aaronem

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by aaronem 11y ago
There is at least one other project with the same name ("btfs"): https://github.com/arvidn/btfs Seems a bit more feature-complete than this one.
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by aaronem 11y ago
> A huge proportion of society is easily manipulated by showing them a "manufactured consensus." And for the rest, you just need to pander to their belief that they're immune to that sort of thing.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Well, if you go to a collision specialist who's legally prohibited from turning away anyone with a bent frame regardless of their (current or future) ability to pay, it's not unreasonable that they'll charge you more than Jif
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by aaronem 11y ago
How on Earth did this make the front page? I mean, it's not that I ever get tired of seeing Massachusetts Yankees and California carpetbaggers use a magazine named after my hometown to tell us Southrons what they demand that we be, but
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by aaronem 11y ago
The DPRK's constitution isn't intended for internal consumption.
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by aaronem 11y ago
You seem to suggest that a government which doesn't behave in accord with your wishes is illegitimate thereby. It's hardly unique these days, but one might hope nonetheless to see you stop short of treating it as something to be
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by aaronem 11y ago
Really? Weimar's human rights laws were second to none in the world for their time, and are considered exemplary even now. If what you say is true, how did the Nazi abuses occur?
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by aaronem 11y ago
The reasoning you present here is exactly equivalent to: - You have a broken arm - Somewhere else in the world, someone has stage IV pancreatic cancer - Therefore your broken arm should be of no concern even to you The flaw should be intu
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by aaronem 11y ago
I don't suppose I can argue your point about the origin of the term. Perhaps "professional shit-stirrer" would be more accurate. Certainly homeschooling isn't scalable. There are techniques, methods, curricula, which can
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by aaronem 11y ago
Oh, it's quite possible for a troll to believe what he says. The essence of trolling isn't bullshitting; it's knowing how to get a rise out of people. To answer your question as best I can, I really can't answer your que
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by aaronem 11y ago
Your erstwhile instructor seems to be a professional troll, which is probably good work if you can get it, but I'm not joking. GP's comment casts the options available to him in the following duality: either 1. push [his] theoreti
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by aaronem 11y ago
Stanford also confers more degrees in social sciences and "interdisciplinary studies" (i.e. degrees in having graduated from Stanford) than in engineering and computer science, and has done for some years now. I don't doubt y
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by aaronem 11y ago
Well, yes. When you decided what you wanted to do with your life, and made that decision stick over parental objections, that was in the nature of a declaration of adult independence. Good for you! Lots of people never make it that far. But
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by aaronem 11y ago
If you want to go to the world's best school for mine engineering, Yale shouldn't be on your list to begin with. It's a sign-off for pedigreed elites, not a trade school .
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by aaronem 11y ago
Only 26? Surely not. Why, at that age he might not even have a master's degree yet!
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by aaronem 11y ago
Option three: do your kids a favor and don't have any.
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by aaronem 11y ago
> And I think we see that in the last 50 years, the meritocracy has created a world that’s getting better and better for the meritocracy and worse and worse for everyone else. But weren't you saying just the opposite? That being par
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by aaronem 11y ago
That'd be a great idea if psychiatry had any better idea of what moves people to commit crimes, and how to stop them doing it again, than anyone else does. And even then, it'd be a terrible idea. You're proposing psychiatry b
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by aaronem 11y ago
It takes bad parenting to give a kid that age the impression that asking questions could ever not be okay. As long as that mistake isn't made, the rest follows organically.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Concern over privacy, which has been severely compromised by the confiscation of ~65k users' data (including stored email) in an investigation into the actions of one, seems not particularly on offer in this case, where the only signif
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by aaronem 11y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774152 for details and analysis.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Yes, but reading is the single skill with the highest payoff, when it comes to learning things that let you learn more things. Why give the kid a fish, if you can teach her how to catch her own? (Again, as in my other comment, I feel it w
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by aaronem 11y ago
Well, I can't give you a peer-reviewed, n>500, p=0.001 answer, but I can tell you that I've never regretted my mother teaching me to read at age two. Reading has given me a great deal of both pleasure and knowledge throughout m
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by aaronem 11y ago
> In Germany we have learned our lesson, and we will fight for our privacy online on all ends. Except dick jokes, of course.
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by aaronem 11y ago
You might not, too. The LA district shut down. The NY district, which also received a threat, did not. Why? And why the difference in response?
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by aaronem 11y ago
And? KCBS isn't an affiliate; it's owned and operated by the network. The difference in domain name is purely cosmetic; if CBS corporate weren't OK with the content of the story, the story would no longer be online, if indeed
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by aaronem 11y ago
It says "CBS News" at the front of the headline. If they aren't inclined to make the distinction, I don't see why they deserve the benefit of the doubt from me.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Have you seen CBS's [1] and the Daily Mail's [2] hit pieces on him? Of the latter such flagrant nonsense is to be expected, but one generally doesn't expect to see CBS descend to the same level. [1] http://losangel
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by aaronem 11y ago
Seeing as he's yet to be accused of anything except being a community-minded sysadmin with a low sense of humor, I'm not sure a mere lack of taste excuses the extremely unsympathetic media attention that's been focused on the
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Cock.li e-mail server seized by German authorities, admin announces(arstechnica.com)
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