boomlinde

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2011.
by boomlinde 13y ago
The real thieves are the people not visiting your website.
2012.
by boomlinde 13y ago
Yes, you may legally kill people, either by "standing your ground", through capital punishment or by waging war. You may also pollute, and I'm leaving it up to you to figure out how, because I'm not going to bother arguing for the obvious.
2013.
by boomlinde 13y ago
I thought you explained it perfectly yourself, but sure. You were not addressing the original point about breathable air being free. Instead, you built a straw man, based on the presumed cost of /breathing/ it, which actually had nothing to
2014.
by boomlinde 13y ago
At least mark it as "rejected" -- the problems presented in the ticket have not been fixed.
2015.
by boomlinde 13y ago
In doing so, you invalidated your argument.
2016.
by boomlinde 13y ago
Integers are also rarely "just integers" -- checksums, hashes, bitmasks, counters, numbers -- you name it.
2017.
by boomlinde 13y ago
He said breathable air, not breathing.
2018.
by boomlinde 14y ago
You disagree with my supposed fact and then go on to support it in the following paragraph. I never said anything about it being infinite or total in scope. As for the ultimate power of an individual to choose freely, I totally agree, but I
2019.
by boomlinde 14y ago
Would you argue that the fact that people who CHOOSE to hand over their money live in a society in which they are taught to do so by more and more intrusive means, and of which the entire value system is constantly being manipulated by mean
2020.
by boomlinde 14y ago
> You need to aggregate some capital for investments to occur, you need rich people for high risk investments to be possible. No, you need economic capital for high risk investments to occur. However that capital is distributed is reall
2021.
by boomlinde 14y ago
What is morally wrong is the idea that everyone should have a job in a society where it's so obviously unnecessary for everyone to work, and where the level of productivity is in fact detrimental to the people and their environment in the l
2022.
by boomlinde 14y ago
I guess this guy isn't a fan of b-sides.
2023.
by boomlinde 14y ago
The article seems to assume that the limitations of javascript is something inherent to dynamic language. It reads like the author has no real experience outside web development. For all we know, the only reason JavaScript "excels at being
2024.
by boomlinde 14y ago
How about not upvoting the article if you haven't read it and verifying its sources? Reading the comments, specifically, has little to do with it.
2025.
by boomlinde 14y ago
By the universal declaration of human rights, every person has the right to life. I'm sure you can figure out a way that wouldn't entail food. I'm not sure how nature automatically providing food has anything to do with it. The point of hum
2026.
by boomlinde 14y ago
I think it makes perfect sense to use any of your identifying properties to identify yourself, including gender. I think that disassociating with your gender in a society that obviously doesn't can probably be downright detrimental. Do you
2027.
by boomlinde 14y ago
Maybe these low-income people could make a decent living out of tending to farm animals if it was more of a concern to the industry than it is now. ... or we could all deal with the fact that meat isn't a human right, and the lack of it wou
2028.
by boomlinde 14y ago
Yes, let's be realistic here. Men are a lot more likely to end up in situations where they'll have to save someone from a giant gorilla. To put sexual dimorphism into question by suggesting that a woman could as well save a man from the gia
2029.
by boomlinde 14y ago
How is physical hardware becoming less relevant when it's all about "how well it performs"and "how it interfaces with its users"? Hardware is a great factor in both of those.
2030.
by boomlinde 14y ago
Regarding [2], forgiving my ignorance in economics, how is that convention insane?
2031.
by boomlinde 14y ago
For the people arguing over how long skeumorphism has been around in software design, all based on different thresholds of levels of "realism": Any graphical interface you can think of has skeuomorphic properties to some extent. Even a bare
2032.
by boomlinde 14y ago
In terms of battery performance I don't think these are the droids you're looking for, but I'd like to see hard numbers as well!
2033.
by boomlinde 14y ago
Capitalism?
2034.
by boomlinde 14y ago
Seems to me like a web browser is the last place you'd be able to pull off distraction-free anything.