Frondo

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by Frondo 9y ago
It's hard to think of a better example of a candidate for the Darwin Awards than the guy who gets a DNR tattoo and thinks "no one will take it seriously."
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by Frondo 9y ago
People are beat up, shot, and run over for being black, too. They don't even have to say anything. Man, if I had to pick a side I'd stand up and fight for, I know who I'm out there defending.
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by Frondo 9y ago
Except that is a non-issue. We're not actually heading into a "language certified by the party bureaucracy" situation, nowhere near it. It's a fallacious claim--heh heh, the slippery slope fallacy. Again, we can look t
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by Frondo 9y ago
Wide-scale corruption and dictatorial tendencies? No, I don't think many people endorse that here.
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by Frondo 9y ago
Well, I do. So we're at an impasse. See, my deal is, you want to make this whole system more complicated at several steps, and for what benefit? To solve what problem? I'd rather keep the system as simple as possible--cheaper, ea
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by Frondo 9y ago
I bought an unlocked Android phone from Target, and use T-Mobile prepaid. They don't have my SSN, and didn't even have my name til I paid for some minutes via the website. (Now I pay by CC every month, but oh well, not real impo
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by Frondo 9y ago
Paraphrasing someone else's excellent take: Grandparent, to child, riding in an automated vehicle, "Can you believe, once upon a time people steered these?" "What? How did that work? Was that safe?" "Oh, no
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by Frondo 9y ago
I wonder what the percentage is of revenue. I see this a lot; techies are paid well compared to a lot of other industries, and yeah, no argument there. My question becomes: how much better paid should they be, looking up the company hier
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by Frondo 9y ago
Wait a minute...traded away? So somebody does want them?
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by Frondo 9y ago
I liked the older term they used to use for "trickle down". They used to call it "horse and sparrow" economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics#Critici... "Mr. David Stock
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by Frondo 9y ago
It offends my sense of fairness to see the disparity between the very small number of very, very rich and the very large number of very, very poor. It offends my sense of "people should enjoy freedom" to see so, so many people who
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by Frondo 9y ago
I find this argument unconvincing not just because the evidence doesn't support it (and it doesn't), but because this claim is the same one made whenever anyone proposes anything to put more money in the hands of the poors. Ev
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by Frondo 9y ago
Good. Does it make a better work for a lot of people? Does it give a lot of people freedom? Does it give a lot of people more access to their basic human rights? Then bring on wealth transfer. Watching out for the rich and their tax rates
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by Frondo 9y ago
Who can say what was going on in the inner world of this hypothetical second-hand story person's mind? All we know is she took a job and then took a better one. You're claiming that's an unethical act, and I'm saying, &q
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by Frondo 9y ago
Eich did not have his rights impinged on. He chose to resign--he chose that--because the community far beyond Mozilla didn't approve of his donations and he saw that he'd lost a lot of people's trust in him. His actions h
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by Frondo 9y ago
One nitpick: we never asked for participation trophies. It was the last generation that invented that and foisted it on it. Neither I nor any one of my peers ever liked "everyone's a winner" day, but when you're kids
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by Frondo 9y ago
Oh, no no no. If they can fire us at any time, we can leave at any time. There should be absolutely nothing in anyone that says "work for less than what you're worth". Whatever her reasons for going for and getting what she
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by Frondo 9y ago
(Of course doctors in countries with socialized medicine are paid. No one's compelled to do the work--they choose to do it and are compensated.)
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by Frondo 9y ago
Do you use Github or Bitbucket regularly? That would be the best way to understand what people are used to, and consequently what they will expect to see (or not see). If the reply is, "fossil is meant to be different," then of co
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by Frondo 9y ago
From the experience of someone who used Fossil for small and large projects (solo and in teams) for 3-4 years, they aren't very good. The bug tracker can be heavily customized, and get ready to do so, but it still has irritating limita
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by Frondo 9y ago
Coercion isn't immoral any more than breathing is immoral. It's been a part of the human condition since before we were human. Living in groups--and people are very much social creatures--means there are rules you follow that you
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by Frondo 9y ago
Hey, just out of curiosity, where in the country is that? I've ridden Greyhound in the Pacific Northwest and New England, and never saw that.
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by Frondo 9y ago
I like that idea, Joe Armstrong's split security idea a lot. Can you link the podcast? I'd like to hear what he said. I'm a strong believer in privacy, in not trying to legislate backdoors into encryption, but I'm also
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by Frondo 9y ago
"... which is, of course, not true." It is true. Stop lying about this. All this stuff unfolds in public, the non-stop harassment of people like Anita Sarkeesian by people like that person she called out. There is no mystery here
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by Frondo 9y ago
My first thought is how we need to start developing a better working vocabulary around having racist attitudes. Like the big-R Racist is the white power asshole who wants to create a white ethnostate--that's one that's easy to spo
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by Frondo 9y ago
What's happening here isn't "witch hunting," it's discussion on a forum. You may be uncomfortable being questioned or critiqued, but lamentably that is par for the course when posting to a discussion forum. There ma
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by Frondo 9y ago
I used to be socially awkward, terribly so, and I was never ever afraid of being in a closed room with a woman, because even at the height of my awkwardness I certainly wouldn't 1) make sexist remarks or jokes, 2) stare at her body or,
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by Frondo 9y ago
When men openly discuss not meeting with women because of a fear of being falsely accused (which itself is exceedingly rare) of inappropriate behavior or molestation, what are women supposed to conclude? That they aren't being denied n
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by Frondo 9y ago
I'd like to see both: a basic job for someone who wanted something to do, and a basic income for everyone. For me, the goal is not to have everyone engaged in busywork. For me, the goal is to end mandatory work. Freedom comes not whe
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by Frondo 9y ago
Fair enough, but counterpoint: I live in a vintage building on a busy street, and the USPS carriers never leave packages on our doorstep. Each apartment has put up a little sign on their front door indicating how they'd prefer packag

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