throw2016

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by throw2016 7y ago
If youtube was a Russian owned site hosting videos on US protests the US government would accuse it of 'sowing discord' and shut it down without controversy. Now suppose Russia already has a history of meddling in US internal affa
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by throw2016 7y ago
LXC is daemonless, there is no process hanging around after the container start, so it starts the container and uses any privileges required to setup things like networking, mounts etc and then drops privileges. LXC had unprivileged contain
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by throw2016 7y ago
This comes across as click bait. This is not the opinion of an actual warehouse worker but someone with an agenda who has taken the job specifically for that purpose which only becomes clear once you click through to read the article. What
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by throw2016 7y ago
This 'resistance to change' catchall argument puts everything beyond criticism, and it can be used/abused in every case of criticism. It seeks to reframe 'change' from a neutral word - change can be good or bad - t
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by throw2016 7y ago
At the moment things like youtube, twitter have become culture and 'technical solutions' to both unrestrained greed, surveillance and this rich fabric of human communication seem to miss the big picture of their cultural value. Th
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by throw2016 7y ago
Privacy in an individual context is irrelevant and only leads to folks glibly claiming they don't care about their privacy. Its like saying I personally doesn't care about the environment. That context and framing is wrong and mis
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by throw2016 7y ago
Running Ubuntu 16.04 on a Zenbook UX360 with a 4K screen and frankly its working much better than expected. The 4K display is automatically scaled, all the brightness and function buttons work, no issues with display drivers, wifi, bluetoot
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by throw2016 7y ago
A lot of assertions here about waste management and relative harmlessness of landfills. Do you have experience or exposure to the recycling, waste management and landfill industry that you can share? Have you spoken to any landfill managers
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by throw2016 7y ago
Whenever it comes to issues of environmental concern there is always an 'authoritative' comment hand waving away objections and pretending to be on the side of 'science' but offering no scientific evidence, rationale or
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by throw2016 7y ago
If this doesn't affect Boeing's share price what will? This raises even more questions about the stock markets accurately reflecting business sustainability, revenue pipelines and brand damage given 737 Max orders are now essentia
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by throw2016 7y ago
This is another instance of market failure with the mantra of 'freedom', self regulation and 'good intentions' spectacularly coming undone. Boeing's CEO is incredibly still in office inspite of damning evidence of
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by throw2016 7y ago
Do bad actors get to hold good actors to the good actors principles? This seems unsustainable and a recipe for disaster, ie tolerating the intolerant whose objective is to gain power and stamp down on dissent and impose their own values. Si
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by throw2016 7y ago
This puts to rest all illusions and fantasies of 'free markets', competition, choice and free trade. Markets are political constructs and there is nothing inherently free or fair about them. There is clearly one set of rules in op
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by throw2016 7y ago
It's simple minded to think there are not victims and oppressors in the real world. Those who are actually concerned with the plight of disposable labour will have little issue with the press having the same concerns.
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by throw2016 7y ago
This is a bit curious. The large number of contractors can be seen as the victims here. They don't have power or privilege as other employees and yet those who see nothing wrong with it are not arguing their point but claiming persecut
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by throw2016 7y ago
If anyone is convinced what they are doing is good for end users they would let them make the choice. But expending time and energy to design and code deceptive dialogs with misinformation and avoid transparency betrays the opposite. You do
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by throw2016 7y ago
There is a replication crisis [1] in the social sciences and most studies are not being replicated. [2] Here is a study that is not able to replicate the most referenced study on subsaharan and Africa iq [3]. The tests were done on uneducat
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by throw2016 7y ago
This is dystopia, but this is not just any dystopia, this is dystopia with 'justification', this dystopia is 'legal' and for many that word somehow makes everything ok, but for the rest of us trivializes everthing of val
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by throw2016 7y ago
This is muddying the waters. Surely if you have gone through the trouble of looking at the repo and finding these pull requests you would also know the context and should then share it to give others here a context. Without that you are jus
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by throw2016 7y ago
This is undoubtedly shady behavior. dstat is a widely regarded and mature tool. Looking at its repo for 'activity' without context - maybe nothing needs to be changed and its working as designed - is completely disingenious. Why s
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by throw2016 7y ago
There were actually many commentators on HN at one time claiming the US doesn't want Assange and the whole thing is made up by 'paranoid Assange supporters'. We now know that not only did they want him, they want all his stuf
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by throw2016 7y ago
Empathy is the first step to action. if you were born 100 years ago this would be a fact of life, child labour, poverty, racism and homelessness was rampant. And economic downturns like the great depression brought these right back. How do
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by throw2016 7y ago
Its easy to label those who advocate for more empathy as 'leafy liberals' or hypocrites. But this this just a ruse to justify the lack of empathy for those who make this argument. The immediate shift of the focus from those who ar
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by throw2016 7y ago
There is a homeless epidemic. Anyone who lives in the US can see it. But these issues are being closely tracked and discussed widely in political problem solving contexts, and HN is more of an observer reacting to the most extreme examples
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by throw2016 7y ago
Rule of law, democracy, free speech and dissent are at odds with secret courts, secret processes and secret orders. A democracy is about transparency and accountability which cannot happen in secret. A democracy loses meaning with these kin
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by throw2016 7y ago
Science is the search for truth, not the truth. At one time 'science' was justifying eugenics, slavery, apartheid, racism and entire policies were rolled out on the basis of discredited pseudo science of brain size. You can imagin
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by throw2016 7y ago
Because per capita consumption of plastic is 5 times higher [1] in the west compared to to other regions and this waste is then exported to poor countries. [1] https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution
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by throw2016 7y ago
Who is a 'lay person'? Since few here are scientists who have done studies on pesticides and roundup everyone on this board is a lay person and thus hardly in a position to make any informed comment on rule of law or this case. Yo
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by throw2016 7y ago
This is poisoning discourse. Accusing Malamud of 'terrorism' is a kind of terrorism, using the power of the state and law to demonize dissenters by using emotionally charged hyperbolic language. But delving into the details the fa
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by throw2016 7y ago
Those who depend on anonymity and security in any serious way should think carefully about using technology. Two whistle blowers in a row have been compromised in the last few months and are now in prison in their communication with theinte

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