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from elsewhere in this thread:

>On the Friday after the US presidential election, Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab.ai, a social network favored by conservatives, was kicked out of Y Combinator “I am actually surprised it took them this long to excommunicate me,” Torba told BuzzFeed News. “Y Combinator doesn’t accept conservatives and they don’t accept Trump supporters.”

this is relevant here because of what this dude was actually doing, being a prick.

> In the Facebook thread, before he was booted from Y Combinator, Torba wrote: “All of you: fuck off. Take your morally superior, elitist, virtue signaling bullshit and shove it. I call it like I see it, and I helped meme a President into office, cucks.”

it took me a long time to learn that you don't have the right to be a prick on the internet.

if you insist on being a prick, don't cry persecution when you get shown the door. don't cry censorship. it's neither. it's you being shown the door because you wanted to be a prick. full stop.

if the guy in the above example wasn't a prick, he'd still be in the program. he could have called people cucks with donations like the big boys do, and not on facebook like a child.

Anything that doesn't explicity share my views is a narrative created by the enemy.

It sounds a little defeated, but hasn't nuclear war been inevitable since the invention of the nuclear weapon? if no, why not?

It's strange how distant the idea of nuclear war seems to my mind when I try to imagine the perspective of someone who lived through the Cold War.

It's even more strange to imagine my own country as being a nuclear instigator. Metal Gear Solid is the closest I've come to nuclear doctrine, and in that game the US is there to stop a terrorist nuclear threat and protect deterrence, not keep the nuclear option on the table and potentially flush deterrence down the toilet. It causes some dissonance.

I wonder how many of these cheap things are going to get plugged in this holiday season with default login/passwords.

If it isn't willful obliviousness, at the very least, it is blatant incompetence.

you forgot meth. 12 hours of doing the same thing over and over with no regard to loss sounds like a meth addict to me.

since recreational drugs make gambling that much more fun, you'd think casinos would be lobbying for legalization.

Which is why the inhumane treatment of prisoners by people like former Sheriff Joe Arpaio in AZ was not only tolerated but often condoned by the public. It's why he was re-elected, for being perceived as tough on crime.

While they might not admit it, some people want to know that these criminals are being mistreated. They like the idea, somewhere deep down, of a criminal being forced to wear pink underwear and being fed spoiled food. It's twisted, wrong even. But it's very much American. Like apple pie, or baseball.

It seems like a conflict of interest, IMO.

This is very much a political topic. When you take into context where the funding came from, the "research" presented in this abysmal paper looks a lot more like a wolf in sheep's clothing.

This kind of stuff is par for the course with Nintendo hardware from what I can tell. Is it deliberate? If so, does perceived scarcity drive more sales, or are they just sick of warehousing unsold products?

Are you saying comparing apples and oranges is the only way to effectively make your point?

Dogs and livestock are quite different. We keep them around for entirely different reasons.

I can't remember the last time I bought a physical album. I think it was about 10 years ago, when Metallica's Death Magnetic came out.

Everyone I know uses a streaming service to get music. No one I know buys or owns physical CD's, vinyl, etc. Because the music industry has failed to rise to the occasion, there are several services that have ascended to pop culture status while the traditional music industry is hemorrhaging.

The suits who sign the checks need to change the business model, but since they either can't or won't, they'll probably just die off on the vine, eventually.

music piracy is a direct result of the failure of the music industry to change with the times. if you offer a service that can compete with piracy, people stop pirating.

that's what turned me from game pirate to Steam paying customer with over 300+ titles in my library.

that's what turned me from TV pirate to Netflix subscriber.

p.s. I don't think anyone ever made money from recording music, even when album sales were good. record labels have always taken the lions share of profits. this has nothing to do with artists making money IMO.

you can be a liberal without being a bleeding-heart.

but you can't vote liberal without voting in bleeding-hearts. it's the same for conservatives. sooner or later you're going to have to vote for an absolute anti-science/anti-intellectual/anti-environment/etc lunatic.

when partisanship trumps all, almost none of it is so black and white. it becomes shades of grey.

someone has torn it apart. IIRC it's a custom board, but yeah, it's just emulation.

wouldn't an unmanned submersible make more sense?

why bother being above the water if there are no crew on board to breathe air, anyway?

it seems like a submersible would be ideal for certain military applications, patrolling, or whatever else you'd use a robot boat for.

also, I'd bet drug smugglers would really appreciate getting their hands on an unmanned submersible.

