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atdrummond

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Who needs holiday help? (Follow up thread)

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?

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twitter.com 2y ago

12ft is down, Vercel banned me

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

Crop Milk

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www.aljazeera.com 2y ago

‘Russian-only’ businesses in Thailand’s Phuket spark backlash

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assets.zyrosite.com 2y ago

The Portrayal of Early Manned Spaceflight in Hidden Figures: A Critique [pdf]

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nitter.net 2y ago

Why SF’s Drug Policies Fail vs. European Medication Assisted Treatment Programs

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whyevolutionistrue.com 2y ago

The Case of Malcolm Gladwell vs. Jerry Sandusky

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www.neowin.net 2y ago

Ubisoft closing “inactive” accounts, deleting user’s downloaded games

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mycherrytree.com 3y ago

Retrofitted Sun Cobalt Cube Case for Custom PC

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mycherrytree.com 3y ago

Retrofitted Sun Cobalt Qube PC

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www.flightglobal.com 3y ago

Ethiopian 737 Max crash crew stressed from outset

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www.toaruos.org 3y ago

ToaruOS

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www.bl.uk 3y ago

Sanitary report on Haworth, home to the Brontës

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slatestarcodex.com 3y ago

Book Review: Albion’s Seed

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Tell HN: Thank You

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Tell HN: Everyone should have a holiday dinner this year

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twitter.com 3y ago

Goto Hid Their Security Disclosure on Google via “Noindex”

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twitter.com 3y ago

The Middle Ages According To: Historians and Hollywood

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twitter.com 3y ago

The Middle Ages According to Historians and Hollywood

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twitter.com 3y ago

He’s Fired

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www.wolfeden.org 3y ago

The Motorola PowerStack

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www.forbes.com 3y ago

Three Texas Counties Created Personal Social Security Accounts and Prospered

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Where to sell high margin, six figure rev business growing 20-30% YoY?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How to help a friend “break into” tech?

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twitter.com 3y ago

“The Follower”: Upload an Instagram pic, returns video of said photo being taken

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Samsung Data Leak

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: How many of you are running FoundationDB? Are you considering it?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Would you buy a modern Toshiba Libretto?

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boards.straightdope.com 4y ago

Why’d Subway change how it cut the bread?

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For one, the door plugs are installed not by Boeing but by Spirit Aerosystems. Alaska’s maintenance will be focused on that specific vendor’s performance.

Secondly, other bolts will be checked far more frequently as part of standard maintenance. Door plug fitments typically are only checked during heavy checks (which occur every few years depending on type and interval) unless there’s a specific incident that demands an immediate assessment.

You’re stripping these people of way too much agency. As a formerly homeless heroin addict, I assure you that the vast majority of addicts and dual diagnosis individuals can get off the street. Estonia and Switzerland have accomplished this for fentanyl and heroin respectively, in addition to stimulant and alcohol abusers.

The issue is there’s a cohort who thinks that the solutions that enable safe streets require too much sacrifice of one’s individual liberty - even if said individual abuses their freedom to harm themself and others.

I wish this were true but frankly, at least on most social media sites, people will happily move forward with any kind of mob justice irrespective of the truth or one’s writing style.

I do think that precision in writing is useful for defending one’s prior claims (and for other reasons!) but I think that’s orthogonal to defending one’s self from mass action on today’s internet.

Substack's Dilemma 3 years ago

Not true. I went to a Reform Temple as a kid and two of my companies I cofounded with best friends who were Jewish. I don’t have to accept your clearly fatuous claim that I’m a Nazi because I’m not.

Substack's Dilemma 3 years ago

Which has a shockingly low applicability to the actual accounts that will get banned by the policy; a number of the writers (like Cremieux or Hanania) being called Nazis ARE Jewish or are notably philosemitic. It’s a joke.

Substack's Dilemma 3 years ago

That is not at all a reasonable conclusion or a sufficient criteria.

I am frequently called a Nazi (despite being on, and identifying as left wing, my entire life) on X simply for having the temerity to challenge certain orthodoxies.

Denying that the term has been stretched to its breaking point, especially in light of its use by Russia in justifying the SMO in Ukraine, strains any kind of reasonable credulity.

Substack's Dilemma 3 years ago

The users Substack doesn’t want are the ones demanding censorship. The moment they succumb to this pressure, they’ll continue to have their content further and further brigaded by people associated with various advocacy causes. They’ll never be able to be an internet publishing platform; they’ll be another anodyne, political newsletter service. That model doesn’t work for vaunted names like The Guardian or The Nation. It won’t end any better for Substack.

If possible, I’m trying to do this completely out of my pockets, but please email me at da.kanish at gmail dot com or alex at bitspace dot co - that way I can reach out if circumstances change. Thank you for the kind offer!

Adfree Cities 3 years ago

Kids already get to use Citi bikes for free, as long as they’re part of certain privileged classes (such as asylum seekers or border crossers).

The brouhaha over the pregnant nurse “stealing” a youth’s Citi bike was only possible due to the habit of under-18 users camping on bikes to continue riding them for free when their timer expired.

The outcomes are primarily due to race, not the contours of the Confederacy. Nearly all of these “red state demographic maps” are isomorphic to the percentage of African Americans within a given state/county/city.

I’m in Estonia so I am connected with many of your country mates (and attend a Greek-Ukrainian Catholic Church).

Please shoot me an email if you have any specific requests I can help with and I will do whatever I can to help!

Please email me. We’ll figure out something for the immediate needs.

Hang in there; I’ve been in this position and it is possible to get out. Look forward to connecting soon.