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Re: Requesting Funding for 90s.dev

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Post by johnisgood »

90s_dev wrote: post #48
johnisgood wrote: post #26

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Not to downplay this as I do not know what really happened, but you could theoretically (and practically?) get these charges just by peeing outside and a kid walking by. Is this correct? I suppose it would count as "exposing organs". Or sending a "dick pic" online to someone you assumed to be an adult. So many guys do this and I have never understood how they could get off of that, but then again, there are weirder k…

From one perspective, you could say that I had a mental illness caused by a combination of issues from my childhood that caused me to have a serious problem with exhibitionism from 5 until 30 years old. From another perspective, I was just a morally evil person for all of that time. I think both are correct. It's more complicated. I have my own thoughts on what caused everything to happen the way it did and why I was…

Unfortunately many people will stop at your past, and it ends there. They will not consider or appreciate you coming forward. Personally, I could not care less. I care about the project, not the person behind it. Of course when it comes to funding the project (or someone with a past like yours), that complicates things. Maybe you should be as transparent as possible with the money? In any case, I am not sure what I would do and I do not have the means to donate anyways.

Re: Requesting Funding for 90s.dev

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Post by posterguy »

johnisgood wrote: post #47
posterguy wrote: post #43

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the mind reels in an effort to understand your point

Well my point is that in case I have no diapers, I may have to resort to peeing outside behind a tree or something (like most of us did back in the days). I guess I could just pee myself. :P And I have some curiosity with respect to the law.

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Re: Requesting Funding for 90s.dev

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Post by johnisgood »

posterguy wrote: post #52
johnisgood wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well my point is that in case I have no diapers, I may have to resort to peeing outside behind a tree or something (like most of us did back in the days). I guess I could just pee myself. :P And I have some curiosity with respect to the law.

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Oh jeez, I am not into sexual stuff in general and I find if baffling that people do send such pictures, especially to random people but I do not want to come across as someone who thinks I am morally superior because I am most definitely not.

In any case, yeah, peeing my pants might be leaning towards the safe side.

And no, I did not mean "intentionally pee near kids", that is disgusting (to me). I meant that theoretically it could be a problem were a parent with their kid to walk nearby at the same time (and I am curious about the law side of it), not that I would go to a nearby park and do it (I cannot hold it back anyways). That is disgusting. The problem is that I cannot even hold it back, so no matter where I am, I will either pee or pee myself. If I am at a nearby park (not gonna happen, I have mobility issues), then of course I am going to pee myself, unless the park is empty.

Thankfully I have never gotten into a situation like this before because I try to plan as much as I can before going out, but accidents happen.

Re: Requesting Funding for 90s.dev

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Post by 90s_dev »

chistev wrote: post #27

Great, you made it to the front page this time. Lol. Edit: this isn't a negative comment. I made the comment because I noticed he complained about being down voted a lot previously.

And it's falling back off. Expected. Thanks anyway everyone for trying. Thanks mods for letting it try.

Re: Requesting Funding for 90s.dev

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Post by 90s_dev »

Spoom wrote: post #30
90s_dev wrote: post #22

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Have I not paid my price by going to jail? By being homeless and sleeping in my car in the cold of winter? By having people show up at my door in January trying to cause physical violence to me? Are you the same person you were 9 years ago? Would you rather my children not have food and shelter because of mistakes I made 9 years ago and paid for in abundance? Should I put up a gofundme so that they can have their nee…

To be fair: > Duration of Registration: Lifetime Registrant Arguably the law says that you will never have paid your price.

With regards to the law, yes. I have to pay $100 every year and tell the government all my information.

Society is not the government. Society has the opportunity to let me back in.

Re: Requesting Funding for 90s.dev

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Post by Spoom »

90s_dev wrote: post #55
Spoom wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair: > Duration of Registration: Lifetime Registrant Arguably the law says that you will never have paid your price.

With regards to the law, yes. I have to pay $100 every year and tell the government all my information. Society is not the government. Society has the opportunity to let me back in.

Sure, and I'm not flagging your post or anything here. Society has the opportunity, but not the obligation.

Re: Requesting Funding for 90s.dev

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Post by dfedbeef »

johnisgood wrote: post #44
dfedbeef wrote: post #34

Not sure why that thread below got flagged. It's pretty relevant to the topic

I do not know the personal life of most people whose work I use or like though. I do not think I would stop using them just because they did something I find morally repulsive. If ReiserFS was any good than the alternatives, I would use it. I understand the people who wouldn't. Granted, it is related to funding him, but eh. A quick question: How well do you know the people behind your favorite projects?

I think this counts as more of a 'public life' situation.

Re: Requesting Funding for 90s.dev

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Post by johnisgood »

dfedbeef wrote: post #57
johnisgood wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not know the personal life of most people whose work I use or like though. I do not think I would stop using them just because they did something I find morally repulsive. If ReiserFS was any good than the alternatives, I would use it. I understand the people who wouldn't. Granted, it is related to funding him, but eh. A quick question: How well do you know the people behind your favorite projects?

I think this counts as more of a 'public life' situation.

If it turns out Linus did something terrible in the past, I wonder how many people would stop using Linux based on that alone. We are not the same. To some people it matters a great deal, to others it does not matter at all, and there are some people somewhere in the middle I suppose. To me it is more about pragmatism. I may have an opinion on the developer as a person, but that would not stop me from using the project. For example I do not like the author of Odin much, but I do like the programming language. When it comes to contributing to the project, however, that he (author of Odin) reviews, I am not so eager because I have seen him being somewhat condescending before, which I think is more relevant than his personal life.

That said, when it comes to funding, it is not so clear cut to me. I actually do not have an answer. Transparency?

Re: Requesting Funding for 90s.dev

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Post by arp242 »

90s_dev wrote: post #22
mepas wrote: post #16

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Have I not paid my price by going to jail? By being homeless and sleeping in my car in the cold of winter? By having people show up at my door in January trying to cause physical violence to me? Are you the same person you were 9 years ago? Would you rather my children not have food and shelter because of mistakes I made 9 years ago and paid for in abundance? Should I put up a gofundme so that they can have their nee…

I'll just comment here and say that I support your right to participate in society. I don't think this entire thread is especially relevant here.

I don't have a clear comprehensive theory on what justice is (and if I did, it would be too large to fit in this margin), but forever being haunted by a criminal record for the rest of your life is not it.

There are no details on that page. No one here is in any position to judge anything because you need the full details of the case. But it's pretty obvious this is not Jeffery Epstein or Marc Dutroux we're talking about here.

I find many comments here unpleasant, hysterical, and even cruel.

Re: Requesting Funding for 90s.dev

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Post by dang »

jarebear6expepj wrote: post #10
dang wrote: post #6

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Mods didn't see it. Users flagged it, because fundraisers and requests for funding are not on topic for Hacker News. I'm going to make an exception in this case and turn off the flags. We can't (and don't) do this often, so please don't anyone interpret this as a precedent.

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I totally get that there's a spectrum of responses and that everyone has good reasons for feeling the way they do. I don't think one is right and another wrong. They're all right.

From a moderation point of view the questions are: where is the cost/benefit optimum for the community, and what is most in keeping with the intended spirit of the site?

I don't think punishing people for past crimes should be a primary function for HN. IMO the cost of that outweighs the benefit, and it isn't optimal for what we want here (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

That's why I'm willing to make a rare out-of-band exception for a post like this. But not so often that it becomes a Thing.

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