briholt

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by briholt 9y ago
The misrepresentation is a feature, not a bug. They need to create dragons in order to justify their dragon-slaying crusade. This has been going on for years, BTW.
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by briholt 9y ago
Awesome game. My only request would be make the planes less maneuverable and move more like real planes. This would make it less chaotic and allow more dog-fight and strategic play.
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by briholt 9y ago
Let psychologists prescribe common, low-risk psych drugs (instead of scarcer psychiatrists), let optometrist prescribe glasses, etc.
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by briholt 9y ago
The smart move would be to say she's switching parties because of Trump, run as a conservative Democrat left of Trump but right of the progressive wing.
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by briholt 9y ago
This is cute, but I now see comments endorsing this brand of hate and hysteria (albeit with a less violent flair) on HN everyday. If you're going to suggest that you haven't noticed this trend over the past year or two then frankl
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by briholt 9y ago
Any HN mods want to jump in here and suggest maybe HN is a tech forum and not the appropriate place to promote political violence? Or perhaps this brand of hate and hysteria has completely infected this community as well.
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by briholt 9y ago
This is a highly politicized and subjective use of the word "democracy." It would be more forthright to just say, "I like Soros's politics."
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by briholt 9y ago
Theil is becoming the liberal media's George Soros - the enigmatic billionaire pulling the strings of his evil conservative conspiracy.
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by briholt 9y ago
"This study shows my tribe is better than yours because my tribe doesn't think tribally."
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by briholt 9y ago
I've only seen a few pieces by Martin, but everyone was a gross distortion of the situation covered. She's a propagandist pushing anti-Western narratives, not a journalist summarizing the facts. I suspect her coverage here may be
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by briholt 9y ago
They need to keep the capital flowing in order to fund the police/military that prop up the authoritarian regime.
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by briholt 9y ago
You've put an interesting perspective on the safety/cost balance. I find it ironic that the replier is effectively demonstrating your point: people have an emotional attachment to safety, but not opportunity cost, regardless of th
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by briholt 9y ago
Then the farmers started shooting the wolves. Circle of life.
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by briholt 9y ago
> Whether or not people ARE NOTICING YOUR EVERY MOVE. Yeah, for me the feeling of being implicitly watched and judged all day causes low-level anxiety.
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by briholt 9y ago
Agreed. This is "feelings over professionalism." If you're so uncontrollably emotional that you can't help but waste company time, take a sick day. But I think the problem is that they're not uncontrollable, rather
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by briholt 9y ago
Find one successful programmer at Google/Apple/Facebook/Cisco/etc. with an IQ of 90. Remembering basic equations, keeping long sequences of functions sorted in your head, even understanding FTP/Git/CL instruct
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by briholt 9y ago
You've clearly never met a person who is unable to place a hanger inside of a shirt and hang it on a rack, or a person who can't sort 5 single-digit numbers mentally. What you are describing are 120+ IQ problems.
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by briholt 9y ago
Another major glaring problem that no one wants to admit is that lots of tech work requires (at the very least) college-level-IQ, which excludes the majority of the population. And the lower-IQ jobs are quickly being automated away.
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by briholt 9y ago
Most nihilists don't spend countless hours inventing complex devices and embarking on adventures.
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by briholt 9y ago
I meant we markup the computing power of the server (not exactly the purchase price). My host rents me a server that can perform X calculations for $Y/hour. I divide and resell that computation power, plus my software, to customers at
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by briholt 9y ago
Me too. But I write it for the web, so I get paid for the massive markup on web servers running the code.
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by briholt 9y ago
Turns out writers weren't being paid for their songs, but were being paid for a portion of the massive markup on a plastic disk. Now that the disks are gone, the value of the song is laid bare. The same has largely become true for soft
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by briholt 9y ago
Woosh.
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by briholt 9y ago
> You can be sure that everyone outside the disaster zone will be along to restore capitalism before they restore electricity "Keep your government hands off my medicare."
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by briholt 9y ago
TIL being a 6'5" athletic model is not a skill, being a 6'5" athlete is a skill.
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by briholt 9y ago
But is it really fair that surgeons or NFL players don't match societal distributions for their respective traits? Think about how this makes all of the low-dexterity, low-coordination little boys and girls feel. For the sake of feelin
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by briholt 9y ago
So obviously people like Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz, Donald Trump, Milo Yiannopoulos, Ben Shapiro, Charles Murray, and George W. Bush don't qualify. So just reply with some links where you've been defending their right to speak as l
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by briholt 9y ago
Define it. Then define it in such a way that everyone advocating this censorship will agree too. Then pledge that when people start pushing for additional censorship you'll vehemently push back.
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by briholt 9y ago
This was exactly my first thought too. "I'd better not make any videos that the CEO will dislike or he'll shutdown my site on a whim and then brag about it."
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by briholt 9y ago
I'm interested. You should create an anonymous Gmail account for people to reach out to you.

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