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by koningrobot 16y ago
This is wrong. One shouldn't have to vote to be left alone. Reality is different, I know, but it isn't one's laziness that is to blame. (PS: I vote.)
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by koningrobot 16y ago
Richard Dawkins' faithful optimism has always bothered me. Even if our species is so special, how does that make us, the individuals, lucky? What good does it do us? Jim Crawford says it better than I: http://antinatalism.blogspot.com/20
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by koningrobot 16y ago
Many HN readers are chasing happiness through entrepreneuring. I thought this piece was relevant because it investigates the nature of happiness. The idea is that happiness is merely relief from things that make us unhappy. That is, ther
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The Tyranny of Happiness(goindependent.blogspot.com)
2 points by koningrobot 16y ago|1 comments
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by koningrobot 16y ago
It is good to be humble, but better to be realistic. Why the parent's self-deprecating sentiment is so popular is beyond me. "I hate my own code" seems to confirm the "to each their own" view, but some ways of doing things really are ob
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by koningrobot 16y ago
I used to believe that all code was crap, and, to drive the point home, that my code was the very worst. Five years of experience forward, I think my code is rather good. I have never had impressive colleagues. Some open source code is im
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by koningrobot 16y ago
No, RMS didn't say that, I did. I don't know how RMS feels about this; whether he doesn't want kids for the sake of the kids, or for the sake of those living now. I myself am indeed of the opinion that no one should have kids. Life is a v
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by koningrobot 16y ago
He should definitely not have a kid. He seems of the opinion that life is painful, and he has wished he had never been born (well, he has wished he had "killed himself when [he] was born", but there's little difference). To "have a kid" is
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by koningrobot 17y ago
This sort of question annoys me to no end. My bosses and coworkers always asked me this whenever I proposed refactoring code (improving "perfectly good" old spaghetti or removing unused code). How would one go about answering this questio
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by koningrobot 17y ago
I certainly don't advocation allowing a healthy person to end their life because they have a chance at things getting better. This is gambling with other people's lives. If such a healthy person is forced to stay alive, things might neve
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by koningrobot 17y ago
To have a kid is to create such a person who really needs your help, can do nothing in return, and needs help on a continual basis. This is a horrible thing to do! Not to mention that those created will most likely do the same thing in
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by koningrobot 17y ago
Looks like it contains an XSS bug in the way it reports errors.
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by koningrobot 17y ago
Unless you get ill after taking the placebo. This is called the nocebo effect.
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by koningrobot 17y ago
Actually, in this experiment, you could say the acid does a breadth-first search through the maze. When it finds the entrance, the oil droplet starts moving through the path that the acid found. So the droplet is merely a distractor; the
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by koningrobot 17y ago
One can't unsuicide, but dead people don't feel the desire to unsuicide anyway. Even if they were about to win the lottery (i.e., see a brighter day), they don't regret being dead. No matter how good life can be, it's always worse than de
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by koningrobot 17y ago
A large number of people who make failed suicide attempts don't try again, ... I doubt the truth of that. There are studies that suggest otherwise: http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-permanence-of... .
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by koningrobot 17y ago
Unfortunately, no. I've been getting the plumbing together; a layer that abstracts the ajax and session stuff so that all I'm left with on the server side is a file descriptor (one per session) to read from and write to. I have some JavaSc
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by koningrobot 17y ago
I'm working on a realtime strategy game in the browser using "full-duplex" AJAX. I started working on it about a year ago but I had to take a considerable timeout after burning out at my former boring job. It's slowly getting somewhere, t
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by koningrobot 17y ago
The "pleasure of making things that are useful to other people" only happens if you project isn't cancelled and actually gets used. It also doesn't happen if you're developing internal software that other people will be forced to use. It
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by koningrobot 18y ago
This only works well if every verb acts on only one noun. After that, the single-dispatch dot-notation breaks down because you have to pass arguments. There are more sensible ways to write a function call with multiple arguments. In stack
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by koningrobot 18y ago
I see the point, but I disagree that it's a problem that needs to be solved. What is the alternative? A "Numbers" class? And how would this look in syntax? Numbers.new([ 0, 1, 2, 3 ])? I mean, I'm sure you could make it a special case,
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by koningrobot 18y ago
I agree with this wholeheartedly. The credit bucket thing is something that needs to be done . The legalization thing is something that needs to be undone . Shit may not be easy, but tearing shit down is a lot easier than building shit
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by koningrobot 18y ago
One of the neat things about JavaScript is that objects are just hashes/dictionaries. It turned out to be a really flexible way to do objects. Unfortunately, when you actually want to use an object as a dictionary, all the methods get in
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by koningrobot 18y ago
It's not fair, but that's the way the world is. [...] perhaps we can solve this problem before our kids become adults. Alternatively, we can opt not to have kids so they don't have to deal with this problem or making a living in general
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by koningrobot 18y ago
How so? Isn't it just a matter of having enough "reasoning power" and information? What do "everything" and "understandable" mean in this sentence?
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by koningrobot 18y ago
CBA is handwaving, but so is saying "what if everybody did it". I'll concede that CBA gives a false sense of accuracy. You initially said "I'm glad we didn't make a rational decision", and I don't agree with that sentiment at all. You are
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by koningrobot 18y ago
I certainly didn't mean to write off climate science or scientists. My point was that I don't know how to distinguish the science from the propaganda, except in obvious cases. I find it hard to believe that other armchair scientists can
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by koningrobot 18y ago
I see that most of your comments in this thread fly in the face of what most climate scientists believe to be happening. I'd ask for sources, but there's no way to confirm that the people behind them are actual "climate scientists", whate
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by koningrobot 18y ago
You are glad based on how it made you feel, not on what impact it made. Most probably it didn't have much impact and you might as well have dropped the trash. Not that that's what I would've done, but saying we should trust our emotions
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by koningrobot 18y ago
I agree. Actually I find the idea (if not the proof) kind of obvious: our thoughts are as deterministic as the processes that effect them. Whether they are deterministic is another story.

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