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by black-tea 8y ago
I understand how scientific research works. I'm on author on more than ten papers. I don't think it's silly to credit people properly.
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by black-tea 8y ago
Yes, I think they would. Why do you have to bring gender into this?
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by black-tea 8y ago
Why does it actually matter what Web browser most people use? In absolute terms there are probably more Firefox users now than there ever were. Who cares about the percentages? In the early 2000s IE6 "dominated". I think we all ag
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by black-tea 8y ago
I actually have done a fair bit of bakery in my life so I know what you mean, but I get the same satisfaction from writing programs. I'm not sure if all "office workers" get this, though.
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by black-tea 8y ago
Disney is mostly responsible for copyright in the US being extended to ludicrous lengths. They changed the law so they could keep making money. Also these copyright companies seem to get special treatment by the government. Notice how they
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by black-tea 8y ago
Is it really "the most ubiquitous font"? I always notice when someone has used Helvetica itself rather than some generic sans serif clone and it's not that often.
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by black-tea 8y ago
Practically speaking some of today's big companies are branches of the government too.
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by black-tea 8y ago
Org-mode and magit were the reasons that I had to use emacs. Ended up falling in love with emacs itself, though.
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by black-tea 8y ago
There is an article showing how to write git using python called "Write yourself a Git" [0] (HN post here: [1]). This one shows the fundamentals of git in far less than 700 pages. In fact you can go through it and understand git i
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by black-tea 8y ago
Do you think the US is more likely to care than Europe does?
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by black-tea 8y ago
I wonder too. I'm completely convinced it will take top-down control by governments or nothing will change. There is absolutely no reason to believe the "will of the people" will do the right thing now for the first time in h
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by black-tea 8y ago
Ah yes. Forgot to mention this. When English people hear it they think it's bad, but it actually seems to make them happy.
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by black-tea 8y ago
I only use lard and butter for cooking and have done for years. I hope people keep using vegetable oil, though, because it makes lard really cheap.
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by black-tea 8y ago
I went from wanting sex every day in my mid 20s to wanting it only a few times a week in my 30s. I think it's normal. I'm more interested in having sex with more women than the same ones over and over again, though.
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by black-tea 8y ago
You're absolutely right. But my comment was more about how people used to dismiss everything those groups said, but it turns out a lot of it is right.
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by black-tea 8y ago
Speaking is the only one on that list not generally considered a technology. Every human civilisation we know about has developed spoken language. It seems to be built in to us. Writing has only been independently invented a few times in hi
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by black-tea 8y ago
You start with a set of things and you map them to a smaller set of categories. The more you learn about things, the bigger your set of categories becomes, until eventually you find the sets are equal. Far too much effort is wasted arguing
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by black-tea 8y ago
I had a Norwegian girlfriend for a time and I can tell you they just think differently to us (British) people. While in Britain, and by extension the US, people just want more, more, more and constantly thin they are being ripped off, in No
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by black-tea 8y ago
You can't trust your compiler, but it should be easy enough to inspect the output of a small routine in a hex editor to verify that it hasn't been modified.
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by black-tea 8y ago
I see this all the time in popular media writings on drugs. Similarly if there is some scientific result about cannabis, most of what you'll read just can't resist using words like "pot" to describe it. One of the first
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by black-tea 8y ago
It's not April 1st but this page has flowers floating around on it. Back to the 90s for real then...
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by black-tea 8y ago
A person using the Pirate Bay 10 years ago had access to a larger selection than someone subscribing to Netflix today. The copyright industry just has a different agenda than we do. We think when technology improves we'll get more sele
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by black-tea 8y ago
So you're going to run a separate copy of an IDE inside a container just so you can target that platform? I think you need better tools.
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by black-tea 8y ago
It's pathetic pedantry to say he isn't, as if you can even begin to imagine his situation.
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by black-tea 8y ago
In Britain, people are innocent until proven guilty.
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by black-tea 8y ago
I'll give you one example. France has recently made it illegal to do paternity testing. Someone clearly understands that without all the lies their population of single mothers would skyrocket.
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by black-tea 8y ago
I've come to accept that only a few people genuinely value the truth. But most people do not value the truth, especially if it gets in the way of things they value more like money, convenience and material possessions.
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by black-tea 8y ago
Why on earth would you do this? Docker is such a misunderstood technology.
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by black-tea 8y ago
Small, one-off projects like Linux, postgres, git? What makes mailing lists worse for large discussions? Decent mail readers support threaded conversations and decent mailing list participants know how to quote properly. This has been aroun
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by black-tea 8y ago
I mean, it's possible that he's lost his mind during the 7 years of imprisonment without trial.

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