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A suggestion to people who want to rationally engage on Hacker News: don't bother. If you disagree with the prevailing trends you will be downvoted. Hacker News is not for discussion. It's for promotion of Y Combinator and things that make the Y Combinator partners money.
If you disagree with the prevailing social trends, expect to be flagged. If you continue to disagree with the prevailing social trends, expect a shadowban/dead label on your posts. Remember, the life experience of a professional victim is more important than your own life experience.
Because of injury or potential for injury. The team wants Kobe Bryant healthy and on the court, so wants to limit excessive practice to avoid reinjury or new injury.
>But claiming someone has privilege isn't a value judgement on the person, or a sin...Saying someone has privilege is just pointing out the state of the world, it isn't a judgment. That is exactly the same argument that…
Privilege is just secular "original sin".
An idea for NetFlix would be to have a higher tier package that has access to content for longer. So if the average agreement for access to material is six months, people with the higher tier package have access to it…
>Piracy fails the "what if everyone was doing it?" test. Yup, which is why TV didn't exist before pay TV, because if everyone viewed content for free over the air then it would be massively unprofitable. Oh, wait...
The UK also has iPlayer, which is worth the VPN subscription fee I pay every month to use it.
He's gonna take you back to the past....(NSFW links ahead) TNMT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjUz8IT0CYg Double Dragon 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMg6_IXCjo4 Silver Surfer:…
>if only Nintendo would allow it You could easily teach a course on it. Have the students purchase a GBA flash linker and GBA and then teach the course. The students can flash their GBA games into the flash linkers, and…
Unless you're white and male, and then you'll be accused by the radical fringe as wanting to rape everything you come across and kill everyone not like you.
Better be careful posting this. You don't want to be labeled by Matthew Garrett as a rape apologist[0]. [0] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/18505.html?thread=693321
>Do you really think Google or Yahoo would just say, "No, we don't care about being in Firefox/Iceweasel's default search list"? Given that they haven't freely licensed their images and this has been an issue for some…
>Even satellite links can be altered, either you hack the satellite system or you intercept the signal at a higher altitude than the receiver is operating in. Or, if the case of total war, you blow the freaking…
>There is zero reason for a search engine to restrict such use (and distribution). Because these logos depict their trademarked images, and the licensing that they'd offer would likely not allow use for any purpose.…
>copyright and trademark are poor excuses - if the search engine wants to be in the default set of search tools provided by the browser, they can trivially authorize the redistribution of a a simple icon Debian's policy…
That's not entirely accurate. You do get updates, they're just on the patch branch. See http://www.openbsd.org/errata57.html. Running -stable is fairly simple. If you don't want to rebuild on your DigitalOcean VPS, cut…
That's unlikely given that Saint Reagan was a movie star.
In my undergrad CS class we had to write a small RDBMS using the techniques learned in class and then had to dive into the internals of Postgres. It remains my favorite class taken during my undergrad, followed closely…
This is what happens when you try to make art as games instead of games as art. Art doesn't have to be fun. Games do.
>Neither of which are skills that have anything to do with language. Because nothing says "monoculture" and "single language" like scientists from all over the world converging outside Geneva to build the world's…
I would rather they raise the price of the service than have them add ads. Is that what you mean? I also wouldn't have a problem with it if they made these optional to help you "find" new Netflix content. It was already…
What's to stop your card being intercepted and replaced by a three letter agency when it's shipped. That's why a physical store with tamper seals is useful, or better yet when something is manufactured locally - then…
It's a good thing. If the take-away from my post was that it wasn't then I'm sorry for not conveying that more up front. Again, I'm responding to the grand-parent post that said this would be good for abuse victims.…
Again, the big problem for abuse victims is getting the shellac beat out of them for disobeying their abuser. This encryption does nothing to enable an abuse victim to switch on notifications as the (now grand-)parent…
That's not really what I'm taking issue with. The parent to my post mentioned that this was a win for people with "overbearing parents" or an "abusive spouse". My response is that the message From field still says that…
If someone is suffiently abusive and paranoid then the distinction is meaningless - they will assume that any notification they can't read is one they don't approve of, and somebody in that situation wouldn't benefit…