gloob

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by gloob 17y ago
People have said similar things about Marxism, Christianity, and Manifest Destiny. Forgive me for taking the wait-and-see approach to this one.
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by gloob 17y ago
I haven't had much sleep, so my apologies if I'm just misunderstanding, but this part: I am a libertarian myself and I would at least love to spread the knowledge of libertarian philosophy and make people aware about the dangers of large g
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by gloob 17y ago
I had one lecture in one course that was more or less about this; as I recall, one of the first sentences out of the prof's mouth that day was (paraphrased) "Don't tell anyone it was me who told you this." It was certainly an interesting (
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by gloob 17y ago
To compare one of the greatest works of satire with Eric's vitriol belies a fundamental ignorance or insincerity. I would hope neither, obviously, though it's entirely possible I'm wrong. I would rather just discuss the writer's actual p
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by gloob 17y ago
If you find that so distressing, I wonder how you feel about this little tidbit from Swift: I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a mo
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by gloob 17y ago
we need to move onto the next step, which is doing something more useful with our "connections" and identities on the net. I'd disagree, but I know I'm in a small minority. I've never entirely understood the desire that people apparently
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by gloob 17y ago
Broad summary: an editorial containing one half-hearted effort at a comparison to a historical situation that would probably be interesting if it were developed at all, but which is instead promptly abandoned in favour of whinging about Ame
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by gloob 17y ago
I've never done any web programming before, so this is an honest question: Is HTML so complex that people honestly cannot be expected to write legal markup? Because, if the great majority of people who have made websites are perfectly capa
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by gloob 17y ago
The prize isn't for preventing murder; it's for predicting murder. There are significant practical differences, particularly with respect to the incentives created.
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by gloob 17y ago
They don't. They also withhold suggestions in the case of "jews are" and "white people are" and "hot teens".
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by gloob 17y ago
I can't speak for anyone else here, obviously, but I've never had my head cut off, whether by Islam, Muslims, or any related noun. "The plural of anecdote is not data" and all that, though, so take my story with a grain of salt, eh?
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by gloob 17y ago
Unix?
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by gloob 17y ago
All the security in the world won't protect Google's servers from a subpeona, and no black hat on the planet can break into my wallet without being in immediate physical proximity to me.
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by gloob 17y ago
Cherry-picking the data set for the most radical examples you can find proves nothing. It's like saying that Christians are contaminated because the Westboro Baptist Church is crazy. You can't extrapolate from a single data point and unai
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by gloob 17y ago
I suppose it's just a bizarre coincidence that this was posted on January 1, 2010 then, as opposed to (say) October 18, 2008?
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by gloob 17y ago
Until you look at anything other than PCs. I'm reasonably sure there are more ARM chips in operation than x86, and ARM is (if I recollect correctly) a RISC processor.
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by gloob 17y ago
Yes, in just the same way that I think people who start counting from -1 on a measuring tape or from 37 on a speedometer are doing it wrong. Just because a convention is entirely arbitrary doesn't prevent people from being wrong about it.
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by gloob 17y ago
Out of curiosity, when was the last time that Nintendo launched a new game franchise?
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by gloob 17y ago
emotional little assertions The irony of your use of this phrase eludes you, evidently.
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by gloob 17y ago
Paranoia and ad hominem don't do your argument much good.
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by gloob 17y ago
The problems of C are not a universally recognized truth. There are plenty of C programmers who believe that C is perfectly fine. Maybe the issue with C is just people misusing the language. /snark Whether a truth is universally recognize
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by gloob 17y ago
I can't speak for anyone else, obviously, but I sequester myself away in a dark basement because I enjoy it, not out of some idiot notion that I'm smarter than other people. It's not that other people are stupider than me; it's that other p
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by gloob 17y ago
Plurk isn't being blamed for having its code ripped-off. Plurk is being blamed for being stupid. Two different things.
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by gloob 17y ago
It is fundamentally wrong to support one kind of infringement while condemning another. I would disagree, actually. By way of comparison, most countries have multiple distinct crimes or not-crimes that "killing someone" can fall into: ki
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by gloob 17y ago
Epicureanism and Stoicism are a lot more similar than most people think. An example from Epicurus: If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. And one from Epictetus, a stoic: Freedom
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by gloob 17y ago
It's the kind of behavior that needs to get left behind. Why? This smacks of religion to me. goformat is easier to understand than 'gofmt'. Only if you can't be arsed to learn the language or tools. If the fact that the tool has a dif
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by gloob 17y ago
Well, what's the difference between the average human lifespan in 2000 and the average human lifespan in 2010? The Internet is very different than it was (though more in form than in function), various industries have risen or fallen, and
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by gloob 17y ago
Calling "suggesting a change and asking users up front to confirm or correct it" unethical strikes me as sensationalistic. The fact that a large percentage of users didn't just click through the thing (i.e. it wasn't some stealth decision
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by gloob 17y ago
It's possible that my priorities are simply out of touch with those of the mainstream, but for me "half of the world can read the email of the other half of the world" is a bigger problem than "ebook readers aren't very good right now". Th
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by gloob 17y ago
I would rather hide, thank you. In a fight between me and the world, my bet is on the world.

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