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by ScottFree 6y ago
What about the little people? I want a list of prominent technologists who were shorter than 5'. And another one who were plagued by birthmarks. Anything less is heightist and birthmarkist!
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> If it helps, I think "kill all men" is reprehensible and illegal. Why would that help? Did you start the meme? > isn't "defund" accurate? Yes. That's the whole point. "defund the police" is wi
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Interesting bit from this video: Yesterday's Tucker Carlson 20min show intro (found here[0]) was the most watched hour of prime time TV in the country yesterday. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22j_OhbnW20
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by ScottFree 6y ago
We're at peak JS and WASM hasn't managed to get their JS integration done to any acceptable degree. Where do we go from here? Simply avoiding the web isn't viable at this stage.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
There's a comic book adaptation of Right Ho, Jeeves: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/right-ho-jeeves/list?t...
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by ScottFree 6y ago
An off-center keyboard is a dealbreaker for me.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Come again?
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by ScottFree 6y ago
citation needed.
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Lancet Formally Retracts Fake Chloroquine Study Used by Media to Attack Trump(msn.com)
2 points by ScottFree 6y ago|0 comments
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> However, it does mean I have to move on. To what, though? I came to the same conclusions a few years back, but I'm at a loss as to what to do next. So I plug along, take what work I can find, shake my head and watch the exact same
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by ScottFree 6y ago
They exist on far more than just less popular topics. You just never see them. Anything even slightly right of center tends to get censored for hate speech.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Sadly, there is one reason you might want to take a team of highly experienced developers and hamstring them with Scrum: not all highly experienced developers can or will stay focused on getting the product out the door. I've run into
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. Some of the reactions here are why most sane people avoid the open source community. Ultimately, these sort of reactions hurt open source in the long run by discouraging companies and individuals from releasing the
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> There is no good solution to the disemination of harmful information in a free society other than education. False. Maybe we should ban you from commenting on any of the popular platforms to prevent you from spreading such blatantly ha
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by ScottFree 6y ago
The App store's main source of revenue isn't advertising, it's acting as a marketplace for apps. It also doesn't capture 30% of the entire economy that it operates in.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> banks do provide essential services for a fee. ... What they do isn't always rent-seeking. Mob bosses own legitimate businesses. They're still crooks. edit: Just FYI: I am not anti-bank. I am anti "capture 1/3 of al
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by ScottFree 6y ago
fair enough. Updated to specify the entire financial sector, not just banks.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
The entire financial sector. It captures 30% of all corporate profits in the world economy. Ads are bad, but not "take 1/3 of what other people make" bad.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
You're missing the point. "A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." -Anthony Daniels
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Isn't there already a de-facto sandboxing by language?
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Not to be a debbie downer, but don't most UI designers like to specify UIs graphically rather than verbally?
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Massive corruption and socialist policies. But, I repeat myself.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
This reminds me of the Lit Motors c-1. At least they had a unique twist on the idea.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> if you actually need something to survive you'll figure out how to get it without having to be sold to. And if you don't know what you need to survive?
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by ScottFree 6y ago
What's $50/hr then? College student frontend web developer? :)
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> Sounding desperate. Why is that a negative signal? The company has the opportunity to get top talent temporarily down on his/her luck for a reduced rate.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Based on what? Numbers generated from a government agency so incompetent they contaminated their own tests with the virus they were trying to test for? https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/cdcs-failed-coron
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> Patients on ventilators have a reported mortality rate of 66% to 90% (NY is 80%.) reported where?
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by ScottFree 6y ago
22 hours ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22932423
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Stop violating HN guidelines. Read what he wrote again with a generous interpretation. It's a joke.

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