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by mwfunk 10y ago
If someone can't state their point without warping the very language they use to support their point, it makes it very hard to feel like anything they're saying is credible. Example 1: someone is trying to convince me to vote Repu
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by mwfunk 10y ago
You are assuming that the protesters are only reacting against Trump's promises to crack down on illegal immigrants. Some of them might be, but I think they are reacting against a heck of a lot more than some political candidate promis
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Likewise, Fox News is the #1 cable network in America. The mainstream media liberal bias argument hasn't held water for a very long time now. If anything the tables have turned.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
The outpouring of hatred I see dumped on Trump and Trump supporters almost entirely seems to be a reaction against the outpouring of hatred coming from Trump and Trump supporters, coupled with genuine fear about what might happen if he wins
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by mwfunk 10y ago
This article made lots of great points, but I fundamentally disagree with bucketing everyone into "elites" (whatever that means) and "everyone else". Every leader (within the media, a government, a political party, etc.)
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It's posted on the Ron Paul Liberty Report, so it comes from a very...specific point of view. They don't shy away from trying to frame vast, complicated events and issues in terms of relatively simple, reductionist narratives full
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I've experienced both extremes and everything in between, and I don't know that there is any consistent good or bad actor in these situations. Everybody has their own goals and it's human nature to overvalue the things that y
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by mwfunk 10y ago
So, your argument against charges of racism is that you voted to leave the EU simply because you felt there were too many kielbasa places in London?!? Kind of an overreaction, don't you think?
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I like having a certain amount of process as well, but I interpreted the article as being more about the dynamic between the developers and the PMs than process in general. In my experience, different orgs use PMs in different ways. The mos
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It would also grant undeserved legitimacy to those Americans who have never encountered a Muslim in their life who really want to reframe the whole conflict as Islam vs. Christianity, and have convinced themselves that the US stands for Chr
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Also, while people like to argue that it's possible to get programming jobs without a CS degree, it is guaranteed to be some value of harder to get those jobs. Especially if you dream of working in less common and more specialized area
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I was under the impression that the vast majority of startups fail. I don't think being a failed entrepreneur is a bad thing, if anything it's hard-won experience that should be valuable going forward. People expect startups to fa
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by mwfunk 10y ago
The article looked familiar, and it turns out that I had read the author's book on the same subject published several years later. It goes into a lot more detail about the author's personal experiences in the management consulting
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by mwfunk 10y ago
If true, that's an even worse reason to vote for Trump.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
You could say that about the GOP in general these days- lots of publicly expressed libertarian sentiment coupled with decidedly non-libertarian values like social conservatism, rah rah militarism, religion, and white nationalism. I don&#x27
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Depends on the strong opinions held and the actions taken. For some individuals, the world might be better off if they just sat on the beach and enjoyed their wealth. With great power comes great responsibility, but if someone doesn't
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I've come to believe that understanding what empathy is and how to develop it is easily one of the most important skills we have in all stages of life, and the lack of it is one of the most common reefs that people crash on in adulthoo
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by mwfunk 10y ago
You effectively consent to being governed by continuing to live within the national boundaries associated with the government associated with that nation. I'm not expressing a judgement on whether or not that's the best arrangemen
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by mwfunk 10y ago
All of the listed reasons relate to the experience of software development, not the user experience. Of course it's harder to maintain native apps plus a web front end to a service. Users don't know or care how many developers wer
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Right, because HN is the customer service department for the site hosting the article that somebody submitted a link to. And because "unreadable on mobile" is such an informative statement that contains so much useful data about w
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Of course you can still fail- success or failure in most things in life almost always has at least an element of luck. There are things you can control and things you can't- the best you can do is optimize the things that are under you
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by mwfunk 10y ago
HN is not community-driven in the same way that Reddit or 4chan are. I come here for that reason. I want HN moderators to tell people when they're straying from what they want HN to be. I wish more discussion-oriented sites were like t
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I was about to say, "not that many apps, all I can think of is Atom and VS Code", but I was surprised by the size of this list: http://electron.atom.io/apps/ I've never used it, but it sounds potentially
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by mwfunk 10y ago
That's surely one aspect in this case, as accommodating traffic is an important part of city planning. However, there's way more resistance to building high-density housing in San Francisco, which has an even worse housing crisis
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Seriously?
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Well, call me crazy, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and postulate that in the context of this discussion, the people finishing the forms are presumed to be the same people who started them. You could probably also find loophole
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I may be misreading this, but isn't that an example of lists being immutable rather than pervasive mutability?
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Fine, contributing in the form of saying "we can't contribute here" is the one way in which we can contribute. Happy? That seems pretty obvious, no need to call people out for supposed double standards.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Militias do a fantastic job of socially stigmatizing themselves, no government plots required for that one at least.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
That's hardly surprising given that they wouldn't exist without the possibility of revenue. I'm not sure why you think this should be disturbing to anyone though.

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