belovedeagle

Fake news from a right-wing propagandist. Discrimination at the border did not exist before Jan 20 2017.

> How would you recommend handling a situation like that?

If they were harming myself or a third party, I would leverage the remedies society makes available: the courts, the cops, etc. If not, and I were motivated, I would attempt rational debate about the matter, which can be started as simply as stating that [IMO] their words or actions are inappropriate (which is not what you were suggesting before). In the event that doesn't make a difference, I would simply walk away.

What I find shocking and disturbing is how intent you seem to be on harming someone just because you disagree with them. There are perfectly nonviolent racists out there who know how to mind their own business who I'd rather associate with than someone like you...

Despite the article's inane attempts to link this to sex crimes, I see nothing wrong with this. Housing and feeding prisoners is a huge drain on society; a prisoner who alleviates that drain absolutely deserves a more humane experience. That's not to say that everyone else doesn't deserve a more humane experience, but we simply can't afford it. No one is suggesting we close down shelters and start housing the homeless in five star hotels, and no one seems to be too bothered by that. On the whole I'd rather money be spent first on that than upgrading prisons.

EDIT: As to the idea that this somehow reduces the effective punishment: while that might be true for the ultra-rich for whom $10k is irrelevant (but since when do they go to prison anyways?), for everyone else, having to fund your own incarceration [directly, in addition to funding everyone else's via taxation,] seems to offset that.

Let's not do the thing where everyone you disagree with is a troll, mmkay?

> I'm the CTO for a top 100 alexa site

I'm sorry to hear that, I hope they have better luck hiring in the future.

Why should someone have to serve http explaining to you what they're using their domain for? Why can't someone just have a domain for email and SSH and be left the fuck alone?

> How do you fight against harmful, unjust beliefs such as racism without making it socially uncomfortable for people to express them?

I've got a better question: in what way is making it dangerous ("uncomfortable" is an underhanded euphemism) to express certain views advancing the "fight" against them? It's really an attack on "those [other] people", and not at all on their beliefs: since ideas can't be physically and verbally attacked and abused, if abuse happens (it does), it can only be directed at people. In fact the liberal elite has largely abandoned the "fight against racism". It's entirely likely that a legitimate treatment of the subject, an "Against Racism", would be attacked (or rather, its author would be attacked) as "normalizing" racism. I'm entirely serious: I have observed claims by everyday liberal elites in their safe spaces (e.g., HN, reddit) that it's not acceptable to explain why certain views are bad because doing so normalizes them.

DNS exists for more than just http and email too. I reckon you should learn more about how the technology works before telling other people how to run their lives and dispose of their private property. Or maybe... Just don't do those things at all.

This comment is what really worries me about domain name disputes. You seem to be under the impression that http is the only use for DNS, and you are very very wrong.

This could probably be spun as a violation of the cfaa. IANAL, but the practical interpretation of that seems to be "don't do bad stuff using a computer", kind of like mail fraud but worse.

IANAL either, but the author seems to have missed the point of the "I don’t know my password it is in a password manager which I can’t access" one (or, indeed, the blank device — but this one has numerous advantages). Yes, this will piss off CBP and they will punish you for it, and especially I wouldn't recommend it if you're not a US citizen but are desirous of entering the US. But if you're a US citizen, CBP isn't about to risk their position in court: they will not detain you indefinitely for noncompliance especially when you have an entirely plausible (and true!) explanation for your inability to comply.

But since no one bothered to assert their rights (I'm sure it would have been mentioned), we'll never know how a court might have interpreted the situation (or whether the agents would have done the right thing and backed down - but who am I kidding?).

WHAT?! NO! TRUMPIST LIES, ALL OF IT!

Everyone knows that gerrymandering is the only way Republicans ever get any votes — really they should get zero!

> surgical gerrymandering

Also known as "state lines", a great many of which have been in place for over a century.

Would it even matter if there's precedent? Why shouldn't the White House get to choose who can attend events of any kind?

Since Cloudflare is a business partner of HN, perhaps it's best not to censor criticism of them...?

(not op) Well as it happens, Cloudflare has had this massive data leak you might have heard of...

Memory safe languages aren't a panacea. There could just as easily have been a bug in the compiler or standard library with the same result.

.It doesn't make sense for people to riot at all, and since it's doubtful that very many of those students have actually earned that tuition money instead of it being granted to them (temporarily) for free, they probably don't value it highly.

You're the one making extraordinary claims that require extraordinary evidence, not me.

Do you have any evidence to back up the outrageous claim that the rioters at Berkely weren't primarily its student body? Or is that just what you heard on CNN and chose to believe unquestioningly?

So you reckon than in less than 24 hours the senator has completed a thorough investigation and also had time to draft a bill? Or maybe is it the case that this work has been ongoing for months...?

I salute your fortitude. I must admit I commented here despite not being able to make it more than halfway through the article before giving up.

What an idiotic hit piece. You don't have to be a big fan of 4chan to see most of not all of the "information" in this "article" is completely fabricated by the author.

Even the title reveals the ridiculous conspiracy theories the author is going to spout: in their endless search for someone to blame for Trump's election, surely none could be less likely than 4chan!

What does the searching of devices at the border have to do with presidential administrations? This policy has been in place for years (from the article).

WTF? Pick any comment in any HN thread and it's likely that the poster is doing ideological battle! But of course... the difference is that those accounts are doing battle for the righteous side, the left.

You've got cause and effect backward: degrees didn't start "requiring" loans because they became overpriced; they became overpriced because loans were available.

This explanation (and the other forms in which it's presented in this thread) is really troubling to me. It sounds like in order to offer a defense of the inability to comply with the order, the accused has to provide evidence which could be used against him in the trial. In your example, the existence of the password on Mt Everest could be used against him, and was evidence the prosecution probably could not have discovered but for his compelled testimony. It's even more troubling in the case of the Sherpa: revealing the identity of an accomplice (as it were) is surely self-incriminating!

But if this were really how he obtains the password (and similar schemes of off-site passwords and accomplices aren't so outlandish in the case of servers which might require the keys on reboot a few times per year), how could he possibly defend himself from the contempt charge? It sickens me to imagine being in the same situation. If this isn't an instance of the cruel trilemma, I don't know what is =(

How is the dog getting sufficient oxygen...?

Color me shocked. This is nothing but an encore of the age old union m.o.: identify success and prey on it, siphoning off those sweet, sweet dues.

50 TB of SSDs could fit in jacket pockets. If the chips were removed from the boards or at least the plastic enclosures, they'd be unrecognizable.

Or 100 512GB micro SD cards which are available to consumers; say 5 a day for a month...

Physical exfiltration is not the problem.

For vim, at least, those plugins are often highly incompatible with high-intermediate to expert usage; lacking everyday features. Interestingly enough, the only vim plugin I've ever felt comfortable with is evil-mode, which just goes to show that emacs truly is the best ide, even if it comes with a shockingly bad editor.