abiox

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by abiox 9y ago
what do you mean by "stronger types"?
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by abiox 9y ago
saudi is a longtime ally to the us, each offering material support to ther other in conflicts that have involved iran, it's allies or it's interests. it also seems unlikely to me that saudi intelligence and other forms of support
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by abiox 9y ago
presumably your issue was with the first premise and not the conclusion.
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by abiox 9y ago
> unless there is literally no other way is this a useful standard? this is ostensibly always true - if nothing else, you can grab a sign and walk into any populated area to 'reach consumers'.
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by abiox 9y ago
perhaps you were a bit too ready to bask in some romanticism to really speak to what they were saying.
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by abiox 9y ago
1) "The value of a currency is the effort required to obtain it" 2) (Inheritance requires no or marginal effort in acquisition) c) "Inheritance is worthless, then."
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by abiox 9y ago
the question is just moved from 'what is the value' to 'why are you willing to give'.
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by abiox 9y ago
> How is it a retaliation well, there is plenty of bad blood and a history of conflict. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Saudi_Arabia_relations this is just one more event to add to the record.
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by abiox 9y ago
this question is both reductive and leading.
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by abiox 9y ago
wrt to satisfying every single extant ideological constraint that determines 'good' or 'bad', yes. a pragmatic assessment is that, due to it not being possible to satisfy contradicting constraints, it is thusly 'ok
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by abiox 9y ago
is the 404 thing humor? the meaning is a bit unclear.
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by abiox 9y ago
this seems like a 'perfect is the enemy of good' framing. in any event, it's more surface area. their web server being compromised and serving a bad shell script is just more that can go wrong.
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by abiox 9y ago
i don't notice people complaining about needing ruby, python, perl or other things installed for a given tool that depends on them nearly as much as java. interesting.
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by abiox 9y ago
i'm unclear on your message. are you saying "PRs welcome" is demanding? are you saying the creators of 'please' should have contributed to bazel/buck/pants/x/y/z?
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by abiox 9y ago
> You don't see a problem with that? is it really any different than a private investigator (or even a company one) snooping around your residential area and talking to you and your family ... perhaps even seeing the photo in questi
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by abiox 9y ago
why?
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by abiox 9y ago
why did you post this comment? is there some kind of implication? or is it just a nonsequitur?
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by abiox 9y ago
i wonder what 'the purpose' of video games are, in the judiciary's eyes. if i didn't like the ending of a game, is it thereby not fit for purpose?
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by abiox 9y ago
what happens to this fine money? does it count as revenue?
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by abiox 9y ago
i don't mind google's data collection. the ergonomics of user-interaction can be a bit annoying. that said, assuming we're safe and private because we turn stuff off, or opt out of things, just seems silly. the nsa (or whic
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by abiox 9y ago
these days, i wonder if the dynamics of 'word of mouth' is still operationally the same. the internet is isolating and alienating in it's own way, so i'm uncertain how well the 'old ways' (circa all of ~20 yea
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by abiox 9y ago
maybe a bit meta but i've been wondering why course links are posted to HN. is this a tradition or something?
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by abiox 9y ago
i suppose a couple questions might cause some people to infer otherwise, so to be clear: it's not implying the behavior is "fine" or shouldn't be critically analysed. ok. so, things like online death threats and other s
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by abiox 9y ago
why are the expected 'to communicate'?
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by abiox 9y ago
this usage of 'dear' seems passive-aggressive. why is it okay to demand a game designer to not design as they wish? in comparison, is it okay to demand that musicians not compose the music as they wish?
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by abiox 9y ago
> took a public stand it was also a declaration to "dmca takedown" his content even though permission have very explicitly been given. (this seems like it could be legally problematic, but not sure)... also publicly called for
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by abiox 9y ago
what will replace it?
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by abiox 9y ago
this already happens: in a variety of languages, x could just be an ordinary function with the body defined below any given usage. here, `where` could be replaced with a standard function definition, and it's `+` would still be textu
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by abiox 9y ago
> Given how completely Twitter, Facebook, Google, et al censor right-leaning political opinions for "completely" doing such, they're doing a terrible job.
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by abiox 9y ago
> "Nazi" was short for "National Socialist" after all but... north korea calls itself a democratic republic. if you consult mein kampf, hitler very much didn't like marxists, communists, socialists, etc. "I

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