boboblong

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by boboblong 14y ago
No one's pointing a gun to this Mauro person's head and forcing him to interact with Linus. I doubt Linus ever took a vow to love, honor, or respect Mr. Mauro. If someone with whom I am only interacting by choice says something mean to me,
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by boboblong 14y ago
>I‘ve written here before about the ongoing puzzle of improving the ratio of women to men in the tech sector. That's nice, but when are we going to address the real barriers faced by women? Women are vastly outnumbered by men in many se
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by boboblong 14y ago
But what about free ponies?
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by boboblong 14y ago
>People are stupid, so when warned, the will still act stupid. Despite this it is still the responsibility of whoever is able, to protect them, even against themselves. Is this really a mainstream political philosophy on HN?
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by boboblong 14y ago
Wait, then what's the problem?
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by boboblong 14y ago
But isn't that just as fascinating (as long as you know what it means)? I just finished my first college-level physics course a few weeks ago and I'm already fuzzy on the thermodynamics stuff, but the entropy of this gas shouldn't decrease
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by boboblong 14y ago
Maybe people will start to refactor the worst offenders. It takes more than a slight improvement to displace software that's widely used, but I'm sure there are things that we use that could be an order of magnitude better (according to som
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by boboblong 14y ago
I'm confused. Isn't that page supposed to be holding those statements up for ridicule? I'm saying that although the person who made that page thinks that the statements are bullshit, they seem perfectly reasonable to me.
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by boboblong 14y ago
Uh...no?
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by boboblong 14y ago
Are you saying that crpyto is not available to people who aren't white guys?
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by boboblong 14y ago
>By using the phrase "big bad men" you are engaging in precisely the sort of gender-oriented down-talking that she is complaining about. But that's absurd. He only used that phrase in response to a claim that men in tech are incorrigibl
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by boboblong 14y ago
I just glanced at several of the headings, and it looks like that page is just a list of reasonable things to say.
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by boboblong 14y ago
In addition to the point made by the other two users who responded to you, the overwhelming majority of car mechanics are men.
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by boboblong 14y ago
>You don't really understand how a car works, only that most of the time you can get in it and go places. When it doesn't work, you take it to another person. She may also not understand what's wrong. Oh, please! "She"? Let's all ruin t
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by boboblong 14y ago
I think his comment was more along the lines of, "Who will dig the ditches?" I'm sure HN's response is, "Robots, if all goes as planned."
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by boboblong 14y ago
>Next, violent crime is not murder or death. It can be robbery or assault. Many gun deaths are gang-related or otherwise criminal-on-criminal. Also, with less strict gun control a robber is more likely to be shot dead by their intended
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by boboblong 14y ago
No, that's wrong. The distinction is between continuous and discrete, not quantitative and qualitative.
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by boboblong 14y ago
Disclaimer: I have never been sued and don't know who any IV executives actually are, and I'm speaking purely hypothetically. Hypothetically, if a legal firm is engaging in clearly predatory behavior, can a point be reached at which it is m
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by boboblong 14y ago
8500 out of nearly 350 million is 1 in 40000 people. And how many of those 8500 were gangsters or robbers anyway? 50%? 90%? In any event, I'm having a hard time getting worked up over here.
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by boboblong 14y ago
How is that any different?
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by boboblong 14y ago
If a particular gun owner is threatening you, you can take legal action against him or her.
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by boboblong 14y ago
He said: >Also, all the rights listed in the first ten amendments are limited to the point at which you're infringing on someone else's rights. The threat of death or injury, such as it is, would seem to be a pretty clear reason to limi
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by boboblong 14y ago
When the second amendment was written, "well-regulated" essentially meant "properly functioning".
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by boboblong 14y ago
You sound like a parody of the left. "Your rights end where my feelings begin!" Is that really your stance?
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by boboblong 14y ago
Opponents of gun control feel exactly the same way: they don't want to have to live in fear.
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by boboblong 14y ago
What major open source project is the harshest on newbies? I want to try to contribute to it.
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by boboblong 14y ago
> If a lot of other people are talking about the negative consequences of something you personally haven't experienced, generalizing outwards from your own experiences to conclude that something a lot of other people have experienced do
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by boboblong 14y ago
>When the goal is to change behavior as a whole it helps to not point anyone out. Has it ever occurred to you that many people strongly dislike it when others attempt to change their legal, nonviolent behavior? It's nosy, condescending,
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by boboblong 14y ago
>it's just that you think toxic behavior is acceptable. You think that calling someone's idea crappy is unacceptable? In what sense of the word? Are you saying that it should be illegal to make fun of someone's ideas?
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by boboblong 14y ago
>Once your project is entrenched, you can feel like you have the power to say whatever you want because your community is vast. That's a problem. How is that a problem? What do you propose we do about it? Should be fine people for sayin

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