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by mercer 6y ago
I don't know your age, but I've been rather worried about the fact that almost all my < 30 years old friends seem to be some degree of 'doomer'. Whether it's climate, the economy (and the prospects of retirement)
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by mercer 6y ago
Congrats. Haven't lost The Game in quite a while, and you got me.
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by mercer 6y ago
And they never let down!
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by mercer 6y ago
I'll second the thanks. Thanks!
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by mercer 6y ago
I can't answer your questions, but I'll add this: 1. FB owning both Instagram and WhatsApp means that it's almost impossibly for me to escape their grasp as a 'regular person'. 2. even avoiding FB itself is difficul
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by mercer 6y ago
I'm inclined to believe Microsoft still doesn't quite has the (understandably challenged) dominance it once had, but your comment gives me pause. Perhaps its stranglehold is still worth challenging? EDIT: Playing fast and loose, m
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by mercer 6y ago
I'm aware that this is not a comment that contributes much, but nonetheless: I agree. Get him present in a hearing!
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by mercer 6y ago
Also, much as I'd like to, I can't get past Scott Adams 'personal persona'. It ruined Dilbert for me. Perhaps it shouldn't, but it did.
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by mercer 6y ago
Oh wow, that's a wonderful recommendation! Thanks!
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by mercer 6y ago
Wow. that's the weirdest 'flag' I've encountered on HN yet. While perhaps a content warning would've been nice, learning that apparently bears eat cubs was a very surprising thing for me to learn, and videos of it e
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by mercer 6y ago
They do? I didn't know that! I've learned that cats will do this (childhood almost-trauma) but it's interesting that bears would do this too.
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by mercer 6y ago
I'd say, with the utmost respect for Larson, that this isn't so much one you're too dumb to get as it is a rare flub in his impressive oeuvre! For me this comic combined with the general limitations of what he does are what m
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by mercer 6y ago
How do I delete your comment!
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by mercer 6y ago
For me Gary Larson is a close second to Watterson. That said, this is probably one of my favorite Far Side comics and there's a ton more that are just as great: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3
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by mercer 6y ago
> Haven't thought very deeply about this, but FOSS doesn't seem like socialism, as the capital being competed for is user attention. I think that's stretching the definition of 'competition' a bit too much. First
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by mercer 6y ago
At least over here in NL, while hospitals are not over-taxed anymore, those who work in them really need a break.
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by mercer 6y ago
> yes, but that requires some level of interest in, and active search for, information about bolsonaro. how many americans other than folks with connections to brazil (or thereabouts) would that be? relatively few, i'd wager. Sure,
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by mercer 6y ago
Would love elaboration.
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by mercer 6y ago
How does not knowing how bad Covid is or might be figure into your approach?
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by mercer 6y ago
Yeah, Trump strikes me as the kind of person who would protect himself diligently regardless of what his public stance might be. I might be wrong about this, but isn't he also known to be somewhat of a 'clean freak'?
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by mercer 6y ago
> He still doesn't deserve to die. why not?
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by mercer 6y ago
that comment is even more useless than this one.
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by mercer 6y ago
Let's hope Covid took Bolsonaro by then and his replacement isn't somehow worse...
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by mercer 6y ago
Oh yeah, it's not a binary thing. That said, in the case of craftsmen and their apprentices, I think the relationship was much less cold and transactional than, say, my startup friends who got a bunch of interns as cheap labor. At time
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by mercer 6y ago
Wonderful example! I'd add that just looking at how families or circles of friends operate is also enlightening. The most cynical view is that these interactions are 'debt' based, but practically speaking that often isn'
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by mercer 6y ago
I'd say that's perhaps too broad of an interpretation of 'syntax sugar' though.
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by mercer 6y ago
I think the principles underlying FOSS are found everywhere. It's just that the idea of 'markets' and 'transactions' being the ubiquitous thing has infected our thinking.
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by mercer 6y ago
Whatever one might think of socialism, and I really don't mean to start a political discussion here, FOSS is an example for me that shows that at the very least we're not purely driven by competition.
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by mercer 6y ago
Sorry. I was in a bad mood. While I do often disagree with your comments, that's no reason for being mean about it. So again, my apologies!
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by mercer 6y ago
It's fascinating to me how you consistently produce shitty comments that cause other, possibly good people to waste time. I don't understand what you get out of it, but maybe I'm assuming too much in thinking that you're

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