hnbroseph

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by hnbroseph 5y ago
> I do not want the government deciding "what purposes" e.g. non-commercial, serve the public good. The public gets to decide that. the public's "decision" on things like this is made manifest by government polic
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by hnbroseph 6y ago
i suppose it depends on the details, but if you're asked for state-issued identification when processing a return, and you present a falsified document that purports to be state-issued, that's a almost certainly a crime. (even th
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by hnbroseph 6y ago
> Don't hold back technology and society conversely, don't presume that what you're advocating for is "advancing" technology and society, either.
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by hnbroseph 6y ago
> Maybe just don't have a government where that's an issue oh, good idea. but i think that's quite literally the entire point of people's concerns in the first place.
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by hnbroseph 6y ago
your scenario isn't all that different from how the jdk authors view the use of internal classes, like sun.misc.unsafe.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
So the hands dont speak to each other?
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
without a "minority report"-esque system, or preemptively putting the entire population in cages, you cannot prevent every ill of the world.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
something is unclear to me - by 'how is it unacceptable', are you asking how people could possibly disagree?
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
protest activity. questions. demands for a commitment to human rights. support for democracy and the people of hong kong's efforts. maybe just annoyed at having to do lots of video editing to hide it from the CCP overlords.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
> Criticizing Golang here in HN will get me banned for causing flamewar that's either reductive or a strawman, if not both. afaict golang doesn't lack for criticism on hn, but most people do so without being insulting or hosti
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
i think this is true for AngularJS as well (not to say it didn't arrive with the right features at the right time).
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
platform gatekeeping, at a guess. though the existence of objective-c makes that status for swift be not-quite-technically-true.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
> Anyway, why does the above mean there is no "American Dream" in China, when most the accusations you make can be levelled (in some form) to the US as well this seems fallacious. it's not clear how the various whatabouti
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
Or perhaps they are smart enough to break into such places :)
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
Unfortunately swift doesn't have a meaningful windows story, and giving up on 100s of millions of users is less than ideal for most "crossplatform" contexts. :/
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
my impression is that you seem to have an emotional commitment to your position. why do you say that bostrom is "that stupid" talking about "bullshit all the way down" and is "conning" people?
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
everyone has an expiration date. someone who wants to make the most of their time probably should not waste it on nonsense.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
perhaps it's a category error to apply the notion of 'validity' to opinions.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
what you describe does not seem to correlate with reality. > he was also wrong what do you mean?
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
so if a person puts a number on a page, that also means they want everyone scraping it? that's not a very privacy-friendly perspective.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
I don't think anyone wants to read it for its own sake though, rather its something that's been shared and in that context its annoying. Not to mention people aren't exactly interested in subscribing to countless content out
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
aren't most control structures just sugar for goto?
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
can you be more specific about these practices?
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
> says should not be questioned do you have examples of this happening?
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
i don't think the act of defining a term for later usage in an argument can be described as "no true scotsman", which is typically a mid-argument dismissal of a counterexample that contests a generalization. to be such they w
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
i feel like this may be equivocating on "biologically distinguishable", particularly given the chosen examples.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
> One guy chose 100% equity, and is now retired. being able to choose 100% equity would suggest a particular level of financial independence before even starting. how long did they work without a salary? did they regularly sell equity
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
wasn't the us involved with the vietnam conflict for the better part of 20 years? i was actually under the impression that the vietnam protests, while at times quite noticeable, weren't all that impactful in-and-of themselves. i
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
we're not exactly talking about logical syllogisms. there is no specific implications; just an understanding of how people interact. what if someone's whole team regularly attends these meetings, but that single someone never goe
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
when you have a widely disseminated open invitation to particular social-issue oriented things, the lack of involvement or attendance is visible and the door is open for people to wonder about it. if you combine a situation of "i feel

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