sittingnut | 5 years ago | on: The Safety Boat: Kubernetes and Rust
rust and kubernetes - post with mostly useless hype monsters united.
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sittingnut | 6 years ago | on: Twitter exec for Middle East is also part-time British army 'psyops' officer
that is in fact extremely muted (and mostly about things that are not in line with ideology of west's elites) compared to their condemnation of 3rd world authoritarians or adversaries of west. especially so because west is now the biggest rights violators, including biggest mass murderers and perpetrators of illegal wars.
sittingnut | 6 years ago | on: Twitter exec for Middle East is also part-time British army 'psyops' officer
altruism?! organizations like amnesty and human rights watch, regularly employee people in and out of western governments and are part of the governing western elite. no wonder that while they are always quick to call out and denounce some third world authoritarians, and adversaries of west, they are far more muted when it comes to rights violations by western leaders(even in minority of cases where they don't simply ignore).
factually, greatest mass criminals and rights violators of 21st century, are presidents and other leaders of usa and it's allies. but you wouldn't know that, if your sources are amnesty and co.
sittingnut | 6 years ago | on: What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves
statistics always involves selection and/or generalization of data. both of those acts always involves some kind of bias (even random selection) in what, how, and why, criteria used in process
sittingnut | 6 years ago | on: When the Pianos Went to War
as usual it is people who matter, not the tools they use, for good or ill, or something in between.
sittingnut | 6 years ago | on: How do you hide a war from your loved one?
however well intentioned, this boils down to people deciding for and controlling others. disrespecting them, treating them less than fully human, less than themselves. that is the underlying evil in all evil actions.
sittingnut | 6 years ago | on: Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymous threats
given how restrained the government response has been, given the protesters' violence and property damage, i doubt this was coordinated by either gov. other cleverer attritional responses like boycott and pressure on businesses sympathetic to protesters (eg. cathy pacific ceo was forced to resign today for not readily firing few pilots and employee participating in protests) is more likely way they will go, as ordinary people inevitably get tired of rather aimless protests.
sittingnut | 6 years ago | on: Vital Wikipedia Articles
wikipedia is now under the effective control of limited number of entrenched editors, mostly subscribing to western establishment's "liberal" ideology, with almost absolute power over content.
a prime example of this bias, is the article about british empire. comparison of that article with articles about other brutish regimes(ussr, mao's china, etc) is telling, even though it's atrocities far exceeds any other regime, in terms of both quantity and extent.
sittingnut | 6 years ago | on: The Slackification of the American Home
"american home"?
even in terms of content of article, it is clear this is confined to a very small section of society. even that is purely based on anecdotal claims.
almost no valid evidence, but broad nation wide conclusion.
sittingnut | 6 years ago | on: Practical Networked Applications in Rust, Part 1: Non-Networked Key-Value Store
another rust hype article.
with all that, readers of likes of hn, certainly would have a skewed view of industry.
sittingnut | 6 years ago | on: Talk: An open-source commenting platform focused on better conversation
non recognition of subjectivity of terms like "journalist", "annoying", "off topic", etc., used in description, don't bode well for success of this project.
sittingnut | 6 years ago | on: “I thought I'd share this Boris Johnson story with you”
politics allowed here?
sittingnut | 6 years ago | on: Stage0 – A set of minimal C compiler bootstrap binaries
why link to github when main repository is in savannah.gnu.org?
sittingnut | 6 years ago | on: Simone Weil is the patron saint of anomalous persons
some real content for a change.
sittingnut | 6 years ago | on: The preachers getting rich from poor Americans
why is this in hn?
if it is relevant, would hn link to articles on any selfless acts and charities by the religious(given that in reality hundreds of millions are helped by them)? seems there is an anti christian bias in this sort articles selected by hn; only the ones reflecting badly on christians are allowed.
sittingnut | 6 years ago | on: Coverage of a Disinformation Operation Against 2019 EU Parliamentary Elections
racist prejudice displayed in this article is nauseating. seems users from certain asian countries showing interest in european politics automatically become members and proof of disinformation campiagn. shame!
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