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by mbillie1 10y ago
I am not accusing you personally of this, but the tactic of continually accusing more and more mainstream publications of being left-leaning in order to make room for e.g. Breitbart / InfoWars is becoming increasingly common, and it&#x
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> The problem with this line of reasoning is that it assumes the public even knows how to tell if police officers are wearing body cameras. I don't see how it assumes that at all. I think the gist is that police behave in a way that
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by mbillie1 10y ago
Don't think you needed a throwaway for that, that's a cogent point.
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Totally agreed on both counts, but what matters really is whether you feel too uncomfortable to live in a place.
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by mbillie1 10y ago
The people who will inevitably say things like "this is just oversensitivity" or "it's an exaggeration to act like a whole city is outside your comfort zone" are either unbelievably thick-skinned or simply live in a
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by mbillie1 10y ago
More likely closer to dementia, alzheimer's disease, etc.
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by mbillie1 10y ago
Yes it is, but the large bay area groupthink collective will try to explain that it's really not possible to shine as a developer anywhere else. It's easier to overpay by 2x in a rat-race society while you destroy the city you&#x2
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by mbillie1 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/1138/
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by mbillie1 10y ago
You must be superior to the rest of us in so many other ways as well, it's a shame you won't enlighten us.
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by mbillie1 10y ago
Not to nitpick but $50-100 buys you typically an extremely small, single-color tattoo in many places. My last tattoo was a simple flag about 2x3" with 3 colors and a geometric design and cost around $120. Not sure what an "average
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by mbillie1 10y ago
As though 10 euros is enough to satisfy his hunger in perpetuity? Do you quit your job and stop working when you have 10 euros in the bank, or do you put it away and try to accumulate more? This "anecdote" is pretty short-sighted.
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by mbillie1 11y ago
> If IRC filled people's needs, they would use it. Can we please put this ridiculous circular argument to rest already? You can say that about ANYTHING, it's a vacuous fallacy.
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by mbillie1 11y ago
Safari needs to start respecting HTML5 input validations.
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Not only is that true, but the first R is also the one providing the least value to society, aside from sating the vengeance-lust of generally uninvolved parties.
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by mbillie1 11y ago
Curious to see Use of Weapons in there. While it is a fantastic story, it never struck me as particularly prescient, even compared to some of the other books in the Culture series.
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by mbillie1 11y ago
Given that one of the things you can easily do with Favorites is review a list of them, I think it's perfectly reasonable to say it behaved like a bookmark. I certainly used it for this purpose.
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by mbillie1 11y ago
> If IRC were good enough to handle the needs of small software company communication, people would use IRC. Sitting here pretending everyone just doesn't know about a 20+ year old technology is comical. I'd just like to point
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by mbillie1 11y ago
> with driving the only way to provide better service is to be faster This isn't even close to the case - being friendly, having a clean and quiet vehicle, and providing a ride that is safe and not white-knuckle terrifying will all
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by mbillie1 11y ago
Even on the one or two occasions when I have seen an ad for something that I'm interested in, I never actually click the ad, but google the product specifically to avoid the whole redirect rigamarole that ensues anytime you click on a
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by mbillie1 11y ago
This is really true. I've recently moved to CLJS from Ruby/vanilla JS, and it took a couple weeks to be able to make sense of it. Now I don't notice it at all. It's just an exposure / getting-used-to-it thing.
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by mbillie1 11y ago
> For some (bad?) startups, this is an even more valuable function of engineers than engineering. How on earth is this healthy? If your "company" continues to exist by sucking up investment money gained by doing a song-and-danc
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by mbillie1 11y ago
Slow but available. There's a lot of empty land if you aren't picky about where you live...
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by mbillie1 11y ago
All fair points, but remote work also has increased massively ( http://fortune.com/2015/02/12/lessons-learned-from-3-compani... ). It is interesting to consider that well-paid remote workers, free to live whe
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by mbillie1 11y ago
Fares are much cheaper outside of the bay area. I was introduced to Lyft in SLC and was mildly stunned when I went to San Diego by how much higher the rates were.
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by mbillie1 11y ago
Another profound contribution to the discourse! Are you always so topical, or are you making a special effort here?
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by mbillie1 11y ago
Bitbucket, gitlab, ? Also, because you do not perceive any network effect in restaurants in no way proves that there are none.
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by mbillie1 11y ago
In that case - since you're merely quoting the dictionary without voicing an opinion - I invite you to refrain from further diluting the present discussion with your vacuous commentary. I assure you that the entirety of HN readership c
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by mbillie1 11y ago
So if a restaurant asks you to leave because you're shouting ethnic slurs, that's censorship? Come on. GitHub is not the entirety of your expressive domain. If you were disallowed by law from saying "retard" I would be s
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by mbillie1 11y ago
Their refusal did not constitute censorship, if that's what you're asking.
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by mbillie1 11y ago
A private company choosing not to allow content for whatever reason is not censorship . People who choose to use the word "retard" are not a protected class, Github can ban this word as they see fit.

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