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by msla 3y ago
I await the people complaining about how they were banned from SO for posting an answer the mods falsely believed was AI-generated.
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by msla 3y ago
Being a "great thinker" doesn't insulate someone from being wrong. Thinking otherwise is mere idolatry and adulation, something people usually grow out of.
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by msla 3y ago
> Plato wrote complex dialogues designed to make people think for themselves. He explicitly advocated for dictatorship. > Pythagoras had such a major impact on science that Newton, Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo all claimed to be Pyth
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by msla 3y ago
> But there isn't really any separate process by which old works are "translated" to a more modern version of their original language (and any such process could be controversial). This is dependent on the perception of th
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by msla 3y ago
> But do you really want to call bullshit on Plato and Pythagoras? Plato advocated for dictatorship. Pythagoras thought beans were magical.
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by msla 3y ago
And given the track record of security researchers, we must conclude that the browser extension is suspicious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29599553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29611139
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by msla 3y ago
> homeopathic medicine is clearly marked as such, do you disagree on this point? I disagree that it qualifies as medicine.
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by msla 3y ago
https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/traditional-chinese-med... "Traditional Chinese Medicine" as we now know it was invented as a propaganda move by the CCP under Mao, who didn't believe in it
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by msla 3y ago
Yes, it's 'curious' how people with a sense of basic decency get 'combative' when the Alternative Medicine Industry lies to them to sell useless treatments for diseases that could actually be improved by real medici
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by msla 3y ago
> they can just make it "evidence based homeopathic medicine" and so on and so on Only if the homeopaths lie about the evidence.
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by msla 3y ago
> Microsoft Word is not a crutched version of VIM. No, but Notepad is. Word is a word processor. Vim is a text editor. They're not the same thing, and they're not interchangeable.
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by msla 3y ago
So what happens if I copy a file named 'Toad: The Hoppening' to an HFS+ file system?
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by msla 3y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28340101 Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [video]
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by msla 3y ago
Ah, for a world where the Apple III was one of the best business machines around. https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_applelisasarketingCata... For those who don't know, Jobs got to the Apple III design before a
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by msla 3y ago
> Previously I was imagining a “Sybil” to be some kind of creature that was similar to a gopher, a beaver, or a capybara. For some reason. First cousin to the Dread Gazebo, I'd wager: https://www.netfunny.com/rhf&#x2
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by msla 3y ago
Hard to imagine aging into living in a place with less access to healthcare and amenities accessible to people who don't drive.
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by msla 3y ago
Pointing and laughing at the "Freetards" only works when the proprietary software isn't actively enshittifying itself.
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by msla 3y ago
The problem is the problem with a number of slogans: You can't really make a Big Pronouncement and then successfully walk it back. Nobody hears or cares about the walk-back, and the Big Pronouncement is what gets repeated.
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by msla 3y ago
My point is that things are happening right now in Florida, and the guy in charge of Florida is the one the GOP establishment apparently wants as their Presidential candidate next year. Florida is, therefore, pretty close to what the GOP&#x
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by msla 3y ago
> The right leaning ones protest this desire, but tend to not provide any ideas or solutions at all. I think we can all look at places like Florida to see what the right has in mind, and it certainly isn't reducing the size or intru
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by msla 3y ago
Let's look at the Magic Mouse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Mouse > The charging port of the second-generation Magic Mouse is located on its underside, preventing the mouse from being used while charging
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by msla 3y ago
Welcome to the world of programming on an OS.
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by msla 3y ago
Apple makes products the Apple Way. Some people think the Apple Way defines good UX, so they think Apple products have good UX. Anyone who prefers a non-Apple UX is setting themselves up for a very condescending rant.
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by msla 3y ago
I could say the same about "frameworks"
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by msla 3y ago
The next time it does, it has the opportunity to do something extremely funny.
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by msla 3y ago
Oh, damn. I Googled for Olympics wrong anthem and that came up. It's a meta-screw up. Apt.
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by msla 3y ago
Yeah, this looks like "Wikipedia is wrong because it's Wikipedia" as opposed to the encyclopedia actually being wrong.
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by msla 3y ago
Oh, the Olympics has done worse: https://www.npr.org/2012/03/23/149244038/ceremony-plays-bora... > Kazakhstan won the game but lost the award ceremony. A parody of the country's national anthem w
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by msla 3y ago
Yes. Most copyrights prior to 1928 have expired: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright...
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by msla 3y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29756138 I wonder if it has grown a link step since then.

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