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by jholman 13y ago
I particularly like chapters V and VI. (snark-free version: that book would be a lot better if it was finished... note the last edit was over a year ago)
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by jholman 13y ago
Have you? Semi-serious question, genuinely not intended to offend. It's perfectly reasonable to have the opinion that wpietri advanced, and it's perfectly reasonable to raise it in this context. One could believe that for aesthe
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by jholman 13y ago
First of all, I too think this is an interesting idea that I've never heard/considered before. I too find restraint easy but action difficult. I agree, too, with your last paragraph. But aside from that, even if individuals we do
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by jholman 13y ago
No. They're called "retina" because the people who name things at Apple are professionally focused on deceiving you. What a surprise. I've seen lots of articles about this over time, here's one I googled just now:
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by jholman 13y ago
The blocking/signalling is missing? What's wrong with $ ./producer > my_rambacked_file & $ tail -f my_rambacked_file > ./consumer Well, okay, I guess this way you don't get a signal that the producer is fi
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by jholman 13y ago
I don't know what Chesterton thought of capitalism, or wealth, or success, but that piece doesn't condemn any of them, as I understood it. That piece is about bad writing, and vapid self-help books. Chesterton appears, in this ess
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by jholman 13y ago
> Value is created when both sides want what the other side is offering more than what they have. Value is created when, by your action, you change the world to a state that you, or another person, find preferable to the previous state
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by jholman 13y ago
> "privilege" (which is a meaningless concept that just means "you're bad") The rest of your comment was pretty reasonable [1], but here you just went off the rails. "Privilege" does not simply mean &
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by jholman 13y ago
Yeah. Imagine the existence of a guy called Madar Mevinson, who runs a company Mavabit... that publicly shuts down over privacy concerns, but then reopens in triumph after a court battle... but little did we know, Madar was a government op
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by jholman 13y ago
You wrote: > Of the two major alternatives, the CA system ... and the web of trust ..., of these, the former is clearly more reliable. That is, you wrote "the CA system is more reliable than the WoT". I'm pretty sure you
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by jholman 13y ago
Agreed. In particular these parts are dead-on: > genuinely effective in protecting the rights of individuals > most concerned with people in positions of power buying government officials Both of those are KEY issues, yes. And i
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by jholman 13y ago
If you're against slavery and feudalism, you should be against pure unfettered capitalism (though possibly in favor of almost-pure capitalism, I guess). tl;dr: "Pure capitalism is good", as a problem-solving strategy, is not
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by jholman 13y ago
Christensen's theory, as I understand it, also does not explain Gucci and Prada. Apple products may or may not have an "objective" advantage relative to the competition (I believe they do not, but I am aware this is widely d
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by jholman 13y ago
Smart children CAN get away with being lazy. For some that's true for years, for some it's true for decades.
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by jholman 13y ago
Disingenuous means "not of noble character", and more generally means things along the lines of "deliberately dishonest". "Disingenuous" does not mean "misleading, maybe by accident". It's an a
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by jholman 13y ago
Sometimes a system is completely morally bankrupt, but still profitable for the players thereof. Many players will, in that circumstance, continue to play, even if everyone agrees that it would be better to have a different system. Few (or
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by jholman 13y ago
> advantage of original founders who remained extremely engaged I'm skeptical about whether this is true in a straightforward way. For one thing, most of the complaining about the (relative) decline in engineer-centric culture at Go
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by jholman 13y ago
I can't tell ams6110 what intent he or she may or may not have.... but I can say that "he" will not be reliably read as gender-neutral.
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by jholman 13y ago
This is awesome, and nothing in this comment is meant to take away from that awesome, only to contextualize it. Getting above the Karman Line (100km above sea level) and getting into orbit are dramatically different problems. In case the n
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by jholman 13y ago
I keep meaning to dig into this sort of write-based build trigger, and I'm going to grab this excuse. As I understand it, inotify is a syscall, right? Do you have custom C code to hook it and trigger your make? What are the standard
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by jholman 13y ago
And all btilly said was "If [trivial aesthetic concerns cause you to experience hate], I don't want to know you." I think that's an entirely defensible position. And without knowing btilly, or having myself said this pa
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by jholman 13y ago
> I don't want to defend a sexist comment Okay, fair enough, understood, and I'll direct my response to my disagreement about the math of it. Why would it matter that 2/3 of DWTS viewers are female? Suppose that I publi
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by jholman 13y ago
Actually, I did construct a more sophisticated argument, at least in brief. That's what that whole paragraph was about. Also, I didn't call you a reactionary dullard. I see that your literacy is as poor as your numeracy. What
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by jholman 13y ago
To the first, IF as you say it's 2/3 women, and IF as one short Google search suggested to me it has around 13M viewers, and IF we agree that those are all in the US and the US has around, what, 100M adult women?... then that&#x27
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by jholman 13y ago
Can't edit my comment, and no one will care at this date, but... s/First Law/Third Law/ Obviously the quote I posted is the corollary to the quote negativity posted. Derp derp derp.
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by jholman 13y ago
So much wrong with this comment. First of all, you need to go do some remedial math. The percentage of DWTS watchers who are women is no predictor of what women do. This fallacy is called confusion of the inverse , and it's a probab
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by jholman 13y ago
That's Clarke's Third Law. I'm fond of the First Corollary to Clarke's First Law (allegedly first mentioned by Benford): "Any technology which is distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
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by jholman 13y ago
> I'm really not trying to "trick" people into admitting a communist philosophy Well, you sound sincere, but your arguments are so ahistorical that it's really tough to believe you. First of all, you keep saying &quo
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by jholman 13y ago
I want the tool you're building! It's got huge overlap with a project I was just in the planning phase of, a cloud-ified FreeMind. However! There's one fatal-for-me flaw in your current implementation: only three layers dee
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by jholman 13y ago
> Do you mean American mumbling accent or International English accent? > Indian English has as many rights to life as have German English or Texan English or Aussie You are missing the point. It's not about "rights to

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