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jonhendry18··on I can tolerate anything except the outgroup (2014)
No? Not the guy who shot up a mall in May?

"Texas mall shooting: gunman expressed interest in neo-Nazi views – report"

Or the guy who shot up a dollar store

Or "Neo-Nazi Marine Plotted Mass Murder, Rape Campaigns with Group, Feds Say While tasked with protecting the nation, Matthew Belanger was plotting a killing spree against minorities and to rape “white women to increase the production of white children,” according to federal prosecutors"

Weird that you apparently feel compelled to downplay the threat.

jonhendry18··on When “Punch a Nazi” Goes Wrong
Maybe people wouldn't see facism in local police departments if there wasn't facism in the local police departments.

"Police Chief Pat Flannelly said Officer Joseph Zacharek, hired in June, was called into the police station Friday night after claims started showing up on social media that he was linked to Iron March, a neo-Nazi forum disbanded in 2017 but that had its database exposed on the internet in late 2019."

Yay that he was fired, but how many haven't?

jonhendry18··on When “Punch a Nazi” Goes Wrong
"I know people at a baptist church that many people would accuse of being “fascist” because of their religion who do all three of those things you say"

The Nazis weren't totally against charitable works. They were against charitable works that benefitted "inferior" humans.

jonhendry18··on When “Punch a Nazi” Goes Wrong
"All you have done is justify their action"

No, not at all.

jonhendry18··on I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle
"Treatment" involves a number of different options, of varying permanence. It isn't "Okay, surgery scheduled for Tuesday" at every patient's first consulation.

I wouldn't be surprised if for most girls, treatment starts with wearing a binder, which is clothing.

jonhendry18··on Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’
They're useful as a second piece of evidence if, like me, you did poorly at classwork because of undiagnosed ADHD.
jonhendry18··on Collection of US Navy Training Courses Developed
The breadth of topics of WW2 field manuals and technical manuals is staggering. One of the manuals is essentially a list of other manuals, and there are a lot of them.

At least one manual has a reading level similar to "See Jane run", because of course they'd have had some soldiers being drafted who read at that level.

jonhendry18··on New York Times tech workers vote to certify union
Police do get fired, but the city is often forced to rehire them, because of the unions and the arrangements they've had put into law.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/...

A cop can be fired for sexually assaulting a teenager in his squad car, and end up getting rehired by the same department.

jonhendry18··on Chris Lattner left Swift core team
I'm sure the App Store, code signing, and bad dev docs will find a way to retain the lead.
jonhendry18··on Chris Lattner left Swift core team
Another committee is sure to fix the problem with the existing committees.
jonhendry18··on Do Cryptocurrencies Provide ANY() Real-Economic Value at All?
There will never be a real secondary market for NFTs.

How are people going to re-sell an NFT when its metadata points to a file that 404s.

jonhendry18··on Do Cryptocurrencies Provide ANY() Real-Economic Value at All?
"Smart contracts are precise, and they require the entire population of coin users to disagree with the computed outcome."

Lol every month or so some smart contract bug gets exploited and coins get stolen.

jonhendry18··on Do Cryptocurrencies Provide ANY() Real-Economic Value at All?
Why not get an account at a US bank with a presence in Japan?
jonhendry18··on Do Cryptocurrencies Provide ANY() Real-Economic Value at All?
What if the tenant offers the enforcer ownership of the landlord's home if the enforcer evicts the landlord instead?
jonhendry18··on Do Cryptocurrencies Provide ANY() Real-Economic Value at All?
" In countries where government agents are installed through corruption and paid in bribes"

And somehow this won't also end up artificially boosting the "reputation" of potential arbitrators?

(Or perhaps the government will make it clear that anyone who acts as an arbitrator without government authorization will spend a long time in a small cell.)

jonhendry18··on Do Cryptocurrencies Provide ANY() Real-Economic Value at All?
"They are going to make government, lawyer and bank services a lot less necessary."

Except when a third party finds bugs in the smart contract code and diverts the rent payments to themselves.

jonhendry18··on Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
More legitimate than mining coins that'll be put in a wallet that ends up in a landfill.
jonhendry18··on Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
Sure, but in that respect Bitcoin has been redundant for years.
jonhendry18··on Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
If you spend the money to put up panels to fund your mining, you'll probably never make a profit from the mining.
jonhendry18··on Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
Except everything people do with Bitcoin could be done just as well with a less obscenely wasteful coin.
jonhendry18··on Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
"Here's a paper whose coauthors belong to the Bitcoin team discussing efficient confidential transactions that were eventually implemented in Monero (not by the Bitcoin team)."

The knowledge held by the Bitcoin team wouldn't disappear if Bitcoin was shut down. They could still contribute to other crypto projects.

jonhendry18··on Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
Er, no it wouldn't?

You don't need Bitcoin around to do that.

jonhendry18··on Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
Do destroy Bitcoin, to incent people to move to more efficient alternatives.

Bitcoin should have died a decade ago.

jonhendry18··on Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
"What the author suggests would be similar to saying,"

No, because driving has a legitimate purpose.

jonhendry18··on Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
Doesn't sound like it's worth torching the only inhabitable planet for.
jonhendry18··on Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
"Calling out the BTC network on its energetic inefficiency completely misses the point that the work put into the network is exactly the scarce digital asset, and hence the store of value."

That's no excuse for the obscene waste of resources.

jonhendry18··on Long-term study reveals harm in regular cannabis use
Also use of an illegal substance can lead to legal consequences that can harm one's employability for years afterward.

So if pot weren't illegal in Australia during the period being examined, perhaps their life outcomes would have been better?

jonhendry18··on Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2040 Microcontroller
There's a datasheet that covers it.

https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/rp2040/hardware_design_wi...

jonhendry18··on What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
That doesn't make him a feminist icon.
jonhendry18··on What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
The faster 68040 motherboards were available as an upgrade for the older 030 models. So it's not like a "NeXT Computer" couldn't have the 040 inside.
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