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New comment by ygaf in "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (1852)"

ygaf — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 00:30:57 +0000

>You reference those things as if they are a "bad thing"

More accurately, as if they are not obviously noble, since you conflated everyone to have been called SJW with someone brave and insightful. But yeah I do think those things are intrinsically wrong.

New comment by ygaf in "Bavarian raids"

ygaf — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 19:20:36 +0000

Democracy requires authority.

New comment by ygaf in "Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account"

ygaf — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 18:21:58 +0000

He prefers to live where people actually are tolerant.

New comment by ygaf in "What a Russian Smile Means"

ygaf — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 18:14:48 +0000

Which staff specifically? (the cashiers, etc) Although it's bad in all cases.

New comment by ygaf in "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (1852)"

ygaf — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 17:47:19 +0000

Music to my ears. HN officialy doesn't like topics derailing.

New comment by ygaf in "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (1852)"

ygaf — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 17:13:54 +0000

Don't confuse people "who dared ask, "why are we doing this?"" with people who want reparations, affirmative action, etc. And that's just a second definition I've thrown out there, alongside yours, when there's many more.

New comment by ygaf in "Police search homes of Zwiebelfreunde board members and OpenLab in Augsburg"

ygaf — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 17:45:09 +0000

That definition of hate is a very recent construct, and trying to sweep the regular meaning under the rug makes you the disingenuous one.

New comment by ygaf in "Cheating Fortnite players are flooding the internet with malware"

ygaf — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 18:09:33 +0000

Well, online recreation is as real as online discussion. There's people on the other end etc. On the other hand, if a kid spoils a game in a real-world playground, we don't give criminal records for that. On the other other hand, a game company is being harmed when you spoil their games.

New comment by ygaf in "Underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video"

ygaf — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:18:08 +0000

Do we need digital signing on every image/video in the news?

New comment by ygaf in "Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case"

ygaf — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:59:07 +0000

Agreed that any special divergence between types of crimes is wrong.

But I can get behind the use of judge discretion.

New comment by ygaf in "Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Apple Object to W3C Fork of DOM Spec"

ygaf — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 15:51:57 +0000

Do you believe languages are meant to live forever?

New comment by ygaf in "I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me"

ygaf — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:12:19 +0000

My bad; that's social media 101.

New comment by ygaf in "Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress"

ygaf — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:09:28 +0000

Fair enough, although I'm entitled to interpret posts in the pure context of their parent.

New comment by ygaf in "I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me"

ygaf — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:05:48 +0000

>The social network had even kept a permanent record of the roughly 100 people I had deleted from my friends list over the last 14 years, including my exes.

How useful is the info one can even get from this?

I mean even if you interpret unfriending as enemying (which is a leap), possibly revealing interests you don't have, associations you don't have.... it's a lot weaker (to advertisers) than positive information.

New comment by ygaf in "Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?"

ygaf — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 19:23:11 +0000

It's all about whether you've played the game. I can watch the movie knowing/accepting what the plot is (there's a tournament, people have to fight - just sit back and watch shit go down) and the characters (there's going to be a humanoid reptile etc).

New comment by ygaf in "Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?"

ygaf — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:48:25 +0000

Not sure why this is downvoted. If you don't have a videogame source material it's not going to have whatever problems a videogame movie has.

New comment by ygaf in "Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress"

ygaf — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 21:36:48 +0000

>no one with a "D" after their name asking Zuckerberg a question today

I can't even see where the goalposts have gone.

New comment by ygaf in "Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns"

ygaf — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:00:03 +0000

It feels like a decade ago now, that FB and Google had data deletion buttons that were protected by how bad the interface was to find them.

New comment by ygaf in "A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google"

ygaf — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:41:57 +0000

I feel for you, out of curiosity did you create your profiles and sites purely to displace the bad results or did you also try to engineer your content to refute them?

New comment by ygaf in "Texas woman sentenced to 5 years in prison for voting while on probation"

ygaf — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:40:04 +0000

In the former example you have so much power that whatever cause you had to denigrate them no longer matters to you, but that is neither the common case nor principled.