musage

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by musage 9y ago
Argument for what? For me personally being turned off from YT for good? Heh. If you think thinking of those who can't defend themselves yet is some sort of no-no, then that is your "entire argument". In the end, I don'
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But why should Go enforce it on behalf of everybody? A parser option to not automatically insert semicolons would be all I need, but no. To me, even with super short lines, braces at the end of the line are messy, and consistently messy i
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by musage 9y ago
I know this is about the weakest critique possible, but currently using Go, I know my next project won't be in it, simply for the impossibility to put an opening curly brace on its own line. Other languages that don't require semi
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> “We are shocked and appalled to see that our adverts have appeared alongside such exploitative and inappropriate content,” said a Mars spokesperson in a statement. “We have taken the decision to immediately suspend all our online adve
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by musage 9y ago
Where would this fit in? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R5w-PIzlUk It's a clip-art style "coloring video" drawing a baby with a lot of syringes, which then each empty their colored liquid into the baby. Tec
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by musage 9y ago
> It is dark to wonder how many of these failures that perpetuate evil in the world may have been intended? One person's intention is another's incentive, so in-between that, I don't think it's dark at all. "Iraq
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by musage 9y ago
That's still way too tame. > "War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an internati
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by musage 9y ago
You might enjoy this, I know I agree with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNfAAQUQ_54&t=42m43s (turn the sound down some before clicking the link though, it features screaming about important things for the right re
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by musage 9y ago
You are correct, and in company of intelligent people. It's just that most of the HN crowd really really doesn't like being caught cheering on naked emperors. > If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend o
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by musage 9y ago
I think it's the correct thought either way. Current trends staying the same, replicators, automation or what have you will not entice those who already use what power they have to trample on and exploit people to suddenly even things
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by musage 9y ago
I lived in a town full of millionaires, and while I've met plenty who are just as or even more decent than the average person, there's also the ones who would spend 20€ on a piece of cake, but then not tip the waitress. Yet others
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by musage 9y ago
This is the only worthwhile comment IMO. This is where discussion that isn't a joke would begin . We can't even hold people who start wars of aggression accountable, we'd rather destroy food to keep prices up than feed the w
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> Now the police dreams that one look at the gigantic map on the office wall should suffice at any given moment to establish who is related to whom and in what degree of intimacy; and, theoretically, this dream is not unrealizable altho
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by musage 9y ago
They're either too optimistic, or say "can't do anything anyway". I'm generalizing, but generally, I'm missing that middle part , that actually valuable bit, a lot.
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> It's a splashy headline. "Sneaking" is unnecessary. Replace the word with "Hiring" No, it's simply accurate: > Most models’ contracts say they won’t exchange contact information with party guests, and
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by musage 9y ago
How is that a splashy headline? Are you referring to "sneaking"? > “The companies don’t want their staff to be talking to someone and think, Oh, this person was hired to socialize with me,” says Kermaani, who’s sending models
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by musage 9y ago
You know why there's lists of ingredients on all food, and all sorts of other info in manuals and elsewhere even thought most people never read it? I know it's partly because of regulations, but ideally, it would be because of pri
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by musage 9y ago
"There are other ways additional ways to cause harm" is not something that requires a counter-argument in the first place. It's like saying "Nobody lives forever anyway, why ever visit a doctor? After all, not ever visit
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by musage 9y ago
When a window gets broken, you at least know someone was (or still is) there.
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by musage 9y ago
I wasn't talking about zebras in isolation, I was talking about something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8HJ2RJwcJM except there were more crocodiles and the zebras were forming less of a line. Yes, that in
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by musage 9y ago
It didn't freeze though, it fought against 3-4 crocodiles in deep water, shaking them off for long enough to walk on land while guts were spilling out. If you mean adrenaline numbing pain, sure, and both fight and flight were present,
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by musage 9y ago
Yes, it was modern, it maybe still is. Doesn't really care about resolution or window size, with crazy detailed system-wide configurability; set it up once, and all apps that use it look exactly like you want them to. I don't know
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by musage 9y ago
> There is a goal, but no way; but what we call a way is hesitation. -- Franz Kafka, "Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way" When it comes to oppression by the insane -- and that's what it is, the desire
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by musage 9y ago
Do you know Magic User Interface (MUI) for the Amiga? I only know it as a user, but I still miss it.
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Currently, the first comment including replies makes up for 182 comments out of 312, and as far as page estate goes, it completely dominates. It's about technicalities, attachment to land, all sorts of things except depression and suic
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Other things you have to avoid at all costs include Monty Python, they wrote a song about Kissinger. Imagine laughing at some silly physical slapstick one moment and becoming a war criminal hater the next.
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> We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? -- Ray Bradbury
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That's genius, and would be such a neat addition to HN.
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When the lines are short, that works, but when lines are longer, mobile users complain. You can't start a fire sitting 'round crying over a broken heart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the
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> The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw Substitute art with anything else, it's still a po

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