It would be, frankly, ridiculous for them to offer "open access" and have that actually include only news coverage and none of the opinion sections.

I axed that a few minutes ago, it seemed a little harsh.

sorry to anyone who was confused by my edit.

A couple I know who avoid GMO products have a few things in common with others I've seen saying the same things: Ignorance of what a GMO really is, a deep distrust of corporate interests/government regulators and a strange, unearned trust placed in those selling "organic" products.

It costs them a premium, but they say they're doing it for their children. I can't argue against it to their faces, but quietly I wonder if they wouldn't be more financially free if they weren't so willingly chained to 7 dollar gallons of milk.

that's about what I figured. I can't see a clear benefit or advantage to having one rogue false registrant make a single pair weighted towards one party or the other.

I'll be buying AMD as well, the RX 400 series already piqued my interest but I can't justify buying another budget GPU from nVidia, even though the 1050 looks pretty attractive.

let's take this a step further: two republicans, one falsely registered as a democrat, have been paired off at the polling station in Araphaoe County. the lie was bought, the fraud complete. now what?

that's a risk you have to take, at some point. you eventually have to trust that someone isn't lying, somewhere along the chain.

what else could be done to further vet volunteers? you can't interrogate people or drug them with serums for the truth, so I think it's safe to assume registering is enough.

so, to answer your question, I doubt there is any "guarantee" other than the fact that these are volunteers and you'd have to be a real idiot to falsely register to ensure you can tilt the scales...of bipartisan pairs of Arapahoe County poll volunteers.

I'm not sure, I believe it's 35% or more. She once mentioned that "it's not the legit stuff unless you have to sign a hazardous materials sheet" or something to that affect.

We all know arguing against a strongly held opinion usually results in the person with the strong opinion digging their heels in even deeper. At that point, things like reason kind of go by the wayside and don't have much effect.

As a poor example, my mother has fully bought into a snake-oil scheme where they sell you concentrated hydrogen peroxide as a cure-all. She won't hear a word against it, she always brings the conversation back to "OTC hydrogen peroxide has stabilizers in it." Asking "what is a stabilizer" gets no response.

The truth is, she doesn't know what a stabilizer is, but it's plausible enough to her that they could be "bad" that she's willing to buy the rest of the farm, along with the cow.

How can you argue against that kind of strongly held opinion? When the other party won't listen because of how strongly held the opinion is, you might as well talk to a wall.

This is par for the course around here.

If you ever forget that Russia is persecuted by the evil western media, just come to the HN comment section to be reminded.

I'm a cheap bastard, so I just buy Chinese liquid. 50ml for 11 bucks.

If you're buying domestic juice you pay a premium for nothing special, from what I can tell. Also, the chances of it being made in a proper factory are basically nil. It's often someone else's DIY garage juice at a 10000% markup.

Personally, I didn't want to give up nicotine. I just wanted to give up cigarettes.

So that's what I did. I took my carton money for the month and invested in a proper setup after doing my research. I spent time trying different juices until I found one I could use all day, every day.

That was 2 years ago. Everyone around me still smokes, but I've never even been tempted to go back. I smoked for 10 years as well.

I wonder what kind of lifespan they were expecting out of this thing back when it was launched.

I'd think you'd want a decent return in terms of longevity, considering the size and (I would assume) weight of it.

I'd bet modern satellites are much more disposable by comparison.

Someone in my local government is talking about making the internet a city utility, like the similarly city owned electricity. They got my vote this election cycle.

It seems that's the only way. Either your city competes with ISP's or ISP's have uncontested regional monopolies.

Isn't that what the Non-Disclosure Agreement is for? I don't understand how a non-compete keeps trade secrets safe, it's not like you can't transfer a trade secret a year later, or however long the non-compete lasts.