thieving_magpie

"Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing."

The term "whataboutism" is quickly becoming my least favorite word. We're allowed to talk about issues in a wider context. It's often helpful.

I'm very much interested in this issue as a whole and not just singling out Facebook as if they're the only bad actors. I'd appreciate letting that discussion take place rather than using some newly minted word to try and stifle it.

You're very bold. Not everything I do on the internet is public, fortunately.

Besides negative press are there any tangible indications of a large decline?

Think about how many times you see a post like this on HN: "I barely use facebook. I just keep it for <some random purpose>".

The effect, at least for me, is a wild goose chase trying to determine how the context of your post fits things like "Rohingya-cleansing". I can kinda see what you're saying based on some of the articles that come up but if you think this is helpful I'd have to disagree.

If you're going to rant about how the word has taken on new definitions at least be accurate about how it was used.

Pimping my son != Pimping my son's ride

I'm sure the intended audience for enemies of the state are googling "should i use a vpn?" right now. What a silly article.

Understand vpn's, understand public VPN providers, evaluate the risk for whatever you're trying to do.

I understand the trade off a little better now. Thanks. It leads me to a follow up question - is this universally true of all blockchain implementations or is it due to the structure of cryptocurrency (mining, etc.)?

I'm not knowledgeable in this area but isn't the problem "trust"? Trust is a risk. Probably a safe one but a risk nonetheless. If you have the ability to remove trust from the equation, why not pursue it?

> included a letter he had written in 2000 to VDare, a white-nationalist website, suggesting among other things that black people are innately less intelligent than white people. Later that week, a spokeswoman for The Times issued a statement saying “after reviewing the full body of Razib Khan’s work, we are no longer comfortable using him as a regular, periodic contributor.”

Do you think there's science backing up that "black people are innately less intelligent than white people"?

You'll have to explain to me how a guy in Oklahoma having a passport and knowing the capitol of Hungary is relevant to nuclear policy and the threat of nuclear war. Your argument is all over the place. We're not all rich here in America, many of us weren't given great educations and have the money to travel. It isn't like Europe where another country may be within a couple of hours drive or train ride.

I also accept that we should do better in Geography. That'd be swell.

You're putting a lot of responsibility on some regular people. Do you go around to Inuits quizzing them on Southeast Asia too?

Ordinary citizens do not vote on issues affecting an individual country. I'm sorry, you're just going to have to accept the fact that not all Americans are well educated.

I understand. I'm simply saying that it's a poor comparison due to the differences in the relationship between Local police and federal (agencies/soldiers,etc) and in France with police/Gendarmerie/etc.

This was in 2008. Yeah I'm totally ignorant on the type of guns so they probably were just standard service rifles. I frequently saw them traveling in groups of three and having dogs sniff me while I rode the train. Again, it was just a bit of a culture shock I'm not saying anything negative about it.

Your comparison of US Policemen and French soldiers isn't fair. I've known a couple people from France of Algerian descent, you can imagine their opinion of French police isn't too dissimilar of yours about US police.

Yes it can be very hard for non-affluent Americans to travel if they're not near a border. Like anywhere else.

Americans knowledge of geography could certainly be improved. I don't think it means anything negative about the people though.

I lived on the US / Canadian border for 5 years and traveled to Canada. I can tell you with all honesty that border guards on both sides were very hostile toward me on a very frequent occurrence. When I've traveled through South America and Europe it was very much the same. Hell, it still shocks me that there were soldiers on my train in France with machine guns roaming the aisles.

That might be the most ridiculous statement I've read on HN. To the point that I can't even figure out what you're suggesting. Are you saying Americans aren't aware Hungary is a modern civilization? I'd say that was pretty off base.

What? That sounds absurd. I've had this happen many times to me over the years and I always let them know. I help send it back and everything is fine.

How wasteful that would be to throw it out. Personally I do feel like it's a moral obligation to make an attempt to send it back.

Haha yes, those were definitely awful. I only saw the first one and caught a little of the last one on a plane.

