Helianthus

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by Helianthus 13y ago
You were perfectly clear. You've made it clear yourself that the opt-in fiction is just that, just as the difference between corporate and government surveillance, such as it is, does not rely on any opt-in mechanism or lack thereof.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
I don't know if it's ironic so much as it is simple two-facedness. >Google, Facebook, et al, collect data in exchange for a service. You can use incognito mode for Google, or just not use Facebook at all. >The NSA collects y
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by Helianthus 13y ago
This is actually really funny, though I don't quite have the words to explain why I think it's humorous.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
This topic is full of bitcoin advocates doing terrible jobs of reconciling themselves to a new .800~.900 standard USD. However you criticize MtGox, this has spread to other exchanges. That's the price now. Personally, I think this is
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Heh. Nothing left to say now, really. Cheers.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
This is called a lack of artistic integrity. And there's nothing wrong with that, you're just excerpting yourself from responsibility, and if enough people do that engineering becomes irresponsible. Arguably this is a problem righ
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Heh. And the success of the first group is dependent on the success of the second group.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
I'm on fat0wl's train out of here. Previously I gave you guys the respect of honest antagonism. The quackery of bitcoin is so obviously ludicrous I can no longer justify my time spent pointing it out. People throwing money aroun
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Your comment is nonsense even if you had gone into a huge explanation of why. Hell, I thought it was sarcasm at first.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Unrelated: I've greatly enjoyed your comment history--particularly the bicycle metaphor and the moral stance on Bitcoin.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
If the mountains of downvotes don't do the trick you can ban accounts directly. Hellbanning is cowardly and ineffective. This isn't Wikipedia, it's a discussion forum--and the discussion pages on Wikipedia are moderated fair
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by Helianthus 13y ago
HN has an amusingly childish policy of hellbanning individuals it deems inappropriate or otherwise objectionable--hellbanning hides the banned account's comments to everyone unless you set "showdead" to true in your account p
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Unicorns!
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Somehow I always thought your middle name (or initial) was d. It's nice to see you.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Have you never trolled the r/debatereligion circuit?
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Yeah, it's easy to lose cash if you're on Wall Street, but no one lauds that. You're stuck in a place where you're trying to differentiate yourself from Wall Street and you are exactly like Wall Street. And then you comp
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by Helianthus 13y ago
It's funny seeing you on my side. How you been? I haven't crossed words with you in a while. james_d?
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by Helianthus 13y ago
I don't know what you expected, Bitcoin enthusiasts. You bought into a system where coins could be permanently lost because you forgot a password. You bought into a system where the government cheerfully gained control of a large sha
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Hahaha oh hell, I really fucked that one up. My apologies. Edit: Mind you, you're still self-righteous and pompous, but you're not hypocritical about it. :P
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by Helianthus 13y ago
>Dart is pre-1.0. It's being worked on. Typescript is pre-1.0. It's telling, to me, that the first argument of mine you take seriously you handwave over by vaguely saying it will get better and it can be fixed. I'd place a
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by Helianthus 13y ago
>You claimed that Dart is a flawed language. I was echoing OP (the one who was bemoaning snark and cynicism). Read his paragraphs. Flawed doesn't mean crippled. There are things about Dart I like. A language can't be perfect.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Oh, interesting. Is it really a standalone transpiler or is it a set of tools? As someone else pointed out, SO isn't a great metric, but finding github activity by language seemed to take more time than I was willing to invest.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Oh don't be so simple. :P
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by Helianthus 13y ago
There's a bit of a chicken-egg problem with a project choosing Dart, in that Dart has to already be ubiquitous for it to even be an option. What is the pathway for Dart adoption? Google puts it in Chrome. Sure. Dart programmers get
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Not your best work.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Oh, why not? I wouldn't mind watching a highlight reel and you seem so gleeful . --- I think my reasoning throughout this page has been more or less articulated, but I suppose I might try for a compact representation. What exactly do
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by Helianthus 13y ago
One rdtsc does not make a flock :P But I don't have any problem with Dart as an experiment in language design. I don't even really have any problem with Angular.dart. We can always use another language that transpiles down to jav
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Point was to compare compile-to-javascript languages.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
I'm aware of JS language angst, yes. Developers aren't flocking to Dart. Many are resentful of it. You can ignore the resentment and the reasoning behind it if you want, but that won't make Dart more reasonable or beneficial

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