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by alphapapa 10y ago
To a point you have a point, but there is a point at which your ~/bin becomes unwieldy. I have 386 commands in mine, and for commands I don't use very often, I tend to forget their names, or that they even exist. So searching my
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by alphapapa 10y ago
I can't help but think that if the Linux kernel were under a CC-NC-BY-SA-type license, as you suggest, that it would be practically unheard of today. BTW, please mind the distinction between open-source software and Free Software. You
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by alphapapa 10y ago
That's beside the point. That mobile exists doesn't excuse extremely poor non-mobile UI.
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Look, I just explained that any claim about Wikipedia's political bias is necessarily subjective. Obviously, therefore, I am not claiming my statement as fact. If your beef with me truly boils down to, "You didn't prepend th
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by alphapapa 10y ago
> Yep, science is fallible, but it's far and away the most reliable thing we have to understand our nature and forecast our future. Again, if I have to actually articulate an argument on why this is, I'm afraid were at such dif
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by alphapapa 10y ago
> This is on the second floor of my house, so it's safe from flooding Not if there's a toilet on the second floor. I speak from experience. :( Neighbor's upstairs toilet tank burst while she was at church. Couple hours
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by alphapapa 10y ago
As expected.
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> I understand that having a diverse team brings different viewpoints that might allow for solutions to be found that may not have been found without that other viewpoint. Is that all that this is about? That is an ostensible reason. An
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by alphapapa 10y ago
Never reason based on meaningless aphorisms. This particular one leaves you completely vulnerable to trivial deception. Want to get away with something evil? Just pretend to be dumb, make it look like you don't know what you're
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by alphapapa 10y ago
Incredibly comprehensive article. Thanks for sharing. First thing that jumps out at me, though: in the photos at the top, the UPS is on the floor. Get that UPS off the floor! When your house suffers minor flooding (burst pipe, overflowing
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by alphapapa 10y ago
I've had show-dead on for a long time, and I use custom CSS [1] which even makes dead posts stand out more. The downvote abuse here is ubiquitous. The mods don't care, I supposed because 'pg decreed long ago that downvoting
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by alphapapa 10y ago
The worst is when, if you maximize the browser window, the hamburger menu expands into actual menu elements, but then if you resize the browser window to, say, half the width of your screen, it turns into a hamburger button with enough whit
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by alphapapa 10y ago
Honestly, more than 50% of the downvoted comments I see on HN do not deserve to be downvoted. Less than half of them are rule-breaking, rude, useless, etc. Frankly, downvoting here has become just as bad as on Reddit: it happens because pe
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by alphapapa 10y ago
> software can be used to check hardware Sorry, but how is this point relevant to the discussion? > more broadly, that one does not need to execute every step of a process in order to have confidence in its results. That is broad, ind
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by alphapapa 10y ago
I disagree. "Sourced information" is arbitrary, vague, and ultimately meaningless. All information is "sourced," and each person must come to their own conclusions about the validity of information. Finally, while an
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by alphapapa 10y ago
I did not equate scientists with priests. Read my comment more carefully: From the perspective of one who cannot verify their claims, there is no difference between the claims made by scientists or priests--they are both taken on faith. Y
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by alphapapa 10y ago
FYI: When someone posts factual data, it is poor etiquette to downvote them. Notice that I have not downvoted you even though I disagree with your conclusions. I am not afraid to debate the matter, so I feel no need to try to censor oppon
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by alphapapa 10y ago
One person observes the universe, believes in God, and orders his life accordingly. Another person observes the universe, believes in science, and orders his life accordingly. (And a third person believes in both, but since we're dic
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by alphapapa 10y ago
Global Natural and Anthropogenic Sources and Absorption of Greenhouse Gases in the 1990s | | | Sources | | | Gas (million metric tons of gas) | Natural | Human-Made | Total |
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by alphapapa 10y ago
It's actually bizarre to see someone on HN conflate software and hardware. Your argument appears to be, "Hardware can be observed to operate properly, therefore software necessarily gives correct results." There are a variet
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by alphapapa 10y ago
why does this matter? Because anthropogenic CO2 is a tiny fraction of oceanogenic CO2. It's like sneezing into the wind: it does not change the direction of the wind. We are breaking the equilibrium. What equilibrium? Equilibrium
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by alphapapa 10y ago
> Do you have any sourced information that suggests what is on Wikipedia is wrong? Are you implying that everything on Wikipedia is correct? > I'd love to hear it if so. This implies that you've never read anything negative
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by alphapapa 10y ago
> There is this weird effect in American politics where each wing considers the other to be the authoritarian one. It is weird, in a way, yes. I think, though, that when you think from each side's point of view, it makes sense that
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by alphapapa 10y ago
Obviously. Equally obviously, I am referring to the bigger picture. If the government is restrained, but society ostracizes, freedom of speech is effectively useless. The law is the minimum, not the optimum.
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by alphapapa 10y ago
That's a good point, and you're probably right that a lot of it is due to that. I would add my anecdotal observations that, whenever I have looked at the edit history and talk pages for anything remotely political, the non-left vi
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by alphapapa 10y ago
I'd be interested to read it. :)
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Regarding 1, how much CO2 does humanity emit compared with how much CO2 the oceans emit?
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by alphapapa 10y ago
It's not a matter of belief, it's science. Unless you have performed all of the science yourself, all the way "down to the turtles," belief--faith--is involved. You have faith that the chain of science is complete, th
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by alphapapa 10y ago
Have you written anything about your...uh...conversion? =)
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by alphapapa 10y ago
> I think the important takeaway is that neither 'side' is evil I disagree. While group 2 may not intend evil, they are attempting to control others' speech. By their own standard, effect matters, not intent. To exerc

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