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by keybored 1y ago
Unicode with an emphasis on emoji is HN ragebait. Out of all the things, people get really upset that U+1F9B0 EMOJI COMPONENT RED HAIR is taking up codepoint space.
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by keybored 1y ago
I find it hard to downgrade my wisdom that much, even with hard liquor.
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by keybored 1y ago
Majority opinion can look like consensus. And yet things like wealth inequality make for an uneven distribution of opinion where the minority end up having the most votes in effect.
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by keybored 1y ago
This is naive to the point of not being addressable.
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by keybored 1y ago
Calling theories about the CIA conspiracy-theories is like calling General Relativity a physics-theory. Well, yeah, you are correct.
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by keybored 1y ago
How even-handed and fair. These entities are in the business—by their very nature—to lie and hide their activities as much as possible.[1] To dismiss speculation out-of-hand because it has no evidence is ludicrous. [1] Not only that but to
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by keybored 1y ago
Bah, I assumed from that comment that China or India were the ones who were coloring/interfering.
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by keybored 1y ago
In my experience people who at the same time, “no I don’t [care], actually ”, and who squash their PRs as a matter of policy do not care and cannot be convinced to care. Like the GP said > > If not, it doesn’t matter. You might as we
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by keybored 1y ago
So now marketing is working through the disgruntled-at-stupid-tech HN bait ( as someone who works on the built-in AI team )? Or wait, how long have they been doing that?
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by keybored 1y ago
> When was the last time you used a different VCS than your coworkers without having them switch to it too? Nine years ago.
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by keybored 1y ago
Most of the bad modern Git practices summed up in one comment (one atomic, squashed comment).
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The supposed problem is that organizations behave too predictably. But billionaires can use their ill-gotten gains to fund whatever they like, which is a good thing—solely because of the random variable.
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by keybored 1y ago
If you’re too lazy to make your own argument, just-- well you already said so.
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by keybored 1y ago
And that was a typo: too well-programmed to not be individualistic or something. But I guess it works both ways?
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by keybored 1y ago
Aah...
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> Inequality is never fun for those who believe that they are entitled to more than others. Inequality is practical for those at the top/those that embody the reality of being entitled to more than others. More people to profit from
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by keybored 1y ago
We are too well-programmed to be individualistic, the crowd said in unison.
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by keybored 1y ago
> Just kind of an underdiscussed piece, especially as many people like to issue catastrophic warnings about how wealth inequality destroys a society- then quickly change the subject when you note that the Nordics are more unequal than Am
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by keybored 1y ago
> But I would also say that communism doesn't even look good on paper. It looks terrifying! To naive and frankly clueless young minds with no appreciation of human nature, human society, and so on, a superficial acquaintance with th
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by keybored 1y ago
1st paragraph: I believe that you believe that. 2nd: If I think capitalists are parasites, why would I attribute any good that Apple makes to them? Clearly it is the people doing real work who is to praise for that. They make up the bulk of
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by keybored 1y ago
> Not sure there are any real communist nations left. It's one of those ideologies that looks good on paper, but falls apart, as soon as humans get added to the soup. > Idealists never seem to account for base human nature. Are t
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by keybored 1y ago
You ask a question in your first paragraph which you answer in the second.
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by keybored 1y ago
> Using less is always an individual choice. But not a realistic one to expect 8 billion+ people to take. That's also why fossil fuel usage is still increasing. Thanks. This mindset is not always made this explicit. That it is an in
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by keybored 1y ago
I don’t know how Japanese city ordinances work. What I would like from these things is to be able to opt-in to a recommendation. Just a two-minute way to opt-in. They can do the work and we all can have the least possible hassle trying it o
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by keybored 1y ago
VC backing apparently has the power to move the standard from "hodge-podge 800-line commit must have an issue key" to "track every damn interaction and back and forth". That and the ever-trailing "especially now wit
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by keybored 1y ago
> Many people have the idea they can make things simpler. Which is really easy because the basic problems are not that hard. Them someone needs "just one more small feature" which seems easy enough and it is - but the combinati
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by keybored 1y ago
The distinction between a profound paradigm shift and something that can be denigrated as a pasttime is subjective and in turn no empirical investigation will draw out an objective conclusion.
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by keybored 1y ago
A master Buddhist meditator deep in meditation might also have no inner dialogue. I don’t really get the significance of this No Inner Dialogue meme.
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by keybored 1y ago
It’s funny how people think history is such a railroaded farce of “more progress more better” that when people get obese due to driving too much then that’s just the oopsie-doopsie irony of progress “backfiring”. No free lunch. I guess it’s
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by keybored 1y ago
It’s funny how in a society everything gets commodified to the point of commodifying what you previously got (for free) as a side-effect of the typical lifestyle? I don’t think that’s “funny” as in ironic or puzzling—I think it’s entirely

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