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by benbenolson 11y ago
That's exactly his point, and honestly, I agree with it. An addition that I would make is a large point that he made by mentioning the paper with the faulty statistical data-- there are a lot of research papers being published that are
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Oh, okay, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification!
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Sometimes I really wonder about how some commenters on Hacker News extrapolate things like this. My guess is that someone feels badly for the wrongly accused (which is quite understandable), and wants to do anything in his/her power to
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by benbenolson 11y ago
He wasn't saying that there is no incompetence or corruption; he said that it's not statistically probable for you to run across a case like this if considering all cases in the U.S. The United States is a very large country, and
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by benbenolson 11y ago
If you're missing something, I must be missing it, too. He said that the person in the video is "lighter", and has a "hooked nose with a dent in it". I'm certain that there's another video that's not
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by benbenolson 11y ago
I didn't think that my post was cliche at all. In fact, the more I lurk, the more I realize that Hacker News has a lot of people that care more about social change than the technology, or "hacking", that originally brought th
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by benbenolson 11y ago
> Aspiring empath > Gives us his pronouns on his description, as if we couldn't tell that he's male > Vast majority of his posts are about "diversity" and not actual technology I stopped caring about what he sai
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Wesnoth Project Status
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That's behind a paywall, too.
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It doesn't. People like to be offended by things these days.
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How could that word possibly set you off? It's a common word in the English language, and couldn't possibly be offensive by any stretch of the word. > a person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial. Is i
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by benbenolson 11y ago
Why, specifically, American companies? I've encountered countless companies from other countries that lie.
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It's surprisingly easy to switch, even if you dive right into the deep end like I did. Although I've been using Linux for years on all of my other computers.
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I'm loving it too. Most of my games run in Linux, and for the rest of them, Wine runs then surprisingly well. I'm on Debian Jessie.
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That doesn't opt you out of the majority of things.
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Ask a guy who switched fully to Linux a week ago anything.
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Firefox gives you the option to turn all of that off. I saw this the other day on Hacker News: https://github.com/dfkt/firefox-tweaks/blob/master/firefox-t...
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by benbenolson 11y ago
Firefox with Vimperator. It loads pages quickly, I view them, and I can navigate them without touching the mouse. Perfection.