copsarebastards

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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> But let's remember context, you support capitalism where COMPETITION exists, in this situation it is an artificially created monopoly of one company. That's not what Republicans, or almost any politicians, support. Politician
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
I have deep, deep objections to OAuth, and I hoped this article would espouse some of them, but it doesn't. Instead, this article is basically whining about "programming is hard" which is true but also something anyone trying
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
I agree with you that "Anyone can learn to code!" is wrong. Anyone can learn to code... badly , so badly that they're a danger to every piece of code they touch. However, dragging software into it is a bit misguided. The v
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
You can say anything with faulty analogies. The fault in your analogy is that you seem to think that oxygen is somehow less important in situations where it's easily available. You say, "Just when I'm diving or doing somethin
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> If privacy is a concern you wouldn't (or at least shouldn't) be using chromium in the first place. Privacy is a concern for everyone, whether they understand that or not.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> It's disappointing to me to see so much disparity between the compensation for C-level and VP-level versus engineering. Without engineering, there would be no product to sell and nothing for investors to invest in. Ideas are nice,
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Real estate prices are not equivalent to real estate values. One could argue that real estate values have actually gone down because prices are driving out a lot of the culture that caused the real estate to be valuable in the first pla
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
"Marijuana is de-facto legal" to "smoking marijuana is de-facto legal" is a huge backpedal.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> oh but how many people are saved by this: the risk/reward ratio is too high? I don't know, and I'm pretty sure that it is unknown in general. However, drug use is lower in countries where drugs are legalized and regulate
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> What does any of this have to do with Go? I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. We're discussing ways of initializing Go structs. > All languages with structs have
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> I would be tempted to think the fact drugs are rare and difficult to obtain the first times decrease the odds of somebody becoming an addict. Pure speculation but there is some logic still. Say one night I'm crazy, I'm not go
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
I said "Uneducated and influenceable people currently consume heroin, not realizing their act" in response to "If you sell them legally, uneducated and influenceable people would consume them, not realizing entirely their act
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> I honestly wonder if there is actually going to be any cost savings, once training and the friction of converting existing work-flows over from MS Office to LibreOffice are taken into account. Sure, if you only care about quarterly cos
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> If you lack the judgment ability to decide when you want that, fine, never do it. The choice in question is whether I want code that breaks silently when I add a field to a struct (named fields in initializers), or code that breaks sil
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> I'm not saying it's technically legal, just that the legal repercussions are so low that no one seriously considers them when choosing whether or not to smoke marijuana. > Is that not an accurate statement? That is not an
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Because, what's "highly addictive" as opposed to "addictive" or "slightly addictive"? At the very least you'd have to compare heroin to other drugs using statistics to see how many people use the drug
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Is there any analysis of the security of this browser?
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
I don't see where I said that heroin wasn't addictive: I said quite the opposite. If your objection is that I didn't use scaremongering phrases which have no scientific meaning, like "highly addictive", I did that i
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> Marijuana is, in practice, legal in America. I'm really not sure what happened to your brain that causes it to concoct this delusion, but I'm sorry to see that there are two of you with the same problem.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
"Drugs are actually pretty safe" is a ridiculous statement, because it includes everything from caffeine/nicotine to MDPV/datura. > Heroin for example is a serious threat for physic and mental health isn't? Heroi
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> We don't know. There are many, many narratives. Ugh, who cares about "narratives"? We have science to tell us which narrative is correct and which isn't, and for the most commonly used recreational drugs, we do kn
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
It's not that simple. Drugs that make it through FDA safety testing are valuable even if they prove ineffective for their original intent, because they've been proven to be at least not immediately deadly to humans. It's much
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> The body of research on caffeine's vitamin like health benefits is enormous. Vague not-really-scientific claims like this make me immediately suspicious. People who make claims like this usually fall into one of two categories: 1.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
But, you did leave. Paying people more doesn't fix the culture clash issue.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
My objection is that Wiz Khalifa's bid for attention worked , despite the fact that he had nothing of value to say. I'd hope that if someone wrote something of no value it wouldn't make it onto the front page of HN.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
True, but there are other factors in who eats fried chicken than taste. While I don't have statistical evidence, I'd be surprised if black people didn't eat more fried chicken than white people (in the US). As I pointed out,
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> > I don't see Bitcoin dying unless (until?) it's discovered to have an incurable security flaw. > AFAIK, that's not possible. That's an incredibly stupid thing to say. Please don't comment on topics you&#
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> I came to Go for the static typing Well, you came to the wrong place...
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
So I get to go back and look at the struct to see the order every time I initialize an instance? Or watch everything break when the noob on the team alphabetizes the struct fields? Yeah, that's a great solution.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
That sounds interesting enough that I'll read the whitepaper, but the unfortunate truth is that people aren't going to switch off bitcoin any time soon. There are already massive improvements on the bitcoin protocol which have bee

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