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Re:I Am Deleting the Blog on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:42AM (#23610954)
"Popular streamer <xyz> who uses the screen name <zyx>..."
Re:I Am Deleting the Blog on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:35AM (#23610903)
> make the title licensed

This is possibly one of the easiest ways to create a police state if you make journalism "regulated" (i.e. government approved) ((or if you're a nutter, corporation approved))

Re:I Am Deleting the Blog on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:31AM (#23610877)
When did "investigative journalism" become "doxxing"? Terminal internet brain.
I don't think Hacker News should be able to censor lawful content and also claim protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. If they want to police lawful content that is fine but then they are no longer an open platform and they should forfeit their Section 230 protections. I dislike the ability for online platforms to have their cake of protection against lawsuits and also eat their cake of policing lawful content they don't like.
> 1984

1984 and its consequences has been a disaster for the human race. Read another book

"Devolve into"? This website is just the "sounds educated" arm of imageboard users.

HN is entirely filled with right-wing to far-right sheltered techbros. Half the accounts here that are constantly complaining about "free speech" and "consequences to their actions" are really one bad day away from calling everyone they disagree with various slurs, and the other half are so insulated from any sort of actual injustice in the world that they sit atop of their smug towers of indifference, cawing at the peasants below who have things such as "opinions" (that disagree with theirs, of course) or "motivations".

> I wish this existed and would pay significantly more for products like this.

But the average person wouldn't, and "fickle hacker news user" is not a wide open market.

Re:Why I Use Suckless Tools on Saturday June 06, 2020 @10:44AM (#23439531)
Personally I use my computer like a person and not a programming robot
Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @06:48AM (#23389617)
> took a knee with the protestors,

It is more likely the police are doing this as a sign of their own solidarity with other police officers rather than with the protestors. After all, this entire thing started because of kneeling.

Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @06:46AM (#23389608)
> It's a big ask when politicians have been acting like they can ignore protests which is what the past, hell, decade or so has really been like.

Decade? More like century. The labour demonstrations in the 19th and 20th century were ignored until they got militant. Nothing's changed since then in the US.

Are the police deliberately attacking peaceful protests which causes the protestors to attack back? No, it's the Russians which are at fault.

Not to mention, how is this relevant at all to the linked post?

CNN @CNN · 57 m A black reporter from CNN was arrested while legally covering the protests in Minneapolis. A white reporter also on the ground was not.

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1266323257520766976?s=20

Black CNN reporter. The white CNN reporter wasn't arrested.
Re:Latency in Asynchronous Python on Sunday May 24, 2020 @05:41AM (#23290388)
> Never, ever use unbounded queues. In fact every unbounded asyncio.Queue() is a bug. It’s a serious API defect that asyncio allows unbounded queues to be created at all.

asyncio is very poorly designed overall. This is just one offender.

> asyncio.sleep(0) is nearly always wrong.

This, however, is VERY bad advice. a sleep(0) (or, a checkpoint as it is better called) is very useful in things like branches where asynchronous operations only run in one branch. This ensures you don't end up deadlocking half your app if your branches go wrong.