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by chroma 12y ago
As horrible as it sounds, I think racism is a social problem in need of a technological solution. If people could change their physical appearance as easily and as cheaply as their clothes, this problem would disappear overnight. If everyon
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by chroma 12y ago
I think your estimate is overly alarmist. Without GPS, we'd use ground-based stations. It wouldn't be as accurate or as available, but it would still be good enough for almost everything GPS does. In fact, we already have ground s
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by chroma 12y ago
Many are baffled that OS X is so popular among developers. Likewise, many OS X users don't understand why someone would deal with Linux on a laptop. Those who do this are committing the typical mind fallacy[1]. Not everyone has the sam
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by chroma 12y ago
When I first moved to SF, the number of homeless people shocked me. I was initially sympathetic toward them, but I soon became indifferent for one reason: Many of them are insane and violent. In the past month, two homeless people have rais
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by chroma 12y ago
From Earthsearch[1]: > The Japanese might make the best cars, the Germans the best beers, the French the best perfumes, the Italians the best pizza, but Americans make the best dreams. > American TV, film, and music dominate the world
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by chroma 12y ago
For an in-depth presentation on how we got to this point (cache misses dominating performance), there's an informative and interesting talk by Cliff Click called A Crash Course in Modern Hardware : http://www.infoq.com&#x2F
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by chroma 12y ago
> I have the distinct impression you are more interested in clinging to a racist narrative of history than you are in investigating the facts. Since when is talking about religion racist? It is the epitome of hypocrisy to accuse someone
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by chroma 12y ago
Thank you for the counterexample. It sounds like you know more about this subject than I do. I was actually hesitant to mention Buddhism, since it was partially responsible for the kamikaze and other horrific acts. Still, it does seem that
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by chroma 12y ago
It's interesting to see one commonality not mentioned by both the article and (so far) commenters. Boko Haram, the Taliban, Saudi Arabia, and Iran differ in almost every way one can compare: wealth, nationality, race, language, politic
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by chroma 12y ago
Many of those tweets contain direct threats of violence. They need to be reported to law enforcement, not flagged for Twitter to deal with. Also, it seems unusual to hold Twitter responsible for their users' speech. UI tweaks may reduc
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by chroma 12y ago
Just like LAMP, they've picked two good software projects and two not-so-great ones. (I leave it to readers to decide which are which.)
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by chroma 12y ago
Like most commenters, I found this story both tragic and mesmerizing. But while much of the discussion has centered around cancer, I think this is a specific instance of a more general problem. Whether it's heart disease at 50 or Alzhe
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by chroma 13y ago
I am convinced that Vim's greatest asset and risk is Bram Moolenar. Bram is a talented, experienced developer, and I commend him for creating Vim. But he is the only person with write access to Vim's codebase. The primary author o
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by chroma 13y ago
I don't mind the discussion, but I think the arguments on both sides are typically rationalizations. People have quick, visceral responses in which they form conclusions on these matters, then they think of reasons why those conclusion
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by chroma 13y ago
I don't disagree with you, and in fact I never said my position was an argument. Most of us use assertions when it comes to human rights. For example, most of us would agree that the state doesn't (or shouldn't) have the powe
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by chroma 13y ago
I'm against the death penalty, but I dislike many of the arguments made by many who agree with me. My position is straightforward: I assert that the state should not have the power of life and death over its subjects. That's it. N
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by chroma 13y ago
I can certainly get behind what you say. I don't have the time/willpower to spell out my position in detail, but I do agree that there are practicalities that need to be ameliorated. Thank you for elucidating them.
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by chroma 13y ago
This topic is radioactive. No matter how kind and understanding you are, many people on many sides will misinterpret your statements and demonize you. The only way to win is not to play. And yet, because I want to further the discussion, I
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by chroma 13y ago
If a person says they believe something but it never affects their actions, is it really a belief? It would probably be closer to a belief in belief ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/i4/belief_in_belief/ ). I'd pr
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by chroma 13y ago
You make it sound like people are born with a religion, which can never be changed. Discriminating based on immutable characteristics such as ethnicity, sexual preference, or gender is wrong and I'm glad many such forms of discriminati
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by chroma 13y ago
I'll give an example of what I mean by discrimination: If someone is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, you probably don't want to hang out with them. You might avoid talking to them. If said conspiracy theorist ran a donut shop, ma
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by chroma 13y ago
I'm honestly curious: What's the good reason? We discriminate based on beliefs all the time. Why exempt religious ones? I'm fine with my own anti-religious views being cause for not hiring me. (In fact, it's perfectly le
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by chroma 13y ago
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7201428 : I'm a trained nuclear physicist, and a biblical literalist. You're probably a talented, hard-working, good person. I wish you no ill. In fact, all else equal,
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by chroma 13y ago
My biggest concern with systemd has to do with its creator, Lennart Poettering. He created PulseAudio and Avahi. Neither of those are particularly reliable, stable pieces of software. Also, Lennart's opposition to making systemd portab
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by chroma 13y ago
Thanks for explaining the Buddhist view. I don't know if you endorse it or not, but that sentiment really irks me. It reminds me of theodicy: Play with words enough, and you can claim the world is a beautiful place. Except, it isn&#x27
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by chroma 13y ago
I guess I'm in the minority that doesn't find this story uplifting. The memory reset is the biggest problem, since it doesn't allow the main character to learn from his mistakes. At the end of time, the main character will ha
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by chroma 13y ago
I'm not entirely sure how your reply connects to my comment. Are you arguing that death isn't bad? If so, try pointing the argument at someone else: "The universe existed for billions of years and did just fine without you. I
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by chroma 13y ago
They differ in their belief about the deceased's current subjective experience (or lack thereof). To the religious, death is an illusion. After a short time on the earth, everybody meets up again in the afterlife. It may be sad, but no
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by chroma 13y ago
This link should have a giant NSFW next to it. It would be interesting to read a blog post about the C code, but simply linking to a clip doesn't warrant discussion. Doubly-so for this particular scene, since it contains nudity. I
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by chroma 13y ago
Almost all of them committing these atrocities for religious reasons. The Chinese government has treated Tibetan Buddhists horribly for decades, but you don't see any Tibetan Buddhist suicide bombers. There have been some sects of Budd

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