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by mwfunk 8y ago
The more dismissive/reductive/binary you are about a complicated issue with wide ranges of perspectives, the more obligated you are to back it up with analysis. Otherwise it just comes across as BS, which is probably why you'
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If your criteria for judging laptop keyboards is, "does this feel like an external mechanical keyboard", then you're always going to be disappointed. I like mechanical keyboards too, but most people don't, so they'r
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Part of it’s obviously the changing social outlets and life situations as we get older, but IMO the biggest reason is that social interaction for its own sake loses a lot of its luster as people get older. Friendship becomes more focused an
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by mwfunk 8y ago
You're right of course, but it's always better to fight BS with something as close to objective truth as possible, rather than even more BS. Reacting to BS with one's own BS is totally understandable given the emotions involv
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It’s alarming to see the volume of kneejerk defensiveness here. You can idolize Elon Musk but still have a fact-based, rational perspective. You can be rooting for Tesla in the most tribal and idealistic way imaginable and still see their f
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I have no idea why anyone would ever downvote this, it’s a very non controversial statement. Being a public company is a double edged sword, it most definitely has downsides to go with the upsides. Depending on the company/industry&#x2
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...that’s not what investors are panicking over? You know that right?
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Why not do both? Learn your amazing life lessons outside of school and couple them with learning everything you can inside school. Why limit yourself? Why go out of your way to diminish your own value? It doesn’t make sense. That’s how peop
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by mwfunk 8y ago
Well, if that’s how you feel, why the hell are you going to school in the first place? It’s expensive as hell, you are wasting tremendous amounts of mommy and daddy’s money, as well as wasting the one and likely only time in your entire lif
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How many is “many” though? I’m assuming slightly more than thought Star Wars was real, and slightly fewer than think Iron Man was real. That’s not ignorance, that’s mental illness.
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Sure, but Watson isn’t really a product and IBM isn’t really a merchant here. There’s never going to be a Watson review anywhere because (AFAICT) Watson is just a marketing name for a wide range of technologies, none of which do any of the
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by mwfunk 8y ago
Why would you admit that? If you don't know something, look it up. It's not someone else's fault if you don't know something. On HN and in the world, don't whine about it, do something about it.
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by mwfunk 8y ago
Maybe I misread it, but I think the poster was talking about conscious vs. subconscious processes, not brain vs. non-brain processes.
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I have a foolproof technique that everyone is welcome to use: I don't apply for positions that I know will pay less than what I think I'm worth. Otherwise, if the interviews go well and I'm happy with them and they're ha
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by mwfunk 9y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and hypothesize that the local police force doesn't investigate many felonies, regardless of who reports them. Just a theory. :)
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by mwfunk 9y ago
OK, put another way, errno is using a global variable to return an error code from a function call. Alternative: don't use a global variable to return an error code for a function call.
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by mwfunk 9y ago
I somehow never noticed that the Pippin controller was a batarang, like the prototype PS2 controller.
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The purpose of the article is not to make NY look better than SV. The purpose of the article is to point out the Superfund sites in SV that a lot of people who live here would be surprised to learn about.
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by mwfunk 9y ago
Agreed. Whenever I hear people use authenticity as a litmus test for good food, it always comes across as being snobby for the sake of being snobby. Not only is authenticity in food a very fuzzy concept, but it really has nothing to do with
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by mwfunk 9y ago
Well if that's not a humblebrag then I don't know what is. Learning any natural language (especially an ancient, complicated, and dead one) takes tremendous effort. It's not some trivial thing to do like going to med school o
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If you're at a company where you can't find a place to sit in the cafeteria because you're being rejected by cliques, holy shit. Get out of there this instant. To be honest, I'm so surprised by this statement that I can&
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by mwfunk 9y ago
No, of course not, but like everything, it's a spectrum. I wouldn't want a big corporation like FB to play a meaningful role in deciding what is and what is not moral (or factual), but at the same time I don't want FB to be a
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by mwfunk 9y ago
Everybody makes rolling stops at stop signs on empty roads every once in a while. Based on my own anecdota, I wouldn't say that they usually make rolling stops though. It's still a ticket, that many local police in the US are more
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by mwfunk 9y ago
I would say that all of those things are toxic to society in general. Those behaviors just tend to be more muted out in the real world where acting shitty is more likely to have immediate consequences. I can't think of any non-contrive
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Ironic!
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That's not at all what's being said. There are far more possible cases that could be prosecuted than there are resources to prosecute them, so to better discourage all crime they will tend to go after higher profile targets, in pa
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Their audience is though- the average age of a Harley owner has been trending upwards for decades. I believe it is somewhere around 67 right now, seriously. There may be some younger people buying Harleys still, but for a very long time the
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Understood, I know the legalities vary from state to state. I was ranting about it purely based on etiquette. I’ve lived all over the US, and every area seemed to have a distinct traffic personality. I expected Bay Area traffic to be either
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by mwfunk 9y ago
Rant: I see this in the Bay Area all the time. On many freeways, the fast lane is also the carpool/HOV lane, at least during high-traffic times. The idea is that the government wants to encourage carpooling and/or low-emissions ve
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by mwfunk 9y ago
Also, the current PDF permissions model is comically obtuse IMO. Acrobat doesn't even expose the permissions bits directly, rather each permission exposed in Adobe's UI represents various permutations of those permissions bits rat

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