Hacker News: adnam

New comment by adnam in "Keep your Identity Small (2009)"

adnam — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 21:21:35 +0000

New comment by adnam in "Keep your Identity Small (2009)"

adnam — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 20:55:50 +0000

New comment by adnam in "Keep your Identity Small (2009)"

adnam — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 20:14:48 +0000

New comment by adnam in "Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment instead of jail time"

adnam — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 22:21:44 +0000

And Japan?

New comment by adnam in "After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation (2009)"

adnam — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 11:39:50 +0000

The selling of illicit drugs.

New comment by adnam in "After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation (2009)"

adnam — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 11:18:35 +0000

Agreed, but if you don't address the demand problem you can't beat the supply problem. And that's where we are now.

New comment by adnam in "After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation (2009)"

adnam — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:57:59 +0000

There hasn't been a serious "war on drugs" for over 30 years in the UK. Most drugs are de-facto legal since the laws are simply not enforced. To say "prohibition of drugs is a counterproductive failure" is a straw-man, because there is no enforcement. The laws would probably have been dropped many years ago were it not for international treaty obligations.

New comment by adnam in "Y Combinator's Founding Principles"

adnam — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 07:45:07 +0000

YC has also made ethically-questionable investments in the cannabis industry.

New comment by adnam in "How about we stop building apps for refugees and top up their phones instead?"

adnam — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 20:55:03 +0000

How much does it cost to be smuggled from Afghanistan to Belgium? Exactly.

New comment by adnam in "Catalan referendum: Voting begins amid police crackdown"

adnam — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 12:23:42 +0000

You can't solve political problems with judges and riot police.

New comment by adnam in "Catalan referendum: Voting begins amid police crackdown"

adnam — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 12:21:47 +0000

You assume Rajoy doesn't want people to see this violent crackdown. But I think he does.

New comment by adnam in "Catalan referendum: Voting begins amid police crackdown"

adnam — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 12:20:35 +0000

Rajoy has made a simple calculation: jackboots in the faces of peaceful Catalans trying to vote equals more votes for the Partido Popular in the rest of Spain.

New comment by adnam in "Diaspora version 0.7.0.0 released"

adnam — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:16:56 +0000

I think it would be really interesting to build something like dispora as a suite of dockerised micro-services which would allow you to add and extend functionality based on a new social-networkong protocol in a language-agnostic way. It would also be very easy to incorporate email and xmpp which are already federated protocols.

New comment by adnam in "Why We Terminated Daily Stormer"

adnam — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:07:59 +0000

And elsewhere

New comment by adnam in "Why We Terminated Daily Stormer"

adnam — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 07:55:17 +0000

Islamist terrorism is much more prevalent than far-right terrorism http://henryjacksonsociety.org/2017/03/05/islamist-terrorism...

New comment by adnam in "Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records"

adnam — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:18:22 +0000

This guy has been hugely discourteous to me, why not ban him? Things like this are partly the reason I just want to delete my HN history and leave.

New comment by adnam in "Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records"

adnam — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 20:09:25 +0000

I'm not American, thankfully

New comment by adnam in "Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records"

adnam — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 18:07:35 +0000

Heh, you changed it to "Digital Manager of Operations ". Much classier ;-)

New comment by adnam in "Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records"

adnam — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 17:51:06 +0000

Having an opinion which which you disagree is not "trolling".

New comment by adnam in "Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records"

adnam — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 17:49:38 +0000

I think it's quite ethical, because it removes the burden from law-abiding people. There's also evidence to show that punishment works as a deterrent when applied as uniformly as possible, hence saving people from falling into the misery of criminality.