crististm

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by crististm 6y ago
I'm on a fuck off spree lately. So fuck off with what you think is important and not.
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by crististm 6y ago
Do you feel woke? Fuck off. Do you feel threatened? Fuck off. Do you feel like an idiot? Fuck off. Do you feel I'm having a bad day? Fuck off. For the record. This post on Dr. Seuss has no place on HN. If it is allowed on HN but dissen
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by crististm 6y ago
And to those that are offended by fucks; fuck off as well. That include anybody that cares to point me to HN guidelines. Have a nice weekend, but fuck off in the mean time
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by crististm 6y ago
To those that find my comments offensive - fuck off
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by crististm 6y ago
Nitpicking and a pet-peeve but Elon Musk is an African-American. You probably mean "black". They are not from Africa simply because they are black and for clarity we should stop being politically correct (especially when critical-
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by crististm 6y ago
That would not happen in the America that we looked up at when I was a kid.
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by crististm 6y ago
De-platforming for decades?
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by crististm 6y ago
Either it will swing back or its momentum will topple the base with it. We've seen revolutions before and they were not pretty.
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by crististm 6y ago
When you read the Skunk Works book you stumble upon passages where the government has to pay for tools maintenance and storage after the project is complete. Some bureaucrat entity always decides at some moment that paying for storage of an
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by crististm 6y ago
I don't know. I think I replied to assimilation of the idea of totalitarian regime institutionalizing otherwise mentally healthy people for dissidence to merely not letting them vent on radio. Indirect lines explaining seemingly unrela
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by crististm 6y ago
Yes but that won't stop you from drawing/rationalizing _any_ conclusions from a set of facts. Not all of them will be right and fewer even will make any sense. Which is indeed your prerogative until you mess with the laws of physi
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by crististm 6y ago
How is that accurate? More, like, exaggerated to make a point but missing it by a mile. Soviets did not give airtime to pro-party ideologues to validate their position. There was no competition between ideologues to get more airtime. The pr
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by crististm 6y ago
Ha, ha! Let me tell you what I think the Democrats believe. For one, that men can carry babies like in that Schwarzenegger movie! Generalizations are useful until they aren't! Let's put our thinking hats for a sec don't you t
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by crististm 6y ago
What should we do about the 20%?
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by crististm 6y ago
You make the argument against locking devices (which I agree with) for reasons related to that not deterring theft - which has a point. Thieves will not profile a person using a premium locked phone against stealing it because it might not
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by crististm 6y ago
Think of it as a 'fuck you' to the thief and whoever might get the brick. Maybe you get that, otherwise you can be bitter all you want about the inequality and how stealing will resolve that.
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by crististm 6y ago
Yes. In a PC ecosystem this is true - physical access renders the machine in your control (modulo Intel Management System and other backdoor schemes). For Apple, there is a different set of axioms and some people seem to agree with them.
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by crististm 6y ago
IKEA catalog is like the "I'm feeling lucky' google button. I guess we'll see soon what it means to get rid of it.
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by crististm 6y ago
Yes. Some hard facts to knock that theory that today's computers are slow because they do a lot more stuff than 20 years ago. No, they do a lot more of _nothing_. Something that would have been obvious and unacceptable on a 600MHz sing
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by crististm 6y ago
Yeah... No! I don't have an axe to grind here but indeed there are more than one way to compare a product. Air debit is only one dimension. You can pick arbitrary dimensions to compare products depending on which one you want to (if yo
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by crististm 6y ago
I could think of several reasons why regulation would not be a good idea. Cutting into pieces? Maybe, but how would you cut pieces of FB or Amazon that credibly resolve the problem? Remember that lobbying for antitrust splits will be pursue
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by crististm 6y ago
This is probably the only recourse in this new age of AI bots deciding human affairs: - Seller is banned by an AI agent for arbitrary reasons. There is no reasonable phone recourse - Seller tries to make a _human_ point in a blog post hopin
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by crististm 6y ago
I was not entirely fair to you when trying to make my point. In fact I could see this exact argument of yours coming up and ignored it completely. What I want to say is that there are entire domains of competence that are irrelevant to a la
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by crististm 6y ago
What I see is not over-emphasizing the importance of history but de-emphasizing it as a justification for present day sufficiency. If you don't like the term, use another one. But without history you're bound to cargo cult compute
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by crististm 6y ago
The disdain for history as an expression of you not knowing how to code wordpress is strange considering that, as you allude to, you don't know the latter. You may want to think whether learning wordpress is the same with learning hist
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by crististm 6y ago
So you lowered your bar huh? Who am I to judge, but I would have preferred a story with something more than the game is rigged and that's what I get to play with
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by crististm 6y ago
Last time I checked, which was more than 5 years ago, non-corporation contributions to Linux amounted to less than 20% (with Greg H. pointing out that they needed to make life easier for those not-payed contributors). This means among other
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by crististm 6y ago
This is not a one year problem. And it will stay that way because, as you know, HN is a corporation. Not a public forum. Maintaining these rules allow dang@co to maintain the position of control over what happen in HN. The corollary is that
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by crististm 6y ago
2012 was five years behind AMD making the comeback. If they saw that far into the future and didn't do anything else in that timeframe then maybe firing him was not for missing the strategy.
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by crististm 6y ago
Go pass the megaphone to your friends then

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