What I meant is I'm not tired of the Tolkien universe and would welcome more. That's not to say I enjoyed the hobbit series whatsoever. For instance, I'd love to see another director try their hand at a Hobbit series on television. At least then I could pretend the Jackson-led Hobbit series didn't exist.

Yes, they are.

I don't want to spoil anything but there are multiple characters that exist in both, though obviously younger since season 2 takes place some thirty years before season 1. Some of it is subtle but very interesting once you realize it. I don't want to hint at it more so as not to spoil it.

In effect each season stands alone, you're correct that there's not much world building.

They could do something like Fargo. The TV show exists within the same fictional universe but isn't really related to the movie.

I don't know - I've never thought to myself "I've had enough Tolkien stories represented in film". I'd love to see another representation.

Oh. That makes me just feel very sad.

That's honestly amazing how much of an impact he's had on software development. Interesting post.

It wasn't implied for me. I put in my SSID (6 digits) and last name. It then told me:

" Based on the information provided, we believe that your personal information may have been impacted by this incident."

It then had some button, I forgot what the button said. This led to the screen about "save the date" for protection.

Actually, since I'm affected, I got a different message. It's even worse.

They gave me a date in September that I have to remember to come back and sign up for. It's the equivalent of grabbing a ticket in the deli line.

Look at this text: "Please be sure to mark your calendar as you will not receive additional reminders. On or after your enrollment date, please return to faq.trustedidpremier.com and click the link to continue through the enrollment process".

That's enraging. You tell me I'm affected and now I have to come back at some date/time and sign up? At least it has given me the time to read all the comments about waiving class action participation.

>I’m also disappointed that the men I know, including most of my male colleagues, remained silent on the topic. And the ones that did participate, either seemed to support Damore or demonstrated a fundamental lack of understanding for the issues women engineers are faced with and care about.

Interesting takes on the memo. This part stood out to me.

I'm not really in a situation where I have many coworkers around but, just knowing myself, I can say I likely would be someone that would have stayed silent on the topic unless it was specifically brought up. That's more about my personality than anything, I generally avoid starting conversations because I'm bad at small talk.

I'd like to know what I can do differently. My opinion generally mirrors the thoughts put forward by the female engineers but I feel like maybe I've let someone in my life down by not being more vocal and supportive. Really the only thing I've done is tried to encourage female coworkers in non-development positions to try it out, and offer them help. I've tried to nudge our hiring team to look at a more diverse crowd - though that's hampered by low wages and living very literally in one of the more remote parts of the country (our town has 3.5k people and is considered a large town for our region). I guess I'm saying I want to do more but I don't know what to do without seeming disingenuous.

Is that the correct link you meant to share? Seems unrelated.

"I love the movies, love ‘em. Now, I’m watching Terminator 2 the other day, and I’m thinking to myself: They cannot top the stunts in this film, they cannot top this shit, unless … they start using terminally ill people as stunt people in feature films … well, hear me out, ’cause I know to a lot of you this may seem a little cruel. “Aww, Bill, terminally ill stunt people? That’s cruel!” You know what I think’s cruel? Leaving your loved ones to die in a hospital room surrounded by strangers. Fuck that! Put ‘em in the movies! What, you wanna let your grandmother live out her last days in a sterile hospital room, with translucent skin so thin you can see her last heartbeat work its way down her blue veins? Or do you want her to meet… Chuck Norris?

Hey, how come you dressed my grandmother up as a mugger? Shut up and get off the set. Action! Push her towards Chuck! (Karate noises) Wow, he kicked her head right off her body! Did you see that? Did you see my Grammy? She's out of her misery, you've seen the greatest film of all time!"

- bill hicks

Could I read somewhere other than ChristyNews3LV twitter talking about that? I do see it referenced by his friend's twitter account as well so I'm not trying to say it didn't happen or anything, I'd just like to read what the DA said here.

Google is failing me.

That seems like you're just perpetuating the reactionary news cycles. No - I am not willing to try and hold news outlets accountable. I'm not even sure how I'd do that except doing what I already am (not participating). I am willing to ignore reactionary news outlets, that's how I do my part.