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by derleth 13y ago
People can talk about how the real world is without endorsing it or thinking it should continue to be that way. Do you understand the statement above? If not, I'll quit wasting my time.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Third, political correctness is a phenomenon of white liberal prigs who go out of their way to take offense because they have nothing useful or productive to contribute to the public discourse. If you've defined it that way, of co
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by derleth 13y ago
> Medical technology has not really moved forward too much for basic care from 1986 This really depends on your definition of 'basic care', and, therefore, isn't a very interesting statement. My immediate counter-example i
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by derleth 13y ago
> You're argument that entrusting certain officials with making good publicly known decisions "works really well right up until it fails really badly" based off of a weird GW parable has me scratching my head. You're
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by derleth 13y ago
> Now that we're less diverse one 'superbug' or bad weather year could take out everything. This could also happen even if you were more diverse. Look at what happened to French wine grapes.
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by derleth 13y ago
But GMO and agribusiness also gets a lot of flak it doesn't deserve, based on faulty argumentation and outright lies.
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by derleth 13y ago
> the question was about genetic modification, which is not the same as hybridization. Yes, it is, at least until you define precisely what kinds of genetic modification you're talking about, and we can get down to the nuts-and-bolt
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by derleth 13y ago
Ah, but GMO means Large Corporations, and Large Corporations are Inherently Evil. And that, I believe, is where their chain of logic pretty much stops.
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by derleth 13y ago
> I'd rather take my chances with a judge than nearly guaranteeing failure in the current system. Ah yes, the "Let that person solve it" school of fixing major social problems. It works really well right up until it fails
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by derleth 13y ago
> a judge with the power to use their own judgement (instead of relying on overly-specific, exploitable laws); Yes, because a single corrupt or idiotic or assholic judge should be able to ruin lives left and right without regard for th
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by derleth 13y ago
> to be fair, putting a symbol on a CGA screen is a two-byte affair - one for the symbol, one for attributes Text-heavy stuff was supposed to be done using MDA graphics cards, which were praised at their introduction for allowing large a
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by derleth 13y ago
> Isn't the BIOS supposed to be the hardware abstracting layer we run our programs directly on? Yes. The problem with this idea is that the BIOS fell prey to a classic negative feedback loop: It wasn't extremely efficient to be
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by derleth 13y ago
Automatic rate-limiting! Genius!
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by derleth 13y ago
> what is a hypervisor but a BIOS running on the CPU? Generally, a hypervisor implies a VM which multiplexes the hardware and allows multiple OSes to run at once, which is more than any BIOS has ever done. Also, a hypervisor generally do
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by derleth 13y ago
> I didn't say vaccines cause autism Then you're incapable of having an adult conversation. > If you would like to discuss the idea that vaccines can pull the trigger twaddle twaddle whine Provide evidence that they can an
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by derleth 13y ago
> "GNU/Linux" is the OS, "Linux" is just the kernel. The GNU project is responsible for many of the crucial parts responsible for making a complete OS So is X.org, the KDE project, the Mozilla project, and a numb
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by derleth 13y ago
> This is so much bigger than just vaccines, encompassing distrust of authorities, misunderstandings about the existence of god, etc. If you get a horrible strain of the flu, very little of that will matter. Living to see tomorrow will m
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by derleth 13y ago
> I wince when I read others trying to cop his style, even if momentarily. The same is true for me when people try to copy Faulkner, or James Joyce, or Hunter Thompson, or, from another angle, Hemingway.
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by derleth 13y ago
The New Deal disproves your thesis, such as it was.
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by derleth 13y ago
Yes, but can you advance or are you hamstrung by living hand-to-mouth? If you felt you had to get an advanced degree to get a better job, is that an option or would you be economically devastated by working fewer hours to fit schoolwork in?
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by derleth 13y ago
This is economically illiterate on multiple levels.
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by derleth 13y ago
Relative poverty is still poverty. If you can't improve your lot in life because you don't have the resources, you're impoverished even if you're objectively better-off than someone rotting on the streets of Somalia.
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by derleth 13y ago
> to feel just how painful it is, you must understand the topic being discussed. Of course I do, which is why your comments are so laughable.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Can someone explain why people on HN seem to conflate mental illness with writing an operating system? Nobody here does. It's just that this specific guy happens to have written a simple graphical OS from scratch apparently withou
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by derleth 13y ago
> Scranton is the archetypal funny place to be from Up there with Walla Walla, Washington and Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
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by derleth 13y ago
> As they should be underfunded. Keeps their power in check. No, changing laws keeps their power in check. Underfunding them simply makes them less effective and more arbitrary.
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by derleth 13y ago
Disallowing a calculator in any upper-division math (or math-heavy) course is an embarrassment to the department in particular. If you can get a meaningful advantage by using a calculator, the course is bullshit and a waste of upper-divisio
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by derleth 13y ago
> The consensus here at Berkeley is that this is simply a ploy to get students to drop the class because there isn't enough space for everybody. Rinky-dink (non-Berzerkely) universities do this by setting configuration options in th
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by derleth 13y ago
To mash up a few other comments, the main thing Henry Ford invented was the business model of the original Ford Motor Company: Pay workers well (better than average for the time), have them do assembly line labor for six and a half days a w
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by derleth 13y ago
> I arrived in the middle of a confrontation that almost turned violent. Lemme guess: Lisp vs Haskell?

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