Hacker News: loraa

New comment by loraa in "I ran a crawler to collect posts and comments on Parler"

loraa — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 06:23:04 +0000

Very similar to the antifa rhetoric that we have seen over the past few years. I am not sure how alt-left is good and alt-right is bad when it seems that rioters are all assholes.

New comment by loraa in "Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app"

loraa — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 17:11:30 +0000

Why would anyone install this period?

New comment by loraa in "Inside geoWrite – 9: Keyboard Handling"

loraa — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 04:58:30 +0000

I loved geos, wow.

New comment by loraa in "[dead]"

loraa — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:57:01 +0000

It's no myth unless you are gleefully that ignorant.

New comment by loraa in "LibreOffice 2020/2025 Marketing Plan [pdf]"

loraa — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:13:10 +0000

Just make it so word documents don't look like garbage.

New comment by loraa in "Ask HN: Shopify self hosted e-commerce alternative?"

loraa — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 05:53:17 +0000

Openbazaar

New comment by loraa in "Facebook pay cuts for remote employees who move prove that labor market rigged?"

loraa — Sat, 23 May 2020 04:43:18 +0000

This is what most companies do. I worked for companies 20 years ago that would let you move to anywhere they had an office but you would be paid according to that location.

New comment by loraa in "Cities move to ban dollar stores, blaming them for residents’ poor diets"

loraa — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:25:04 +0000

Also poor people when given the chance will eat junk food. Many poor people are not poor by chance but poor by stupidity.

New comment by loraa in "How to stay private when using Android"

loraa — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 14:46:04 +0000

99% of the population don't want to essentially make their phone useless and difficult to use. This is the problem.

Also that 99% doesn't care that the government knows they have downloaded Candy crush.

New comment by loraa in "Pay by the Minute: The CompuServe Era"

loraa — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 04:24:07 +0000

Oh man. I remember paying for CompuServe. I tell you, nothing beats a 1200 baud modem on a commodore 64

New comment by loraa in "The Postmodern Family Clan"

loraa — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 12:19:26 +0000

Cults are good at this.

New comment by loraa in "Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing"

loraa — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 23:58:22 +0000

Seems like companies like the New York Times doesn't either, so what is the difference.

The big MSM companies know they have the power to spread fake news and have a good amount of people blindly believe.