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by gloob 17y ago
Go ahead, don't spend money on his business. But there's no need to make a huge deal out of it, as the boycott is doing. From our perspective, perhaps. I don't doubt the people behind the boycott think there is a substantial need to make
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by gloob 17y ago
Just for the sake of curiosity: do you believe the Roman Empire existed?
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by gloob 17y ago
Because mutable state is an airy-fairy concept that has no relation to the world, of course.
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by gloob 17y ago
Maybe we could just define "zero = 123456789" or something like that while we're at it. If we're going to break math we may as well go whole hog.
545.
by gloob 17y ago
Can't wait til we come full circle and get back to client/server computing ;). The next big hype cycle: OS as an OS.
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by gloob 17y ago
I bet most computer users have never used a bash shell. I still prefer the world with it to a hypothetical one without it. Same goes for high end computer games.
547.
by gloob 17y ago
Please, exactly, tell me what a browser-OS is. Are we talking about something like Chrome OS, which looks like it will be an OS whose primary (edit: or even sole?) purpose is to run a browser? Then it's basically just a crippled version of
548.
by gloob 17y ago
Who wrote the browser? The window manager? The compiler, assembler, and linker? What about computer games? I don't see us doing Crysis in Javascript any time soon. The web is great for some things, but some things aren't everything.
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by gloob 17y ago
I'm reasonably sure you are the person closest to being outraged about anything in this discussion, heh. He was being funny, not raving about how 4chan is the root cause of all evil. And in any case, the fact that actively evil people exist
550.
by gloob 17y ago
I might be off base here, but I suspect the poster you replied to was attempting to be humorous, rather than expressing a philosophical truth about how 4chan users are actually the most evil thing in human history. Provided I'm correct, you
551.
by gloob 17y ago
Philosophically, I largely agree with you. The problem is raised by the fact that karma is largely a measure for "how long have you been on HN?" rather than anything that a sane person would like to base their opinion on. This is most clea
552.
by gloob 17y ago
Congratulations; you have successfully introduced a whole new way to have off-by-one errors. People are used, due to forty years or more of tradition in the great majority of major languages, to zero-based indexing. Tossing that away Becau
553.
by gloob 17y ago
Not sure why you don't like the new additions. In general you don't have to use them if you don't want to. I don't really disagree with you. That said, it's a little bit of an opt-out, in the same sense that arguing that C++ is just as cl
554.
by gloob 17y ago
Which is the cutoff? Pick one arbitrarily. It's inelegant, sure, but we use it for all sorts of other things. Significant example: are you an adult? All sorts of perfectly intelligent, rational arguments could be raised saying "It depends
555.
by gloob 17y ago
* However, criminalization hasn't reduced their availability.* I suspect that if that were actually true, prices would be an awful lot lower.
556.
by gloob 17y ago
Whether or not a given measure is effective has little to do with whether it is an achievable goal in the U.S. political system.
557.
by gloob 17y ago
One step in a direction does not always lead to the next Perhaps, but choreographing 50 million people (plus or minus an arbitrary number, depending on your country) is pretty tough, even on a good day.
558.
by gloob 17y ago
That's great and all, but it's not exactly an answer to his question.
559.
by gloob 17y ago
To be honest, that would probably be one of the best weird memes I've run across.
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by gloob 17y ago
Front page is a positive feedback loop. People upvote the stories they see.
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by gloob 17y ago
Everybody can be comfortable at once. Not everybody can be rich. That's a poor criterion for deciding whether or not something is an intrinsic human desire. Whether or not something can be universally achieved is orthogonal to the questi
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by gloob 17y ago
All the evidence we have suggests that human history and prehistory is primarily concerned with two things: firstly, people making stuff, and secondly, people taking other people's stuff and optionally killing them. This is widely true for
563.
by gloob 17y ago
I'm fairly sure you missed my point.
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by gloob 17y ago
Libertarians' views of reality are almost always less distorted than the downright wacko views held by most Democrats and Republicans, socialists and conservatives. From the perspective of a libertarian, perhaps.
565.
by gloob 17y ago
"Release early, release often," would, for instance, likely be a poor philosophy for a team working on the computer vision systems used by armed autonomous military vehicles.
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by gloob 17y ago
I'm sure you could measure the physical object either discreetly or discretely, or even both at once if the situation was dire.
567.
by gloob 17y ago
Precisely: we'll hold the pilot of the autonomous drone responsible. Edit: Actually, this raises a question in my mind. Do autonomous military robots have "handlers" or the like?
568.
by gloob 17y ago
Eugenics, heavier-than-air flying machines, and the luminiferous aether. Edit: I was trying to be snarky, but I just realized that each of those has been thoroughly studied at one point or another. Just goes to prove your point, I guess, h
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by gloob 17y ago
Because that's worked out so terrifically in our history.
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by gloob 17y ago
I didn't comment on whether or not I approved of the reasoning, I just stated that I wouldn't be surprised if that is part of the reasoning. Whether I want it to be that way or not is immaterial.

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