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Comment Nothing says "we're confident about the evidence" (Score 0) 300

... like banning all questioning, non-approved discussion, and denial of a certain historical event.

This sort of stuff has only made me hugely more suspicious of the historical narrative on the holocaust is correct. At this point, I suspect it isn't. And they know full well.

Comment Re:Conspiracy tech is amazing (Score 1) 221

Why are all you liberals so desperate for everyone to have the vaccine? Seriously. COVID-19 *isn't that dangerous*. Sweden hasn't had a lockdown and their infection rate is about the same as the UK, which had a massive lockdown. In addition, its fatality rate is vanishingly small, and practically zero in people under 70. The flu might have some vaccines, but it doesn't have a world-wide response of "everyone, literally everyone must get this vaccine NOW, and anyone who disagrees is so insane that we need to shit all over them."

Please just stop and consider what you're saying, and why you're saying it with such confidence. And whether sticking chemicals in people's bodies without a *really good reason to do so* is such a good idea. And why some people REALLY REALLY want to do it to EVERYONE.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 0) 221

You don't need a "conspiracy theory" to be extremely (and healthily) suspicious of a guy who made his money through aggressive, often-dishonest, anti-competitive business practices being determined to stick a needle into the arm of everyone in the world and inject his cocktail of god-knows-what. Sorry. You take that hit for the team, I'm not risking it. And I don't care what you call me.

Comment Re:It's a bit like NT 4 (Score 1) 208

Yeah but the Windows 10 settings doesn't even show off with animations and shit. It looks butt ugly compared to the control panel, with tiny black-and-white icons and loads of pointless whitespace everywhere (because the UI is designed to work on mobiles as well as widescreen monitors). It's a lose-lose and they're still doing it.

Comment Re:Zoom's owner tells the story (Score 1) 160

Too bad the protesters who died at Tiananmen square weren't black. Apparently then all of these companies (including Zoom apparently) would have thought their lives matter.

No they wouldn't. There are still black slaves in Africa today. The only black lives that matter are the ones in the West who are the most privileged blacks who've ever lived.

Comment Coding challenge (Score 1) 187

Why has nobody mentioned the coding challenge yet? Both as an applicant and as an interviewer, I've found this is by far the best way to get a good idea of how good someone's coding skills are and how well they're likely to perform at the job. How an applicant completes a (well-constructed) coding challenge says a lot about their knowledge, dedication to producing quality manitainable code, and even their motivation - did they spend a couple of hours doing this, put aside a day (or a couple of evenings) to really make sure it's polished and will impress? Amazingly few applicants will do this, sadly. And then later, when you talk through their code with them, you can tell whether they really understand it and have some good ideas for future improvements, or whether they're a bonehead who copy-pasted it off the internet, or paid someone else to do it for them.

Comment Re:It turns out people don't want neutrality (Score 5, Insightful) 116

TDS got their domain confiscated by registrars, despite the fact that they were not abusing the domain in any way. It was 100% political and losing a domain name is pretty damn fundamental, unless you're telling them to go and create their own domain name system. Or force everyone to use Tor.

Comment Re: It didn't make sense (Score 1) 575

Or get a split system installed. I did in my house (in the UK) for a couple of rooms, and it cost a couple of thousand pounds. Cooled very well although the noise of the moisture pump kicking in was pretty loud and annoying, and certainly prevented sleep. I think I'd have to go for a ducted system next time.

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