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by CodeMage 7y ago
> I think companies are also free to tell people they aren't welcome if they're going to use that extension. Or a particular browser. Or a specific operating system. Or the wrong brand of device. You can probably see where I&
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We can try, but we won't get as far as you might like. I gave the post a second chance and pushed myself past the point I originally criticized and past all such points. I could write an in-depth critique of the whole post, but it&#x27
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by CodeMage 7y ago
To be fair, actual Socratic dialogue can be very effective and rewarding, without being patronizing. What you're describing there -- what the blog post is like -- that's just as awful as you said, or worse. I couldn't get muc
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> For one, isn't it true that many (most?) doctors in the USA have malpractice insurance? Any lawsuit win against them doesn't make much personal financial difference, just increases medical costs for everyone else as the paym
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> Sorry, where did I say that? Here: > would try harder to [...] move to another location.
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> Enforcement of basic car camping and drug possession/use laws has basically gone to zero and as a result there is a sense that Seattle has opened itself up as a "Risk Free Zone" for homelessness. Again, I find this log
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Could someone please explain what it means to "encourage homelessness"? At a first glance, it looks like a passive aggressive implication that homeless people, if they just tried harder, wouldn't be homeless. Can anyone help
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> Edit: The strategy in the paper requires allocating a bunch of physical memory from all the small blocks so that memory allocation requests from a new process are allocated deterministically to a desired physical row. Honest question
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No, I actually misread the comment in question. I thought @dev_dull was saying that people who don't want the government to limit individual freedoms were the same people who want the government to regulate corporations. After re-readi
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Are you really failing to make a distinction between individuals and corporations? Or is there something in your argument that I missed?
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It reminded me of "Hyperion" and "The Fall of Hyperion" by Dan Simmons. The way an AI called Ummon communicates with humans is rendered in a similar fashion.
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> Having driven both in Europe and the US, this is one of my pet peeves in the US. Funny, one of my pet peeves since I moved to the US is the "keep right unless passing" or "left lane is for passing only" or any oth
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> I think part of the difference in HN opinion color is somewhat related to transparency. It's not that I disagree with you on the topic of transparency, it's that I think we can't really compare opinions on two very dif
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You're conflating way too many things and oversimplifying the whole situation into a fictitious idea of conflicting mindsets. First of all, you're treating two very different types of services as equal and identical. Netflix and H
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> I am in the vast majority (97%) according to this survey: It's easy to dig up a survey someone did that supports the conclusions you wish were true. It's much harder to find the actual state of reality. If you click through
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> Owned by Facebook and Twitter for the most part And gated by Google, for the most part.
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> If you spend all your time on them, people perceive your product as holding still. This is precisely what bothers me about the vast majority of software out there. It's hard to find software that doesn't suffer from what I
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by CodeMage 7y ago
Sorry, I had limited time to type out that particular comment, so I didn't have the time to place a footnote there that would offer a more nuanced view. No, we don't all want to get rid of drug cultivation. We do all want to ensur
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by CodeMage 7y ago
That's just a disingenuous distortion of semantics. You're deliberately ignoring the key difference between skill-based, white-collar jobs and unskilled, blue-collar jobs. The former are not "destroyed" by productivity,
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by CodeMage 7y ago
Yes, I am saying precisely that. The key word here is "systemic". It doesn't mean that "Amazon is systemically oppressing the working class", as you put it in your second question. It means that Amazon participates
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First of all, if you think the worst thing about these jobs is that they're tedious, you really should take a better look at the reports about the working conditions involved. As for "having it both ways", you're present
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> twice the speed = twice less developers in a blunt way Except that's not how that works. Increasing the productivity of a job does not eliminate it. A job is eliminated when it's no longer necessary. Unless you live in a pa
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Sure, it's good news, just not for the people you're thinking of. Think about people who work in Amazon warehouses despite those conditions. Why do they do that? Because the alternatives are worse. This just removes these jobs and
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Of course, and with good reasons. Before you wrote your comment, did you stop to think why people work inside Amazon's warehouses if the working conditions are so oppressive? It's because the alternatives are still worse. And no
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At least try talking to people before calling the cops on them for making noise. What is controversial about this?
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I don't mean this in a confrontational way, I'm just being curious: have you been on Nextdoor? From my experience so far, the typical attitude of an average Nextdoor "neighbor" towards the homeless is not: "This is
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I've been on Nextdoor for months now. Here's my take on it: if you need to get recommendations for local businesses, it's great. Most of the rest is headache-inducing display of NIMBYism, self-righteousness, self-entitlement
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>>that we are inherently the good guys in any international conflict. >How else could any human or organization function if not by acting in ways they believe are right? Being convinced that you're always right is not the sa
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It's definitely not a dictatorship, it's something a lot more insidious. It's a self-sustaining informal plutocracy that masquerades as a paragon of democracy. I don't understand how people still believe the US is an exc
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> Companies are a bit like religions. When they're small, they can't have much impact. When they're big and young, they can wreak havoc. If they make it to comfortable old age, they're peaceful and stable. The Cathol

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