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by ebbv 8y ago
As far as "changing the world" goes; the reality is you mostly have to be very lucky. The amount of people setting out to do world changing things vs. the ones that are successful is a staggering ratio. Hitting 40 this year my adv
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by ebbv 8y ago
That's not what the term "strawman" means. What you mean is it's an excuse used to oppress people, and that may be true but you'd have to give supporting cases. (Certainly it has been the case for LGBTQ people being
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by ebbv 8y ago
Ok then ignore that part of my comment it doesn't change much. Anybody wanting to live on your property, whatever their reasons, who you didn't invite there, is probably not gonna be ok with most people.
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by ebbv 8y ago
First word of the sentence was "imagine" my dude.
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by ebbv 8y ago
There's another comment here in the article explaining the reason he was removed was at the request of the people who owned the property.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Imagine some mentally ill person decides he wants to be at one with nature on your property... There's two (or more) sides to everything. The people who own the island have the legal right to kick him out. I get your perspective but if
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by ebbv 8y ago
TL;DR - Guy who inspired a couple of interesting sci-fi ideas is speaking out on topics he knows nothing about. Shockingly, his uninformed opinion disagrees with people who are informed on the subjects.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Adventure game? Always thought of it as a puzzle game.
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by ebbv 8y ago
The consumer absolutely will not benefit from this. First of all, building out competing telco networks is nearly impossible. Look at the failure of Google Fiber and Verizon FiOS as examples. Second, the issue is mostly about how telcos are
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by ebbv 8y ago
The only reason pensions are underfunded is that they were plundered. Hold the politicians that broke them responsible, not the workers who earned their benefits.
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by ebbv 8y ago
This is nonsense. Pensions should be and used to be funded when they were set up. The issue is that greedy, irresponsible politicians (many of whom claim to be conservatives) plundered them like piggy banks.
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by ebbv 8y ago
They were brought up all the time when Obama was in office too.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Pensions are not inherently a problem any more than any other form of retirement account is. HN should be above this kind of ignorant rhetoric.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Why would it? It’s just another one sided fluff piece. Basically a press release for the product much like the original article.
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by ebbv 8y ago
You realize the argument you’re making (“Smart people are backing this!”) is exactly how Theranos and many other scams go on as long as they do right? All I did was bring up some concerns. I did not state any facts, merely point out details
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by ebbv 8y ago
On top of the fact that this probably doesn’t scale up to geo-engineering scales linearly even if you assume the article is correct in the costs it gives.
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by ebbv 8y ago
You are making the big assumption this article is accurate and scalable. I’m not so sure. You’re also assuming that capturing everything scales linearly from capturing something.
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by ebbv 8y ago
> And spending how many hours a month maintaining it and applying updates and security patches Looks like GitLab puts out one release a month. Not a big deal. One day a month you can roll out the latest and greatest if you really want to
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by ebbv 8y ago
Buy a $5/mo VPS and self host your repositories? It’s really not that hard.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Ryan rightly warns about adding “cute” and unnecessary features to projects. Then he goes and adds the “Load module directly from a URL” feature with all its complexity to Deno. Ryan; kill that feature now. It’s not needed. It’s just cute.
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by ebbv 8y ago
My reaction as well. One section of this "article" doesn't flow into the other. It's extremely disjointed and incoherent. Seems like content fluff that would be generated to get SEO and I'm not sure why it made it t
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by ebbv 8y ago
This is total clickbait. He says performance reviews are terrible so instead.. write a performance review. Seriously, what performance reviews in 2018 don't involve a self appraisal? Pretty much everything he recommends has been part o
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by ebbv 8y ago
It's the current hot buzzword. It's CDN++, where not just static content gets distributed but web applications get sharded/distributed around the globe to the nearest node to the end user.
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by ebbv 8y ago
That’s only for access to their store. Microsoft is much the same when it comes to the Windows store. If you want to write apps for macOS and distribute them yourself you can do so with no cost.
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by ebbv 8y ago
X Code is not a watered down version of something else. It’s the full application Apple uses themselves.
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by ebbv 8y ago
What? Microsoft is the biggest developer advocate? Apple gives X Code away for free and made Swift an open source, platform agnostic product among many other things.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Web Code is definitely not a solved problem. I am working on a project in Angular right now and it has advantages and major trade offs over writing it in plain JS. I’m at this point not sure it was worth it. As far as Web UI goes, Angular h
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by ebbv 8y ago
> Actually, they do. Really? That's your reasoned stance? So if I say "Not all blonde people eat boogers." but then find two videos of blonde people eating boogers then my rule is no longer valid? Unbelievable.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Did you even read what I said? > means that the best funded candidate tends to dominate. Not always , but it's a huge uphill battle and makes it nearly impossible to be an unfunded candidate taking on the two main parties of the US
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by ebbv 8y ago
Easy answers like this are always oversimplifications. There's problems with our voting system but there's no serious reason to believe simply switching to a different style of voting system alone would fix anything. We also have

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