mr_blobs

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by mr_blobs 10y ago
Sure. But when all of the wealthy leave, don't beg to come back to the US
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
Covert racism and sexism, which happens much much less than what many portray, yes. However, we aren't talking about that. We are talking about what can't be measured. The pay-wage gap for women is a good example. The left seems
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
It's subliminal and covert. You can't really measure it. It comes in the form of an attitude and a culture change. Sound familiar?
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
This still requires the use of a battery. I've seen some pretty badly maintained toilets in different parts of the world. I forsee many of these toilets not being used or maintained because it's much more complicated than your st
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
Okay, I'll bite. In response to your failure comment: I meant being evicted or not having food on the table if you don't succeed. Not being able to retire by 40 is a very strange idea of 'failure'. Who thinks this way?
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
No, no it won't. Innovation is generally not accelerated by people that are comfortable/have all of their basic needs met. It's accelerated when you are put into a situation where you need to innovate or fail. Failure is act
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
I can't see my original reply, so I think something is wrong with HN. Reality is more like: 2 out of 10 monkeys spend all their waking hours sacrificing and working so their children can have more than 1 banana and then give 15 out of
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
too short: less than a year Too long: longer than 5 years
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
It was pure brilliance. They had a staff of only a handful of people and were able to compete against more money, resources, and people..and win.
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
"he brogrammer -- the collar-popping, protein shake-slurping, Nerf gun-wielding dude cranking out code -- is the subject of a new video, out Thursday, from education nonprofit Girls Who Code and CollegeHumor." Isn't this the
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
Reality is more like: 2 out of 10 monkeys spend all their waking hours sacrificing and working so their children can have more than 1 banana and then give 15 out of the 20 bananas they earn to the group. The majority of monkeys in the group
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
The extremists minority are being used as an excuse to go after anyone with a certain political view. If this weren't the case, why isn't Reddit and Twitter banning the countless examples of left-wing extremists harassing and abus
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
The US became less racist toward Asian Americans because we are no longer at war with them (WW2, Korean war, Vietnam). "If Asians could find success within the system, politicians asked, why couldn’t African Americans?" This is ac
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
"The problem is they aren't their own little community. They actively target, brigade (large group upvoting/downvoting), and intentionally troll other communities with their only goal being to fuck with people and overwhelmin
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
I'm getting anti-trump Hillary might have won if you get rid of the electoral college and change all the rules around ----fatigue. What's interesting is that when Obama won in 2008, the majority of the population accepted it witho
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
Are you sure you still have a job?
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
It's not about being outside your 'comfort zone'. I've been running complex setups for years and am perfectly comfortable getting my hands dirty. It's about the time and effort it takes to constantly fight the blac
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
I setup my own mail server last year and shortly gave up on the idea. Setting the server up isn't the problem. The problem is keeping your IP off of all the major blacklists. I wasn't even sending out mass emails and 30%+ of my
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
"while poverty itself is reduced and work is encouraged" Neither of these things are true with UBI. Not everyone is ambitious or has career goals. Giving out free money will encourage many to not look for work and continue to ba
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
I honestly don't understand why so many leaders look up to such an evil leader.
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
"Everyone gets it, the poor, the rich, the middle class, the deserving and the undeserving alike. You, me, Rupert Murdoch, Beyonce, and the homeless man sleeping in the gutter get exactly the same cash payment. It is nothing if not equ
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
VPN services are terrible because most people using them are downloading torrents/abusing bandwidth limitations.
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
"One significant issue, not just in open source software but in the entire worldwide software industry in general, is a decreased perceived value of software. " The irony of this statement is that because of the plethora of open s
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by mr_blobs 10y ago
When Obama (with the help of Eric Schmidt) does it, it's 'brilliant': http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-05-30/googles-er... When Trump does the exact same thing, we have an article di