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by mwfunk 8y ago
Politics has always reflected poorly on humanity, but the existence of Twitter, Facebook, etc. these days have basically brought Usenet to the masses. Not good Usenet either- bad Usenet, after it was overrun by spammers and trolls. There’s
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by mwfunk 8y ago
I blame them for murdering strangers, yes. Of course. It makes no difference how they were tricked into doing so, that’s practically irrelevant.
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In this case, I would blame lynch mob culture, not startup culture. No matter how these people received their misinformation, what they did was infinitely worse.
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This is all tangential, but fascinating. Newspapers are the way they are because they’re still printed, and the digital version ends up straddling the line between the preexisting print format and a web site. What you’re describing only mak
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I get it, it can be super handy to share dotfiles, etc. I’ve just learned to be super paranoid about crossing the BSD and GNU streams. As long as it’s not literally blowing away files installed by the OS, then there are nonintrusive and con
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Who knows, but I’ve learned to be perpetually disappointed by Thiel in any situation involving morals, ethics, or intellectual integrity. I can’t imagine that he would waste time on this stuff, but at the same time, he’s shown that it’s cer
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by mwfunk 8y ago
Not at all, just offering a professional opinion. If you’re going to develop on or for a different platform, it’s worth it to learn about that platform. Nobody ever fucked anything up by being too knowledgeable or competent. It’s the path o
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That’s totally reasonable, although my personal paranoia about such things would want to keep it aliased as gls. :) Too many bad experiences bouncing between Unices.
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It’s less that any one particular thing breaks instantly, and more that it destabilizes the system in general. Mac installers often contain shell scripts, for example, and those scripts are going to assume that the core OS tools being invok
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by mwfunk 8y ago
There’s a dark underbelly of incel/redpill/GamerGate people in the tech world who are easily triggered by other perspectives, and my impression is that nearly everyone who would identify with those groups are Trump supporters. I c
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Also I would strongly disagree with “some switches are different” being a problem, any more than FreeBSD not being Ubuntu is a problem. It’s a different OS so it should be treated as one. See also people going onto Linux forums and complain
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The BSD system tools aren’t always 100% compatible with the equivalent GNU tools, and vice versa. If you replace something built into the system with something else, then anything that’s properly written to deal with macOS might break. It m
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The much broader and more general problem is anything that could stem from a lack of appropriate boundaries between faculty and students. Sexual assault is just a worst case scenario in that category of problems. You are of course correct t
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Exactly- success hides failure. That’s why it’s an interesting question. So what’s the answer?
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Maybe it's my terminology that's wrong, but when someone uses the term 'free speech', I assume they are talking specifically about a first amendment issue. Because if they weren't talking about the 1A, why would the
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Popularity isn't a metric by which to prejudge content? Also, it really doesn't get less popular than the classics. And no, you will not understand them by osmosis. Lovecraft was a big influence on Stephen King but it's not l
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Nothing has changed with regard to reasonable people reasonably disagreeing over reasonable differences. The Overton Window has changed for sure, but that's what it does. I struggle to think of any perspective that has moved out of the
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I'm amazed that anyone would think that. I've worked on all sorts of embedded systems and worked with a many more people who've worked on far more than I, and RT Linux was very common and suitable for these sorts of things 10
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by mwfunk 8y ago
The concept of reputation is harmful to a meritocracy? I don't agree with this at all. Your friend didn't want to open source his project because he was annoyed that he wasn't a famous hacker type who can get free publicity,
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That's very true, but it's still infinitely better than never making an effort to see anything from the POV of others. Most things in life that are worth doing fall into the category of things where you're constantly trying t
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So a win/win!
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Well, either that or you're the one who's been culturally conditioned. You're posting on HN after all. :) I would personally prefer to live someplace like Manhattan than amongst suburban sprawl, but I'm in the minority o
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It's not ignored at all- AFAICT the biggest problem is that there's no critical mass of people who can agree on what to do about it. Furthermore I'm not sure that there's even a critical mass of people in SF who think it
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That makes sense. I’ve only ever heard it used in that context, but the more general interpretation is a much more logical use of the metaphor.
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What on earth does that even mean in this context? "Don’t shit where you eat" is a warning against office romances. This is plain old fraud AFAIK.
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Sad but true. :( Empathy and maturity (intellectual or otherwise) develop independently of technical skills. A lot of people need to confront a lot of failure and not getting what they want out of life before they feel compelled to look in
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Of course there should immigration regulations, but because that's the comment you chose to make at this moment in this context, people are probably assuming that you believe the talking points about there being some big huge problem w
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Toxicity is detrimental by definition, so not sure what you're getting at.
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Ew.
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I think these are just the normal hype cycles for new technologies. Some technology (maybe new, maybe not) captures the imagination of the industry, and there's a flurry of mostly silly activity where people are trying to figure out wh

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