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by enko 13y ago
Like I replied to someone else, what do you do about all those innocents who get killed in a driving accident with someone who's not drunk? That kind of ruins your simplistic little moral diorama, doesn't it?
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by enko 13y ago
No second chances eh? Very "tough on crime" - you should run for office.
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by enko 13y ago
> people are aware of the fact that the ACLU is a civil liberties advocacy organization and that this naturally biases towards the left wing Does it? I can think of any number of civil liberties which I would associate with the "rig
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by enko 13y ago
Yeah, not trying to downplay its seriousness. I honestly did not know how much alcohol impairs one's driving ability - I would have thought maybe 2 or 3 times, turns out it's more like 20x. Well, I learned my lesson. I was just sa
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by enko 13y ago
> Buy all the trinkets and crap off the swarming children Oh FFS, don't do that, it just encourages them to treat visiting whiteys as walking ATMs, which is bad for their tourism industry long-term. Stay at hotels, eat at restaurant
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by enko 13y ago
I would wager that almost every educated person in China knows exactly what happened at Tiananmen Square. Certainly every chinese person I've ever really gotten to know knew all about it. The politics around it is complicated, but ther
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by enko 13y ago
> that is attempted murder basically Oh come on. I've lost my license for what you'd call DUI - made a stupid decision to drive the 1.5km back home from a pub, got a 1 year ban and a hefty fine. Yes, it was a stupid thing to do
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by enko 13y ago
I was in a conference in Singapore recently and found myself chatting to some guys from Manila. When I - of course - asked them if they'd read Cryptonomicon, they all but rolled their eyes! Apparently they got asked that all the time
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by enko 13y ago
I'm not trying to dismiss anything, or claiming to be anything other than a layperson. I'm trying to say that, as that layperson, I find the language we use to be very counter-intuitive, confusing, and fraught with obvious potenti
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by enko 13y ago
The dictionary mixes them too, then. woman |ˈwo͝omən| noun ( pl. women |ˈwimin| ) an adult human female. And so does the author of that post - I looked at the talk page and it says "female" all over the place. You'
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by enko 13y ago
Wikipedia's actions in this case are lamentable, but I do have some sympathy for both sides of the argument Sandifer describes. The language we use is highly confusing and basically invites these arguments - we're trying to use to
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by enko 13y ago
I think we interpreted the book in different ways. Yes, he realised that the culture of trying to trick women into bed via tricks or routines was wrong, and the people who went down that path had flawed, weak personalities. It's intere
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by enko 13y ago
Want to elaborate on this? For me that book shone a really bright light on a community, and its two types of citizens - the "wantrepreneurs" who would try to trick their way to success, and the really serious guys who changed thei
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by enko 13y ago
Yeah, I'm not trying to make you like me. I was just trying to stick up for a community which I don't think is as malevolent as the GP proposed. FWIW, to be accused of misogyny is really offensive to me personally.
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by enko 13y ago
Congratulations on discovering human psychology. I don't have a blog post at hand exemplifying how bosses "neg" potential hires to get them at a lower rate, but I assure you, it is a Thing. "Negging" is a negotiatin
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by enko 13y ago
On what bizarro world do you live where guys striving and taking efforts to improve themselves so that can appeal more to women counts as "misogyny"?
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by enko 13y ago
I am annoyed with this comment. You do not seem to realise that there are many parallels between the "PUA" community and the startup community. Both are about people striving to meet their goals. You should read "The Game&quo
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by enko 13y ago
I actually took some pains to assure them I was not trying to do that. I offered to teach them the techniques I would use, which would actually have increased their market value. They just would not have a word of it. About 6 months later w
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by enko 13y ago
> A lot of these mundane jobs do need to be done, but a lot of people enjoy stable mundane jobs. It took me way too long to accept this. I always thought those people just did not know better, or something. I will never forget the QA dep
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by enko 13y ago
HP is making a pretty big push recently on their cloud service. Check out their contributions to fog, a popular ruby cloud-abstraction library: https://github.com/fog/fog/blob/master/changelog.txt Anyone
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by enko 13y ago
While I'm by no means a fan of the US health care system, it seems pretty wasteful for high-value doctors to be wasting their precious time travelling to see patients. Perhaps videoconferencing could be a good option for simple cases (
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by enko 13y ago
With respect, I think you're coming at this from the wrong angle. In my opinion, availability of blurays, or whatever, has no correlation whatsoever with the general health and happiness of a society. In fact, the essay I linked spec
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by enko 13y ago
From the excellent UR essay [1]: Okay, let's apply a gross reality check. You're an alien. You're observing Earth with an infinitely powerful telescope from Alpha Centauri. You have a simple question. Since 1950, h
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by enko 13y ago
> Robots aren't going to be cooking anyone a six course meal or directing the next Star Wars movie any time soon Of course they won't be directing Star Wars - although a case might be made that that would be preferable - but I
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by enko 13y ago
While I can see your point of view, and the grandparent's, let's be fair. These are startups in a rapidly evolving, highly competitive marketplace and they have limited resources. If they spent months triple checking every dotted
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by enko 13y ago
> the human cost to the operator Forgive me for putting the "human cost to the operator" a very distant second in my reckoning about this issue, ie dropping bombs on people, wiping out whole generations. This is killing people,
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by enko 13y ago
I couldn't finish this article. It just makes me too angry. Warrior? How dare anyone involved in this dignify themselves with such an honour-laden term. They're just murderers, and the fact they hide behind so many layers of techn
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by enko 13y ago
Oh, thank god. For a horrible second I thought someone had paid 250 big ones for a business selling actual origami owls.
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by enko 13y ago
Exactly right. And spot on about choosing your place in the stack - to some extent, it is as simple as deciding to be a higher-value worker. Of course, you will need to have a convincing history to back you up. For example, a friend of mine
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by enko 13y ago
> Mostly the startups apologetically can't afford more than £40-50/hr Ha! That's what they tell you. To the right kind of startup, time is everything and they will pay good money for someone they think of as an asset who w

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