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Mithaldu

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Mithaldu··on German hate speech law tested as Twitter blocks satire account
And now you know.
Mithaldu··on German hate speech law tested as Twitter blocks satire account
No, they ignored a law the government made generally without stating penalties. Now the govt was forced to spell out penalties.
Mithaldu··on German hate speech law tested as Twitter blocks satire account
> That term 'hate speech' - what does it actually mean?

Read §1(3).

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/netzdg/BJNR335210017.html...

Mithaldu··on German hate speech law tested as Twitter blocks satire account
> I want people who actually are racist to talk, so I know who I don't want to be friends with.

I keep seeing this statement, but all i can think is:

Fuck, i wish i was lucky enough to have so few racists around me to be able to think i can spare the time and mental health for additional ones.

Good for you, be glad you apparently have few to none racists around you, so you don't know what it's like when there's tons of them and they all talk unhindered.

Edit: LMAO, i do wonder what kind of people i managed to upset with this.

Mithaldu··on SQL Keys in Depth
Don't see a timestamp on your link, but i suspect this one is more correct:

https://metacpan.org/source/RJBS/Email-Valid-1.202/lib/Email...

Mithaldu··on GNU/Linux local username triggers Steam VAC ban
Let's be fair here: It's an easy pivot where they keep paying the DOTA artists already on the payroll with a minimum staff of software and game design devs in order to milk the plump microtransaction teat.

Yes, it's a game. But barring the DOTA IP and existing graphics assets it will not be particularly different from any given other offering in this specific market space.

And that's the unspoken thing in the post you're replying to: "new". Valve hasn't made any truly new game since Left 4 Dead, and i'm sure it could easily be argued that even that wasn't particularly ground-breaking.

Mithaldu··on A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
Don't send fake apologies like "We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down."
Mithaldu··on UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program
I recommend giving Politico's early article on this a read, which is a bit more explicit on factors of doubt: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-...
Mithaldu··on The sunk cost fallacy: Devs describe how it almost destroyed them
Yep. That one i wanted to play, but never could, since it literally wouldn't run at 60 fps anywhere ever.
Mithaldu··on The sunk cost fallacy: Devs describe how it almost destroyed them
Kinda sounds like it needed a performant reimplementation, period. This is what the game looks like. There's just a flat isometric plane of squares with animated sprites in it.

https://youtu.be/OBsRPhCm5sU?t=899

The Vita and the PSP both have a lot of tactical RPGs that are a lot higher in complexity, with actual 3D environments as well as randomly generated ones (much harder to handle than pre-made hard-coded ones).

Compare with best-in-class on that platform: https://youtu.be/nUhspS9VddQ?t=3539

Mithaldu··on How Does the Flu Kill People?
Different "pain medicines" do different things. NSAIDs like ibu are literally only effective for for fever/inflammation. Always check what a pain med does before trying to take it without doctor's advice.
Mithaldu··on UFO spotted by US fighter jet pilots
According to Politico there is some doubt as to how legit said director is.
Mithaldu··on A Clarification
> anonymous criticism only contributes heat and no progress to a discussion

Is a direct attempt at suppression.

I'm saying you're being hypocritical.

Mithaldu··on What People Think You Can’t Say in Silicon Valley
As a person outside the USA my perception is:

Texas is part of the South. Rich white south instead of rednecks, but definitely South.

Mithaldu··on A Clarification
But free speech says that you shouldn't suppress ANY speech no matter what it is, so you shouldn't be trying to suppress QAPereo now.
Mithaldu··on A Clarification
How would students remove the denier? Lynch mob?

I don't think your idea of "let individual groups of people angry enough to act handle it instead of authorities acting on calmly predetermined rules" scales particularly well or elegantly.

Mithaldu··on A Clarification
I wish you guys would straight-up forbid sarcasm. It would improve discourse a lot.
Mithaldu··on A Clarification
Some of these ideas aren't "unpopular", they're answered. They're "we had a world war about this"-answered.
Mithaldu··on Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser
It's a non-profit with a duty specifically different from "make profits" and there are consequences to this.

