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fritz posted:VirusNewbie 16 minutes ago | root | parent | next [–] 
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PaulRobinson 2 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] The American collective psyche has a history of mistrust long preceding the events you identify. In the colonial and early republic there was huge mistrust of Catholics, Jews, Masons, Native Americans and African Americans - many thought they were plotting against them. Why? Because at least some of them - say Native Americans - may well have been in order to stop their land being taken away and their families being slaughtered. In the nineteenth century, "International Bankers" (shorthand for rich Jews), and other rich businessmen - Carnegie, Morgan, Mellon, Rockefeller - all joined the ranks. There is substance in the idea that they literally conspired to create cartels in some circumstances, so this is not unfounded. And then we get to the 20th century. If I told you that 10 servicemen who were serving in Roswell in 1947 have come forward and said "yeah, there was a cover up, I didn't want to say anything earlier because I was worried about prosecution and losing my pension", and all their individual testimonies mostly collaborate you might think there was some evidence of a cover up. What if I then told you the actual number was higher? How many ex-USAAF service personnel would need to say "that was not a weather balloon, there was a cover up" would it take for you to re-think whether there was indeed a conspiracy? 50? 100? The actual number is... over 600. 600 people with no reason to lie are basically going around thinking "wow, my government is really keen on lying". Perhaps telling their families that there are dark, secret forces in this World. Then a couple of decades later, we have the assassination of JFK. For you to accept the official government explanation of what happened on that day in Dallas, you have to believe in magic bullets and a small entry wound to the front of the head and a large exit wound to the rear of the head is caused by a bullet fired from the rear. All this sits swirling around people's heads and then _actual_ conspiracies are proved completely true: CIA assassination plots, Watergate, and Iran-Contra. If somebody tells you that the CIA would "never" do something shady, there is ample evidence that they can, do and will. The reason Americans believe in conspiracies is because at various points in time there has been ample evidence of them and some of them are actually true. Some of them are just racism, or anti-semitism, or shock, but some of them _are actual conspiracies_. As to your last sentence, and the wonder what it would take to restore trust. Well, quite simply, the true conspiracies need to stop happening, and that means governments need to stop needing reason to form them. In short, nothing less than total revolution, then. reply cjbgkagh 24 minutes ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] AFAIK European Americans were escaping powerful occupational guilds in Europe which definitely did conspire in secret and not so secret. There was a fear that such guilds would follow them and establish themselves in the US. reply
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fritz posted:josephcsible 22 minutes ago | root | parent | next [–] hey everyone, this guy is a statist!! boooo the statist!
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post hole digger posted:have you considered simply behaving as a rational actor in the marketplace??? Stupid?????
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fritz posted:josephcsible 22 minutes ago | root | parent | next [–] why didnt they just take a bathroom break instead of peeing in bottles 
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of poo poo, parent, and next, I would hope that a HN poster does at most one of them
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quote:ineedasername 8 hours ago [–] notch656a 3 hours ago [–] Would your family have been better off if the income from your $6/hr job was lost? I presume this work was beneficial to your family somehow, otherwise you wouldn't have engaged in it.
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memish 1 hour ago | root | parent | next [–] Who owns the media and big tech now??? It's not poor people! At least Elon Musk is a very rich person who believes in free speech. Which is good for us poors. Twitter and the national discourse will be objectively better for working class voices as a result. Less so for the gatekeepers and media elite commentariat
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the whole of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30918534 is a barrel of laughs. leave it to hn readers to be elated that someone is coming in to rid twitter, of all places, of a "leftist political bias", and also > slibhb 1 hour ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] > Elon Musk is kind of obnoxious. He lies (or "exaggerates"). But what Tesla has done is insane. It's happened so quickly, and that's leaving aside the rockets. The hard evidence that we can build new things, that we can progress and build a future that's better than the present is so important. If it takes a flawed man to show us that, I'll take it. > If you hate Elon Musk, consider probing your mind deeply to figure out why. It may just be that you're an Ayn Rand villain. oh no, what a terrible fate
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:Ayn Rand villain p deece username
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epitaph posted:memish 1 hour ago | root | parent | next [–] curious posting history
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quote:chihuahua 12 hours ago | prev | next [–]
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matti posted:curious posting history would love for this person to answer their rhetorical question of 'who owns the media now' 
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(((who))) owns (((the media))) now
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FooBarBizBazz 4 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] > the human race will breed itself into some mad corner Bit of a tangent, but I think sexual reproduction helps to avoid this. Picture a set of points (people) in Euclidean space. Pick any two, "a" and "b", at random. Add a new point "c" at the midpoint. Unless the overall shape of this swarm is highly nonconvex, then this point "c" is going to be more in the "interior". If we formalized things a little more, we could prove that this operation is a contraction. The Fixed Point Theorem would apply, &etc. So, once your set has reached some convex shape, then there's a balance between these two forces: The contracting force of sexual reproduction, and the expanding force of random mutation. There's also selection of course. I tacitly assume there isn't much more of that happening right now? I could be wrong though; there may be some (strong?) selection against education... Interestingly, it's these educated who I assume would "benefit" from a eugenics regime. But, one bad meme, and the whole thing goes bad... reply
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guess the context: syshum 22 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] The modern era, no one can make a mistake, no one can be allowed to ever forget their mistakes, and we must always use any minor mistake to cancel the person if they do not agree with us politically reply ol' musky calling that dude a pedophile
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fritz posted:guess the context:
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syshum is one of the few usernames I recognize for somehow managing to not get shown the door despite being an absolute gently caress of a human being. Like HN has a lot of real hackernews types all over it but that guy is probably an actual fascist.
