mreiland

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by mreiland 11y ago
The author is not the one who was being responded to, that's a lazy strawman argument.
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by mreiland 11y ago
Perhaps a bit extreme, but the underlying point is applicable here. First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was n
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by mreiland 11y ago
I don't agree that the caliber of conversation is higher here. It's more directed since HN has a single topic, but I've never had someone completely change the way I think about a topic the way I have at reddit. The amazing
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by mreiland 11y ago
I also recall a 3D pacman game on the SNES that was hella fun.
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by mreiland 11y ago
I shouldn't have to log into a different gmail account just to post on SO.
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by mreiland 11y ago
I've always thought Jeff Atwood made a mistake with SO by making it OID Only.
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What I have to add is that you're obviously pushing an agenda and creating arguments out of thin air for doing so. The flaw has already been pointed out to you.
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by mreiland 11y ago
This is an instance of you already deciding which side of this debate you want to be on and then trying to twist into some sort of argument that makes sense. Very few people are going to buy that moderators are employee's of reddit, an
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by mreiland 11y ago
> Reddit is not benefiting from the inexplicable altruism of some sort of rare and highly valuable specialists. And for all their talk, the mods know this too because they did not even threaten with a walk-out, let alone attempt one. The
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by mreiland 11y ago
exactly.
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by mreiland 11y ago
the context made it obvious that he wasn't speaking about blacks, especially in light of the responder stating he meant "diverse", which he did. There was nothing wrong with the wording.
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by mreiland 11y ago
it makes you feel good doesn't it?
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by mreiland 11y ago
the idea you're espousing is horseshit, and I'll repeat that as many times as I like. As for your question, I reject it on the grounds that the assumption is faulty and therefore not worth discussing.
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by mreiland 11y ago
Right, and McDonalds calls in plumbers to clean its bathrooms because it uses "Industry Specialists" for menial work. There seems to be this disingenuous need for those who are anti-reddit in this case to try and inflate what thes
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by mreiland 11y ago
Do you remember when all you would hear is angst about the new folks who disliked "discourse" and instead wanted stupid things like cat pics all the time? This sort of whiny bullshit has been on reddit forever, the truth is the mo
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by mreiland 11y ago
by content contributes you mean the people who take 30 seconds posting a link, right? Or the ones who game the system for karma? Very few people create content for reddit, they re-post shit the way they would on something like their facebo
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by mreiland 11y ago
I... what?
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by mreiland 11y ago
/r/fatpeoplehate wasn't a creep subreddit, as far as I can tell they got banned because they started brigading outside of the subreddit (harassing people they considered fat). I'm personally fine with those subreddits ex
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by mreiland 11y ago
Where to begin. > The 'vocal minority' are the content creators and contributors. That term, content creator. That's a bit disingenuous in this case. It's rare for anyone to create content specifically for reddit,
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by mreiland 11y ago
do you have evidence that SO has trouble monetizing?
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> That it's even part of the thought process was a huge surprise to a lot of people. Why was that a surprise to anyone?
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by mreiland 11y ago
Yep, I've always believes that there are times when you find yourself in a place you shouldn't be in. It isn't their fault and it isn't your fault, just different people who don't mesh and it's best to admit t
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by mreiland 11y ago
DADT was in 1994 IIRC? This idea that gay people were lepers 10 years ago is false, 21 years ago the military was already doing everything it could to put off the pressure of allowing gays in the military (and DADT was their compromise). T
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by mreiland 11y ago
do you have a source for coal mine work having a life expectancy of months?
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by mreiland 11y ago
agreed, Loved the old Borland compilers, hated JBuilder.
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by mreiland 11y ago
When did being female turn into a debilitating disease?
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by mreiland 11y ago
I work for myself specifically to avoid people like you.
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by mreiland 11y ago
You may consider yourself relatively informed, but you'd be wrong. Joe Biden was a very well known senator before he became Vice President, any criteria you use to call yourself relatively informed about US politics when you had never
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by mreiland 11y ago
It only implies a rating of quality because a large budget tends to imply high quality. To give an example, no one calls Pillars of Eternity a AAA game despite it being raved over by gamers. The reason is simple. It didn't have an ov
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by mreiland 11y ago
That's the biggest difference between WRPG and JRPG. JRPG's don't tend to try and put you into the shoes of any characters, and instead you just learn to care about the characters the way you would reading a book or watching

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