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by mwfunk 7y ago
I see your $100 and raise you $200
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by mwfunk 7y ago
The first half was the setup for the last half, where he talks about how RMS appointed his sort-of-nemesis as co-maintainer without consulting him, which is especially shitty because the author is the actual maintainer of Guile and RMS has
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Having expectations of moral behavior from someone doesn't mean you consider them a role model, it means you have standards. A role model is someone you aspire to be, but I expect everyone I deal with to have some sort of basic standar
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I bet 99% of the people who come to HN absolutely know that IC means Integrated Circuit. It's very common, it's up there with stuff like CPU and RAM and D&D and RMS for being things that don't need to be explained here. I
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by mwfunk 7y ago
It’s not a fundamental part of the OS, it’s a feature they pushed 12 years ago that never ever got any traction. User apathy towards Dashboard has been used as a darkly humorous but sad metaphor both inside and outside the company for many
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Agreed. The most desirable and expensive neighborhoods tend to be the most walkable ones. It would make sense that the people who live in those neighborhoods tend to be more financially successful. It's as if a study came out that show
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by mwfunk 7y ago
For me personally, situations like this make me trust science that much more. If someone finds that a previously published paper contained errors, as any human work is likely to, and the response is to go back and correct those errors or pu
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Agreed 100%. Wikipedia is similar, in that both SO and Wikipedia have clearly defined goals, and policies based on achieving those goals. But for as long as they've been around there have always been people who get worked up over those
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by mwfunk 7y ago
That’s exactly what the answer is, unfortunately. Nobody ever thought things could get this stupid. As an American and as someone who’s had to deal with classified materials, this really sucks.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Totally tangential, but who could have predicted, 20 years ago, that in 2019, more than zero people would be talking about having to use Macs at work, then going home to their comfy PC. How the turns table. I increasingly don't have st
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by mwfunk 7y ago
That’s what the person you were responding to was saying- that they were surprised at the difference between their anecdata and the real data. And you responded by shitting on them for no good reason. Great job.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
"Not to be rude" is one of those statements that does the opposite of what people who use it seem to think it does. It basically announces that that's exactly their intention and they think it gives them a get-out-of-jail-fre
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by mwfunk 7y ago
This is my #1 issue with the FSF, and a lot of these types of arguments originate with RMS himself. RMS has always put a lot of energy into trying to get people to use other words to describe common things, and the other words always spin t
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I'd say one aspect of having good social skills is getting along with people you have nothing in common with, but the bulk of what it means to have good social skills is still just having good social skills. Being able to communicate,
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by mwfunk 7y ago
If a tax break isn't matched by a corresponding budget cut, it is literally spending money to give people a tax break. What really sucks about unsubsidized, targeted tax cuts is that it's the result of politicians essentially taki
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Yeah, it seemed like sometime around when Spelunky came out was when a bunch of games (generally indie games) started coming out that were inspired by certain elements of roguelikes: procedural everything, generally designed to be played th
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by mwfunk 7y ago
This aspect of the community is one of the biggest turnoffs to me. There are a lot of people who formulate these really over the top narratives about everything, which lead to (for example) writing long seething angry personal rants about p
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by mwfunk 7y ago
WRT making billions of dollars, clearly he didn't. WRT getting elected, he got 3mil fewer votes than his opponent, so you can thank the dysfunction of the EC. WRT to the votes he did get, it's pretty obvious- people dumber than he
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I think it's because they think "individualism" means "I do whatever I want and take whatever I want with no consequences, and I'm a better person because I do those things." Which I don't consider individ
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by mwfunk 7y ago
It remains to be seen. What you described is exactly what happened though, that's just truth. Whether someone murdered him, or he was conveniently allowed to commit suicide, it's just as bad, and just as much a sign of corruption
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by mwfunk 7y ago
A lot of things we take for granted about the modern liberal/conservative divide originally came from the early days of post-revolutionary France. Even the terms "right" and "left" came from which side of the aisle
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by mwfunk 7y ago
No, but some of the things people get worked up over in the tech industry can get silly, especially the ones with less experience who see themselves as temporarily embarrassed 10Xers. It’s usually in proportion to how overly seriously they
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by mwfunk 7y ago
You're right, I misread it. I'm reading my own experiences into it, but those aren't everyone's experiences. I had what I felt was crippling social anxiety in my teens and 20s (I'm in my 40s now), or at least an ext
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I don’t think that’s true. Some women like extremely assertive guys, but most don’t. Acting super insecure is a turn off, but acting super confident isn’t a turn on. The “be more confident!” advice that most guys have heard really means, “d
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I'm not sure what to draw from this- the 7 "myths" being busted here aren't being shown to be wrong, just not the entire truth 100% of the time, and AFAICT no alternative approaches are suggested. For example, item 2 (&q
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Where does your brain get news from then? How does it get facts about what is happening in the world, that are more trustworthy than facts provided by any news organization? The facts must come from someplace prior to entering your brain, r
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by mwfunk 7y ago
A pro-church atheist is a great description for me too, it never occurred to me but that's a great phrase. Yes, I'm definitely including megachurches (esp. nondenominational megachurches) as evangelicals, and I totally agree with
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I wonder if we're focusing on two different things here. I'm not thinking so much about the merits of the 24fps video experience vs. the 60fps video experience. I'm just focused on clean playback of the source content. If som
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by mwfunk 7y ago
This is such a sad phenomena and it's really accelerated in recent decades. What it means to be an American Evangelical has also radically changed over the years- for example, 100 years ago, the Southern Baptists were very vocal, activ
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What non-propaganda news sources do you trust and rely on for news?

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