throwanem

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by throwanem 4mo ago
True, but it's rude to call that out, not to mention rather more arrogant than wise. These are trepidatory times, and like many, his job is not at all secure. In his shoes I'd be frightened too, and he displays reasonable grace in
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by throwanem 4mo ago
My comment on the other thread meanwhile wasn't nice at all, but it was also misdirected, and meant to refer to Hacker News rather than your own site. (I like the style, too. It's good to see Helvetica get a deserved reevaluation,
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by throwanem 4mo ago
Not at all related, but I love your work! Your photographs betray a subtle, curious, particular, and respectful eye. Keep shooting!
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by throwanem 4mo ago
You needn't; I just did. Mr. Gackle isn't really all that frightening, you know. There's no need to fear talking with him.
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by throwanem 4mo ago
"What an embarrassing website! It has just about run its course, hasn't it?"
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by throwanem 4mo ago
> Also, when did we stop liking to learn? When it got dangerous to spend that kind of time without a bullet-point deliverable.
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by throwanem 5mo ago
Why assume people would not buy and sell Hacker News accounts?
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by throwanem 5mo ago
The real HN discussion guidelines.
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by throwanem 5mo ago
Much better than you, hon.
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by throwanem 5mo ago
Sucks to suck.
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by throwanem 5mo ago
Until now Apple hasn't addressed the mass market in nearly two decades. That's one human generation, and it is also the span of time between when something first hits and when it sees its first retro revival. That isn't a coi
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by throwanem 5mo ago
Because Brooklyn is finished.
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by throwanem 5mo ago
To say the least. Great catch! 'O brave new world, that has such people in 't.'
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by throwanem 5mo ago
> Doesn't have to be. You can train it on normal pictures of children and nude images of adults. You say this so casually, as though it were a normal thing to know, or as if a normal person would know it. Does that actually seem tru
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by throwanem 5mo ago
Oh, he knows what he said. That's why he made a sockpuppet account to say it.
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by throwanem 5mo ago
"HR" does not set your professional obligations. If you need to be drunk to talk this honestly, you are not a "senior" nor a mentor, but an incipient alcoholic and a coward. Then again, this person is obviously also lyin
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by throwanem 5mo ago
> You should not switch medications based on the uninformed ramblings of [crazy] people.
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by throwanem 5mo ago
I hear a whole lot of "what I can't" and next to none of "what I can." Not where I'd want to be, but it's no skin off my nose, either. Good luck holding on to your soul - good luck, and I hope you end up n
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by throwanem 5mo ago
Moral odium inheres, if nowhere else, in that you insist upon the seductive counsel of despair. The more convincing you make that, the less our fellows will feel themselves able in any meaningful way to act at all. What should I call such e
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by throwanem 5mo ago
In your self-exculpation.
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by throwanem 5mo ago
I really don't have to respect that. If we're to talk about what you're ashamed of, why bring up the least blameworthy examples you can find? Do you want to be shriven, or enabled?
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by throwanem 5mo ago
Wonderful! Thank you for taking the time to think, with intention, about why.
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by throwanem 5mo ago
You don't sound too confident.
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by throwanem 5mo ago
You built Freenet? What about that experience encouraged you to continue building things?
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by throwanem 5mo ago
You will live to regret your moral cowardice. Specifically, you'll regret the wrong choices it leads you to make. The guilt you feel now is a warning. Don't stay lazy, or that guilt will eventually be augmented by shame.
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by throwanem 5mo ago
You are responsible for the reasonably foreseeable consequences of your own actions. I'm not going to point to a TV show about alcoholism to substantiate that. You don't need me to. It is also why manslaughter, though a lesser cri
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by throwanem 5mo ago
Nonsense. But even an LLM that can follow instructions cannot follow that one.
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by throwanem 5mo ago
The sooner, the better. The more quietly, too.
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by throwanem 5mo ago
If you think that is serving then - oh, what's the use, none of this was ever for you. It even says it isn't!
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by throwanem 5mo ago
Well, I don't know, I'm sure. Totally unrelated, I hear a common piece of advice for the aspiring con artist is to avoid overcomplicating the legend.

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