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by mwfunk 7y ago
This is true, but the biggest problem today is people who have gone to the other extreme and have been told to not trust anything that appears to be "trustworthy articles vetted by sources, studies or science". Like, because somet
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Agreed, I think it's crazy. I don't know what's more surreal, the fact that those ads are 50% recitations of side effects (which they have to say, but surely it makes them think twice about advertising), or the inevitable &qu
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by mwfunk 7y ago
This is a fair observation, but surely you can get a reasonable home theater system (nice new TV, receiver, speakers) for $3k, or less if you're not super picky. Assuming it costs at least $10 to go to a movie, that $3k home theater sy
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I agree that it's eminently tech-solvable. Experts can still analyze the pixels and determine if anything fishy happened. I think the societal problem is more if/when people make up their minds to not trust those experts when they
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Because being proud of being straight is not what straight pride parades are about. It’s just real-life trolling, nothing more, and it’s really really, really obvious. It makes as much sense as opening a food kitchen that’s only for rich pe
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I think it was a typo, they meant "closest project", or most similar.
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I don't believe there's any such thing as authority by expertise for any meaningfully sized group of people. It works right up until there's a conflict between the security expert and the UI expert, or any other expert. Then
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Found the team member!
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Yeah but those enraged people don't count- those are just whiners who didn't understand the licenses they were licensing their own work under. Or they don't understand the point of FLOSS to begin with- they thought that relea
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I guess that seems really materialistic and self-destructive to me as well, just from the opposite direction. Obsessing about everything that one could possibly spend money on (early retirement in this case, I believe), then spending one&#x
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I dunno, I’ve never seen a positive example of “compulsive frugality”. Obviously it’s not good to live beyond one’s means, but everyone I’ve ever known with money who would brag about their own cheapness was an utterly miserable bastard to
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I don't believe this to be true, and I don't know where this comes from. Their documented GPLv3 reluctance predated code signing on their platforms by many years. FWIW, GPLv3 was controversial even amongst GPLv2 advocates for all
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Perhaps they like the things that they're paying for, and no one's tricking them into anything, and maybe they even looked at those alternatives and still decided that they liked what they had. Crazy, I know. Something to consider
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SwiftUI is totally unrelated to Marzipan.
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In fact, Occam’s Razor would suggest that any action taken by this administration should be assumed to be politically motivated, barring evidence to the contrary. Especially since the current administration has always been very vocally host
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Patterns aren’t reductionist, they’re just names for things that are common so that it’s easier to talk/think/write about them when those are the things being discussed. Surely no one has ever told you that all code you write has
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Are you talking about formatting conventions or something else? Because if all you’re talking about is coding style, then yeah, it’s infinitely better to comply with the conventions of whatever your working on than do your own thing. For so
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by mwfunk 7y ago
If someone gets into writing open source with the goal of making money off of it and gets pissed when others “extract value” from their work, that person never should have gotten into open source to begin with. In fact, for their own sake,
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by mwfunk 7y ago
This is so true. It's like the old truism about how the way to really truly learn something is to have to explain it to someone else. Literally just going through the process of articulating something, just putting it into words, is an
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by mwfunk 7y ago
If a legitimate news source was aware of its own institutional biases, it would actively seek to avoid indulging them, at least with respect to news reporting, as opposed to editorial pieces. That's what makes it a relatively legitimat
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by mwfunk 7y ago
All news is not subjective. If it was, it'd be editorial content, not news reporting (obviously, don't trust any big media outlet that doesn't make a strong distinction between the two within their own organization). Now, bec
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by mwfunk 7y ago
It all comes down to what specific definitions people are using, but I draw a strong distinction between propaganda and opposing opinions about things. Propaganda is basically marketing copy for politics. It's unreliable in the same wa
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Sure but those 150 million people choose to subscribe to Netflix. Presumably they like it, otherwise why would they spend money on it every month? The people who use Comcast have no choice, because for nearly all of them, the alternative is
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I've never really had a mentor and I'm honestly not sure what sort of professional relationship is even being described here. Is this like a professional parent who teaches you stuff and checks in on you and keeps you steered in t
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I think a very coarse but useful way (for me at least) to think of consumer goods is that they tend to sort out into 3 markets: mass market, premium, luxury. In general, mass market is the 80-90% solution for most people, in which products
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Jesus Christ dude, I give up.
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Right up until 1964, when all the Dixiecrats had finally had enough and switched over to the Republican Party, which welcomed their votes and bigotry with open arms. And that’s how it’s been for the last 60+ years, but surely you knew that,
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I never said anything about people making laws about anything. And they do get laughed at, but then they claim that they're somehow being censored by all the negative responses they get. And none of it makes a difference. For a lot of
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I’m old enough to remember the bad old days but it’s a good point. I was specifically thinking of the post-MacOS, OS X (Panther and later especially) era.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Everyone has a right to their own opinion, no one has a right to their own facts though. I get what you're saying but there are consequences to certain types of misinformation (ex.: anti-vaxxers). It's a complicated issue.

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