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@bucaran: i'm confused. why are you also commenting on this thread as Tzadeck?

@striking, the comments you mention appear to be from one side. @bucaran's alleged censoring of the discussion [0] makes it difficult to know what was actually discussed, but it's …

this hn comment links to a github comment (from the other side) that was deleted by the usurper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10273780

> Obviously all other avenues of resolution have been exhausted. could you elaborate? it's not clear to me what other avenues of resolution were attempted.

"refers" got their start in chicago, when george h. hammond patented a refrigerated rail car design in 1868 [0]. although the technology was initially used to transport meat via ra…

> Is anyone using a pedal in addition of a keyboard on a daily basis? i've been using foot pedals with a kinesis advantage for a couple of months. note: i don't always use the peda…

> “The real problem is that the car is too safe...” no. this statement is fallacious, and i believe it is dangerously misleading. it sounds like something out of the mouth of a cor…

some questions on IQ tests depict rotated images of figures, and ask things like: > can the two figures in each set be made identical by rotating them in space? [0] this isn't my d…

> The browser should be ... for viewing and retrieving data, not executing that data. i'm genuinely interested in what a modern version of that would look like. recently i watched …

the proliferation of driverless cars could make the debate about losing access to public roads (i.e. losing one's drivers license) much more interesting.

agreed. interesting read, yet far from complete, and certainly questionable. a couple that jumped out to me as questionable: the "discounting" section reminds me of the stanford ma…

datatau [0] might be worth checking out, if you're not familiar. since bioscience isn't on my radar i'm not sure if you'd find anything useful there, however, it feels like a more …

> But you are making an assumption that just because someone enjoys living in a trailer house, they must also be ok with living in an apartment. That may not be the case, at lease …

if i've written something that's factually wrong or misleading, offensive, or otherwise violates the comment guidelines, i would appreciate the opportunity to update my comment or …

like OP, online ads (partially) put food on my table. but that's where the similarities stop: whereas OP mentions he's "never been tempted to run ad-blocking software before," i've…

agreed. perhaps the title could include an adjective which specifies the type of risk under consideration.

a few years ago i had to pare down my wardrobe for extended travel. sadly (at the time), my startup tees were the first to go. i replaced them with patagonia's silkweight tees (2/3…

i get that this is a tongue-in-cheek comment, and appreciate your sense of humor, but it also saddens/frightens me to think this could become the prevailing sentiment in the years …

whilst reading your above comment i wondered why you chose not to use environment variables instead. e.g.: $ export cdc_stuff='/Users/me/src/project_stuff' $ cd $cdc_stuff however,…

secondarily, many non-US companies with data centers located in the US have been impacted from the global backlash.

no, not necessarily. consider guidance from new zealand's Health Information Governance Expert Advisory Group (HIGEAG) [0]: > Unless an exemption is granted by the National Health …

> TL;DR: It's about the "Internet of Things" ^ this is too ambiguous to be meaningful for anyone who isn't familiar with the cyber grand challenge (CGC). the CGC, as i understand i…

> So far scientists haven't found anything special about the human brain that can't be mimicked by a machine. mimicking the brain's power-consumption-to-compute-power ratio is diff…

>>the comment in question (asking for the difference between "vanilla assault" and rape) was in shockingly bad taste. > Why? While we are discussing why asking the question is in b…

editing/updating your comment without noting the changes can make it difficult to follow the conversation.