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shit_parade2

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HN still has people worth talking to, but it is beginning to suffer from moderation rot.
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shit_parade2··on Grepping logs is still terrible
People usually read log files because something went wrong, like a system crash, why do you assume the OS that generated the log file will be readily available?
shit_parade2··on Meerkat Founder on Getting the Kill Call from Twitter
Sleight of hand and linguistic gymnastics.

Freedom from inequality comes from freedom to buy and sell goods and labor without* restrictions or borders, inequality is near all time highs because of crony capitalism and corrupt governments.

Edited for clarity

shit_parade2··on Big companies are stopping Congress from fixing the patent system
Again, you are correct, your link suggests just what you are writing, unfortunately it is somewhat absurd the way it conflates assets and liabilities.

http://ballotpedia.org/Net_worth_of_United_States_Senators_a... lists median net worth over a million\

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/01/millionaires-club-fo... also puts median net worth over 1 million

http://time.com/373/congress-is-now-mostly-a-millionaires-cl... also lists median net worth over a million

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/12/news/economy/congress-wealth... also puts median net worth above 1 million

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/01/13/Congress-worth-43B... also puts median net worth over a million

shit_parade2··on Big companies are stopping Congress from fixing the patent system
Read your own link dude, its over half and many have absurd levels of debt.
shit_parade2··on Big companies are stopping Congress from fixing the patent system
You're correct, only the vast majority are millionaires.

Also you don't get a million in debt by being poor.

shit_parade2··on Big companies are stopping Congress from fixing the patent system
To underline your point people should go look up median wealth by zip code and look at the top ten, they'll see pigs massed around the trough of DC.

We've somehow been suckered into supporting a massive class of very expensive bureaucrats whose main interest are themselves, power, and the rich. Who believes laws and regulations create wealth and prosperity, they are burdens and restrictions on the productive.

shit_parade2··on Big companies are stopping Congress from fixing the patent system
Yes, I believe every congress member is now a millionaire and most are multi millionaires.
shit_parade2··on Big companies are stopping Congress from fixing the patent system
Because your explanation is nonsense.

Congress has enough time to fundraise, they have plenty of time to legislate and they do legislate extensively and almost exclusively in the interest of those who give them money.

It has nothing to do with partisan gridlock, that's a complete sideshow circus, notice how large companies routinely get their special interest laws passed no matter what side of the aisle is in charge.

shit_parade2··on Big companies are stopping Congress from fixing the patent system
Every member of congress fund raise every day, sometimes going to multiple fundraising events in a single day.

Congress is bought and paid, believing otherwise is to ignore the obvious.

shit_parade2··on China rates its own citizens – including online behaviour
Seems like checksums could solve the issue of minor textual edits of classic texts. Sites like project Gutenberg could even keysign texts if we thought this a major concern.

I wouldn't mind an apt-get 1984.txt

shit_parade2··on China rates its own citizens – including online behaviour
To be clear you, not me nor the parent, but you introduced good and evil into the conversation. We were discussing fine, as in decent or humane.

But if the words good and evil are to mean anything then the torture and murder of innocents must qualify as evil. Spare me your grad school real-politics analysis, none of which justifies torture because it categorically cannot be justified.

shit_parade2··on China rates its own citizens – including online behaviour
Our public servants are not fine people. They kill unarmed civilians in their custody, they kill Americans without cause nor due process, they torture innocents, admit they torture innocents, and then do nothing. Our public officials state on record that financial institutions are too big to jail then proceed to use the law to terrify and ruin the lives of those who dare defy their agenda.
shit_parade2··on China rates its own citizens – including online behaviour
If you view us politics through a red blue lens you've already been brainwashed.
shit_parade2··on “Cheating teachers go to jail. Cheating Wall Streeters don’t. What’s up?”
What about when police officers wantonly kill people or CIA operatives torture the innocent?

Of course they should go to jail, justice is blind, the law applies to all, look up the magna carta. When some are more equal than others injustice and corruption occurs, we see it vividly throughout the US corporate-fascist complex.

shit_parade2··on Guy trading at home caused the flash crash of 2010
Any central bank since 2008.
shit_parade2··on Guy trading at home caused the flash crash of 2010
Compete fantasy. Eric Holder is on record stating he did not pursue criminal charges against large financials because of systemic risk.

One law for some, another for everyone else.

shit_parade2··on “Barclays closed down my bank account after Bitcoin trade”
It was a personal anecdote followed by an extremely common bitcoin service. Anyone who's been in Bitcoin knows of localbitcoin or knows meeting in person is a common activity.

I've seen much worse astro turfing throwing off large discussions by unused accounts hundreds of days old, and no response from mods. Mod policy is arbitrary and cultish.

shit_parade2··on ‘Free-range’ parents plan to file lawsuit after police pick up children
Yeah, except crime and injury statistics completely destroys your hogwash armchair musings. Everyone, including children, are much safer now then 30 years ago.

If people want to talk about safety, driving a car is one of the more dangerous activities, certainly more dangerous than walking.

shit_parade2··on ‘Free-range’ parents plan to file lawsuit after police pick up children
“We must ask ourselves how we reached the point where a parent’s biggest fear is that government officials will literally seize our children off the streets as they walk in our neighborhoods,” he said.

I think the quote speaks for itself.

shit_parade2··on “Barclays closed down my bank account after Bitcoin trade”
They should be paranoid since banks lose billions to fraud every year.

Of course they commit hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud so it doesn't much matter.

shit_parade2··on “Barclays closed down my bank account after Bitcoin trade”
Why is mylisp comment dead? HN moderation makes no sense.
shit_parade2··on GitHub's 2014 Transparency Report
The only real solution is civil disobedience, why comply with illegitimate laws?
shit_parade2··on US Navy develops cannon-launched 'swarming' drones
Missions can be pre-programmed, but there "will always be a human monitoring the mission", it added. Great use of it.

Reminds me of Eclipse Phase nano swarms. The video suggests these are less than a meter in length and not yet weaponized (although the nice CG at the end suggests they will be firing off missiles to blow up random buildings in a desert like environment).

Whatever your opinion is it doesn't really matter, the US government will continue in this direction because it is expedient.

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