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Interesting, you see I see calls of violence on Twitter all the time but their hosting company isn't threatening to ban them. And if you mean "me" by "his": I don't call for violence.
Actually I responded to that, and you never got back to me.

See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17671916

Feel free to ban me though, this site is the worst echo chamber I've ever seen, hiding behind selectively enforced rules.

Re:Gerald M. Weinberg has died on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:42AM (#17721852)
Is there a non-Facebook link? Facebook is blocked at my work.
Re:Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning – video series on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @08:28PM (#17712188)
Interesting how this kind of news always drops whenever there is bad press about Facebook.
I suspect the same thing. There's NEVER anything in this industry that is a coincidence. You might not get a lot of people agreeing with you right now, but just wait a few months and your comment will be spot on.
Thank you!
Re:Show HN: Crypto Toolbox – Track Crypto Assets in Chrome on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:32PM (#17709810)
Are you planning on making it for Firefox?
What does this mean? It sounds interesting. Thank you.
Hey dang, haven't heard back from you. Was just wondering on your opinion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17700387

I'm currently negative 3 points for trying to start a conversation about the topic at hand. How is this not a hivemind? I followed your instructions and yet this still happens.

Look forward to your response.

Not an Infowars fan, but I see "hate speech" being used as a reason to ban alternative views a lot lately. Let's say he was indeed engaging in hate speech (I haven't verified this): hate speech is still speech, no?

Edit: thanks for the downvotes, can we not have a discussion about this? Should we ban hateful books too? I happen to have learned a lot from historically hateful books.

Re:Usenet – A worldwide distributed discussion system on Sunday August 05, 2018 @08:34PM (#17694376)
Thank you!
Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy? on Sunday August 05, 2018 @07:18PM (#17694098)
Your forum is very fast, did you do anything specific to make it that way? :)
Re:Usenet – A worldwide distributed discussion system on Sunday August 05, 2018 @07:10PM (#17694075)
What are some good providers for binaries these days?
Re:G Suite Horror Story on Sunday August 05, 2018 @01:25AM (#17689846)
I wish I had done this in 2015. I lost the only pictures of my now deceased dog in Google Drive when I was locked out for no reason. Except I didn't regain access because I didn't make a popular Reddit or blog post.

Apparently Google's "customer service" runs as follows:

1. Don't provide any customer service email address.

2. Don't provide any contact form.

3. Don't provide any phone number.

4. Don't respond when people resort to sending snail mail. (Yes really I tried and I'm not the only one).

5. Provide a forum where 999/1000 posts don't get a response.

6. Suddenly respond if it affects public relations. (ea. a popular Reddit post).

Re:Make anonymous HTTP GET requests with proxies via Python on Saturday August 04, 2018 @11:23PM (#17689495)
I could be wrong but I'm not sure this is completely accurate. There are HTTPS proxies listed on the page it's fetching proxies from.

And it's been a while but I could have sworn you can do DNS requests through a proxy.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though.

Re:New attack on WPA using PMKID on Saturday August 04, 2018 @02:51PM (#17688006)
There are some statistics on top of this "cloud cracking service" page that might be of interest to you: https://gpuhash.me

Right now it appears they have an 30% success rate (if I'm reading it right).

Re:Internet Archive, decentralized on Saturday August 04, 2018 @08:14AM (#17686555)
Wow, your work (GUN) is really great. I hope you don't mind me asking how it works in layman's terms? Thank you for your work.
Thanks for getting back to me. I have to disagree with your first point. There is very much a hivemind on HN, and any comment that doesn't fit in there gets downvoted. I find myself scrolling all the way down every thread to get different points of view, by the time I get to the interesting comments I can barely read them because you made the CSS make "unpopular" comments barely visible.

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17672125

Fair enough.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Why is this selectively enforced? "Assume good faith." for example? I haven't seen anyone do that on here.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17681471

This was a genuine question of mine, it's currently -2.

I wasn't the first one with this thought: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a19666/we-cant-just-t...

Re:Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling on Saturday August 04, 2018 @12:41AM (#17685411)
Thank you for explaining.
Re:Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling on Friday August 03, 2018 @12:58PM (#17681471)
What would happen if we put trash in shipping containers and launch it into space? (Serious question).
> Rewritten for normal people

Thank you =)

Re:Handshake: An experimental peer-to-peer root DNS on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:09PM (#17674528)
They should partner with Let's Encrypt! This is great.
Sorry that they are unsubstantive to you, would have expected more from an admin than a comment like that.

Edit: your comment got me thinking, what is substantive to you? Is it just the general hivemind of HN that's only allowed here?

Re:France bans smartphone use in schools on Thursday August 02, 2018 @11:23AM (#17672125)
Or maybe you should move to France.
> I wonder what the chances are that you believe in man made climate change?

Is that a question? Or a statement?

Why does this need a solution? There's nothing wrong with mining.
Man that's a good deal. I'm paying $2,200 per month in electricity costs for mining and am getting nowhere near those kinds of rates.
Re:Reddit Security Incident on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @01:12PM (#17664511)
Edit: nevermind

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