morbius

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by morbius 11y ago
thanks though, it makes my decision a lot clearer -- goodbye HN
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by morbius 11y ago
oh great, more downvotes!
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by morbius 11y ago
Yep, fantastic way to prove to a suicidal person that life is worth living and having independent opinions for (I'm the OP, FWIW) /s
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by morbius 11y ago
Perhaps a bit of both. Regardless, Larry's intentions are good and he's an angel -- which is rare among programmers. Many (like Linus, RMS, DHH) are almost sociopathic in how they view others' work and treat the people they w
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by morbius 11y ago
It's not entirely inaccurate.
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by morbius 11y ago
Because there's no object to their jokes. It's just exaggerated humor not at the expense of anyone.
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by morbius 11y ago
The SRS sidebar makes it pretty clear that the whole SJW façade is exactly that: a façade. They obviously have legitimate complaints but hyperbolise everything to poke fun at it.
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by morbius 11y ago
I never said someone should be liked because of their gender. It's just that using Victoria as a defense for Reddit's consistently juvenile view of women doesn't really work.
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by morbius 11y ago
Victoria was beloved despite the fact she was a woman, not necessarily because of it. I understand what you're trying to say, but it doesn't really hold up.
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by morbius 11y ago
That's a two year old link to a sub whose whole intent is to be as diametrically opposed to the SRS sub as possible. If you're trying to strike a point here, I think it'd be much more effective to link to something that'
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by morbius 11y ago
But Reddit wasn't attacking corporatocracy or actual censorship. They were just trying to defend their right to be dicks to other people through abusive and hateful subs. The right to free speech is not the right to speech without cons
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by morbius 11y ago
> now predictable narrative of '50 white male racist misogynist neck beards' who want to chase women out of tech again This is a pretty accurate narrative. You may not agree, but casual misogyny is incredibly pervasive on most
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by morbius 11y ago
IFE systems do show telemetry data from aircrafts' EICAS, though -- things like ground speed, altitude, temperature, etc. I'm not sure on the specifics since Boeing has kept silent about the whole debacle, but I do wonder whether
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by morbius 11y ago
Sorry if this is off-topic, but as someone who once sat through a four-hour compile of Octave several years ago and never touched it again, what exactly are the advantages of using Octave and R compared with the standard SciPy stack? (IPyth
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by morbius 11y ago
Of course, I've no reason to doubt that. Apple's design philosophy is great for many people, but the trend of its design becoming the only design for interfaces (see also: Galaxy S6) is disappointing. It homogenises the market a
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by morbius 11y ago
Right-- but Ive also seeks to reduce form so much to the point where it begins to impede upon functionality. Take the thickness of the iPhone 6, for instance. The drive to reduce the noticeability of the hardware is at the direct expense of
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by morbius 11y ago
This seems like little more than an Apple puff piece. > Apple has recently developed a standard British power plug whose prongs fold elegantly back flush into their body. Easily stowed, no agony if accidentally trod on. A separate and wh
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by morbius 11y ago
This seems like a non-sequitur, since the Indian filter coffee you linked to commonly incorporates both Arabica and Robusta beans. > "The most commonly used coffee beans are arabica and robusta."
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by morbius 11y ago
I'm not sure, but it remains a pretty strong indicator of why we need good multipartisan cooperation in any good society.
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by morbius 11y ago
Agreed. It irks me when proprietary software developers ask for donations for a 'free as in beer' work. Either offer your product as a paid service/item, or make it open source and free as in speech software. The middle groun
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by morbius 11y ago
Exactly! Which is why I said something LIKE. :) There's literally nothing more fun than creating your DnD campaigns; it would be so cool to construct worlds involving interplanetary trade -- which incidentally, is one of that Star Wars
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by morbius 11y ago
> (2) upvotes can't be the only factor determining HN's front page; that would make it consist of controversy, gossip, and fashion all day long That seems like an awfully low expectation of the average HN reader IQ.
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by morbius 11y ago
Something like this I presume? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Roleplaying_Game_%28W...
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by morbius 11y ago
Findings like this, I think, are the most convincing arguments for retaining NASA's highly productive climate science division. There is a breadth of talent there squandered by horrible management both intra-agency and inter-agency. Th
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by morbius 11y ago
That's a quite myopic view of both NASA and SpaceX. The cutesy circus is pretty much a necessary condition of scientific popularisation-- NASA's social media experiments have been incredibly successful ways of getting the public t
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by morbius 11y ago
A lot of this stuff isn't strictly necessary for many people. But there is a very distinct change in the quality of your thoughts and approaches to solutions after learning advanced mathematics and the theoretical concepts that inform
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by morbius 11y ago
Time off for hobbies and maternity leave are two very, very different things. Also, slippery slope arguments are considered so fallacious because they're often the most extreme visions of what will happen, when the most likely change w
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by morbius 11y ago
The problem is that even when you put "Paul Rand" in quotes, the search results still show "Rand Paul" half the time.
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by morbius 11y ago
Not even close. Even if Walmart chooses to not stock a particular product, you can still purchase said product from other authorised retailers. This is more like if Walmart is the sole reseller in the U.S. for a certain hardware device used
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by morbius 11y ago
Luck is relativistic, though. It's far easier to become a billionaire when you've already established your success and connections. The fact that you can easily become a millionaire by working hard means that becoming a billionair

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