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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I am sure many will applaud this but it encourage developers to not bother with an actual native build as it tells them that Linux users will be happy with "proton compatible". Games don't run as well IME (even ones where the
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
It not that people are ignoring changes in tech. It is the fact that most people don't have this "high-quality" range or an induction stove. I've never seen an induction hob ever. Almost everyone I know has gas or electr
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I was specifically responding to the idea that because guns are banned in the Europe that criminals don't have them. I know that isn't true. It is ridiculous to think so. > (Also, including phrases like "are you stupid&quo
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
It obviously not impossible and the poster was being a bit hyperbolic. However it is more difficult to cook well on electric hobs than gas hobs as you can't directly adjust the heat as needed. Given the choice (I don't have it) I
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
This site is a great resource. The event delegation section is something I have bookmarked as when entering a new contract I typically don't have access to my own code to use as a reference.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
They (The Democratic party) have been able to beat back challengers because their selection process for the presidential candidate is ironically less democratic than the Republicans. The GOP super delegates cannot vote against the way their
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I do think mass moderation is impossible. If they tried to remove things that were obviously illegal and kept to that I would fine to accepting that. I appreciate there is now government involvement which brings it own complications especia
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> If the Russian example you give is supported by the majority then that is by definition democratic, even though propaganda created that public sentiment in the first place. Should propaganda (manifestos of hate in this case) be censor
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> Instead, I think that regular people’s writings on the Internet is hurting the world on a bigger scale. And the collective sentiment is often manipulated by some “agitators” that are exploiting anonymous online speech for their own age
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Scott Adams when talking to Sam Harris said there is "two movies on one screen". I consider myself a "center-right liberatarian", however when doing political compass tests I come out right in the middle of the quad. I f
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I don't doubt that has been your experience. However there are several things that some would take issue with. The first being your framing. The discussion is frequently framed in the following manner: Complaints about having their con
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Well of course this was going to happen. If you remove "objectionable subs" (which is arbitary as I will explain below), the first place they will move is the places that won't remove them and then people say "look see t
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
You could be right, it could be a combination of both. We probably won't ever know for sure.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> Keeping distance seems much more effective than masks. In reality, I've seen that when masks became common place people partially reverted back to flocking together and not respecting a good radius of personal space anymore. Masks
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> I don't care if you're convinced of anything by me. You're obviously convinced of whatever ignorant beliefs you have about the US, already. That alone disqualifies you to talk about the origins of my country. Now, run al
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Firstly you don't get to tell me what I can and can't consider and what I happen to think is relevant. As for what is relevant, I was talking about the relevance to this particular discussion nor the wider implications. It was pre
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> I don't think the argument I was addressing can be summed up as "X has worked". It's more like "X has happened, therefore X is an inevitable consequence of Y which preceded it." You are splitting hairs now
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Yes it does. It isn't survivorship bias if the process has been going on centuries. Whenever people bring up "X has worked" you will have someone on this site say "survivorship bias". It has become such a trope of t
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Whether wrongs are happening today is irrelevant to my point. People try to reframe history in the poliics of today and it cheapens any discission of the topic as everything is seen through a modern lens. As for societies domninated by &quo
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> How else am I to interpret this, then? People are simply expressing that a police state is scary and those that work for the police state are working against the interests of their citizens and the ethos of the nation. Whether or not t
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> This is basically what's known as survivor bias. The number of times this comes up on here it is a bit of a meme. So I will counter with the maxim of "If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail".
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I've already addressed why that is in all likelihood incorrect. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245794
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
No. It is largely irrelevant to what the person's point was because they weren't really asking why America was founded. I am sure you will quote it verbatim and say "it says exactly those words" while ignoring the actual
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> You mean people who are interested in analysis of history? You don't want to consider it. That's fine...oh wait...what about: I never said that. I was criticisng how he was analysing it. Today there is a habit of denouncing a
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
People like yourself that constantly bring up the wrongs of the past and constantly remind people that things were less than perfect in the past constantly don't seem to understand that: * Much like many things society progresses, gene
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I don't agree. It is a fair question to ask how much value do both stores contribute to their business. If Apple and Google provide more value to the business than they take away then a lot of the arguments about how fair these charg
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
How much revenue wouldn't they have if they weren't using those services? It is really easy to say "that's extortion" but I personally would take the extra revenue over not having it at all.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Every so many years I see a post like this where they claim to have improved the drive chain of bicycles and they really never go anywhere, mainly because they aren't compatible with other kit. I've built and repaired quite a few
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Not really. I've never heard it used in the the general publice. It is normally used by office manager types and by talking heads in politics.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
It really depends on the organisation. This sounds sensible, pro-active and productive until to work on legacy systems that have been in place probably or organisations that don't value any of these activities (you typically don't

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