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by mbetter 13y ago
Oh, get fucked.
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by mbetter 13y ago
> I can't murder your sister if you don't have a sister. But I believe you can conspire to murder my sister, even if I don't have a sister.
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by mbetter 13y ago
Oh, go fuck yourself.
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by mbetter 13y ago
The passage in question, as neither of you seem to have read it closely: > Donald Knuth says he wrote his books for "the one person in 50 who has this strange way of thinking that makes a programmer". I think the most amazing t
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by mbetter 13y ago
Try reading it again.
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by mbetter 13y ago
> Our general policy is to only add protocols if we can do a better job than the alternative, which is why we have not implemented HTTPS for instance.
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by mbetter 13y ago
Problem: Hamburger buns aren't noticeable enough. Solution: A cheeseburger with a lightbulb inside. Problem: Some humans are currently suffering. Solution: Destroy the universe.
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by mbetter 13y ago
Just because you are cheating on your wife doesn't mean that everyone else is too.
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by mbetter 13y ago
> "We as a society" didn't really do this. Yes, we most certainly did. Start with the Bank Secrecy Act which was enacted, by duly elected representatives of the People of the United States, in 1970. This group of regulations "require[s]
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by mbetter 13y ago
> If education is the primary path for upward social mobility, then every parent should have some choice in where their child goes to school. I don't see how this follows.
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by mbetter 13y ago
> Accepted payment methods: Bitcoin, pogs, that Billy Ripken baseball card with an expletive on the bat, good intentions.
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by mbetter 13y ago
I personally consider the Pre2 the high-water mark for smartphones.
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by mbetter 13y ago
Go fuck yourself, Joe Conway. Wait, maybe I should make this reply a blog post instead.
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by mbetter 13y ago
> Government "protections" can only make it worse. Bullshit. > Similarly child labor is only a problem when families are too poor to survive if the children don't work. Bullshit. > Minimum wage laws "protect" the least profitabl
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by mbetter 13y ago
I actually could go for some McNuggets right now.
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by mbetter 13y ago
"Impact" implies causation. Low growth, for any reason, would lead to a higher ratio of debt to GDP. The original (erroneous) results of this study suggested that there was a point at which the relationship between the two changed.
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by mbetter 13y ago
I would suggest that in a situation like this, "the difficulty of reviewing Excel code" is even overstated. The direct dependencies of any cell are discoverable with trivial effort.
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by mbetter 13y ago
Your citations don't even remotely suggest your conclusion.
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by mbetter 13y ago
I would say the single most useful thing in bash is the ability to type in commands.
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by mbetter 13y ago
The former, as it's not make believe.
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by mbetter 13y ago
Why do they need to be consistent?
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by mbetter 13y ago
Sure, if by "barely modified a tiny little bit" you mean "completely redrawn."
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by mbetter 13y ago
Not here.
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by mbetter 13y ago
How is that the proper response? If one person gets away with running a red light, do we just turn them all off? The travesty of HSBC getting away with their crimes should be a reminder of the value of the rule of law and an impetus to figh
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by mbetter 13y ago
I'm not sure why that second sentence is there, it doesn't really make much sense. The rest of the point is valid, especially regarding money laundering.
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by mbetter 13y ago
I sure hope so. I'm already getting sick of the "Show HN: Only Works In Chrome (only works in dev version of Chrome)" links that were starting to show up.
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by mbetter 13y ago
Wow, I love how casually you exclude about half of the world from your little site.
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by mbetter 13y ago
Trying to figure out how to scroll was a great game. Page down? Nope. Down arrow? Nope.
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by mbetter 13y ago
> I don't want to work with any company that will, at the least, exchange a couple of emails with me. You like it when they play hard to get, eh?
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by mbetter 13y ago
For future Google browsers, maybe.

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