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TheMightyLlama

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    Comment #37479118

    Tbh mastodon and pleroma hadn't even ocurred to me for this project. Plus, I know more about the twitter API than I do mastodon / pleroma so it seemed a natural fit. On your last p…

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    Show HN: I made a Twitter account which shows news in chronological order

    A while ago, I built a site to display news sources (articles, YouTube, tweets) chronologically. I felt social media, as a news source, often provides a skewed view of reality. Sca…

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    Comment #36123914

    Are there any apps or setting which reduce the saturation of colours? I notice that in many publicly available screens, such as in gyms, the saturation is extremely high drawing my…

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    Comment #33160675

    This policy feels to be synonymous with having a political officer aboard a soviet submarine…

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    Comment #33110327

    If gas lighting is a form of boundary violation, and I’m stretching here, could it be classified as mind-rape?

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    Comment #32961510

    America has _spent_ its oil buffer. It’s important to note the difference between a intentional use of an asset vs an unintentional loss of an asset.

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    Comment #32876377

    Nah, safe.

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    Comment #32792952

    There’s a lot of discussion here on the topic of cancel culture, deplatforming and the responsibilities of private entities. It may be useful to clarify in our responses if we mean…

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    Comment #32721506

    This raises a good question. Is it the model that produces racist, sexist or any other ‘ist ’ results inherently racist? Or is it how we use it? Is the knife a murderer or the pers…

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    Comment #32460534

    I originally created a gist with a bunch of curl commands that were difficult to figure out due to poor documentation. So it’s good to see someone creating a cli. My original curl …

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    Comment #32454250

    It might be pointless to do so, however you could also make it illegal for the existing employees to continue to work in the respective industry. It would prove to be a huge incent…

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    Comment #32113631

    “Why build one when you can have two at twice the price” ~ S.R. Hadden. Contact

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    Comment #32047173

    Because those are big words with big concepts behind them. All of which require an educations and an individual with drive to breach a new topic, study it and bring home data. Whic…

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    Comment #31905110

    Is it aggregation if you're scraping from one site and reordering the items you've scraped?

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    Comment #31816819

    I agree. I would also add that to make it easier to understand: the mind is running on a substrate, the weather is not.

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    Comment #31283216

    I love that there are people far more educated than me who are also paid to explore these topics. A while ago I was pretty certain that gravity was emergent and was caused by Gluon…

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    Comment #31271573

    IMO The current moderation model centres around moderating the things people communicate so as not to offend others. And results in attempts at keeping all communications in the sp…

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    Comment #30876194

    I suspect its a dig at terrible airline food.

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    Comment #30741685

    And in addition to that, wary of my lack of knowledge in this area, will the change be passed down the generations?

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    Show HN: I made a site featuring a chronology of news sources for a news event

    Note that I'm not a developer by trade and I still consider this a v0.1 with a bunch of bugs (in fact it's so v0.1 that the login button doesn't do anything and there's some hardco…

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    Comment #30643497

    The topic of programmable money aside, Why centralise the ability to freeze an account? If I deem someone (or some organisation) to be a bad actor I would like to block the ability…

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    Ask HN: Is there a good description of a physical implementation of Tor

    I had a look at the description of TOR on https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/onion-routing/ and wondered if there was an equivalent for the sending of messages via physical or even mixe…

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    Comment #30343760

    They look amazing. Is there a way to requeset custom illutrations?

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    Comment #30320290

    I've given this a lot of thought. Even to the extent of trying to understand what an alternative twitter would look like were it possible to somhow classify a tweet based on its le…

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    Comment #30311137

    Over a year ago I became hugely frustrated with the narratives that were being presented to us. Every 'social media' platform as well as 'news' platform presents us with an undiffe…