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user_0x | 5 years ago | on: My DNS Was Stolen

yeah, this makes sense, especially all the power they've consolidated, hope they unionize already.

user_0x | 5 years ago | on: Amazon Is Paying Employees to Quit Right Before Critical Union Vote

gross

user_0x | 5 years ago | on: Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max

that's the thing that people don't generally bring up with apple: they area a luxury company, they price things in the same way any other luxury good company does in the vein of supreme or gucci or whatever. it's all about making the product exclusive, or at least feel exclusive, while making the design something that can be considered fashion. the fact they happen to put computers in their fancy cases is hardly the point to the archetypal consumer.

user_0x | 5 years ago | on: Facebook Has Been Profiting from Boogaloo Ads Promoting Civil War and Unrest

at this point being surprised would be like touching exposed wires on a rainy day after escaping from an electric chair execution.

user_0x | 5 years ago | on: Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks

as it should be in a civilian society.

user_0x | 5 years ago | on: Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks

This also goes for global warming etc. The military is a really interesting institution when it comes to politics in the US, and undoubtedly anywhere really.

user_0x | 5 years ago | on: George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter

This is exactly how I think about the police issue in the US. If someone has more power, as in, they are allowed to carry guns and arrest people if they need to, then those people also cannot expect it to be a "normal" job where they matter more than who they are working with (the public).

The standards of conduct need to be draconially high, because a police officer has the power to ruin a person's life.

user_0x | 5 years ago | on: The Shareware Scene, Part 4: Doom

i recently started playing doom online with doomseeker. i was pretty disappointed that it was mostly modded to hell and back and all the good deathmatch servers were in russia with 200+ ping. still fun, you just can't really aim right. . .

user_0x | 5 years ago | on: How much do we need the police?

blogs haven't really existed for hundreds of years my dude.

user_0x | 5 years ago | on: Google Is Not God of the Web

but that isn't really true. google gets ~80% of the searches on the web. that means that if someone who isn't conforming to google's frankly arbitrary ranking system is being censored, to use strong language.

user_0x | 5 years ago | on: Pretending OOP Never Happened

Having just come out of a datastructures class, this is the view that seems the most useful to me. ADTs in general seem to be very well expressed with classes, and I think it is exactly for the reason you mentioned: they are just systems that need to be able to define the ways in which a user is allowed to interact with the data.

user_0x | 5 years ago | on: My New Old Apple IIe Computer

I totally agree with you about the awesomeness of the software manuals from the time. The whole aesthetic is so much warmer then it is now.

user_0x | 5 years ago | on: Leviathan in Lockdown

on the other hand, there is something to be said for the decision to interpret the image in a way that makes it relevant to our times.

user_0x | 5 years ago | on: Street View camera rigs do much more than just take photos

I agree with that wholeheartedly. I find it interesting that governments don't see Google as direct competitor for power at this point.

It's also fairly weird that such data gathering corps are considered individuals in the same way one person with a camera is.

user_0x | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?

The food rule works for anything, but Detroit. https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2774