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Apr 6, 2022 21:16
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hn bans people for violating decorum, not for having awful views.
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im sending everyone who has ever posted on hn to prison for life.
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post hole digger posted:im sending everyone who has ever posted on hn to prison for life. thank you
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hey wait a second
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post hole digger posted:im sending everyone who has ever posted on hn to prison for life. gulp!
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post hole digger posted:im sending everyone who has ever posted on hn to prison for life. It’s a fair cop.
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MichaelRazum 15 minutes ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Brea... Feels kind of 1920. War. Inflation and Physics offer's some interesting mysteries. Maybe AGI will solve it all for us;) reply
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version_five 4 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal Yes. There is obviously a target market for that kind of signaling, but I literally stop reading as soon as I see it. If someone is going to elaborate about some specific technical feature that is noteworthy, like they wrote something using only the turing complete type system or whatever, I understand that, but if the only differentiator is "I wrote it in rust", I don't care. (Actually, I've had a long-standing theory that rust is somehow inextricably linked with what some might call the woke movement, or just millenial frailty, the idea of languages being "unsafe" and all, and the community generally. I think this is another datapoint - saying it's written in rust is sort of like talking about the race or politics or some other irrelevant characteristic of the person who wrote the code, it has literally no bearing on the functionality but it sends the right kind of message to certain people)
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that has to be a troll i refuse to believe otherwise
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fritz posted:
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That's the perfect hn post, like maybe we should just shut the thread down now
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Pile Of Garbage posted:that has to be a troll i refuse to believe otherwise anti-woke people loving hate rust because rust very clearly told them they weren't welcome in the community so they adopted this whole ideology where not only is rust bad, but its goals are bad too. it's a mix of really depressing and really funny.
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They should have picked Proposition 8-script
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Plorkyeran posted:anti-woke people loving hate rust because rust very clearly told them they weren't welcome in the community so they adopted this whole ideology where not only is rust bad, but its goals are bad too. it's a mix of really depressing and really funny. that explains a lot
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fritz posted:version_five 4 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal So like. I feel that especially open source software relies way too much on the technology than the actual features in their communication. In Linux it's not rare to see the "xxxxx client written in COBOL" as their main tagline. The users don't care what it's written on, they care what it does. BUT, that is a separate issue from the anti-woke ramblings of that idiot.
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"written in X" makes sense as part of your messaging when your goal is to find people who can contribute to the project rather than passive users. most of the projects which list it as a headline feature shouldn't be, but it's occasionally a decent idea.
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Warp is a closed-source, commercial project so I don’t think they’re looking to attract contributors. it’s just brand halo poo poo
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just define “safe” in the conversation as iso 26262 and iec 61508 and suddenly most of the safe stuff is C
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Plorkyeran posted:anti-woke people loving hate rust because rust very clearly told them they weren't welcome in the community so they adopted this whole ideology where not only is rust bad, but its goals are bad too. it's a mix of really depressing and really funny. same thing happened with anything mozilla says or touches after eich stepped down
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mystes posted:On an article about someone who tried unsuccessfully to launch a startup for a website that would recommend different OTC painkillers to people based on their symptoms or something: That's a really good way to kill your kidneys. If they're actually a physician they should keep up to date with medical research That's actually kinda messed up, I don't think it was ever recommended to take that much per day but especially chronically
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it’s still perfectly reasonable short term right?
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Now that doctors don't want to prescribe opioids ever, I wouldn't be surprised if more people are destroying their kidneys with massive doses of nsaids anyway.
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