Tichy

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by Tichy 14y ago
See you are already blind with rage. Somebody died, and you want to leash out and find somebody to blame. I feel sad about his death, too. I have nothing against black bars or mourning. Just against telling other people how to feel, which i
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by Tichy 14y ago
I wouldn't be offended by a black bar. I just don't like calling on other people to do stuff. Likewise you could ask of a widow to wear black for a year, and if she wouldn't, you could start gossiping and badmouthing her. Also, there are mo
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by Tichy 14y ago
I didn't take offense in the sense of "if you do this I'll find you and beat you up". It was just my lack of English skills. What I mean is I don't like it. Obviously nobody will notice if I join in demonstrative mourning or not over the in
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by Tichy 14y ago
So it's the rest of HN against me now? Anyway, I'm off, I said my opinion and that's it. It's not a thing to rationally argue about at this point in time.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Sure, as long as it's gentle. I just don't want a discussion on why it is wrong to not make the bar black or what not. And as I said, I see this in a long tradition of making people do stuff because somebody died, which I don't like. It's a
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by Tichy 14y ago
My own take (which some might even find depressing, but it helped me): life is very short anyway, it is hardly worth ending it prematurely. It will end soon enough on it's own accord.
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by Tichy 14y ago
I'd be curious to know what they teach the people manning the phones. Sometimes I ponder volunteering, but honestly, atm anybody talking to me would probably be more suicidal afterwards than before. Are there even universal things to say? P
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by Tichy 14y ago
I must admit I find this and other variations of "let's use the death of a person to force other people to do things" very offensive. Black out your own web site. Mourning is a personal thing. If PG decides he wants to black bar HN, he will
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by Tichy 14y ago
On the interntet nobody knows you are a human. No need to die for that. Also, there is a huge variety of human communities. Perhaps check Jared Diamond, I think his latest book describes tribes in New Guinea.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Very sad, and very unexpected. He had so many interesting things going on.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Gold does not have that much of inherent value either.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Is there a preview available somewhere? I am looking for a way to read HN on my Kindle. Nevermind, found the archive at the very bottom of the page. I guess it won't work for Kindle, though.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Perhaps a lot of people haven't read it yet. Especially if it is a special offer, the likelihood for the book to go into the "want to read eventually" pile is quite high.
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by Tichy 14y ago
My son is playing with the bigger Lego pieces at the moment (Duplo), and I have the impression that they wear out a bit. What I mean is that they won't stick together as tightly as in the beginning. For example we bought a used set from eba
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by Tichy 14y ago
The other day it occurred to me that the digital age might result in some serious data loss. I was wondering about historic prices for cars. Not sure how you would have gone about it in previous times, but I suppose you could find old catal
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by Tichy 14y ago
How do they decrypt HTTPS? That shouldn't be possible? Are they exchanging certificates in the middle?
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by Tichy 14y ago
Haven't read the article, just wanted to point out that 40 years is nothing. In Jared Diamond's Collapse he tells about civilizations that collapsed after 4000 years. I don't think we can assume that our current society exists in an equilib
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by Tichy 14y ago
Perhaps he is worried about cannibalism?
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by Tichy 14y ago
But what does it mean? What is an official recommendation by the Copyright Office - an actual license to reuse stuff? Or just a recommendation with no legal consequences at all? So artists are supposed to create works employing fair use, an
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by Tichy 14y ago
Or maybe she is doing a public service by warning others about an unsteady business. That would be my interpretation.
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by Tichy 14y ago
How do my comments reveal how informed I am? You know nothing about my experiences with PHP. Anyway, don't bother - I'll let you own your little PHP discussion now, moving on. My comments on HN won't stop the calamity anyway.
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by Tichy 14y ago
So you would upvote an article about "COBOL needs a new vision" on HN?
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by Tichy 14y ago
I saw it in HFR 3D and it looked great. No idea what the fuss is about.
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by Tichy 14y ago
I got curious, too. The last comment you made before this one was this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5008026 Very constructive :-)
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by Tichy 14y ago
I admit I only now followed the link to the article, that is how biased I am. Turns out it is an article that basically says "we have no idea how to get out of the mess we created". How much content is in that? I stand by my statement... Is
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by Tichy 14y ago
PHP needs to die Sorry...
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by Tichy 14y ago
How did the competition survive without patents? Or maybe it wasn't the governments fault that they failed after all...
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by Tichy 14y ago
I don't have a retina device, so I wonder: are they not capable of rendering normal resolutions? I would have assumed that they simply render a "classic pixel" as four retina pixels? So classic web sites should still work?
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by Tichy 14y ago
I'd prefer it if I could see the possible "goals" before entering my contact information. At the moment it is the usual: no information before signup. (I didn't proceed past the contact information tab, so can't comment further).
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by Tichy 14y ago
If it works, sure - as I said, what I have heard is that it is actually detrimental for self-defense. Maybe you could also provide pepper spray training, which seems to be a requirement for using it effectively? Also, it seems a very aggres

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