brashrat

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by brashrat 10y ago
sorry in advance for posting a contrary opinion, but this runs contrary to "both sides" of what I hear in the debate and I feel like it's worth sharing, I can't be the only one...: if you want to make a "warning&quo
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by brashrat 11y ago
No way, you are just wrong. Markets existed well before capitalism and well before corporations, and they exist where neither of those things exist.
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by brashrat 11y ago
I used "we evolved" in the sense that he used it so I could communicate with him; in actuality, I subscribe to the Selfish Gene hypothesis where "we" really don't matter at all. Our genes compete for survival agains
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by brashrat 11y ago
You believe that humans evolved to eat certain foods, but you ignore that we also evolved to be lazy and avoid unnecessary exercise. Maybe we evolved to eat everything we could get our hands on and to live to 40 years old in order to propog
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by brashrat 11y ago
It's not driven by capitalism (any more than any transaction ever has been), it's driven by consumerism. Twinkies would not be manufactured or sold if people didn't like gobbling them up at the available price. Stop blaming c
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by brashrat 11y ago
software bloat occurs exactly the way this discussion bloated. read thru it... think we could rewrite it smaller and capture all the wisdom and make it more orderly? would you care to join the team and start doing that? :)
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by brashrat 11y ago
Who was the plaintiff in this case? The defendant was Wikimedia! I was curious "who is the plaintiff here" because I didn't see that in the discussion anyplace, so I ran vilhelm_s's helpful link to the decision http:&#x
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by brashrat 11y ago
yes, and for that matter, any art placed in public spaces as well. Tourists LO VE to take their pictures while climbing on friendly statues from New York Philadelphia to Indiana. (where do i learn how to format html for these submissions? i
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by brashrat 11y ago
You have restated the stated goal of the talk, but personally I didn't find him convincing. Behind his stated argument was a lot of snobbery directed against those he clearly dislikes. I prefer if the tone of a insult matches the conte
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by brashrat 11y ago
the JVM abstraction isolates foreign java code into a sandbox. I don't want outside code running native on my machine.
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by brashrat 11y ago
it grates against my engineering soul when so many of my fellow engineers forget that the x86's themselves are virtual machines, microcoded architectures that implement x86's. And that any OS's job upon booting is to present
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by brashrat 11y ago
I pointed it out to be lighthearted, but it's true not sarcasm, and not only true, it's also meaningfully instructive to think about the benefits of lazy evaluation. For example, a priority queue (list of tasks) does not need to b
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by brashrat 11y ago
in a purely functional language like Haskell, you can sort a billion numbers in nanoseconds, all with no performance crushing side effects. Yes, it's true, that's the kind of results you get with lazy evaluation! When you start se
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by brashrat 11y ago
Is Hacker News comment history "private/free speech", or does YC use Hacker News comment history in judging founders, employees, business partners etc.? I'm not talking about the judgements anybody could make by googling
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by brashrat 11y ago
see, rights for any group are always an end run around rights somebody else would naturally have.
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by brashrat 11y ago
are you suggesting that companies can get around labor regulations by declaring your compensation to be confidential? I'd check with a lawyer if I were you, that's some pretty thin ice you are skating on.
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by brashrat 11y ago
I agree with most of what you said about the bureaucracy, but the Pax Americana was achieved the old fashioned way, the same way as the preceding Pax Brittanica and the Pax Romana, to put it crudely, "Peace through superior firepower.&
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by brashrat 11y ago
yeah, but how can you call yourself an engineer if you don't even have at least the urge to reinvent the wheel? :)
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by brashrat 11y ago
wellll if you are going to nitpick you ought do it a little more cleanly: you are confusing machine language with assembly for starters, and even at the level of machine code, processors such as the x86 family were designed keeping support