Hacker News: researcher7

New comment by researcher7 in "Facebook Down?"

researcher7 — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 23:55:49 +0000

It was down for sure for me. I am in Los Angeles area. Error occurred message.

New comment by researcher7 in "Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments"

researcher7 — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:30:34 +0000

It's not only apple. Almost all of the big tech doing that these days, either out of concern about their manufacturing resources, or other motives. Something I won't support, but can understand their motives behind. But I am trying to understand how this part fits in the list.

"November 2019, Trump re-election campaign ad shot in Apple’s Mac Pro plant in Austin

Given the context and the headline, Apple working with authoritarian governments. Unless the author thinks the US is authoritarian.

I don't see any problems with any high tech executive supporting one politician or another, if the author is making the alleged Tim Cook's support for Trump the reason to include that in the list of incidents showing Apple working with authoritarian regimes.

New comment by researcher7 in "Congressional Candidate Laura Loomer Banned from Stripe"

researcher7 — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:13:16 +0000

You can dislike her, not support her, that is your choice and it is it American way. Banning her from services and de-platforming is not something should be encouraged or supported. If you are justifying this, and saying she should find an alternative, then you should also support when people of faith refuse to service/do something that goes directly against their faith and conscious, for example.

Plus, if we are still in a Constitutional republic, and equal justice under the law is not just words, then the civil rights acts which were signed into laws all ban discrimination. If you ban today because someone is in the party you don't like then expect the same done to you, if one day, the shoe is on the other foot.

New comment by researcher7 in "A History of Börek"

researcher7 — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:19:15 +0000

Feel free to downvote more or post more revisionist history. It is not even remotely turkish, but like most "turkish" food and drinks, it was stolen from the cultures they attempted to destroy. Truth is downvoted these days.

New comment by researcher7 in "A History of Börek"

researcher7 — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:34:28 +0000

Actually it's not Turkish. It is an Armenian food, some of the Balkan states also had it in different forms and different recipes at the same time. Those predate even the ancestors of the Ottoman Turkish empire. This is again, part of the genocide. After committing the actual murders, the culture is stolen all good things are now claimed to be Turkish. They did this also to the Greeks, Assyrians, and some of Balkan states.

New comment by researcher7 in "Show HN: Uranus – Memo and Task App"

researcher7 — Sat, 25 May 2019 22:53:51 +0000

To be honest, it is hard not to joke about the name, but I'll not do that. Looks interesting. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by researcher7 in "Twitter purges accounts, and conservatives cry foul"

researcher7 — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 20:27:02 +0000

As someone who was shadow banned, I left twitter, youtube, and facebook. The few times I expressed my opinion in a peaceful way, got called probably every name you can think of, and then saw my twitter account suspended.

I was told by twitter support I was engaging in "targeted harassment", asked for proof, did not hear back from support. The twee they referred to is a reply to someone wishing me to die from terminal disease, to which I responded "Bless your heart", and apparently that person reported me for that.

After one month of being shadow banned, which for some reason spilled to youtube and facebook, I closed all accounts.

I can understand why conservatives feel that way. They are the only group getting things like this thrown at them, and I am an independent, who happened to disagree on calls to censor one side over the other, seen first hand what that gets you into.

I have seen reports of gab.ai being popular and truly for free speech, but did not use them, lost interest in social media altogether, and to be honest, my productivity went up after that. Maybe others have different experiences, but that was my experience.

New comment by researcher7 in "Trump’s brigade took over Reddit. Now Reddit is changing its rules to stop them"

researcher7 — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 10:00:03 +0000

So censorship is OK as long as it is done to the side you disagree with. (Not a Trump supporter, but I won't support any censorship.)

New comment by researcher7 in "I renounced my US citizenship"

researcher7 — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:50:52 +0000

You complain about the US legal system, which based on the constitution protects everyone with due process rights, and like countries like the Netherlands which have no bill of rights? Me and my family spent our life savings, endured the horrors of leaving everything behind to come to the US to enjoy the liberty and rights that are guaranteed to everyone, yet people like you are not happy and want lower standards.

Good riddance. If you don't want to be a citizen of this great country, it would be better than you.

New comment by researcher7 in "Venezuela is on the brink of a complete economic collapse"

researcher7 — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 21:12:59 +0000

Another socialist utopia collapsing? Shocked, shocked I tell you.