranteing that you will never die over one that pays when you do.
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by samoa42 6y ago
> It's been two and a half decades since people started using the web as more than just a delivery mechanism for text and images. I still do (mostly)
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by samoa42 6y ago
i just seem to miss why its favorable to curtail millions (incl. children) of their lives and stomp the economy for the benefit of thousands. shouldn't we have banned alcohol, tabacco, ice-cars, firearms, gambling ... first if this was
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by samoa42 6y ago
agreed i sound a bit pessimistic here, but companies regularly show that the only thing that matters is the bottom line, so i stand by the assertation that breaking the law/eula is not really a question of ethics. second point; you and
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by samoa42 6y ago
i think he was saying that there is nothing preventing fb from having the wa-client piggyback the content of the messages back to them and call "oops" if found out. also the issue of device-backups containing the unecrypted messag
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by samoa42 6y ago
whole hearted agree. additional reminder that fb-messenger, whatsapp, imessage and probably a lot others started out as xmpp forks/dialects and even this was not enough to save us from the corporates.
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by samoa42 6y ago
> Clearly you are in the tiny minority, because almost every car manufacturer is adding basic AP like functionality even in base versions of cars the average car in germany is 12 years old. from this perspective new-ish cars are a minori
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by samoa42 6y ago
was going to say this. amazing what can be forgotten and reinvented in an industry moving in circles.
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by samoa42 6y ago
sometime it feels that way, but another way of putting it is investment in something that succeeds you and your partner. how is that not "my stuff or my partners stuff"?
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by samoa42 6y ago
fully agree. have my apologies everyone
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by samoa42 6y ago
i'd say everyone that exists/-ed is a winner in the procreation "game" (life).
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by samoa42 6y ago
while the argument about time/kid holds some truth, an opposing truth is that single kids often lack a sense of humility in regards to attention by others and a lack of sociability because they never really needed it.
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by samoa42 6y ago
as a parent i can tell you that _NOONE_ is prepared before having children and that there will be times when your consideration and love leave you alone and you gonna fuck up. but dont read this too negative, kids are the best there is! and
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by samoa42 6y ago
> 1 minute may be a technical pppoe cleanup/reconnect timeout. i'd second this guess because its a common setup. OP could check the external ip before/after the reconnection and verify this way if it changed. would also be
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by samoa42 6y ago
> That has turned out to be a really terrible rule. maybe in the ivory tower of web shit, but it is essential for internet/society. like you said > in cases where the other end is not negotiable. aiming for robustness is key if
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by samoa42 6y ago
> SMS between Android phones are rock solid not just android, they work with every mobile handset even with the poorest reception or (even lack of) data-plan. i use ~200 sms per year, pretty constant since i got my first mobilephone. kin
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by samoa42 6y ago
not op and aware this may not be representive, but i share the preference for telegram as a just-works, "fun" and high-penetration messenger with whatsapp as a first and sms as second compatability fallback. this beeing in germany
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by samoa42 6y ago
until chrome starts doing in-app doh by default and everyone else will be be drowned in captchas :-D

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