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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I get it on my desnapified Ubuntu, but Ubuntu says firefox is up-to-date, and the "download update" button downloads firefox-135.0.1.tar.xz but there are ZERO docs on how to update my current firefox. And running the unzipped fi
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
No one is ever forced to be evil. Everything in the human world is the result of someone's choices. "Shit rolls downhill." And all of Zuck's works are a detriment to humanity.
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Seconded. They have been doing great work for a few years now.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
We are all choosing sides, each and every day, between compassionate concern for our fellow human beings, and callous disregard for others' happiness. Choose well, everyone. The karma you reap is always exactly what you deserve, for go
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Mark Zuckerberg will never be happy, after all the horrors his businesses have helped perpetuate, the kinds of lifestyle his brands perpetuate, the folks he has helped put into power. The look on his face at the inauguration is a testamen
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> The answer is that bright Yang – iteration – has its own dark side, its own Yin. The presence of side effects (among other things) makes the programs hard to understand, verify, or modify. There are no "side-effects", only ef
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I know fascist salutes when I see them, and I don't truck with that. My history education is broad and deep enough to understand that kind of ugly as well as one can without having been through it oneself.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
This why HN is sometimes so valuable. Thanks, friend.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Thanks, that's a fantastic, informative response. > I don't know why you're being downvoted, it's a reasonable question. No to the high-karma stupid, especially because their stupidity is growing more glaringly obviou
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I didn't say it started then. I said that a French man said they had high taxes (in early 2000s) when I was there, for the reason I mentioned.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> no amount of vacation days or social safety net is stopping it Yeah, there's only one way to deal with people who want to violently oppress others, no matter their ilk (religious, political, ethnic, ...). > Europe so enlightene
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Seeing as lithium is a powerful "mood stabilizer and antidepressant" (per wikipedia), I am curious how awful inhaling its smoke is for human beings? I'm sure it existing in combination with other elements changes its bioavail
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> I mean what do we even do? We first must learn how to self-evolve ourselves out of our own selfish mistakes, borne of vice, and become more virtuous. That is the starting point for ALL human beings' advancement, alone and in our
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Thanks and indeed! Three months before 9/11 (thank God I got in under the wire, so to speak!) I accepted Islam thanks to a Jewish Sufi housemate. I did so to become a better Christian which has worked out better than I could have ever
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Those are great questions. For the first, the answer is "Can I do more good with the money than the bad that has been done to make it?" I don't have an answer for that, but I guess the cop-out is to say, "It depends on
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Absolutely. If you want to see how charity is done properly, watch the youtube vid (watch?v=490TsUYe5f4) of Pat Morita telling the story about how the legendary comedian Redd Foxx gave him ~$4000 (IIRC) and said that he never wanted to hear
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Very well put, indeed. I would only add that very few people ever admit -- even to themselves -- that they are unethical or even downright evil. Part of the delusion that convinces people to be amoral includes distancing themselves from the
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That's an excellent question, and well put. If you want make money, it's best to deal with people who really, really care about making money, to the exclusion of everything else. The problem with dealing with those sort of folks i
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> un breakable law of the universe That is precisely the case, for the simple fact that we human beings must live in groups, where we each do different tasks that enable the whole to function. That is why narcissists are NEVER happy. T
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Because 'unknowable' will stop you cold. And many unknowns are practically unanswerable. But don't worry, you won't exhaust the findable.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I saw a quote from (IIRC) the guy who worked on early font rendering in MS who said, "I stay with a company until it gets big enough to have an HR dept." Sounds like perfection, to me.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
OTOH, I'd say that software perfection doesn't exists because of all the slackers who accept their crap as "good enough", leading to enshittification. On the most important level, software is either pefect or it fails. E
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> writers, some famous, most not, who keep rewriting My favorite, William Gibson, is like that. I was 50 when I first realized that I am an artist, too. Shame it took me so long to figure that out. 'The Art of Software Design and
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I know what the 'C' in "C-suite" stands for, especially in the UK.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Outstanding post! Best of the best. Truly. > Have you noticed how MBAs have never created anything? Actually, I haven't. What I did notice, however, is that they have destroyed most everything they've touched, like, America.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
"This one goes to eleven." --Nigel Tufnel :-)
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Pauvre Lavoisier Mais, il n'ya pas de quoi. C'est la vie. C'est la guerre. C'est tout. {Thanks for getting to the root of this issue. Well done, indeed!} "Perfection is perfected." --Snoop Dogg
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> best-possible anything Shareholder "value", i.e. profit They are, like the vast majority of corporate America, only providing for themselves, and not giving one shit about anyone else, especially their marks, I mean, customer
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Castaneda's Don Juan says that life is more about what we avoid doing than what we do. Like, we should not repeatedly go to the shoe store to play with their new x-ray foot measuring device, or use those new glow-in-the-dark radium cos
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yeah, people should wake up to what people are really saying.

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