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The show is well-made and worth watching. I enjoyed it.

Also that the post office outright lied about having remote access to users' systems and the ability to change numbers.

Nope. Just one side is problematic. The other has a monopoly on wisdom and justice. Go team!

So much "news" today is opinion masquerading as fact. While news media companies often do get the facts wrong, even when the facts are right, those facts are heavily colored by commentary and slant, often leaving out other facts that don't adhere to the narrative. I'm highly skeptical when the author's conclusion is that readers can't discern fake news on their own, when even educated people disagree on what is fake news, when the author thinks that people doing their own research is a problem, and virtue lies in believing the common narrative.

There are an almost limitless myriad of "Most people don't expect..." which is why security features are important.

I suspect the risk aversion has to do with social anxiety that accompanies the tendencies to exist more and more in virtual worlds. Instead of physically going out to interact with people, you can do it online. Instead of going on a physical adventure, you can play a video game or watch a movie. All of these carry almost zero physical risk, but more so, as we move away from the physical into the virtual, the mental muscles that power social confidence deteriorate due to lack of use, giving rise to social aversion and loss of social skills.

This is a straw man. Saying that the burden is on parents to ensure a child's safety doesn't mean a child molester is free from blame. You've taken his point and pushed it to the extreme.

Recent Hacker News discussion on this:

Court of Appeal ruling will prevent UK museums from charging reproduction fees

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38817128

Ricky Gervais: Write about what you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTJyDe7a2bo

TL;DR: Give yourself room to write about boring stuff, as long as it's honest.

I don't support censoring anything students say, no matter how objectionable. Someone will always find something objectionable.

Is that true, though? I know colleges bar speakers that espouse disagreeable views but do they prevent students from espousing disagreeable opinions?

The true conditions of poverty in North Korea are shrouded in secrecy, with reports of famine, starvation, and human rights violations. The extent of homelessness is unknown, but defectors' stories don't paint a good picture. Homelessness affects children ("Kotjebi") and elderly individuals, often abandoned due to an inability to support them. The government denies their existence, and homeless individuals are rounded up, their destination unknown.

https://borgenproject.org/homelessness-in-north-korea/

Citing a totalitarian government as the solution to homelessness supports the original commenter's claim rather than detracts from it.

I'm in Virginia and these sites are also being blocked. On Pornhub:

> As you may know, your elected officials in Virginia are requiring us to verify your age before allowing you access to our website. While safety and compliance are at the forefront of our...

I wonder if these adult sites could host a ton of non-adult content in order to get below the 30% mark. There used to be a similar law in (I think it was) NYC stores. To combat this, adult bookstores would stock tons of non-porn titles which weren't even really for sale.

I would guarantee that most of the people who come to Hacker News haven't ever posted an amazing hack here. It doesn't mean we can't appreciate one.

Am I the only one who finds the term 'sportspeople' weird and awkward? Why not call them athletes?

You don't even need a seed box. You can use a debrid service, like realdebrid or alldebrid to upload the magnet, then download from their site. Costs about $3 per month and you won't get a nastygram from your cable company.

The same has been said of New York City, and is true to some extent. If you don't have a lot of money, it's not a very comfortable place to live.

It's not outside the realm of possibility that someone else, such as a family member, used his computer or it was compromised.

I feel like the central tenet of wokeism, or at least its defining attribute separating it from liberalism, is a belief that differences between groups are 100% attributable to oppression.

I used to be extremely liberal for years. Then one day I got into an argument with a friend who believed that men and women are 100% mentally identical, insisting that all differences between men and women, including sexual attraction, was 100% social construct and 0% biological. In other words, the reason the majority of men were attracted to women and vice-versa was a social construct. The lie that all differences between groups is social construct is a necessary foundation to attribute oppression as the cause of any and all differences in success between groups.

The Democrats have been cozying up with the "deep state" more than Republicans in the last decade. Look at the origin of the Russiagate hoax and all that followed.

Poorly written-title! They got it right in the article

> Extremely metal-poor galaxies (XMPGs) are the ones with metallicity...

That sword cuts both ways. A business that manages all aspects of its business properly, including web presence, outreach and customer service, may signify of a higher quality of work.

> For Andreessen... you’re either a techno-optimist who won’t question the faith, or you’re one of their enemies: the Communist boogeymen,

After complaining about this extremist point of view, the author goes on to compare tech optimism with fascism. Equally droll.

> Most Israelis don't want that

Because it would mean the end of a Jewish state. Combine Israel and Palestine and you get roughly 50% Jews, 50% Arabs. (5.3M Arabs in Palestine, 7.1M Jews in Israel and 2M Arabs in Israel).

I think this is a symptom of existing too much in the virtual world rather than the physical world. When we spend so much time in that world consuming content, there's a natural tendency to want to be part of it, to want to contribute to that world. The easiest way to create content is to take photographs.

Right, I'm not saying that they don't break the law. They do. But technically, their role is not to break the law. There ostensibly is oversight but it obviously doesn't work well enough.

It won't. There are already laws in place, like the California Consumer Privacy Act, which governs how user data is handled.

That's not true at all. Intelligence agencies can't just do whatever they want. They are beholden to the people just like every other government agency. They can be granted power to do things that ordinary people can't, but that doesn't mean they are above the law.