Hacker News: scoot_718

New comment by scoot_718 in "Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety is far from enough"

scoot_718 — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 04:30:53 +0000

Economically, people will not buy a car that sacrifices them in favour of others.

New comment by scoot_718 in "CIA vs. Wikileaks [video]"

scoot_718 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:41:31 +0000

They literally tweeted that their goal was to fuck her over.

New comment by scoot_718 in "CIA vs. Wikileaks [video]"

scoot_718 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:41:04 +0000

They were very open about their desired outcomes alongside their releases. They had the express goal of affecting the election, as expressed by their site and their twitter.

New comment by scoot_718 in "CIA vs. Wikileaks [video]"

scoot_718 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:39:09 +0000

That looks more like Wikileaks cares about who it is damaging to.

New comment by scoot_718 in "CIA vs. Wikileaks [video]"

scoot_718 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:38:26 +0000

They obviously don't treat all leaks as equal. Just look at the official wikileaks twitter to see their bias.

New comment by scoot_718 in "CIA vs. Wikileaks [video]"

scoot_718 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:37:27 +0000

Pretty sure Wikileaks has been a front for the FSB for a while now. All the ideological people were pushed out a long time ago. They're not the release everything group that everyone wanted them to be.

New comment by scoot_718 in "Yes, the KFConsole Is Real and It's Spectacular"

scoot_718 — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 05:37:05 +0000

Are you kidding? The gaming public are hungry for this.

New comment by scoot_718 in "Interview advice that got me offers"

scoot_718 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 07:34:57 +0000

If all they say is "competitive" then they're refusing to compete on salary.

New comment by scoot_718 in "Generating Cryptographically Secure Random Numbers with Coins and a Cup"

scoot_718 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 09:34:24 +0000

Just like you do with dice.

New comment by scoot_718 in "On the Graying of Gnome"

scoot_718 — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 05:12:17 +0000

Gnome 3 was when they started taking over keybinds from common software on linux, so you had to hunt down the 3 or 4 places where they were configured to unbind them back for the user.

Gnome just works? Gnome just breaks other things.

New comment by scoot_718 in "UK Police tell people to report “extremist” friends and relatives"

scoot_718 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 05:33:26 +0000

Because UKIP is a larger organisation

New comment by scoot_718 in "Analyzing the compromised DLL file that started the Solorigate attack"

scoot_718 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 04:28:23 +0000

> Russian state backed hackers

> small criminal gang

They're the same picture.

New comment by scoot_718 in "In Pictures: How much plastic are you eating?"

scoot_718 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:57:06 +0000

Already fucked up there.

New comment by scoot_718 in "Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys"

scoot_718 — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:34:37 +0000

Goodreads is complete garbage, they can't even sort a list of ratings properly.

New comment by scoot_718 in "Chinese authorities detain Bloomberg News staff member"

scoot_718 — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 23:18:52 +0000

Why do people insist on calling Assange a journalist? He was never anything of the sort.

New comment by scoot_718 in "The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire"

scoot_718 — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 06:26:59 +0000

"How dare they have the freedom to what speech they can transmit."

New comment by scoot_718 in "Rudy Giuliani got monoclonal antibodies. You probably can’t"

scoot_718 — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 06:07:46 +0000

It's a shame - there very people who should see the consequences are the same who won't.

America has long ceased to be a meritocracy.

New comment by scoot_718 in "The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire"

scoot_718 — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 06:05:11 +0000

The real problem here is that YouTube is a monopoly and needs to be anti-trusted down to allow competition.

New comment by scoot_718 in "The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire"

scoot_718 — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 06:03:21 +0000

It is not contradictory to be intolerant of the intolerant. To allow free speech for those who call for such repugnant lies is to tacitly accept them.

Likewise, no government should allow for parties that would destroy itself - yet here America is, falling apart.

New comment by scoot_718 in "MasterCard and Visa will stop processing cards for Pornhub"

scoot_718 — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 08:11:55 +0000

Anti-trust suits when?