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by ctrlp 2y ago
Strong disagree. I don't think the standards have changed, I think they have become obsolete. I personally believe the HN community have taken over the self-censorship role with the downvote mechanism, like a kind of digital Red Guard
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Indelible characteristic of late stage global liberalism
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by ctrlp 2y ago
HN has fallen. It's infested with operatives and shills. Waving the site guidelines at me for offering a modicum of balance is the wrong way. Either ban all political commentary or let 'em cook. Putting me in a timeout for mild sn
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by ctrlp 2y ago
If you pay attention to more than what is served up by our media masters then you would know the truth if my claim.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
We added a trillion dollars to the balance sheet a few years back. The USD is not backed by trust, it's backed by power. Power that is enforced through military might and resource control over vassal states like most of Western Europe.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Have to take out the enemy machine gun nests first before you take the citadel. Goodbye USAID/CIA.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Wow, I chose the wrong profession. $275k damn.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
This is ridiculous. Any disagreement gets flagged and downvotes. Get control of your site, dang.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Fired from being retired.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
That's so naive. "Show me the man, I'll show you the crime."
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Lab Mouse is officially the worst job in the world.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
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by ctrlp 2y ago
It's also only when you get older that you see how rife the existing system is for "abuse" (if you want to call it that). Maybe the young upstarts have other motives for dismantling the existing system than simply blind amb
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Now do "maths"
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by ctrlp 2y ago
New Orleans is an interesting point of comparison. It's generally considered to be a pretty dangerous city by US standards. If you were gangbanging in the 90s then, yeah, it's safer today. Kind of a low bar tbh. I grew up in and a
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by ctrlp 2y ago
HN likes to blame safetyism or the "perception of crime" as if crime isn't real. The answer is that big cities in the US and Western Europe have changed in the past 20-30 years. There has been a real increase in free-range me
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Are we not at the point where an LLM could write the literate view of the codebase (updated on changes) putting the human interest stuff forward and providing that view of the code Knuth was always envisioning?
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by ctrlp 2y ago
> The foundation knew that if they could stop the beach grooming and bring back native communities of plants to the area, sand dunes would reappear, providing a natural buffer against erosion. This is all very nice but I can attest that
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Your comment was about the treatment of women, though, not infrastructure. You probably know that Florida and Alabama are not in the western half of the US. Texas is so big it's often considered its own place, but much of Texas is cons
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Have you ever been to the US? You sound like a provincial who reads too much propaganda.
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by ctrlp 3y ago
what does your having a daughter have to do with Texas, Florida, or Alabama? Don't you have a daughter wherever you live?
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by ctrlp 3y ago
How does it make sense to have to leave your own country and move to a foreign land for the last decades of your life? Sounds like a bad deal.
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Slight quibble that it's not gangsta rap.
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Samuel Florman wrote some interesting books reflecting on engineering and the humanities The Civilized Engineer The Introspective Engineer The Existential Pleasures of Engineering A few others I haven't read
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by ctrlp 3y ago
A lot of useful MS Access and Excel apps written by non-programmers beg to differ. Sure they have their problems, what doesn't? But these low-code tools allow smart, but less technical, people to get a lot done without getting in line
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by ctrlp 3y ago
1-3 companions on a long walk with campfire conversations sounds like backpacking to me, aka good way to spend time with friends. Strangers? Not so much.
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Wouldn't care so much if Pixel photo manipulation didn't make everyone look like plasticine dog shit. Amazing how bad photos of people are on its camera and no obvious way to turn it off. You can literally see it in action in the
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Walking and talking one on one is fine and good but this sort of formalized group activity with strangers sounds like a form of torture. I'm surprised this is appealing to anyone except the very lonely or very extroverted. All this org
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Some might consider the normalization and growth of China as a competitor superpower treasonous to US interests.
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by ctrlp 3y ago
"He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."

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