Hacker News: SerLava

New comment by SerLava in "Social contagions can cause genuine illness, and TikTok may be a superspreader"

SerLava — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 04:59:57 +0000

Children don't get gender surgeries. Stop spreading misinformation

New comment by SerLava in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

SerLava — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 08:07:55 +0000

They have been broken, by anonymous or nearly anonymous people, constantly, distributed throughout the world behind multiple proxies.

Sorry dude, we're not gonna wait 3 to 50 months for law enforcement to sort gradually through the trail of bodies.

Like oh I'm just doing crimes using your delivery service, I'm just doing crimes in your restaurant, I'm just doing crimes in your day care, and if you believe in free speech you have to let me keep doing the crimes it until you petition the US government to compose a task force

New comment by SerLava in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

SerLava — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 23:59:30 +0000

I'm not Russian, I just have basic empathy

New comment by SerLava in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

SerLava — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 23:57:55 +0000

The express claim was that "sanctions will not be targeted at everyday Russian people, only the oligarchs"

This shit isn't even targeted at the oligarchs, only Russian people

New comment by SerLava in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

SerLava — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:22:26 +0000

Haven't they killed thousands

New comment by SerLava in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

SerLava — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:17:00 +0000

Why do you think this regime exists?? Do you think it's the expression of the will of the Russian people? Please, I beg of you, learn a little bit about the dismantling of the Soviet Union and the brazen interference in their elections by western powers, for the purposes of violently suppressing dissent against the bandits who are in charge today.

Also, I don't know what country you're in, but there is a HIGH chance that you do NOT want to be held accountable for the crimes it committed and will continue to commit.

New comment by SerLava in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

SerLava — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:12:26 +0000

This whole debacle is just proof that Namecheap will make hasty, marketing-based decisions based on the whim of the CEO.

It's no longer a reliable platform, or rather it never was.

You're hurting a lot of people who are using foreign services because they want to limit their exposure to Putin's regime.

The Russian state doesn't use Namecheap. Do you really think the negatives could be outweighed by some positive here?

New comment by SerLava in "More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’"

SerLava — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 05:47:51 +0000

But very few people injured in car accidents are permanently paralyzed.

There are only 17k people per year who receive any kind of spinal cord injury, from all sources, not just cars.

That means you could even count all spinal injuries as a death!! If every person with a spinal injury somehow just died, it would still be a smaller problem than COVID deaths.

COVID would still be 7 or 8 times worse than these theoretically extra-deadly roads. Even if Long COVID didn't exist, the deaths alone would blow it out of the water.

New comment by SerLava in "Activision Blizzard pushes out dozens of employees over workplace misconduct"

SerLava — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 05:35:31 +0000

A lot of the original Blizzard people have said the company's just dead - it's Activision now. Everything and everyone that made Blizzard good has gone. And it shows - they're botching games in ways completely uncharacteristic of the old company. Not even a vague sense of culture made it through to the new company.

And mark my words, this won't be the last instance of severe employee mistreatment and harassment.

New comment by SerLava in "More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’"

SerLava — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 18:41:59 +0000

Yes it's sort of like the alarming scourge of preventable automotive deaths, except that it's over 10 times worse. Also like slipping and falling, but about 20 times worse.

New comment by SerLava in "How not to sort by average rating (2009)"

SerLava — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:04:26 +0000

You could probably get around this by

A) labelling 1-2 review items with "needs more reviews" message

Or B) not giving an aggregate review score for low review items. Actually replacing the review star bar with "needs more reviews". Then when the user goes from the listing page to the detail page, you can show the reviews next to a message saying "this item only has a few reviews, so we can't be sure they're accurate until more people chime in"

New comment by SerLava in "Germany’s no-emotion voting guide surges despite campaign of personalities"

SerLava — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:43:57 +0000

If Americans used that system even one time, it would create the biggest political upheaval since the Civil War

New comment by SerLava in "A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design"

SerLava — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:22:55 +0000

That's not really for SEO, which favors readily accessible information.

That's ads. When mobile users have to scroll past 10 add, theyll click on some of them and make the blog money.

New comment by SerLava in "Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American"

SerLava — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 17:48:29 +0000

Call it "logical quotation" vs "typesetter's quotation".

The American/British dividing line is extremely hazy, and only really cements the typesetter's quotations in the minds of Americans.

New comment by SerLava in "Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse"

SerLava — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:26:21 +0000

Sure I'll bite, none of what you said is true, in either timing or circumstances.

-They didn't go to Lemmygrad

-No definition of leftism would exclude the very leftist people who went over to Hexbear, the Lemmy instance for exiled r/Chapotraphouse posters

-they don't seem to be particularly into anime

-they are very into left politics, socialism, trade unionism, anti-imperialism, and so on. So like they are left-wing

New comment by SerLava in "Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse"

SerLava — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:18:29 +0000

Oh they don't like it when you repeatedly point out your favorite very sincere scientific facts collected by sincere scientists with the best calipers?

New comment by SerLava in "Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse"

SerLava — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:11:11 +0000

Reddit banned the main catch-all leftist subs, and all of the accounts that posted there are now not allowed to congregate in a subreddit or it will be banned, and they can't create subreddits, regardless of what they actually posted

New comment by SerLava in "Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse"

SerLava — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:08:32 +0000

>I mean even the US president was banned for "violence" despite asking rioters to go home

So if I was to try to get you killed on this forum but then my next post said "violence is bad though" would that make the first part go away?

New comment by SerLava in "An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions a Year (2014)"

SerLava — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 19:43:44 +0000

The employers stole the labor

New comment by SerLava in "An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions a Year (2014)"

SerLava — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 19:42:08 +0000

They already own that money according to the employment contract, and it's stolen 2 weeks later

Besides, theft is used as a specific name of a set of crimes, but it also has a generalized definition that means unjust taking, which contains fraud and other forms of theft