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by mercer 6y ago
Yeah but there's no clear distinction between current-day groups when it comes to their views on child sacrifice (afaik). I, for one, would defend to the death the right to kill child processes or rail against at the very least anythin
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by mercer 6y ago
> If anything, these codes of conduct are to LGBT what gay parades are to homosexuals like Alan Turing. Righting a horrible wrong? I'm not aware of gay parades re Alan Turing but I sure as hell commend any efforts to right that pa
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by mercer 6y ago
YES! It reminds me a bit of the many discussions I've had with far-right buddies of mine about IQ. The topic would be IQ in relation to 'ethnic groups' or 'geographic regions', sub-saharan africa being a popular top
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by mercer 6y ago
Their true goals I suppose being putting you in a scary gulag?
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by mercer 6y ago
Yeah, that one seems reasonable to me too. I am somewhat cop-averse (at least in the US), but the justification for keeping the name are reasonable.
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by mercer 6y ago
Your comment basically boils down to 'how dare others request empathy'. I find that childish. How do you 'know' for a fact that their concerns are 'cheap gestures' or 'empty' or 'mockery'? A
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by mercer 6y ago
I very much agree with the person you're responding to, and this example would be one I similarly wouldn't mind correcting. Sure, I don't have issues with Christmas hats and probably I'd wait to hear from at least more t
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by mercer 6y ago
> One day another player showed up from another arcade, and he was doing all three moves. This was one of the arcade-specific experiences that I've never quite had at any other point in my life. MMORPGS and forums have given me some
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by mercer 6y ago
I remember going to the arcades with a friend who was so good at gaming that some of these places banned him. There was one that raised the difficult to what is best described as 'insane' just because of him. We'd play a two
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by mercer 6y ago
The interlaced, fuzzy-in-a-very-specific-way arcade experience is a huge wave of nostalgia.
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by mercer 6y ago
Oh shit I have that too. Why?
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by mercer 6y ago
Downvotes!? Really!?
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by mercer 6y ago
I found the Golden Chaos package to offer too much and instead just spent a bit of time setting things up to my liking, and now I couldn't do without the Touch Bar! - dock widget that shows open apps and allows me to switch quickly. -
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by mercer 6y ago
> Rollbacks can create data loss. Also, rollbacks are not always a viable option. I've delivered a number of products (in the early days of my career) to clients where data loss happened and while not fun, it also didn't signif
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by mercer 6y ago
If you're a hardened criminal, why would you go through all the trouble of setting up a torture chamber and not really want to use it!?
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by mercer 6y ago
They do all sorts of things, including border patrol stuff. > The RNLM performs the following duties: > <stuff> > - guarding the national borders ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Marechaussee#Present_
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by mercer 6y ago
"Discipline and Punish" is just a wonderfully depressing book that describes some of this creativity.
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by mercer 6y ago
Interesting. Nobody I know is surprised by this stuff. Maybe it's because we're in the Randstad area and aware of the strings of liquidations that have been happening in Amsterdam? Not to mention the recent high-profile arrest of
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by mercer 6y ago
> But you? You're a team of one! You rollback that bad deploy and basically no one cares! I somehow doubt that comparing this 'team of one project' to the Mars Climate Orbiter leads to any useful conclusions. It's a n
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by mercer 6y ago
I'd add that perhaps for this 'plumbing code', the way you describe it, gradual/static typing is a great solution.
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by mercer 6y ago
That's an interesting observation. I do agree that the shows you mention might have multiple Far Side-level gags in just a single episode. But as the other commenter argues, at the time it stood out. I'm perhaps a bit too young to
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by mercer 6y ago
well to be fair that hole can be metaphorically filled by involving Greensill to help with some creative accounting!
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by mercer 6y ago
somehow it saddens me that we don't call this kind of thing simply 'investing'.
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by mercer 6y ago
I imagine they'd be stupid enough to follow that up with something like Xbox Series X to denote a completely new console generation! It's only slightly more stupid than following up a smash hit console called a Wii with a complete
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by mercer 6y ago
I imagine it's easier and cheaper for Moft to throw customer support at these types of problems than to solve them. Which, honestly, is probably better than offering better products with no support at all (Google, where even the produc
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by mercer 6y ago
That might well be true, but right now it's great for many of us. If in a decade VSCode becomes a subscription-only thing, or it requires usage of sharepoint, or something similarly horrible, it'll still have been a wonderful ed
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by mercer 6y ago
> EDIT: Downvotes? Really? I was so close to actually upvoting you, and then I had to go and downvote... and by this point you were back in the black, so to speak. It's baffling to me how smart people like yourself, knowing the HN r
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by mercer 6y ago
Are you saying Epstein wasn't in the business of pedophilic exploitation involving a number of the global'elite', and that his island wasn't a resort for said activities? It doesn't seem right to conflate that with
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by mercer 6y ago
I mostly agree, but I do quite like Google Sheets and Docs. Drive is pretty shit though.
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by mercer 6y ago
If I can't make a screenshot of the desktop, set it as a background and then remove all the real icons, well, then what's the point!

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