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by dboat 7y ago
The way you asked the question implied that everyone working on the project must be kind of stupid. "simply" "how hard can it be" while showing a lack of expertise on the subject made you sound conceited. The question it
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by dboat 7y ago
> As I've pointed out there is already a anti-China story on the frontpage. Isn't one enough? Two different posts about unrelated subjects concerning China is one too many to you? Do you think there is a quota or something? We
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by dboat 7y ago
There always seems to be a pro-China backlash in the comments of HN articles critical of China. I'm slowly coming around to the idea that this looks like an organized effort to control the narrative. What gets me most is the universal
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by dboat 7y ago
Why are you trying to talk about scientific proof? You don't even know how science works. Cat's out of the bag. You know what? I'm done getting played. I gave you the benefit of the doubt, I and others gave you every opportun
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by dboat 7y ago
Now you've changed your tack to take on the publishing process itself. That was a mistake. > it's an appeal to authority You are misusing the phrase "appeal to authority." Citing a published paper is absolutely NOT
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by dboat 7y ago
This is an ugly way to argue. When debunked, instead of owning anything you add new arguments, moving on as if it had any bearing on the previous points. I see now why you don't want to "fight" people here. You do not deserve
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by dboat 7y ago
Regarding the Monsanto story, that's why we have peer review and journals that do not allow you to publish just by paying. If Monsanto managed to get a corrupted study published in a credible journal, that would be quite a scandal. If
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by dboat 7y ago
"If someone is about to give birth, don't say "I hope it doesn't claw it's way out and kill all of us" in the hospital room with the expectant mother" I really struggled to find appropriate outlets for m
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by dboat 7y ago
Had the same experience with blizzard support a while ago. Now I follow the above poster's advice and use it as a secondary password, but make it pronounceable at least.
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by dboat 7y ago
Scientists and researchers are constantly saying wrong, untrue things when they are not restrained by the rigor of the peer review process. It is not a scientist's informed opinion that matters, what matters is what they can show . I
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by dboat 7y ago
Never formally diagnosed but I had similar difficulties to yours and it had been brought up to me multiple times that I probably had some form of ASD. I am a dev and probably had quite similar experiences to yours in meetings in my first co
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by dboat 8y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by dboat 8y ago
To your post specifically, I think a cascade of "zero outs" or the like to blank out a user's data would be sufficient is it not? It could happen at most once for each user account so it shouldn't be ruinously inefficien
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by dboat 8y ago
It seems obvious to me that by "Wikipedia" he is referring to the Wikipedia admin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JzG ) who quashed user KalHolmann's attempts to discuss the issue of Philip Cross&#x27
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by dboat 10y ago
In the interviews I've been to, it is not unusual to have them ask you how much you are expecting for a salary. I've thought about this before and I don't see a way to refuse to answer that question without breaking the flow
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by dboat 12y ago
Nature doesn't "optimize" like that exactly. Naturally selection is a process of random mutations. The ancient ancestor of the first black widow might not have been some peculiar middle ground between benign and lethal, yet t
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by dboat 13y ago
It's very common in software development to receive incomplete requirements. My world would be a very different place if I always receive feature complete design documents (and in same cases, any documents at all). Had I insisted on an
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by dboat 13y ago
Essentially King are telling Stoic they can use the name, but cannot own it, because it includes the single word "Saga." It's a little unsavory of King to claim ownership of that single word in such a broad context, and the p
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by dboat 13y ago
I think he means that a distinction should be made when considering whether to leak information. Is this information something the public needs to know, because it tells them something important about their democracy, or would releasing thi
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by dboat 13y ago
Steam envisions itself more as an open platform than a storefront. I don't have an opinion on whether this is the best choice or not, but that's the direction they have said they are moving in. The GP's complaint seems more l
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by dboat 13y ago
I wouldn't claim to have overcome my ASD, that sounds like more than I could ever say. What I have is the ability to enjoy my life tenfold more than I could before I came to understand how I think, and how to get along with others, ins
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by dboat 13y ago
Oh. Yes, I guess I can understand this case then.
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by dboat 13y ago
> Now, when you raise a kid it's easier to understand what's happening when she/he has the same kind of behaviors, physical type (including heredital illnesses) as you. I feel this is a very important concept. I have some
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Ask HN: Why do people like this get banned?
6 points by dboat 13y ago|3 comments
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by dboat 13y ago
FYI, you have a typo. The first clan started in the 1860's.
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by dboat 13y ago
I don't think I would have laughed audibly otherwise.
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by dboat 13y ago
In their defense, it very often is. The reputation is well earned. I used to work in a major affiliate marketing ad network, and they have these events where the most successful affiliates are taken on a vacation. One time, this took place
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by dboat 13y ago
You could have asked for help, but that wouldn't work very well here, it's not what this site is for after all. Far more effective to announce something incorrect and let the forces of truth and justice solve your problem for you.
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by dboat 13y ago
Unfortunately this approach could be used by unscrupulous businesses to permanently tarnish the reputation of their competition. I can agree with the sentiment, but you've got to be a bit cautious with these sorts of heavy-handed punis
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by dboat 13y ago
That makes sense, thanks for answering.

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