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9991··on The Twitter Files
Please stop publishing as tweets.
9991··on China state CCTV avoids crowd close ups at the World Cup
Dangerous to the population isn’t the question. Is it dangerous to the government, or rather the government’s image?
9991··on A Dad Took Photos of His Kid for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal
Then don't accept it. Null route Google in your hosts file and move on with your life.
9991··on Username cannot contain 'clyde'
So is Google.
9991··on Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks
Or synonyms, or alternate grammar that’s functionally equivalent. Lots of better ways that are completely concealed, unless you see multiple drafts.
9991··on ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
They're on IRCHighWay.
9991··on Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (2017)
Next time try harder.
9991··on Why Tesla removed radar and ultrasonic sensors [video]
Stop calling them accidents.

https://capitolfax.com/2021/01/26/aaa-wants-us-to-stop-calli...

9991··on Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans
Yes.
9991··on Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans
The human perspective. There are extraordinarily few chickens participating in HN comment threads.
9991··on Should billboard advertising be banned?
Indemnify any car collisions that occur within eyesight of the billboards. Should clear up the issue on its own.
9991··on The deception of “buying” digital movies
Ah, yes, taste, the most objective of the senses ...
9991··on LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip
They didn’t say “LSD-shaped”. There are lots of ways to be “-like”, and one is acting in a similar manner. Your training is blinding your thinking.
9991··on Physicists rewrite a quantum rule that clashes with our universe
The total “energy” of all photons in the universe is declining, but the acceleration is increasing. Hard to believe the first is causing the second.
9991··on Oberlin College to pay $36M to bakery owners who were falsely accused of racism
So, no apology or acknowledgement they did anything wrong?
9991··on Queen Elizabeth II has died
She's not obligated to stay in the position.

No one else is obligated to care who she is.

My country fought a war so that I wouldn't have to accept that some people are born higher than others, and everything I've learned about the royal family since has been against my will.

9991··on Queen Elizabeth II has died
That letter is one of the worst things I’ve ever read. She believed that God put her above other people.
9991··on Are Hawaii’s beach showers in violation of the Clean Water Act?
I have to ask: How did you trace cause to effect and eliminate other possible culprits?
9991··on Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM
I don’t really care if the unwashed masses understand me.
9991··on Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM
Never thought about it before, but I guess SSDs are random access, so it would be technically correct to call them RAM, and that’s my favorite kind of correct.
9991··on Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM
I consider myself pretty tech savvy and call hard drives memory. HDDs exist in the middle of a memory hierarchy stretching from registers to cloud storage.
9991··on UBS, Wealthfront Cancel $1.4B Deal
That’s right! Did you know there’s a name for the subset that don’t?
9991··on UBS, Wealthfront Cancel $1.4B Deal
That’s not a fee-only advisor. A fee-only advisor will charge an hourly rate for time you’re actually meeting or a flat dollar amount. Never a percentage of AUM.
9991··on On tea and the art of doing nothing
Yea, Erdös was turning meth into theorems.
9991··on Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship
Do you find you have a lot trouble tracking conversations?
9991··on Are we going back to the cable days?
It's civil, not criminal in the US. Nobody's going to jail for copyright infringement.
9991··on Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin
There's a long way from the physical infrastructure of power lines to somebody's website.
9991··on The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool
It’s like you know me.
9991··on Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin
Sounds like they’re not very good at email!
9991··on Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin
Poppycock, it’s just communism with extra steps. Google’s email server is not your email server just because you’ve come to depend on it. If you want your own server, build your own server.
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