GenericsMotors

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Comment · 6 years ago
Which part (if any) of the linked post is manufactured or disinformation?
Comment · 6 years ago
> Imagine not realizing project veritas is a HORRIBLE source.

Imagine casually dismissing a megacorp exec literally confessing to wanting to interfere in your country's election.

> They have littering been caught red-handed doctoring videos

1. At the very least source your claims.

2. Point out which parts of the linked post are doctored or in any way false.

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
One of the last drops in the bucket for him was his story about a town that voted for Trump:

https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-m...

What made all this worse was the fact that Der Spiegel was looked up to for (supposedly) having a solid team of fact-checkers.

As the medium post shows (and the magazine's own investigation afterwards) was that not even basic and publicly available info was checked, such as the percentage of pro-Trump voters, let alone the rest of the original article's hilariously ridiculous claims.

Another Der Spiegel reporter who was suspicious of Relotius tried raising his concerns with the management after he did some digging of his own, which almost cost him his job and reputation:

https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/02/26/inenglish/15511...

Der Spiegel enjoyed the profits of Relotius' fiction and peddled literal fake news to the world for years, and the magazine's readers lapped it all up because it reinforced their biases.

Comment · 6 years ago
Similar issue in my country (Portugal). On our largest second-hand market (OLX.pt) the laptops in the 60-80 EUR range are pretty much all described as "for parts", and their specs are not comparable to this RPi model.

The snide comments like the GP's are due to them living in the american bubble.

EDIT: also note the comment you're replying to is using a traditional workstation "slab" as an example. I'd rather use a small RPi that frees up more desk space than buy something that will make my work environment at home even more cramped!

Comment · 6 years ago
>Just a note on the word "nationalist" re: Taiwan. It's confusing to most, but in Taiwan, "nationalist" is the pro-China faction, due to historical association of that term with the KMT.

>"Green," pro-independence, or "TI" (Taiwan Independence) would be the less confusing term for the side you think might lose with this development.

TIL, thanks for sharing!

Comment · 6 years ago
I really hope the GP doesn't work on anything handling financial transactions.
Comment · 6 years ago
Good for them, lets see how long that takes and how effectively that works at a pre-epidemic scale, and over the long term.
Comment · 6 years ago
> Except in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, or (more arguably) Japan. And South Korea, while they had a rougher early outbreak, seems to have gotten a lid on the disease now.

And how long can they keep strict containment in force, and what happens when it lifted? You're speaking as if China or SK are now magically immune from a second wave as soon as they relax their restrictions.

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
I'll never set foot on a MAX series out of principle. Not much else one can do as a consumer other than vote with one's wallet.
Comment · 6 years ago
Around the time just before the MAX was grounded, I remember there being lots of unfounded speculations (here on HN as well!) that Lion Air's and Ethiopian's pilots were somehow substandard and lacking the training of their first world counterparts. Meanwhile it was Boeing actively keeping vital information and training from pilots.

The lesson from this is still not learned, and can see at least one apologist on this thread repeating this same BS again...it's infuriating.

Comment · 6 years ago
What an american-centric view of the world.
Comment · 7 years ago
I've already done this on my phone with Blokada. Don't have to worry about any ads regardless of the app, couldn't be happier with it.
Comment · 7 years ago
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

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