jmcdiesel

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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Its not about low expectations. Its about no expectations. Buddhism, Daoism, etc... its the same idea. Don't have expectations, good or bad, simply be in the moment. [edited for spelling]
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
You dont chose your emotions, you chose which emotions to react to. There is an entire philosophy built around that concept, buddhism.
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
I know hes not making the claim, but the article itself is based around the hypothetical negative claim.
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Because being annoyed doesn't affect them, only you. Choosing to experience negative emotion because someone does something is self-harm. When you are entitled to something, you expect it, and you can't expect something and be tru
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Nah, you're not. Entitlement only leads to disapointment. It's bad all around, from my perspective. You can't be entitled to something AND appreciate it at the same time. So, a lack of entitlement of being treated well lead
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Is it me, or is this whole article failed out of the gate by the fact that you can't prove a negative? "Prove that x didnt happen" is impossible. Now, if he said to prove that the earth IS only 10,000 years old, that would be
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
There is a reason for that, though. There is no reason to import what you don't need. This is why wildcard imports are generally frowned upon in most development teams. (I say most, thats unqualified, of course, but from my experience
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
"Maybe a nitpick, but given that most other programming languages don't distinguish named vs default, it's probably not necessary" Not sure that how other languages do things really plays a part in how JS does things? I
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Keep in mind, the entitlement works both ways... This isnt just for you, more of a general thing. Ive seen it a lot in this thread alone. Creating an OSS project doesn't entitle you to be treated a certain way either. Nothing does.
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Only on hacker news can "Thanks!" be interpreted negatively... jesus...
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
>>> 'Hi, can you implement <Feature that takes a month of work>? Thanks!' >>> Usually from people who have never contributed anything. This is a very toxic attitude, honestly. How dare users request feature
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Just because it was unclassified doesn't mean it was released... Im sure there are literally millions of documents that have been "unclassified" due to time, but have never seen the light of day since then. Its not like they
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Double alliteration FTW?
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Your empirical data is limited by our perception. Do you really think we know all of the forces at work, that we can perceive them or detect them with the tools we have? Its rather arrogant to think that we know even "most" of how
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Religion is dying, but spirituality is growing. I think the interesting part comes from our (and i say our, as in, the HN demographic) tendencies to hold strict beliefs based only on (and limited by) our own perceptions. The thing is, it co
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Thanks. I was confused as well... most articles would have started off with the term and then used the acronym... i knew the context of what it was, but not knowing what it actually stood for was driving me nuts...
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Whitepolar... You cannot prove something is harmless. Thats literally the opposite of science... you can not prove a negative.
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Financially, yes... But... the second part is mostly just the dread of it. I've moved (with family) 6 times in the last 7 years... most of which do to bad luck of contracts falling through in the companies i worked for and them just n
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
I dont think the fear is sheltering... Most of those islands have shelter, its not like hurricanes are a rare event for them. However, its the destruction and risk that it could be WEEKS before help comes if infrastructure is completely des
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
More evidence supporting the claim that, as a society, we have completely lost the capability to have a conversation on anything. Everything is polarizing and everyone feels the need to pick (and defend) a side.
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Thats exactly the OPPOSITE of stop and frisk. 1) Stop and frisk is BIASED heavily on race becuase its a HUMAN making the choice... 2) Stop and Frisk is the GOVERNMENT, and therefore actually pushes up against the constitution. How do you se
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
The point is, there will be false positives, there is no reason to get upset and hurt over them... There is no perfect system. If its automated, there will be false positives (and negatives), if there is a human involved, you have a clear
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
I dont think the problem is automation... It's people's expectation for it to be perfect, and the egoic drive to blame someone when something goes wrong. There was no reason for the hype around this story... an AI determinator ha
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
"That doesn't seem quite right, because it was still the government that allowed the private sector to take over a duty of the government." You aren't talking about discussing it, you're already calling it a duty of
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
My old Manager's last name is Blank. The sad thing, given blank isnt a reserved word at all, is he has the same problem. I think its EventBright or Ticketmaster, i forget, but one of those sites wont accept "Blank" as his l
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
What duty? You think that domain registration is by default a duty of the government? The government has no real say over the internet - and the little it has should be removed. Thats like saying space travel or planetary colonization sh
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
They have a constitutional right to say whatever they want without punishment by the government. Thats where that right ends. The constitution has no power in the private sector, its an agreement from the government. If a dns provider doe
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Why? Being caught committing a crime is less a sign of committing a crime but in doing it in a way that got you caught. Serial committers often go years uncaught... from petty burglars to assaulters.. a lot of people get caught their firs
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
Which also undermines the usefulness of judging based on criminal record...
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by jmcdiesel 9y ago
"Ads on news sites gobble up as much as 79% of users' mobile data. Why are you wasting valuable data to see ads?" My understanding is that this is a device on your network... your home network. Can you explain how this devic

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