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by revnode 6y ago
I feel like demanding contribution as a response to criticism of open source software is immature. Just because you decided to let everyone see and use your code, doesn't mean someone can't say something negative about it. That is
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by revnode 6y ago
You're then forced to maintain a fork because of someone else's immaturity. That's not a solution to the problem.
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by revnode 6y ago
> I did this a few times as part of some contract work and everybody was very happy with it but I don't know how to scale this into a consulting business. Save up some money, then quit. Devote ALL of your time to it. Once you'r
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by revnode 6y ago
> But what entitles us to that level of control over HN? What entitles you to that level of control over email? If any of the emails you sent were modified by Google, you would be outraged, but we should just accept "editorial contr
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by revnode 6y ago
Isn't this an example of what we're talking about? Even if this change is objectively better, there were many comments posted here with the original URL as the intended target and now their comments are directed at a different URL
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by revnode 6y ago
> haven’t been able to figure out when or why this happened. If you want an exciting color, you'll wrap. That's what has changed.
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by revnode 6y ago
> shutting down a company It's not a company. It's a division of a foreign government. That was the point being made. If it was an independent company, none of this would be happening.
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by revnode 6y ago
> evidenced by the fact that they did not leave behind any space junk Whatever space junk we leave behind will be gone 100 years from now. https://www.nasa.gov/news/debris_faq.html
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by revnode 6y ago
> Solar roof was 100% fake product They have a number of installations in California that were done for real clients and are fully functional. It may not be viable or scalable, but it is absolutely not fake. It is an actual product that
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by revnode 6y ago
> Really? Not even the capacity to understand? Yup. I'm pretty sure most software engineers don't even know how something as basic as hashing works. They just put lego blocks together, without much understanding of even how tho
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by revnode 6y ago
The overwhelming majority of the population doesn't have the capacity to understand what you wrote or why that is true. Even the majority of those who understand why it may be true, cannot say for certain that it is true without in
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by revnode 6y ago
> it wouldn't have built entire f.....g cities on it! So is your position that Jews are not allowed to live in certain places on this planet? Tell me more.
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by revnode 6y ago
> Vote with your choices (use a different browser). You almost don't even have to. Microsoft's Edge is basically a rebranded Chrome with all of the Google stuff stripped out. You can keep using the same extensions, etc.
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by revnode 6y ago
You're literally commenting on an article where Israel has sought and won peace with a neighbor. Whatever land was appropriated, was done so as a result of Arab aggression and Israel has repeatedly offered to give it back for peace .
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by revnode 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murdered_Israeli_chil... There's literally a Wikipedia category for Israeli children that were murdered. If you murder a child, then "it is reasonable to assume, that hi
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by revnode 6y ago
Those numbers don't indicate who is right or who is wrong. Who is justified and who isn't. Just who is better at killing.
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by revnode 6y ago
Go to the West Bank, try speaking Hebrew, and look on their faces. The entire region is like that.
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by revnode 6y ago
This is correct. The best you can usually do is 2% cash back, so really the consumer is being charged 1% for the convenience of using a credit card. Obviously most consider that worth it, which is why credit cards are so popular.
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by revnode 6y ago
While Visa and Mastercard are the big fish in the sea, they do have competition. There is also Discover and American Express. They also charge similar rates, which suggests that 3% fee isn't random. Not sure where 4%/5% came from,
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by revnode 6y ago
> It really hurts the people just getting started in the economy. Yes! A dollar is a good just like any other. If there is more of it, it is worth less. If you print more money, the dollars that people hold and have are worth less. That
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by revnode 6y ago
A group of communists? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion
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by revnode 6y ago
> I'd argue that a 40% jobless rate is a major structural problem. In what country? In the US, the unemployment rate is 11.1% right now?
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by revnode 6y ago
> These are all problems caused by the economic system. What problems? There are no major structural problems yet. There will be major structural problems if OP's ideas are implemented because they're not sound. That's not
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by revnode 6y ago
> There are many ways of mitigating the harmful effects of the lock down. State aid targeted directly towards individuals (and not corporations) is a good idea, I think. The same goes for a freeze on mortgage payments, rents, evictions e
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by revnode 6y ago
> Containing and minimizing the effects of a pandemic is just one aspect of what we might call a civilized attitude towards human life. Conversely, not doing so is uncivilized and I might add immoral and irresponsible. This is acting und
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by revnode 6y ago
> Why should taxpayers have bailed out businesses that couldn’t keep employees on payroll though? Because those same taxpayers voted in a government that prohibited many of those businesses from operating. > There is no end in sight t
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by revnode 6y ago
> People cannot "transcend" past wrongs, so don't do them. Semantics? I don't care what word you use, but you can absolutely always do better and the beautiful thing about America's founding is that in every resp
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by revnode 6y ago
As an engineer > files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos means rsync, curl, and Twitter API integration. It obviously does more than this, since I can throw something together that does that in a few hours. Where is the list of everything
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by revnode 6y ago
I wish that was the only problem with the new Reddit ... it frequently crashes my browser. No other website does this.
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by revnode 6y ago
> China had an extensive system to delete disinformation. China had an extensive system to delete information. Fixed that for you =)

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