madair

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by madair 17y ago
That's not what he says. He just quotes the creed in order to play off of it regarding capitalism.
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by madair 17y ago
My appreciation for Malcolm Gladwell's work took a major tumble at the publication of that article. We had enough sycophantic executive worship from Wired in the 90s to keep me immune to that sort of carefully packaged PR for a lifetime.
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by madair 17y ago
I agree, voter apathy due to political shenanigans is a huge problem. People just disengage from the process. Straw man arguments don't fix it, instead they perpetuate the same useless bickering. Trumpeting dishonest scientists or shifty po
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by madair 17y ago
Self-evident straw men get votes here on HN, huh. [Edit:] I guess your (single) point which people may be voting on that's not a straw man there is that the larger green movement is "shifty". Because your point on "consistent and clear" is
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by madair 17y ago
Regarding motivating people to consume less, maybe there are some people for whom this is the equivalent of a blue law (i.e. don't drink alcohol on Sunday and you'll be a 'better' person), but that's really not the common case. The motivati
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by madair 17y ago
Money quote: Yes, we've never actually experimented to observe the results over 50 years of artificially adding a large amount of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. But we know from physics that it's a greenhouse gas. It's not a privilege
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by madair 17y ago
And thus this article, which revisits and calls for more revisit of evidence.
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by madair 17y ago
Explaining my vote down: (1) You make a lot of bold statements to refute a highly researched article full of references, with not so much as a nod to your sources (2) Your first sentence makes an assumption that he's missed or ignoring the
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by madair 17y ago
Thanks! That link says it pretty clear: In particular, an ephemeron can be combined with a weak hash table (see Hash Tables) to produce a mapping where the memory manager can reclaim key–value pairs even when the value refers to the key.
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by madair 17y ago
Can someone explain the differences between this and weak references in a VM with garbage collection?
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by madair 17y ago
The idea is to diversify into lower-risk assets than the U.S. dollar or other currencies, even if those investments will cost more in the long run . It doesn't matter what gold costs right now if the USD experiences further free-fall, wh
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by madair 17y ago
So, first you say I shouldn't be prejudicial against prejudice, and now you say that pointing out that someone is probably poor or probably uneducated, based on evidence, and while arguing against prejudice for those things, is prejudicia
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by madair 17y ago
Well said, it's that among other things, some good. But America is a lottery, everyone wants to be that celebrity, and thinks they have a pretty good shot (attention statistics deficit disorder).
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by madair 17y ago
I think he's referring reasonably and ethically due in due process. These things start to sound like cliches, but both words are important here. Just because the corruption is legal doesn't make it ethical, or due .
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by madair 17y ago
It seems to be getting to be quite a problem: people projecting their blue-law cultural values onto the community, and quite vociferously sure of the rightness of doing that.
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by madair 17y ago
Some obvious and high-impact taxes that this chart misses: - Property taxes - Sales tax - Tax-free executive perks And of course, the discussion about fairness isn't taking into account the large percentage of industries that trade in or ar
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by madair 17y ago
Reminds of an excerpt from the book, The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism (via http://mrteacup.tumblr.com/post/386598513/the-consummation-o... ): The consummation of desire is thus a necessarily disillusioning experienc
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by madair 17y ago
My prejudice against prejudicial people? It's amazing how many people think that is a good argument. Typically prejudiced people. It a common enough movie-cliche too. I.e., gambler just lost the car saying, "Don't judge me, don't judge me!"
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by madair 17y ago
(a) this a very likely young person that we're talking about (b) very likely un- or undereducated compared to you (c) very likely poorer than you, and that's poorer even if you live in a dorm eating ramen and (d) it's prejudice that I'm com
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by madair 17y ago
Karma well spent. The doubled-consonants style is very popular with the 12-16 year old set right now. Congratulations on your prejudice.
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by madair 17y ago
There is nothing good about this at all, this is class warfare and culture warfare all wrapped up together, both very bad and both ripping America, among other places, apart right about....now. You have absolutely no clue about this person
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by madair 17y ago
Prejudice (1) : preconceived judgment or opinion (2) : an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge Yep, sounds like you are prejudiced.
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by madair 17y ago
Yeah me too, and that was fast! I'm already so much more connected with a few people than I was a couple days ago. It's the difference between cool and warm with some acquaintances. I used to be a hater toward FB and the like, but it's actu
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by madair 17y ago
Got them tightly under your control, do you?
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by madair 17y ago
How is that even remotely similar. Because they both have contact lists? You can chat in both?
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by madair 17y ago
In war it's called a scorched earth policy.
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by madair 17y ago
It reminds me of a 1950s morality PSA
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by madair 17y ago
I think this article is aimed directly at you then. And clearly you disagree, sounds like because you don't feel like it. A lot of us don't really want Apple (or Google, or x, or y, or z) to be a monopoly though. And perhaps the people who
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by madair 17y ago
Money quote: Now, I've hardly done much to refute charges of anthropomorphism - but am I bovvered? I'm not projecting human characteristics on to dumb animals - I'm saying I really don't see that much difference in their hopes and fears, b
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by madair 17y ago
It's a play on the old description of Perl as a swiss army chainsaw

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