MrMcCall

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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That doesn't mean they use them to the fullest, and GOPers are really, really into avoiding taxes. It's like a religion to them, and they are about to crush our economy to make more absurd tax cuts for their rich friends and sycop
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
In addition to tax write offs.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> I usually find the strictly secular and over atheists are very compassionate and empathetic, but the mildly religious and definitely the evangelists in my life and the absolute _least_ compassionate people to those outside their tribe.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
while gleefully watching the bandwagon fools repeatedly ice-pick themselves in the brain.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I think it can be best summed up in Craig Ferguson's joke he made when chatting with Robin Williams that he liked to go to London and do to the English what they had been doing to his people (the Scots) for hundreds of years. Much was
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Preach! How is it that my FF preference (something like 'Always show scrollbars') is regularly just ignored. I want my scrollbars! And I wat `em fat and in my UI's color scheme! And why the HELL would a web designer think thi
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Shit rolls downhill, right into the algorithm.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> when it's appropriate Yes, it just requires extra care when querying and handling the rows. It's always just easier, if you can, to make it NOT NULL after prepopulating all rows' columns to the empty string (or real data
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> Julian (the author) is a genius. With proof! I have rarely been so impressed with a web tech.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
6. ensure there are no nulls in firstname and lastname 7. alter the columns to be NOT NULL Because no non-statistician uses nullable columns, right? Of course, some dbs (SQLServer?) infer NULL from the empty string, or am I misrem
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
There is bad, and there is worse, far worse. And, it's a kleptocracy, more and more, for a very long time now.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
It's true, because all the upper levels of ALL large media organizations have been infiltrated by big-moneyed conservatives. CNN and NBC weren't always as bad as they are now, but their descent has been obvious and dramatic. Som
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
[flagged]
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
And how much money was made off of companies that were created to support cryptocurrencies? Does anyone around here know of any? Bueller?
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That's a great film, but I have to disagree, simply because of the scene with the bad guy in the back of the cow suit. God knew what those Catholic priests had been up to. And now that my parents are in love with that orange demagogue,
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> Nobody thinks "wow, they said a true statement, I should downvote them". Precisely. That's the biggest problem with closed-minded fools.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That sure explains a lot!
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> Not every comment is going to be agreed with and rise above the fold, and that’s ok. > That's just life. Life is the result of what we choose, alone and in our groups, and groupthink creates a momentum that is hard to understan
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> constructive discussion is hard without mutual respect Yes, indeed.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Flagging is used by people who have no rebuttal but are mad. That's why I have only flagged one or two posts, ever, but not because I was mad, but because the comment was just plain beyond the pale. And my posts against portaying viole
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
So you understand how echo chambers are created and are fine with it? The problem is that there is no one with power here that can come to the "little guy's" defence. There is no will around here for that kind of support, bec
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I wonder, do you find Outkast's ATLiens album to be derivative? Especially "Elevators" and "Wheels of Steel". I certainly don't know enough music to answer that question definitively, if anyone does. Even thoug
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
My kids and I were kind of flabbergasted after listening to the "Song Exploder" podcast's episode on the Weezer song "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori" about how Rivers Cuomo writes songs. Basically, he obscures interes
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
As I learned from William Gibson's fiction, it is, more accurately IMO, a kleptocracy .
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
You're absolutely right, and, while it's good for life-karma, it's not so good for HN-karma. No one bullies harder than the nerds around here. Such a hateful bunch of ignorant fools. Of course, that doesn't apply to ever
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
The greatest practical joke I ever played was on my parents, and completely innocently, meaning NOT on purpose: I recommended them to see "Top Secret" when I was in 9th Grade. My Catholic parents! They came home and my mother said
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I think he was always great, but found him especially hilarious in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang".
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
With my C64 arriving in 9th grade, and my being a pretty good wrestler, I was both. My sophomore year, when getting a ride from my state champion teammate, I don't know what I said, but he just turned to me and said, "McCall, you&
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That's interesting. Thanks for the heads-up.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
No, but if it came in the standard install there's nothing I can do about it save spending hours and hours auditing my install. I don't do that kind of thing nowadays. Separately installed software? Not a bit of it.

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