Hacker News: Zecar

New comment by Zecar in "The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning"

Zecar — Thu, 21 May 2020 16:04:47 +0000

It's because the amendment was never to authorize spying on browser history, it was an amendment to BLOCK it which was voted down for being a distraction and potentially limit FISA spying in other ways.

New comment by Zecar in "Better Box Shadows (CSS)"

Zecar — Wed, 20 May 2020 15:08:31 +0000

The only problem with this (and it is infuriating) is that while Chrome and Firefox render box positive box-shadow values identically, they differ substantially with negative values. As a result, to get matching shadows you will need to use browser-specific shadows.

New comment by Zecar in "Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine"

Zecar — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 21:14:27 +0000

Do you think it was appropriate to call him an asshole?

New comment by Zecar in "A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors"

Zecar — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:54:54 +0000

you don't think think there could possibly be downsides from promoting only one set of viewpoints? That seems naive to say the least.

New comment by Zecar in "A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors"

Zecar — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 23:51:26 +0000

How do I turn off echo chamber mode where well-written posts that go against the mob thinking turn grey?

New comment by Zecar in "My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8"

Zecar — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:40:03 +0000

This is really shady of Google to do, and the fact that they think that it's acceptable just shows how far we've come. "Don't be evil" apparently means "spy on people, censor based on politics, help dirtbags stuck in the 12th century treat women as property, and assist totalitarian regimes to stay in power and censor their populace".

Google is literally cartoonishly evil at this point. That slogan of theirs is an absolute joke.

New comment by Zecar in "Why the attack on our cameraman was no surprise"

Zecar — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 02:10:51 +0000

> Well last night that violence unfolded in El Paso. Ron was unhurt. It wasn't life-threatening, but it was aggressive and violent. But what about the next time? Or the time after that?

This is the same shit you see from "Antifa" on the left, and it's abhorrent regardless of the source. To pretend that both sides aren't getting increasingly violent is to reject reality. This isn't a false equivalency situation; both left and right are being pushed into division.

And it's the media that's doing it.

New comment by Zecar in "Atlantic City Is Really Going Down This Time"

Zecar — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:06:41 +0000

I don't know how much real science can be done on a barrier island, we already know how these things work. Same reason you don't buy a house in a horseshoe bend on a river.

New comment by Zecar in "Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks women"

Zecar — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:26:49 +0000

Yeah apparently treating women as property doesn't violate Google's terms. Weird.

New comment by Zecar in "Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks women"

Zecar — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:25:58 +0000

Didn't they ban Infowars?

Conspiracy theories: not ok Treating women as property: ok

What are your thoughts on Apple and Google supporting SA control over women?

Zecar — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:42:34 +0000

I just found out about this "Absher" app that Saudi Arabia runs that allows male guardians to control the movements of women via passport control. It's pretty abhorrent to me but I thought it was an internal thing. I found out yesterday that these two companies permit the app to exist in their app stores. I would have expected something like this to be front page news, and I'm surprised Apple and Google and being allowed to get away with this without being crucified in the media, especially for two ostensibly "progressive" companies. What are your thoughts?

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New comment by Zecar in "IE is a 'compatibility solution', to be used selectively, warns Microsoft exec"

Zecar — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:26:38 +0000

Google literally censors plugins they don't like from being loaded into Chrome. No.

New comment by Zecar in "Georgia’s 127k Missing Votes, Disproportionate to African American Neighborhoods"

Zecar — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:54:44 +0000

You folks think that Russians interfered with our election results, I would think you would thusly support securing our elections...

New comment by Zecar in "Georgia’s 127k Missing Votes, Disproportionate to African American Neighborhoods"

Zecar — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:51:51 +0000

1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

Have you read it? If you don't think overthrowing our democracy is an act of war against the USA or giving our enemies aid and confort....

https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.16046137.2447/ap,550x550,16x...

New comment by Zecar in "Georgia’s 127k Missing Votes, Disproportionate to African American Neighborhoods"

Zecar — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 20:48:56 +0000

> Also, legally, neither one is treason.

Haha ok man but no for real that's actual treason.

New comment by Zecar in "Georgia’s 127k Missing Votes, Disproportionate to African American Neighborhoods"

Zecar — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:15:36 +0000

FYI, any attempt to steal an election is both (a) fraud and (b) treason, and I don't even understand why you're trying to rules-lawyer a distinction here.

New comment by Zecar in "U.S. Steel wins tax breaks from one of America's poorest cities"

Zecar — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 17:27:09 +0000

It should be federally illegal here. Corporate welfare is theft.

New comment by Zecar in "Georgia’s 127k Missing Votes, Disproportionate to African American Neighborhoods"

Zecar — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 17:25:09 +0000

Wait, voter fraud doesn't exist but hey look it happened just last year?

New comment by Zecar in "Does Jeff Bezos Have a Legal Case Against the National Enquirer?"

Zecar — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 00:12:02 +0000

The fact that this post was downvoted is not however surprising to me. Keep it up echo chamber!

New comment by Zecar in "Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds"

Zecar — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:32:15 +0000

Twitter has a perverse incentive to allow them because it is directly related to their stock price