To quote an ex-mozilla employee:

""

Because the Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit corporation, it has a specific legal purpose for existing spelled out explicitly in its articles of incorporation: "The specific purpose of the Corporation [here meaning the Foundation] is to promote the development of, public access to and adoption of the open source Mozilla web browsing and Internet application software." If Mozilla Foundation were to ignore this mandate, it would jeopardize the nonprofit, tax exempt status of the foundation

""

In this case they are definitely ignoring the mandate, and this should never remotely have happened.

Source of the legalese: https://static.mozilla.com/foundation/documents/mf-articles-...

Mithaldu··on The Great American Share – Sam Altman Interview on Basic Income
You have a very valid answer from pixelbill, who seems to be shadowbanned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15919850

Mithaldu··on The Great American Share – Sam Altman Interview on Basic Income
"Basic" does not mean the same thing everywhere.

In Germany part of the basic rights granted by law is human dignity. Part of human dignity is participation in culture and society. As such the closest thing germany has to UBI includes a budget to permit participation in culture.

Mithaldu··on Show HN: Hiding code from Git diff
Easier? How so? If a rebase of a branch isn't successful you just reset back to the commit you rebased onto, and continue work on your old pre-rebase branch.
Mithaldu··on Show HN: Hiding code from Git diff
I already said that it can be too expensive, but thanks for playing. <3

Also, a squash merge is not a merge. It's just another form of rebase.

And if you mention reset as an alternative to cherry pick and squash you should also mention --soft.

Mithaldu··on Show HN: Hiding code from Git diff
It's absolutely resolved that way.

Rebase should be the weapon of choice in all cases, except those where it would be prohibitively expensive.

People are too enamored with the SVN ways though, or have even made up rationalizations about fictional concepts such as "historical purity". So you have a ton of people merging instead, producing code repositories that look worse than the worst perl code i've touched.

Mithaldu··on Nice Threads
And you cannot see all of the reactions in one place, and instead have to click on every single post in the thread.
Mithaldu··on Telegram Isn't for Sale
You're making the mistake of assuming "better" is a single vector.

Signal is more secure, yes. However its UI, UX, accessibility, feature sets and performance are absolutely in baby shoes.

Mithaldu··on Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows
It's not about me, i don't even give a shit. I am however aware that people who aren't me actually have feelings about this.

Also note, as i stated: "intentionally or not" It doesn't matter what the intent was when lies are spread. The end result matters.

And walterbell is exactly right. Would love to see an answer to that.

Mithaldu··on Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows
Link to the exact device you were using? All of the "non-invasive ventilators" i found look exactly like CPAP.

And a lot of CPAP devices have a "encourage the user to breathe by doing some flutter" mode.

Mithaldu··on Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows
Down-voted for stating reality. Never fucking change, HN. It's better for you to remain a wooden puppet than to try and imitate a human being.
Mithaldu··on Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows
> wear a mask that would breathe for me while I slept

Dude, that's a really bad misrepresentation and very unhelpful to all the people who do need one. Many of them already struggle with self-worth issues, and seeing (whether intentional or not) lies like that spread, or worse, parroted back at them by others later does not help that.

It's made a lot worse by the alternative being to gamble on suffocating in your sleep, or doing brain damage to yourself with prolonged apnea periods that drop your blood oxygen, or at the very least, having a shit life due to low energy levels every day from having been 8 hours with the blood oxygen level of a 90 year old.

You're still breathing entirely under your own power with CPAP devices. All they do is basically balloon you up a little to keep your throat from closing up in your sleep, by providing a continuous flow of air pressure higher than the ambient air pressure. Yes they have an up/down rhythm that matches your breathing, but that's not because it breathes for you, but because it literally matches your breathing patterns so it won't obstruct your own breathing.

> put my bed at an angle so I could sleep through the heartburn/reflux

Also, to be honest, this is ridiculous. Medicines to help your body regulate gastric acid exist and aren't particularly expensive.

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