dalek_cannes

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by dalek_cannes 11y ago
From guidelines: In Comments Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g
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by dalek_cannes 11y ago
Agreed. It's disturbing that there are so many members who are seemingly intelligent, but either haven't read the guidelines or think that guidelines don't apply to them.
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by dalek_cannes 11y ago
> I don't have the mental energy to give everyone I come across the benefit of the doubt... people who don't take the time to try and understand me get dismissed pretty quickly. So you basically demand others spend mental energ
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by dalek_cannes 11y ago
No, he is being sarcastic. I believe that counts as gratuitous negativity : https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
A few examples would help us understand the problem better. Based on just this description, it could be anything .
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
Sony is Japanese.
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
In other words, you want free content. But content costs time and money to produce. And content is inevitably colored by the source of the money. When the source is advertising, the content you receive is optimized for advertising. Of cours
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
Ongoing internal investigation? Or -- and forgive me, I don't know a universally inoffensive way to broach this subject -- because her being a gender/ethnic minority in her line of work makes Amazon reluctant to terminate her?
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
Incorrect. This is a prevalent yet still poorly understood phenomenon that has an impact not just on those in the tech sector (as many of us on HN are), but also on society at large. Philosophers and activists have repeatedly tried to expla
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
You can hardly be blamed. This quote just on page 3: My manager did not communicate to her management chain the positive impact I was having on the product - in fact, she once told me “You’re here to make me look good - you’re doing an awe
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
Isn't a contract that violates a law, Bad in Law?
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
I just realized this comment is irrelevant. This is the most important bit about this article: > We know now that the explanation was that Simon was snared in a trap set by people who wanted to end the death penalty, no matter what the c
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
It seems a lot of America's 'justice' takes place in the absence of a judge or jury: in the presence of a prosecutor with a plea bargain offer. At least in third world countries, the coercion and bias is in plain view.
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
Paper is a technology that revolutionized the way we practice politics and law. It didn't lead to a utopia but made the system scalable beyond a tribe or village. Technology is meant to solve problems of scale here, not of human nature
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
A damning indictment from Stockman's The Great Deformation (referenced in the article): The paper trail uncovered by congressional investigators shows that the $400 billion (notational value) of busted CDS insurance issued by t
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
Could it also be rephrased, "You know nothing, JS"?
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
> Illegal cannabis = freedom to live in a place where your children aren't exposed to drugs You're abusing the term "freedom". Freedom is the right to act, not immunity from the effects of others' actions.
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
I thought on HN, disagreement is expressed through refutation, not down-voting.
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
Downvoted because this has become an almost knee-jerk reaction against any attempt at consolidating or unifying multiple standards, which should be the goal.
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
I think you might be mistaking HN for reddit. Have a look at the guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ).
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
Replying to this comment because it seems to be the only properly argued, non-partisan 'against' comment at the time of this writing. I don't agree with some of the author's conclusions, but I agree with this idea: when
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
Browsing through the backer comments, I find that about half the reactions to that demo are similar to this one: > I too am very disappointed with the bare bones tech demo you created. I had high hopes for CLANG - I bought the Razer Hydr
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
Isn't that a good reason as any to not put all our eggs in the Google basket? One of the two major browsers and two major blogging platforms are already run by Google; the world's biggest search engine; the dominant mobile platfor
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
Because democracy without an underlying system of values is indistinguishable from a tyranny by the majority (in other words, it cannot be two foxes and a hen voting on what's for dinner). That underlying system of values, as I underst
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
This comment does not warrant downvotes, even though it makes a hard-to-agree-with argument. I myself disagree with this on many counts, but the poster does present a legitimate question. Over-pathologization and trivialization both take
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
We have had a similar discussion in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6663098
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
Not really. Eight hours for sleep covers almost everyone's biological requirements. It's hard to decide in what proportion to split the remaining 16. So split it 50-50 unless someone can propose something better!
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
8 hours for work, 8 for leisure, 8 for sleep and 2 rest days a week seems reasonable, at least mathematically speaking. If it were up to me, I'd include commuting time in those 8 work hours as well, making the number no more than 7 hou
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
First, the answer to "Hey, Have you seen Dave?" should be "In his cubicle/office". If a coworker (or worse yet, the boss) does not know this, then there is a different problem. But yes, it does work well for managem
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
Could I raise a somewhat academic question? The idea of conviction is binary: either you're convinced beyond reasonable doubt of guilt or you let the man go. In a way this is good, but in a way, because of it, prosecutors end up putt

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