jubalfh

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by jubalfh 9y ago
Misogyny, peddling conspiracy theories and blatant victim blaming are acceptable though? How about sarcasm?
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by jubalfh 10y ago
Not every country is the United States of America, and freedom of speech is not exclusively defined by amendments to an American constitution. You can ban the nazi symbols & language and still have freedom of speech.
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by jubalfh 10y ago
I think I have the title for my next bestseller: “from a visioner to a quisling: how to destroy one's reputation in three to five tweets”.
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by jubalfh 10y ago
Well, it's an agent-less system after all, the idea is to keep the system lean.
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by jubalfh 10y ago
Incredibly. But it seems to be The Ruby Way™…
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by jubalfh 10y ago
Seen that approach in production, had to work with it, was not very impressed.
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by jubalfh 10y ago
To add a bit more context: I think that the author came to use git /after/ they learned mercurial. For a long time mercurial's history was completely immutable, and hg's branches are very different from git ones (the mer
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by jubalfh 10y ago
perhaps he had mistaken broomsticks with pitchforks…
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by jubalfh 10y ago
How odd, bringing up the past to explain the present.
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by jubalfh 10y ago
How about we make everyone a monarch and everyone's house a castle?
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by jubalfh 10y ago
…ah that fragile ego of the orange site's participants…
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by jubalfh 10y ago
The stuffed giraffe, I presume.
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by jubalfh 10y ago
> We tried having a 'Men's Shed' in our town, but I think it got shut down by a bunch of harpies. happy is a place where the mythical Greek creatures dwell, and where they have enough good sense to shut down questionable e
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by jubalfh 10y ago
That is a lovely joke though.
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by jubalfh 10y ago
If being rational would correlate with getting rich, one would live in a rather interesting place.
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by jubalfh 10y ago
> This submission has received a huge number of user flags. We've overridden flags and other software penalties for several of these stories already for being related to YC, but our primary duty is to the community and we have to le
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by jubalfh 10y ago
Let me point you at one gentleman's comment left a few weeks ago on another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11850889 .
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by jubalfh 10y ago
Just like being a rapist and a fugitive stopped Polański from continuing his film-making career. Really.
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by jubalfh 10y ago
Consider: “officer Batman shot metaphorm dead” vs. “officer Batman's weapon discharged killing metaphorm”.
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by jubalfh 10y ago
Paul Elam.
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by jubalfh 10y ago
Oh dear. Who comes next, Elam?
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by jubalfh 10y ago
aren't you easily persuaded…
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by jubalfh 10y ago
That being a conspiracy would be actually quite comforting, wouldn't it? Unfortunately, I think the simpler explanation – that humanity fails at being both human and humane – is more probable.
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by jubalfh 10y ago
I'm not sure bringing up Gomeshi's case as an example of false accusation is such a very good idea, though.
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by jubalfh 10y ago
Don't let reading Raymond warp your mind. Also, this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11850930 .
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by jubalfh 11y ago
What's wrong with being a socialist (or even a communist)?
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by jubalfh 12y ago
It's usually not a first choice, but the tourist starts the game wearing it.
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by jubalfh 13y ago
Do substantiate.
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by jubalfh 15y ago
Good luck at your next meeting with the firing squad!
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by jubalfh 15y ago
Bo-hoo-hoo. Cry me a river.

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