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by bendbro 8y ago
That software development devolves into a debate of epistemology, and often a very political debate at that, is the saddest thing I've had to experience. It's made me interested in both politics and epistemology.
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by bendbro 8y ago
> I experience PTSD like symptoms from the constant barrage of negative thoughts the difficulty and stress of doing these problems are causing me This happens to me too, especially when it comes to programming soft skills. Making code wo
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by bendbro 8y ago
For a good solution within a market system: kill everyone but myself and a small harem. Now there is a perfect market of one and all resources are optimally directed to me
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by bendbro 8y ago
> Yes this happens to not be one of those cases, espousing the virtues of selfishness isn’t up for debate anymore In your selflessness, perhaps you'll consider espousing my view instead of yours? In return, I promise to dutifully, c
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by bendbro 8y ago
It still exists, and it's referred to as McStabby's. A Singaporean friend of mine didn't believe the name until he encountered a traveller in the restroom showing off his rainbow colored switchblade. https://www.re
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by bendbro 8y ago
> ironically using the tool progressives despise the most: Regulation I've always pessimistically thought progressives rely exclusively on regulation to succeed at their goals. What situations make you say otherwise?
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by bendbro 8y ago
What can you do with dockless rent by the minute hatchbacks on every block? Won't it be congested? Or is it more focused on medium density cities?
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by bendbro 8y ago
The death of a significant figure is a significant event. Perhaps there's an argument to be made for keeping this content off HN, in a similar vein to the treatment of other political content on HN, if it reduces commentary like yours.
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by bendbro 9y ago
Try searching for "shopping" results for "ar15", "armalite 15", and "ak47". It will show they have explicitly filtered out "ar15" shopping search results
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by bendbro 9y ago
You'll need to tell that to the middling middle manager trying to improve his KPI.
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by bendbro 9y ago
And if (everyone minus you) freely chooses to not sell you food, water, shelter or services for $random_reason, does that still count as a free society?
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by bendbro 9y ago
It would be nice if you could make the dots transparent. There appears to be a pattern of right to left lines across the city, but it is not easily visible as is.
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by bendbro 9y ago
It ticks to 25% loaded even though your internet is down.
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by bendbro 9y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. I've been trying to work that kind of coding style into my job, but it is difficult to do so without feeling embarrassed. My team also tends to jump on me when I try
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by bendbro 9y ago
I bet it isn't arbitrary. It isn't possible to train IQ70s in a human lifespan, cost effectively, but it is possible to do so for IQ90s.
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by bendbro 9y ago
Would you still want it gone if it caused a net gain in proficient engineers, but a net loss in total engineers?
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by bendbro 9y ago
Because if your genes didn't historically result in an organism with a drive to propagate itself, your genes would have a significantly higher likelihood of dying out in an ancestor generation. If you do not have that drive, then it is
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by bendbro 9y ago
That is exactly the kind of matter-of-fact response that seems fine to me but makes my friends laugh
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by bendbro 9y ago
Where can I find contemporary writing like this?
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by bendbro 9y ago
Did you respond to the wrong comment? I don't think the parent commenter is debating that a license plate identifies a vehicle.
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by bendbro 9y ago
Why can't majority participants in a crypto currency agree to roll back?
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by bendbro 9y ago
It seems python itself also confuses these topics then. https://wiki.python.org/moin/Why%20is%20Python%20a%20dynamic...
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by bendbro 9y ago
1 + 'hello' resulting in a seg fault would be a "type related error" 1 + 'hello' resulting in an Exception would be a product of dynamic type checking. A language would not be able to explicitly throw a type re
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by bendbro 9y ago
I was under the impression that I wouldn't care about somebody MITMing me, but you've made me see a number of things in that vein that would bother me.
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by bendbro 9y ago
Agreed. You can't make a mistake when there's no decision to make.
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by bendbro 9y ago
Why is https necessary here?
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by bendbro 9y ago
Strange, I'm the exact opposite. Reading all this conjecture makes me cringe. I don't know yet if I should consider that a personal failing, or just accept it.
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by bendbro 9y ago
Love this comment, and based on my experience with tech journalists this is actually the case.
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by bendbro 10y ago
Is this your justification for why it's safe for you to drink? While your "complex adaptive system" may have escaped addiction, others usually don't, and that statement is useful for them.
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by bendbro 10y ago
You mock, but I'm sure hundreds of hours have been spending crafting that corporate grocer speak!

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