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by mfringel 8y ago
Can you tell me more about your previous affiliation with Facebook?
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by mfringel 8y ago
"unethical" and "clever" are not mutually exclusive.
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by mfringel 9y ago
But Killing Someone With A Lawn Chair Is Still Non-Intuitive. -mfringel
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by mfringel 9y ago
Intent is not magical, and does not make things retroactively okay. If one can look at the results, see the net effects, and then not do anything to fix it, one's intent doesn't matter.
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by mfringel 9y ago
To the simple son, you will say "Because enough people upvoted it."
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by mfringel 9y ago
Nearby is the DARVO concept: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/DARVO "DARVO is an acronym that stands for Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender." [capitalization mine]
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by mfringel 9y ago
Cashless transactions require a third party to give permission for the transaction, typically in real-time. It's completely normal to be "basically okay" with that... I use cards/apps to pay on a regular basis. However
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by mfringel 9y ago
In general, if an executive says "The future is X", a good first translation is "My life will get a whole lot easier if X is true."
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by mfringel 9y ago
"I'm shocked you're shocked" is just fancy-grade despair.
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by mfringel 9y ago
You can hammer nails with a firearm, but I'd hardly call that the most effective tool for the job.
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by mfringel 9y ago
No, he chose it because a group of interns was harassing other interns. Words matter.
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by mfringel 9y ago
Dynamite is only interesting because it burns very quickly, in an energetic reaction. Things burn all the time, so I don't see why dynamite is all that interesting. Evaluating something based on its known external traits without discu
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by mfringel 9y ago
A tool's purpose is what it's used for.
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by mfringel 9y ago
This is not about your expectations. This is about the expectations of a user who knows that VPN stands for "Virtual Private Network", and that the feature has the word "Protect" in the title. FB creates the expectation
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by mfringel 9y ago
You assert "if the problem is low contributions, that is not the fault of the 401(k)", but that conjunction doesn't hold. To wit: is it possible that the requirements for participation in a 401(k) are such that fewer and fewe
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by mfringel 9y ago
I'm not sure why anyone owes you that data. Can you elaborate?
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by mfringel 9y ago
No doubt. I'd still like to option to have high-endurance handled transparently in firmware.
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by mfringel 9y ago
Being able to set it up as 10TB with 3x the life would be even better, because it makes other write-intensive applications feasible with an SSD, with the firmware handling the wear accounting in the background. ETA: Specifically, having the
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by mfringel 9y ago
How much of this is relevant to other people who are not Justin Kan?
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by mfringel 9y ago
You didn't say "responsibility", you said "personal responsibility". "Personal" implies that they should take sole responsibility for their circumstances, ignoring any other agents involved. So, yes, it do
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by mfringel 9y ago
How do we know what she says is false? How do we know that she is a person? How do we know that China is a country? How do we know what a tweet is? You're right. There are many assumptions we can make here. Can you say why you chose t
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by mfringel 9y ago
Your usage of "just" implies an ease of action that is incongruous with the parties and the conflict.
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MA Legislature Nears Deal on Non-Competes(bostonglobe.com)
2 points by mfringel 9y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 9y ago
The legislators themselves, as per the oath taken by every legislator in North Carolina, as noted in the NC State Constitution: Article 6, section 7.[1] Sec. 7. Oath. Before entering upon the duties of an office, a person elected or appoin
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by mfringel 9y ago
In an elected legislature, the voters should choose their representatives, not the other way around. If the sitting legislature changes the districts in order to choose their voters, we move away from the ideal of an election.
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by mfringel 9y ago
I'm not aware of any reason being relayed to the person being downvoted. What leads you to believe that that was the reason you were downvoted?
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by mfringel 9y ago
Alternately, your definition of "fluff" was everyone else's definition of "required communication." A short reply can still be ambiguous, which requires clarification, which then wastes time. Given your many bad re
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by mfringel 9y ago
[citation needed]
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by mfringel 9y ago
Because someone submitted it, and people upvoted it.
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by mfringel 9y ago
That's not what I get from parent's comment. I think the parent was implying that large telco interests have a dubious track record when it comes to the balance between investing in capacity vs. rent-seeking.

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