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pleoxy··on JavaScript is weird
You can convert to a number with a + before your variable.

const y = +x + 12;

Will be number addition even if x is a string.

pleoxy··on Stop Using Brave Browser
> How do you get "proclaimed evil for that" from that?

The title of the section, "the hateful browser", tells you the appropriate lense through which to view the entirety of the content. The reader is primed to assume bad faith everywhere.

He reenforces the view with his commentary, the disbelieving and sarcastic "okay Brendan" which further primes the reader into a bad faith view of his accomplishments and life.

It's not a rebuttal that directly addresses any of Mr Eich's points. If we assume good faith on the part of Eich's quote, then an entirely different approach to the points is warranted.

pleoxy··on CloudFlare’s last Warrant Canary was published over a year ago
Twitterfiles, various publications on government access to Facebook takedown portal.

Including on this platform...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33418284

pleoxy··on CloudFlare’s last Warrant Canary was published over a year ago
> It's really, really hard to be part of some grand conspiracy as a public company.

No it's not. Twitter and Facebook have had defacto government censorship collusion, as suspected by the paranoid.

For years and years it was dismissed as conspiracy, but clear evidence has now come out that it was happening in these public companies.

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