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trasz
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About trasz
PS. To the Americans among you, the 50 Cent thing isn't really true; see https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
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Comment #33260848
>sweatshop workers in areas with human rights violations Such as USA with $11B of goods manufactured by forced labour in prison camps? (Note: this is not whataboutism, it’s pointin…
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Comment #33260633
Of course they do. To China, Russia is a cheap mafia-owned gas station. It can no longer provide any real business opportunities thanks to sanctions; see how the Russian part of Be…
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Comment #33260347
I don’t mean favoritism towards specific companies; I mean suppressing opinions that are inconvenient to companies. For example, blatant anti-Chinese xenophobia or hate speech towa…
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Comment #33260194
I’d say the real problem is not the technical insecurity - that’s a result. The real problem is in the last paragraph: the fact that banks are incentivized to use insecure mechanis…
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Comment #33258760
Logging is a good example of how the opposite to what you say tends to be true. Have you ever wondered why Windows logs are so useless? It’s not windows-specific; when you look at …
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Comment #33258687
So what makes you assume it was “homeless and junkies” who mugged them, and not some Christian republican human trash? (“Human trash” as a counterpoint to your “junkie” slur; also …
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Comment #33258559
HN is a publicity tool for YC, so they are suppressing topics that are politically inconvenient to their business partners.
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Comment #33258481
But it just so happens you never have problems with racism or other hate speech, only with people who point it out. I wonder why.
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Comment #33254029
>The Russians themselves. Ah. Now I suspect I know what you're talking about: the terror campaign. Essentially what Russia did in Syria - they don't stand a chance against a proper…
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Comment #33244234
Realistically, how much can you make at Amazon pretending to work before they figure out and fire you? Because, honestly, once you realize it’s ethical to do so, Amazon being a bad…
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Comment #33244045
I’m not sure about the “plenty of equipment”. Case in point - over the past six months there have been _ten_ Russian plane crashes caused by malfunctions. Even though they almost d…
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Comment #33244030
> The veterans who died for the continental US beg to differ. Only if they skipped their history classes - dying for the empire is a standard part of being a colony.
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Comment #33243986
One way to fix the problem would be to somehow feed Copilot a corpora of closed source code. This would either force Microsoft to add necessary copyright protections, or - which is…
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Comment #33243644
I’m absolutely not trying to shame anyone; I’m pointing out they are being exploited.
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Comment #33239457
Here’s a properly technical explanation of the problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33239443
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Comment #33238117
No idea about 787, but usually there’s a bunch of fuses in the cockpit (eg https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/fuse-panel-airliner-18627188... ), and they are made easily accessible fo…
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Comment #33236154
Yukon is a territory. Here, the "territory" is just a pretty name for a colony. You can't vote, US constitution doesn't quite apply, you're getting peanuts from federal aid, and wh…
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Comment #33236137
I’m not sure if using nukes would get NATO directly involved. First, it would be counterproductive wrt Putin’s goal above. Second, it could provoke strikes against NATO - Russia st…
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Comment #33234407
Puertoricans are American citizens by name only - they can’t vote, for example. It’s a colony, and US treats it as such - it doesn’t enjoy the privileges of actual US territory. If…
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Comment #33234316
>How spent are the Russian forces? They haven't even applied 15% of their full forces to this operation This is in stark contrast to what analysts are saying, which is that Russia …