Hacker News: bannedbybros

New comment by bannedbybros in "Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)"

bannedbybros — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:41:23 +0000

lmao

New comment by bannedbybros in "No new boss at NSA until it answers questions on buying location, browsing data"

bannedbybros — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 15:38:50 +0000

>voluntary empire

lmao ycomb.

New comment by bannedbybros in "It's easy to screw up on breaking news but you have to admit when you do"

bannedbybros — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:55:22 +0000

Channel 4 and plenty of other people. Y'all are inside a propaganda bubble.

https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/171499970410093403...

New comment by bannedbybros in "Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize"

bannedbybros — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:53:01 +0000

Why make the award reasonable when it can be a feel-good self-congratulatory propaganda fest?

New comment by bannedbybros in "Why aren’t America’s students showing up?"

bannedbybros — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:52:03 +0000

>The US spends huge amounts on education... for rich people

FTFY

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs/web/97916.asp

New comment by bannedbybros in "Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source"

bannedbybros — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:43:57 +0000

He doesn't have to fake it. Dude probably believes that there's no connection between right to repair, unsustainable consumption, and planetary destruction. That might be worse than faking it.

New comment by bannedbybros in "Positive association between altitude and suicide in U.S. counties"

bannedbybros — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:13:00 +0000

Too bad that the chemical theory of depression is pseudo-science.

New comment by bannedbybros in "Microsoft, OpenAI sued for ChatGPT 'privacy violations'"

bannedbybros — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:36:35 +0000

Napster was people sharing files. That's a crime! But now it's corporations so it should be legal.

New comment by bannedbybros in "Catholic group spent millions on app data that tracked gay priests"

bannedbybros — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:48:03 +0000

Gotta love the casual racism/homophobia of old Hitch. \s \s \s

New comment by bannedbybros in "Female spies of MI6"

bannedbybros — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:12:20 +0000

More female sociopaths!

New comment by bannedbybros in "The availability of text generators will force positive changes to education"

bannedbybros — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 14:28:02 +0000

Clickbait. Nobody said students were acing their homework.

New comment by bannedbybros in "Everyone loves e-bikes – except some who have to share roads with them"

bannedbybros — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 13:01:16 +0000

Cars are far deadlier for both individuals and the planet. That's why everybody travels on the sidewalk. If instead of subsidizing cars they built infrastructure for pedestrians, bikes, and light EVs, then there wouldn't be a problem.

New comment by bannedbybros in "Algorithms could increasingly influence human culture"

bannedbybros — Sun, 29 May 2022 15:02:14 +0000

Dishonest clickbait. Ycomb as usual.

New comment by bannedbybros in "Digital Berlin wall: How the German prototype for online censorship went global"

bannedbybros — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:55:17 +0000

Censorship is a crucial foundation of capitalism.

Not just controlling the hegemonic narrative through media, etc.

But also the founder of SciHub is stalked by the fedz for liberating science, etc.

IP is censorship.

New comment by bannedbybros in "Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender"

bannedbybros — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:39:44 +0000

Went? It's a 6 month old project. It hasn't even started.

Does ycomb actually think these nations would be better off with colonial currencies that have maintained poverty and exploitation for centuries? Probably yes.

New comment by bannedbybros in "Music theory for nerds (2016)"

bannedbybros — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:01:05 +0000

>Not counting the octave, there are seven fairly nice fractions here. Hmm. Seven. What a conspicuous number.

There's seven nice fraction because of how they were rounded.

But there's no explanation of why he rounds 1.682 to 5/3 but doesn't round 1.587 to the even closer 8/5.

It's because scales are a social construction, not a result of vague math.