Ah, nice, now you're stalking me in the comment section.
Well done, totally normal behavior.
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Well done, totally normal behavior.
I don't think you have an actual personal opinion, you just feel the need to tow a line (you know, due to some personal agenda probably), but don't have the data to back it up.
"No, my side is right and yours wrong" isn't a counter-argument, it's just boring.
Here's another possible reason: I actively dislike totalitarianism.
If you're able to make a substantiated comment beyond the trope of "totally irrelevant", I'd be happy to entertain your opinion.
> As Slashdot named it, you are just a "Anonymous Coward" [...] and a troll.
Again, resorting to name calling and equating anonymity with trolling doesn't promote your opinion, it doesn't even elucidate it, it just puts you up as someone who'd rather go for ad hominems rather than genuine dialogue.
I mean, are you pro-Modi and BJP? Do you even have a reasoning for it that manages to elide all their shortcomings, or is it just fitting in with the crowd?
You are correct, of course: it is.
I mean, it's one thing to parrot stuff like "inflammatory, biased, agenda driven and totally irrelevant", and another thing to state your point of contention.
After all, is it "inflammatory" to underscore discrimination and call it out?
And, yes, I am posting under an anonymous I'd - and so are you, as far as anyone is concerned. I came to the internet in the era of nicknames, not of full PII social networks, and I like it that way more.
Would it make the RSS and the BJP less far right if I posted under a real name?
This is an extremely important point of universal application that can't be emphasized too much.
Even if one agrees with a current politician's position, once the precedent is set, there's nothing stopping an administration down the line extending the reach of an already installed and by then socially accepted mechanism.
Someone called this the "totalitarian tip toe"; that guy (who shall rename unnamed) was "a bit weird", but his concept stands anyway imo.
India is currently run by a nationalist regime headed by the so called "butcher of Gujarat"[1], there isn't much that would shock me wrt to that lot's totalitarian tendencies.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_Narendra_Modi
Perhaps the objective isn't to conquer the whole of the Ukraine, but only most of it, leaving the western parts independent.
This seems to be pushed as the right approach wrt the Ukraine in Alexander Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics, which apparently is used as the source for Russia's current "Eurasianist" geopolitical doctrine:
At least the second time it should have become obvious that the comments were voicing a common response of visitors to the site, so were constructive rather than nitpicking.
Apparently he started his first investment at age 11. 8 decades is a long time to compound even at low rates.
At least that's how it was until 10.10, when I stopped using it for annotations.
Otherwise, as a plain reader, it's pretty nice and usable.
And when it does, the person that vibed it into existence will only have ChatGPT to fall back to, having no personal or organizational experience to rely on.
But they have a 95% chance of getting it right, if they don't panic too much.
I routinely watch YouTube in private, not signed in, and only open a video in a normal, signed in window if I want it preserved in my history.
So while one person is getting a 5x increase in productivity, one or two get a corresponding 5x decrease.
Cascades of timeouts and segmented sign-back-ins are almost a corporate ritual in ill-configured environments.
I don't think this is just due to lack of good paper making techniques, it's also an aspect of physical security that's involved.
Curiously, it hasn't been discussed on HN before, so I started a thread to get HNers' thoughts on it:
Interestingly enough while looking for HN commentary there was none,so I thought others may also find it interesting :)
Can't edit it now, but if the mods could update it, that'd be great :)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/03/17/magic-the-real...
a.k.a. https://archive.is/kBpwF