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dx87 commented on WallStreetBets vs WallStreet: It's not about the money anymore thinkingthrough.substack.... · Posted by u/maddynator

duxup · 5 years ago

Are we talking about cutting your own nose off to spite someone else's face?

dx87 · 5 years ago

Is that any different to taking a day off work to go to a protest? Both situations have you losing money in order to bring issues to light. Same with union workers going on strike.

dx87 commented on Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while theverge.com/2021/1/27/22... · Posted by u/icpmacdo

paxys · 5 years ago

And leave no way for common people to organize against the status quo. The establishment sure would love that.

Why are you on HN then in the first place?

dx87 · 5 years ago

My history class must have skipped over the part where the american revolution was organized on twitter and facebook.

dx87 commented on U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/paulpauper

d1zzy · 5 years ago

Wait, is mobile data access a basic right now?

I am living very comfortably but never got a mobile data plan. I find them too expensive for what they are. YMMV.

dx87 · 5 years ago

At least where I live in Maryland, being on "welfare" includes a cheap smart phone because a lot of jobs assume you have one for things like driving directions, getting signatures, taking pictures of receipts, etc.

dx87 commented on East Coast Internet Outage · Posted by u/taf2

gen220 · 5 years ago

My corporate laptop is affected. My roommate’s corporate laptop is totally unaffected. We’re on the same router/gateway.

Any theories out there to explain this phenomenon? Fascinating.

(My theory is a network partition, where my roommate’s IP addresses happen to be in regions that are on “our side” of the partition, whereas my IP Addresses are on the “other”, unreachable side).

dx87 · 5 years ago

Are you using different DNS servers? My work laptop was using 8.8.8.8 and is getting name resolution errors, but my personal computer is using 1.1.1.1 and working fine.

dx87 commented on East Coast Internet Outage · Posted by u/taf2

dx87 · 5 years ago

Yep, on verizon fios just outside baltimore. Can't ping 8.8.8.8, but can ping 1.1.1.1 fine. Also having issues connecting to services running in AWS.

dx87 commented on I’ve tracked every piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years reaktor.com/blog/why-ive-... · Posted by u/pondidum

roel_v · 5 years ago

TIL: there are men who own 15 pairs of shoes and 15 belts mostly over a three year time span. I'm pretty sure I haven't owned 15 belts in my whole life, nor 15 pairs of shoes since I left college, and I'm in my early 40's...

Not judging, to each his own, I just wonder if I'm the outlier or if he is.

dx87 · 5 years ago

I think he's the outlier. Most people I know own 2 belts; one for casual clothes, one for dress pants. Shoes is normally casual shoes, work boots/dress shoes, hiking boots/running shoes, plus flip-flops or slippers. I think I've only met one man who had that many shoes, and he was really into fashion and collecting sneakers, so he had probably 50 different pairs to make sure he always had some that matched his outfit.

dx87 commented on I’ve tracked every piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years reaktor.com/blog/why-ive-... · Posted by u/pondidum

dx87 · 5 years ago

One way to make your clothes last longer is by checking to see how often you're supposed to wash them, and air drying them if possible. Things like jeans really only need to be washed a couple of times a year unless you're spilling stuff on them or being very active and sweaty in them. Growing up, the conventional wisdom was that you always had to wash something after it was worn once, and you were being a slob if you didn't (for some reasons hoodies were exempt), but it turns out that isn't true.

dx87 commented on Twitter sued for allegedly refusing to remove child porn nypost.com/2021/01/21/twi... · Posted by u/thereare5lights

Gunax · 5 years ago

Folks, let's assume that the Twitter mod saw this and did not classify it as child porn. How can a twitter mod decide if it's child porn (as opposed to just 'porn')?

I am not sure there is a proper solution for this. How can they verify the age of an unknown person?

dx87 · 5 years ago

They could just remove it if they can't tell, same way a bouncer will throw you out of a bar if you don't have ID.

I don't know why people are giving social media companies a pass on what goes on just because their job is hard. Nobody is holding a gun to their head and telling them that they need to run an unmanageable platform, they wanted this many users.

dx87 commented on Twitter suspends the account of Venezuela's new National Assembly twitter.com/BenjaminNorto... · Posted by u/jules-jules

edoceo · 5 years ago

If it's less toxic wouldn't it more valuable?

dx87 · 5 years ago

Depends on if it was actually toxic, or just full of people who want it to be toxic so they have something to fight against. I recently read a book by Alan Watts, and he said that one thing that liberal and conservative morality police have in common is that they don't actually want things to improve things, it's just the justification they use to try and control people. If either group were to "win", they'd just find some other cause to be upset about.

dx87 commented on Trader Joe's, Dollar General And Others Are Paying Workers To Get Vaccines npr.org/2021/01/21/958849... · Posted by u/pseudolus

fairity · 5 years ago

Can you provide a source? Thank you.

dx87 · 5 years ago

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/29028/20210110/covid-1...

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