SkittyDog

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by SkittyDog 5y ago
I don't buy that you were coming to this from a place of trying to be helpful. I know that here on HN, we're supposed to assume good motives in other posters, but I just can't do it, here. I think you were trying to score poi
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
Objects can and do change their mass. Sometimes that mass changes over the course of the acceleration process (e.g., rockets). The mass of the accelerating object is absolutely a variable.
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
Your correction is wrong... The size of the two objects is irrelevant. The only variables are their respective masses and the DISTANCE between them. If it's worth correcting people, it's worth correcting them correctly... Don&#x27
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
Actually, we're not speaking anything here... We're WRITING the name. If you want to be pedantic about it, you could at least get that right. English spelling of transliterated names borrowed from other languages is pretty arbit
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
Wait... Why is all that timekeeping stuff "dumb"? Because you don't see a reason for it, and you can't imagine that you might not yet know the reason why? That's just plain egotistical, man. https://wik
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
When I first read this, my intial reaction was "LOL what a silly... of course the simple reason is..." ... and then it turns out, I couldn't actually explain it to myself. I had a couple of reasons lined up, but none of them
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
Well, solely with respect to skin color, which is arguably THE single biggest physical characteristic of concern... Yeah, I'd say >95% of Americans consciously select their mates with skin color in mind. Google the rates of interrac
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
You state things as absolute fact, while there IS disagreement amongst legitimate experts in these fields. Please, furnish us with YOUR credentials that allow you to have such unique insights into this field. Otherwise, you just sound like
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
Wait, are you objecting to the abortion specifically? Or does it just bother you that people could have a conscious influence on the kind of children they do/don't get? If this is just a coded abortion debate... Count me out But
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
But there are plenty of people who are widely believed to have committed terrorist acts without being convicted... Wouldn't you call those people terrorists? What about pejorative adjectives describing conduct that isn't actuall
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
Sorry, I could have explained that better... I was alluding to an old saw about solving problems using Regular Expressions: • https://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-ha... It was a joke. I was trying to ta
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
Hey, a genuine Strawman argument! You've implied two separate false equivalences, here: • That "censorship" necessarily and only means "removing obvious child pornography", AND • that in order to "take accounta
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
To be clear, are YOU advocating for the belief that banks don't need to exist? Because the statement is technically true, but basically meaningless... Cars don't need to exist, modern medicine doesn't need to exist, elect
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
... and now you have TWO problems!
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
The ACA did not impose those caps, in the first place. It merely standardized them. State insurance laws have mandated the same kind of caps for decades... I believe they date back to around WWII, but I don't know for certain.
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
Another poster mentioned this, bur I think it's worth talking about in more detail, because it's at the heart if exactly what's broken about US health care. Every US state has laws that prohibit insurance companies from colle
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
> that is of course. Another way of building an even bigger d.ck. I don't think it's appropriate to deride the security motivations of modern Russia, so casually. In the 20th century, Russia was very nearly wiped out, by surpri
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
The Russians are way ahead of you, buddy: • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpos... I live in coastal Los Angeles, and I regularly look out at the Santa Barbara Channel, and wonder if one of the
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
I believe you are correct about the lack of an atomic stat/unlink operation. Depending on how you implement the two steps, your potential errors are different. `rm -f` handles some errors in a different way than the stat/rm approa
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
I'm not addressing idempotency, that's a separate issue. The comparison we're discussing here is about the relative merits of `rm -f` versus the stat/rm (no '-f' option) approach. The parent post addressed a po
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
I agree with you. Bash is a wonderful tool, but it's not very well designed for sophisticated control flow. Gotta know when to say when, and switch to something else.
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
Your idea isn't wrong/bad... But you are aware it creates a potential race condition, right? The `stat` check and the `rm` are two separate operations, with a nonzero time interval between them. So it's entirely possible for
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
Of course, there's a huge gulf of possibility, and he definitely creates the impression that those 900 people were fired for being bad employee... But I'm awfully concerned that you're so willing to take this guy at face valu
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
Wait, they only started reviewong employee data ONE MONTH ago?? Thats some serious management incompetence. What's with this weaselly language, too... "At least 250 employees" also means "No more than 250 employees"
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
I concerned that you're jumping to prosecuting employees for the systemic failure of a company to operate well. Without being privvy to the company's internal state, how could you possibly differentiate between management proble
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
Submarine PR for Amazon.
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
Mostly true, to a point... But there will usually be a point of diminishing returns on marginal labor productivity, when we hit the limits of capital utilization. But that's not really relevant in thr current labor market... it seems c
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
> This isn't entirely true. Yes, my original statement is entirely true. You're offering a poorly sketched basket of theoretical ideas, none of which change the reality that no nation has EVER attempted to add low-observability
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
This is all false. The choice of whether to use spheroid radomes has ZERO connection whatsoever to do with concealing satellite locations. The parent comment is complete nonsense. Antenna operators build radomes because they provide resista
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
"Also guns are quite a bit harder to make than drugs..." This statement is so broad as to be completely meaningless. "Guns" and "drugs" are both vast categories containing elements of wildly varying complexit

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