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by useragent86 5y ago
> Apparently Mark Twain never said it. The advice has been written and uttered in various forms for millennia. > If the quote stated "If you are ignorant on a topic it's better not to discuss it" that would be advise. (
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by useragent86 5y ago
Friendly, pedantic, hopefully helpful reminder: > - ideally, the backup process on the home server side should not be more difficult than a cron job running "rsync -avz --delete /mnt/raid user@server:/mnt/storage
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by useragent86 5y ago
> IMHO, space is big + satellites are hard to track, if they're highly-maneuverable or designed to be stealthy = possibility of launching untracked microsatellites that couple with space assets and wait for activation From what I&#x
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by useragent86 5y ago
> There is a very distinct strain of American thought that says freedom means the biggest or richest get whatever they want. Where did you get this idea? How do you reconcile it with the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, an
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by useragent86 5y ago
I like serif fonts, but on page 31 of that document, "List of Design Recommendations," it says: "Sans-serif fonts are usually more legible than fonts with serifs."
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by useragent86 5y ago
Of course, you're right. At the same time, we may ask why American society seems to be more ideologically polarized now than at various times in recent decades. If the root cause is natural human failing, what is the second-level caus
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by useragent86 5y ago
Here's what should be an obvious one: any time I see communism criticized, the comment gets downvoted, and often flagged. Even comments written by people who lived in communist states, offering first-hand accounts, without breaking an
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by useragent86 5y ago
Thomas Ptacek and Don Hopkins are two examples of very high-profile users who routinely post guidelines-breaking comments without being downvoted, flagged, or chastised by mods. Even if you were to concede that, you'd probably counter
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by useragent86 5y ago
> It's awfully hard not to see this as the commenter just taking this as a stalking horse to bring up an opinion they already held. Isn't this what happens on every HN thread, people expressing opinions relevant to the topic?
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by useragent86 5y ago
No, your premise is flawed. You jump to the conclusion that he made that claim based on a single data point. Just because he illustrated his point with one example does not mean his point is based on one example. In any case, this is not
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by useragent86 5y ago
> This opinion has been bought and paid for by fossil fuel companies who paid PR companies to smear these guys. The science stands up very well, but you've bought in and it doesn't matter if 10 or 10,000 studies confirm their f
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by useragent86 5y ago
> What are you talking about? Where did I make an end of the world prediction? It is you who brought that up. Of course nothing is going to end. Nice strawman. What do you think I refer to by "end of the world"? Don't you
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by useragent86 5y ago
Mind-boggling, Dan. What did he say that even remotely comes close to "ideological flamewar hell"? Is "leftists" the keyword? Is criticism of "today's leftists" forbidden here? Meanwhile this thread[0]
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by useragent86 5y ago
I feel like we're not communicating very precisely. > they don't prevent infection or transmission. The vaccines cause you to have less symptoms. By being less symptomatic you're less likely to spread the disease. You seem
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by useragent86 5y ago
> to slow the spread Wow, I haven't heard that slogan since 2020. Do you still believe it? Because even the CDC and Pfizer execs and European newspapers are admitting that the vaccines don't prevent infection or transmission.
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by useragent86 5y ago
That kind of argument is disingenuous flamebait and ought to be flagged. By the same logic, are car seats and seat belts injected into the body?
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by useragent86 5y ago
If I'm not mistaken, this comment of yours is itself a violation of HN guidelines.
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by useragent86 5y ago
Have you considered this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29165559
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by useragent86 5y ago
In threads like this, I'm always struck by the absence of discussion from a security-minded, denial-of-service attack perspective. It seems like, if someone didn't want one of these platforms to succeed, all that would be necessar
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by useragent86 5y ago
Can you absolutely prove 100% that you're acting in good faith?
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by useragent86 5y ago
So the Democratic Party controls both houses of Congress and the White House, and they're trying to pass bills to give the Attorney General control over all federal elections in the country, but you say that it's "the Republi
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by useragent86 5y ago
Classic XKCD: an incredibly tall image that ends in the Hockey Stick. The winky face is what really settles it, though. QED. ;)
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by useragent86 5y ago
Your true fear is that they are wrong (just like the contemporary authorities have been wrong about major things throughout history, like heliocentrism and hand-washing). Because if they are, then we don't know as much as we think w
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by useragent86 5y ago
According to whom? This comment[0] says the opposite: > Chevron was in Ecuador through a subsidiary that had a partnership with Ecuador's state-owned oil company, which owned the majority (62.5%) of the partnership. Chevron's
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by useragent86 5y ago
So in your previous comment, you lied: > Not to worry about Chevron, because they did not give a single cent of the 9.5B$ to the Ecuador government, or indigenous communities who got toxic waste dumped in their drinking water, or Ecuador
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by useragent86 5y ago
And what does that have to do with the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague? And why does a UN working group's opinion on anything matter? Are they a more fair and unbiased judge than the PCA, and was the case presented to the
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by useragent86 5y ago
It can't. The NYT article says: > After the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York declined to prosecute the case, Judge Kaplan took the rare step of appointing a private law firm, Seward & Kissel, to prosecute Mr.
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by useragent86 5y ago
A phrase like "the normal conclusion" is itself propaganda, implying that anyone is abnormal who would have skepticism about whatever SideburnsOfDoom thinks; a thinly veiled shaming of, not even dissent, but mere neutrality and op
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by useragent86 5y ago
It's disturbing how this topic is treated like a tribalistic team sport. Comments like yours seem to follow "Rules for Radicals"[0], such as rules 5 and, especially, 13: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There
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by useragent86 5y ago
So you start by accusing him of being purposely misleading. He mentions 60 studies (which he didn't cite specifically, but at least offered a link which one could use to verify his claims). But then you pull a bait-and-switch in your

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