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by ellyagg 17y ago
And, in turn, this comment bothers me, but I do know why. Your parent's comment wasn't irrelevant. Truth matters. Whenever I read a comment like yours, I think of the last part of Richard Lovelace's To Lucasta, Going to Wars : I coul
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by ellyagg 17y ago
> The certainty of DNA testing means we can be positive the 250 cases listed in the Innocence Project report didn't commit the crimes for which they were convicted This is simply not true. Matching DNA against the defendant is basically
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Your argument sounds so temptingly plausible, doesn't it? Yet, women inarguably have biological limitations compared to men in some respects, but in those areas where they do, I've found that they still really hate it when you say, "you did
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Your comment just reinforces what he's saying. Substitute "people who are black" for "people that age". I remember when Morgan Freeman was on 60 Minutes. It was great: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1131418n I'm never going to be
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Not really ironic because everybody hosts on GitHub now. The advantages far and away exceed the occasional downtime, unless you have very unusual uptime requirements as, apparently, the article author does. I mean, I've been using GitHub 15
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Hmmmm. As it happens, you're wrong and to the extent your parent supports your thesis, he's wrong, too. I work for an SEO marketing firm and one of my coworkers built up a portfolio of $1/day projects exactly in the mold of this article ove
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I knew as soon as I saw the post title, that every comment in this thread would be ripping how it looked. If you're ever thinking of commenting on the attractive appearance of a site, just don't bother. There's nothing hypercritical people
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by ellyagg 17y ago
"For the first time this season, Pittsburgh made more rushing attempts than Denver. Now, the usual caveats apply, Denver might make significantly more yards per carry, for example. But, nevertheless, this graph clearly shows that Pittsburgh
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Unintended consequences. Such a policy would cause Apple to be even stricter and slower with App Store bureaucracy.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
It actually annoys me when people don't use git now. Git has clearly won among current dvcs. If something comes along later that's head and shoulders above dvcs, then I'll be happy to switch. But for now, random folks' views on why their to
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Yes, this is one of those times when the voting distribution in the discussion absurdly contradicts the facts.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
> I don't believe for a minute that Apple is any more open than they are legally required to be, and even then only after some arm-twisting. Too bad this was upvoted so highly because you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Actually, it worked exceedingly well. I mean, breathtakingly well. Basically, the economy expanded incredibly, aside from a brief and mild recession at the end of elder Bush's tenure, from the time Reagan enacted his tax cuts, to midway thr
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Please. Those campaigns weren't self-serious morality stories, they were about anti-conformity. Companies establishing a personality is branding. Companies asserting that whatever they do must not be evil because, hey, that's our motto, is
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I lost you because we have different assumptions. I don't consider either of those things to "rank on the scale of evil". They are both business practices. Just because you assert that Apple's practice is more evil, doesn't make it so. And,
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Tough pill to swallow? Apple never staked a claim to some fuzzy moral high ground. All Jobs is pointing out is that to the extent that you equate greediness with evil, Google is precisely as evil as every other company. Google is open where
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I can't believe he thinks it's a good idea to post this conversation. Apparently he's not aware that several of his lines are straight parodies of the Bad Guy in popular entertainment.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
So, what should you do if someone keeps calling you a crypto-nazi in a televised debate? I'm pretty sure that if Buckley and Vidal had been having a debate about civil rights, and Buckley repeatedly called Vidal a "crypto-faggot", under t
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by ellyagg 17y ago
It's not like there are alternatives. The Times has let blatant editorializing sneak onto the front page and throughout every section for as long as I've been reading it, and its the paper of record. Read The Economist.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
What does any of that have to do with declining revenue?
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by ellyagg 17y ago
We can criticize it because this isn't a morality game. China doesn't rack up evil chips because the US behaved evilly in the past. There's no score to settle. What they're doing is wrong and hurts us and the world right now , regardless o
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by ellyagg 17y ago
The student and parents are being encouraged to go to counseling!? It's been awhile since I've been as outraged by a story as this one.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
It's funny you talk about argument from authority. Perhaps you don't realize this, but the steady ad hominem undercurrent of your commentary doesn't make you seem very convincing. "I must be right because Graham isn't humble, intellectually
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by ellyagg 17y ago
It's doubtful free time is the bottleneck for most people not acquiring new skills and abilities. Enormous quantities of time are drained from folks' lives by procrastination.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
"I do not measure myself against the programming greats, but against those projects on my Github profile from years ago." This is so much the key. At college I read a sports psychology textbook which described the empirical profile of a "wi
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Does being nice mean having to putter about with rose-tinted glasses on?
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Zed, is that you?
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by ellyagg 17y ago
While that's true, the prime mover in weight gain is still calories. The type of calories is a secondary effect. Discussing diet is hard because everyone reasons from personal experience. E.g., in my experience, almost all my fluid intake i
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by ellyagg 17y ago
That may be why you use it, but in general that phrase is used because it's more general, so it's easier to attribute any sort of anomalous climate phenomena to human causes and thus drive public policy.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
He says working really, really hard matters. Just wanted to note that since there's been much opinion to the contrary here recently.

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