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by blue_dinner 10y ago
edit: well, I'm out. I realized that on HN, after you go against the main liberal narrative enough, all of your comments are down voted by bots from then on...even when you are trying to have a conversation with adults. Time to create
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
We have bred a culture of anger and jealousy toward anyone with money. The mainstream media is responsible for this as much as many of the politicians that don't believe a person should be able to obtain any sort of wealth. It's
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
Unless it's proprietary hardware, it will be circumvented pretty quickly.
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
The music industry is so large, nobody will be able to defeat them or their pack of lawyers in court. Napster was supposed to be a revolution, but all it did was put all of the indy artists out of business and create the environment we hav
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
I've never heard this... and people should stop thinking that a satirical comedy show is somehow based on facts. To me, your race and gender aren't special. You are a person, just like everyone else in the world. If we truly want
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
Climate change is a fact. The causes are just theories based on computer models. To say that it's a fact and needs no further study is not only anti-intellectual, it’s criminal. I worked in academia for over a decade. Knowing what I
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
Just like with music and file sharing, this will not hurt the large corporations. It will only hurt the researchers that depend on these papers for funding and make it more difficult for them to make a living in the future. It will also pu
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
well, the same thing happens when people would like to discuss alternative theories to the causes of climate change. The BBC, for instance, outright bans anyone that talks about it (and so do many other forums), which is outright censorshi
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
"May be there's less violence, but the amount of suffering has skyrocketed over the years. A more than significant amount of people are dependent on tranquilizers and anti-depressants to make their life bearable, because for them
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
"I’ve had much luck in my life: being born into a middle-class family and having any natural ability nurtured by my parents and then by the education system" This might be lucky on the part of the individual, but parents that sacr
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
Those arguments are usually when in context of the rich not paying their 'fair share' in the US. When the stats come out and show that the top 10% pay 90% of the federal taxes (not including all of the taxes you mentioned), it re
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
If this is true, it proves that this rich individual was paying his fair share in taxes.
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
Why would they accept it? Most scientific climate change reports call for massive problems in a century, not a year. All of the people that voted will be long dead and we don't really know what things will be like in 100 years.
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
It may actually be a success. Although it causes this to happen with passengers, most probably won't attribute it to Zappos. They will attribute it to the security practices of the TSA, if they even think about it at all. The whole p
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
"Misperceiving Bullshit as Profound Is Associated with Favorable Views of Cruz, Rubio, Trump and Conservatism" There is just as much bullshit on the liberal side. All I need to do is take a look at Twitter and Youtube.
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
"I didn't know a single one who wasn't worried about putting food on the table" You can put pretty much everyone that owns a business or works into this category. Unless you are the top 1% or have a VC subsidized lifest
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
"developers tend to be very understanding and supportive of other developers who leave stable jobs to start their own company." Have you ever started a business? Most people are not supportive, including developers. You might ev
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
This is why I started my own company. All of my developer friends that told me I was stupid 5 years ago are now on their 5th or more job (and are scared about the next round of layoffs). While I've had continued stability. I would ra
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
It's especially good for hangups on some new library that needs to be used.
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
I wonder what this means for ITTT?
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
Quitting my soul-sucking job and starting my own company. Been going strong for almost a decade.
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
mine's average. Take that white privilege!
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
You are exactly right.
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
"Plutocrats, the richest 0.1 percent of Americans, get the most benefit from a weakened IRS. Because they have the money, the lawyers, the lobbyists, the accountants, and the secret campaign funds, they are able to ensure that the IRS
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
I don't understand why we are giving the trolls so much attention. I've been using the Internet for 15+ years and have heard and seen pretty much every bad comment imaginable. I don't even think of them as real anymore. If
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
The problem is two-fold. The average users doesn't care about security and probably never will. Many developers like to hack software together. To make it secure requires discipline and more time and knowledge when developing it. Mo
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
If you don't use one and have a complex app, it will eventually turn into a spaghetti mess of callbacks. You will end up writing your own framework that hasn't been battle tested on thousands of sites. For simple apps, it's
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
The problem is that you can't prevent a stranger from sending you something you don't like, unless you block all strangers from sending you messages or block the stranger after they've already sent it. You reported the perso
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
Teenagers still don't have the wisdom or experience of someone in their 30s and I would hardly call them 'young adults'. I knew so many kids that had parents that would treat them like adults..and they still made all of the s
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by blue_dinner 10y ago
I've been using Linux for more than a decade and have tried almost every desktop variant. I've settled on Ubuntu. Many, many companies and individuals have tried what you are proposing, with marginal success. What will you be doi

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