dmorgan

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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Is there a word for market based socialism? You know capitalism with hair cut upside (taxation) and a hard floor protected low side (poverty). It's what holds in most European countries with a welfare state (and, to a lesser degree e
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Why do you think LGBT can't reproduce? Well, B (and maybe T's) can. But LG cannot by definition, except if they momentarily act like non LG's by reproducing with other partners against their own sexual preferences. And that if they _
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Also without reproduction nobody would be here. I know that, I was being sarcastic towards the attitude that sees things that formed the bases of society since ever was one, like reproduction, are viewed as "optional" or "sexist" now
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by dmorgan 14y ago
Well, you would have to deploy serious code for projects with far-reaching financial consequences when things go wrong first...
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by dmorgan 14y ago
People also sell buttons.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> This is such a stupid strategy. The right thing to do is to look at the root cause of all this. After all, there are lots of angry people all across the world that hate the Western world and want to hurt it, but most can't. Put this
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Why can't the article just come out and say what it means? Militant Islam scares the crap out of the West, and we're willing to pass laws and endure a certain level of self-censorship to avoid provoking violence out of these people.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
Yes, because "free speech" is nice and all, but there are some opinions that you should not have, even on a liberal place like Hacker News. One should not be allowed to divert from popular opinion (be it popular in society in general, in so
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by dmorgan 14y ago
Yes, and it's kind of true. Achievements are only relative.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> I think the latter is a pretty damning point, given that reproducing is pretty important to the human condition. Not according to 21th century hip ideology. You're insulting all LGBT guys by saying that.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
This pedophile over there? He's playing in VERY HARD mode, and yet he made it to a congressman. See where the analogy breaks down? Playing "hard mode" doesn't mean you're also doing something worthwhile.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Who's going to write it? How about the writers for The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The Wilson Quarterly, The Economist, The Paris Review, etc. I could fill up the length of a long-form article with names of publications th
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> In the creepshots case, the material is produced without the consent of the subjects You mean like the best photos of every 20th century street photographer, from Cartier Bresson to Gary Winograd?
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Two- Competitive forces will favor companies which support this approach. Kinda like open source won the desktop? No wait...
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Sounds like you're looking for a Sufficiently Smart Compiler[0]. James Hague has a good piece on why this might not be so desirable[1]. So, sounds like he's looking for something like v8. if v8 can be 10-30 times faster than Python,
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Yes there is lookup, always lookup. Dynamic language, something in loop could change what lstr is. And why is that presented as something inevitable? The interpreter/compiler could analyze that part and see that the function/name is
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> The point of the OP was "patterns for fast python", i.e performance. It's absurd to claim that you "advocate abstractions over performance" in the context of achieving performance, so your comparison doesn't make sense to me. Just bec
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> If I'm not in front of my computer, my phone is more useful for getting to the web. Outside the house maybe. In the bedroom/sofa/crapper the iPad cannot be beat by the phone or the laptop, though. What it does is, it frees you from h
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> LWN seems to be doing fine So, how do we know they are doing fine? It seems they have a bare bones website with some news. Looking at a sponsors page, I see a single company. I don't see any signs of them making real money. Do we hav
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by dmorgan 14y ago
It's called "The Economist". So, a not so wild guess would be: the finance industry, and business and policy circles second, that is Washington, Wall Street, Soho and the like guys, with wannabe "sophisticated" money grubbers an influentia
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> It does. Still I think the point of game of life is not to look organic but to make complex thing from very simple rules. Em, it's called "Game of Life" because the whole point was for it to look and behave _organic (Wikipedia: "Conw
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by dmorgan 14y ago
Huh? It looks even more complex --organic even. You don't confuse the fast rate of change in some Conway implementations (which is a detail) with actual complexity.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
And what makes you think this "stuck in iPad 1" user base is the target for a paid for tech geek Magazine by Marco?
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> If you are good at it, you make money hand-over-fist at the moment. I don't know of any web news site (that's what we're discussing, we're not talking about the general case of "charging for content on the web", e.g software, music,
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> But on the other hand...I'm really wondering why this needs to be an iOS app. Written content is perfect for publishing on the web, I really don't think you'll be running into any speed issues when you release this as a web magazine.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Introducing The Magazine: a modern iOS Newsstand publication for geeks like us that’s loosely about technology, but also gives tech writers a venue to explore other topics that like-minded geeks might find interesting. So, also borin
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> See, it's statements like that which annoy women. What do "pleasing aesthetics" have to do with anything? Why do you even need to refer to that when you talk about women? Because he cares about it. What's YOUR problem?
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Well to plays devil's advocate, the coal miner is working in a coal mine because he did not get a superior education. Which is heartbreaking in itself, on top of the bloody mine crushing on him. You say it like this argument somehow
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> I think that's easy for you to say. But I bet it really, really hurts for the many folks who genuinely worked their asses off to see Zynga succeed. You put in that kind of effort only to watch your boss get rich while you get screwed?
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> (1) It's not a big deal to move your thumb an inch to tap the screen. No, but it IS annoying. "It's not big deal" is defensive. It conveys the opposite message, that it _is_ kind of a deal.

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