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by bakhy 11y ago
I kind of agree, but in a merely technical way :) I like the oriental philosophical outlook, so basically, I would have to say, the world is simply what it is. Labelling it "good" or "bad", in an absolute-judgement kind
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by bakhy 11y ago
The best world yet.
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by bakhy 11y ago
Maybe downvotes could be split in two. 1. a downvote button, which is available to everyone, but affects only the ranking on the comment list (no graying out due to too many downvotes) 2. a "flag" button, which is available to peo
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by bakhy 11y ago
A little meta - where can I find some written guidelines for HN commenting? It was my understanding that downvotes serve for moderating (their cumulative effect is to gray out a comment...). The comment above has been downvoted somewhat, an
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by bakhy 11y ago
> I down voted you, I owe you an explanation. I do think you might be breaking the guidelines of the site - downvote should not be used just for disagreement, or? - but who cares, you're certainly not the only one ;) In any case, th
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by bakhy 11y ago
Wow, that was pretty patronizing! But I think I made a certain argument. You don't have to agree, but it would be nice if you don't just blame it all on my supposed unwillingness to learn new stuff ;)
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by bakhy 11y ago
I'd like to just clarify one thing - of course everyone can ignore the new features when writing their code, but no one can ignore them when reading other people's code. Undoubtedly, a JS programmer must get a handle on them all,
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by bakhy 11y ago
No offense meant to anyone, but I really do not like this constant stream of new features in JavaScript. There are some core issues with the language which, of course, cannot be just fixed, and no new features will make them go away. But th
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by bakhy 11y ago
I think it's not so much the fact that developers praised Angular, but rather this same above mentioned proliferation of frameworks - with so many choices, at some point it becomes paradoxically more likely that people will follow the
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by bakhy 11y ago
Ah, yes. Thank you! Although, that means the 10x setup must cost much more. I think the idea in the comments above was taking 10 cheaper, weaker servers and somehow coming out with roughly the same price... Well, in any case, things just go
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by bakhy 11y ago
Apart from what other commenters already said about the cost of software complexity, is there a variant of Amdahl's law that could be used here? 10x 100 GB servers working on a problem together will probably never be 10x faster than 1x
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by bakhy 11y ago
I guess his answer to that Zen koan - when a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to here it, did it make a sound - is a simple no :D This started out interesting, then went absurdely tentative, and finally turned into Sokal affair
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by bakhy 11y ago
Sure, of course. It's probably both. But you do understand that men get discriminated in child custody trials even if the child is already well weened off the tit?
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by bakhy 11y ago
My point has nothing to do with the specifics, I was merely pointing out that attacking patriarchy is not an attack against all men. That should be pretty obvious, but hey... I don't know if I can give you a quality definition of patri
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by bakhy 11y ago
Just stop, dude. This is not elementary algebra, these are people we are talking about. Go out and meet some.
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by bakhy 11y ago
> ...I've spent my entire life hearing about how society victimizes females as compared to males... Maybe that's what you heard from it, but it's not the position of feminism that, e.g., rape is bad merely because women ge
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by bakhy 11y ago
In the case of this comment above, I got a downvote from someone who agrees with me ;)
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by bakhy 11y ago
That's naive. Even when I'm not "inflammatory", I often get downvoted when I express viewpoints which are not exactly popular here. OTOH, I see comments, sometimes in reply to me, which are pure trolling, but nothing hap
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by bakhy 11y ago
> The idea that we achieve this by having women fight for women's rights and men fight for men's rights is absurd. No, it is the essence of democracy. I cannot go around preaching, protesting, speaking in the name of other peop
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by bakhy 11y ago
First of all, hypocrisy again - you say blaming patriarchy is lame, "default boogeyman" and so on, but you completely fail to see you use feminism in exactly the same way. MRAs typically blame EVERYTHING on feminism. Any kind of p
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by bakhy 11y ago
That would have been one charitable reading :D Of course I understood you as if you were implying that I am forcing something. Thank you for the clarification! I cannot really speak for others, I represent no one but myself. I can only gues
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by bakhy 11y ago
You're really just trolling, are you? :) I already answered this - all systems come with ideals, myths, additional narratives that serve to explain why things are the way they are. And so patriarchy comes with the concept of the ideal
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by bakhy 11y ago
Well, it should not be easy to misunderstand an attack on patriarchy as an attack on all men. That misunderstanding makes no sense, unless a person has certain rhetorical goals... Generally, your approach is smart, but topics like this have
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by bakhy 11y ago
Yeah, exactly, forcing things upon others. Or, as people usually call this, a conversation :D You are being a hypocrite right now. You may disagree, but you may not accuse me of forcing anything just because I said something you disagree wi
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by bakhy 11y ago
I agree with a lot of what you say. But waiting for someone else to fight your fight never worked for anybody. It's just the way it is, people have a hard time putting themselves in others' shoes, and everyone naturally tends to p
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by bakhy 11y ago
Wait, what are we even talking about here any more - are you saying men contemplate suicide because feminists make them feel bad about themselves? Because of sitcom tropes? Anyway, feminists fight for women. They are mostly women. They had
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by bakhy 11y ago
You're joking, right? :D
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by bakhy 11y ago
You expect someone else to fight your battles? Of course nobody cares. You have to make them care. It takes a lot of effort to get a message heard by people, to make any kind of change. A lot of work, and a lot of humiliation. If you don&#x
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by bakhy 11y ago
I actually think this is related to feminism - as I said, patriarchy is the common enemy here. And I may have mentioned feminism first. So? Is "feminism" a curse word now?
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by bakhy 11y ago
Well, that's what I get... I try really hard to keep it civil, to address your comments honestly (even though I was tempted to ask you if you ever met any people, so disconnected from reality your ideas seemed), and in return I get thi

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