palmer_eldritch

> rename it santa-mas

If you really want to go that way, it would be a good idea to also get rid of the -mas ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_(liturgy) )

Just wait until they're teenagers.

But you might not find it that exciting then, having teenage kids has its own drawbacks.

I wouldn't want someone driving me to be sedated.

No, they did the work, he earned the money.

Since autoplay is the default right now, you could expect a fair amount of people to think youtube's broken if you changed it...

It wouldn't be that bad if he wasn't the fire chief and there was already four bodies.

These two facts make things a little worse imo.

> The fire chief entered the cistern wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus. After reaching the plank platform, he removed his face mask to shout instructions to those on the surface and he, too, was instantly overcome.

Now that one is probably deserving a Darwin Award...

> Winning the War on Climate Change

It's not a war, it's not a contest. There are no "sides" and there's nothing to "win".

It's just adapt or die.

And there are many ways to adapt, it can mean changing ourselves just as it can mean changing our environment.

So... did the guy selling that to us get the implants? They don't say anything about it in the article.

> Alcohol is far worse because you can become dependent on it in a way marijuana doesn't really allow.

Well, I've seen more people become dependent with hash/pot than with alcohol. I'd say that's because it's much harder to be functional drunk than stoned.

There might not be physical cravings or withdrawal but when someone starts hitting the bong several times a day, all this talk about hard and soft drugs is bullshit. And once they want to stop, the biggest difference is that they don't have the excuse of being in pain physically.

> But maybe heroin wasn't common in Germany and therefore oxycodone was pre- in Germany?

Heroin was first marketed by Bayer, a German pharmaceutical company in 1898. That's where the name 'heroin' comes from so oxycodone was definitely not pre- in Germany.

Now, in nazi Germany, opium and products derived from it might have been harder to come by because of import sanctions (that's why methadone, a fully synthetic opioid, was developed in Germany in 1937). But that would apply to oxycodone just as much as heroin.

So no, the author is just full of shit and trying to impress his uninformed readers.

Oh, so you've got a collection of pictures of people relieving themselves in the streets?

Nothing strange at all, congrats!

Oh, shi- I forgot: /sarcasm

Well, it's just a theory after all...

"à la baguette"

From DanBC above: At will, secret, testing is banned. Parents can get court orders if they want a paternity test.

The "labs lobbying" comment was kind of tongue-in-cheek: making fun of the "crazies" being paranoid about "crazy feminists"...

The real reason's probably more about bioethics: no dna profiling of people who don't consent without a court order (and children being too young to consent, you need a court order for a paternity test).

Yes, if you really want to be paranoid about it: it's probably more a result of accredited labs' lobbying than crazy feminists.

> So not really what you would expect from a union in the west

Oh, you know, these days in the West, the big unions are more partners with the governments/employers than they are on the side of the workers.

Many unions have become tools that exists only to perpetuate their own existence, instead of being tools for workers to organize and collectively defend their interests against those of their employers and governments.

Yeah, but when they confiscate food in poor countries it's to maintain the elite in their luxury, regardless of how much everyone else is starving.

Or, what if I learn to touch type?

> Except when it is. Given sufficient downvotes, a post will fade to the same color as the background, making it easy to scroll past and not see it.

It doesn't change anything. The content is still available for anyone to see if they want to.

Censorship is about making content unavailable. Not giving the exact same visibility to everything out there isn't censorship. Or upvoting is also a form of censorship, since it moves content above less-upvoted comments making less-upvoted comments more likely to be missed by people who won't scroll to the end of the page.

And for anyone used to HN's way of doing things, it's not hard to spot faded comments and highlight them if they seem of interest given the context around them.

Downvoting isn't equal to censorship. The content remains available for anyone with an account.

The commit history of this project remains available too... however, they forbid the authors to use the word in the live version if they want their project to be hosted on github. Now, I guess it's their prerogative to set the rules for people using their service. But I think it's also fair to say that being the facebook of programming it feels like they're kind of bullying the authors into compliance...

I'm pretty sure it's a really a non-story. Someone at github overreacted when a complaint was received. Big deal. If they started blocking accounts for reasons like this on a regular basis, many people would move somewhere else. It's not like they don't have competitors with equally good solutions. Their only advantage is their large userbase.

I'm not sure they'll find a buyer... they managed to ruin them pretty badly.

Now, for slashdot, the slashdot crowd definitely has some responsibility. Still, they did pretty much anything they could to antagonize them (although, I'm not sure what they could have done not to, it seems like it's a pretty important part of being a slashdotter to hate on the staff).

> One of the most well known examples was when the FBI used a FireFox 0-day to target and eventually dismantle a child pornography ring.

Funny... that's when they took down Freedom Hosting right? If I recall correctly, they didn't use a 0-day, they targeted a vulnerability that had been patched in the regular tor browser so only people using an outdated version of the browser were hit by it.

Plus, calling Freedom Hosting a "child pornography ring" isn't representing accurately what it was. Sure, their was child porn hosted there. Maybe even most of what was hosted there was child porn, I don't know... but that was a web host. There was no encouragements from Freedom Hosting to host cp there (apart from not doing anything to prevent it).

Plus, apart from busting the guy responsible for FH, I'm not sure they got anyone of interest with this operation... at least, I haven't heard of it and I'm sure they wouldn't have been too shy to brag about it if they had made any high-profile cp bust from this.

> I don't think anyone is expecting to wear a VR headset for 24 hours straight.

I'm pretty sure some people expect to do just that, especially in the gaming community. Although, I'm not sure it's going to be worse than spending 24h+ gaming on a regular screen while heavily imbibing energy drinks...

What if amphetamines (or some other stimulants) were to become a thing in the IT industry and that workers had no other choice to take some to meet standard performance or be unemployed? All for the benefit of the employers?

That's pretty much what's going on for professional athletes... now, I wouldn't like being forced to take some drugs to be able to make a living. And if we say it's ok to do it for professional sports, how long until someone says it should be ok in other fields?

Fugitive + command line.

And in english too, to rob = to steal.

Still the context is important. When talking about some machine, it's obvious that it's meant for robot, not to say it's going to rob you - even if it's what it actually does.

Yeah, I think it's the responsibility of the user to bring his own child porn to plant on his victim's computer.

Any tool you can use to upload files on a remote system can be used for that. Hacking Team's tools certainly allow that but I very much doubt they have a tool specialized for planting child porn/evidence on a computer.

But then... we're so used of seeing child porn used as a straw man to increase surveillance that's it's pretty fun to see it used against one of the companies making tools to help with said surveillance. Even if it's wrong.

I think the main problem is that people are looking for some kind of silver bullet diet that will make them healthy and live long. So, since there's demand, there are other people providing them with it.

Of course it's just air, there's no such thing as a silver bullet diet. Health and longevity depends on so much more than just diet that there will never be such a thing.

But still, since there's money to be made by selling dummies miracle diets, there are some to sell. And since they can't sell the real thing because it can't be made, they do what they can to convince the customers that it is. Among other marketing tricks, pervert science so it looks like their snake oil is based on something more than just the will to make money from gullible people.

There might be some good science in the nutrition field. Sadly, it's drowned in a sea of wishful thinking, bad science and plain charlatanry...