throwastone

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by throwastone 10y ago
Respectfully disagree. We are what we strive to be. Hacker News was, once upon a time, almost purely respectful even in the face of stark criticism or blatant dismissals. That, sadly, has changed.
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by throwastone 10y ago
Happiness arises from either self-sacrifice for humanity, or through social connections (typically family). Rarely does one have the good fortune to find happiness through both means, as both of these typically require life devotion to ach
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by throwastone 11y ago
Seconded, HPD in my experience have been extraordinarily professional and helpful. 10 year resident of O`ahu.
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by throwastone 11y ago
Nice outrigger paddling reference
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by throwastone 11y ago
Just leaving out a . at the end of a sentence can make quite a difference.
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by throwastone 11y ago
452aeed4794ff312e6963a043b17676f
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by throwastone 11y ago
Massive group video chat => WebRTC, phoenix/elixir :)
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by throwastone 11y ago
As someone that used to post to HN under an old handle many years ago, and as someone who has been lurking for even longer than that, I must humbly say that the attitude of the community here has degraded significantly.
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by throwastone 11y ago
The author goes on to describe DNS spoofing in the following paragraph. Perhaps this was used for the live.com attack. He even says, "Within 20 minutes he’s obtained the login details, including passwords for my Live.com, SNS Bank, F
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by throwastone 11y ago
Checking slashdot, they appear to have filters in their comments for things like 'insightful' and 'imformative'. Thinking more along the lines of being able to rate things like the veracity and tact of the response, wit
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by throwastone 11y ago
Ooo, this inspires a good idea: a multi-dimensional voting based forum. You can up and downvote based on things like veracity, tact, agree/disagree with position, etc.
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by throwastone 11y ago
Looks like algos picked up on log scale trendline break (Oct 25th-27th or so) from long term consolidation, thus the acceleration in the past 30 days. Buyers pile in. Price goes up.