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by n09n 13y ago
Okay? I thought we were talking about the USA.
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by n09n 13y ago
...yes, it is.
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by n09n 13y ago
Football isn't known for typically being aimed solely at teenaged girls. Harry Potter fanfiction is.
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by n09n 13y ago
In the sense that it is almost uniformly trash.
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by n09n 13y ago
>It is clever, in-jokes and obscure references to geek culture and the book successfully subverts many tropes Thanks, that's enough to tell me that I wouldn't enjoy it.
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by n09n 13y ago
If any setting makes sense to keep a fixed exchange rate between gold and silver, wouldn't it be one where magic exists, including the actual philosopher's stone?
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by n09n 13y ago
>If this book had used an original setting with renamed characters but was identical otherwise, it would be hailed as a modern genre classic. If that were true, then wouldn't it have happened already? 50 Shades of Gray is a famous e
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by n09n 13y ago
So, why should an adult choose to read this over actual literature?
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by n09n 13y ago
I was referring more to the "stop funding concentrated surveillance programs" part. Just because your own government isn't spying on you doesn't mean you are not being spied on. It just means you have deluded yourself in
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by n09n 13y ago
We are headed in the opposite direction because that's not a solution, that's sticking your head in the sand.
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by n09n 13y ago
If we were at war with Germany and yet people were shocked that it took place, that would be an appropriate response to remind everyone of reality. I don't know what you think the EU has done that prevents it from being an acceptable t
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by n09n 13y ago
Not the same thing. A "rapist" generally isn't someone whose job is to rape people all day. If he were, the newsworthy aspect would be that such a position exists, not that the person in that position has raped someone. But w
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by n09n 13y ago
Tarn gladly accepts donations and will send you a crayon drawing inspired by the game. I don't think he will let you (collectively) dictate development priorities because of it though. Dwarf Fortress is his baby and most of the players
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by n09n 13y ago
Why should it be the author's duty to guess at what level of "verification" is enough to satisfy you?
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by n09n 13y ago
It doesn't matter which truth exactly. The more information they have access to, the better the decisions they will be able to make (in theory, at least). I don't trust them to wield that power because I don't need to trust t
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by n09n 13y ago
Probably never. A lot of us "apologists" think that this is actually a good thing, but many are unwilling to admit it, even to themselves. For me, it's simply a matter of valuing truth over privacy.
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by n09n 13y ago
Why does it have to be that? The plethora of browser extensions that implement this feature prove it's something users want. Why imagine a nefarious reason for developers to add a feature to their app that users want?
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by n09n 13y ago
He doesn't need to. He only needs to speak for one to show that tobylane doesn't speak for all of them.
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by n09n 14y ago
How is that relevant? Comcast is not a software company. Shipping something that works and then never touching it again is exactly what they want.
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by n09n 14y ago
If you are a money-chasing robot, perhaps. Most businesses care at least a little about making a good product/satisfying their customers. That's good. Making life easy for your employees at the expense of your customers? That's bad.
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by n09n 14y ago
That's the whole point. Code is not meant to serve the people who maintain it. Maintainability is only a concern once lack of such starts impacting your actual customers. If writing ugly code and fixing it up later is necessary in order to
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by n09n 14y ago
They understand that "good code" is code that delivers a lot of value to the person who needs it. Why hate on them for that? You just sound jealous that they make more than you do.
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by n09n 14y ago
The point is not about who you should or should not respect. The point is that other people are going to respect certain aspects in people that you don't agree with, and it's silly to say that respect is not real just because you don't agre
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by n09n 14y ago
Do you honestly believe that you are so obviously correct, anyone who disagrees with you must only be doing it because they are financially invested in presenting that way?
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by n09n 14y ago
What's worse about that than any other silly thing to respect someone for?
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by n09n 14y ago
Earning money and buying things with it is something you do, no less than climbing a mountain or writing a play.
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by n09n 14y ago
Why do you care what the respect is based on? What differentiates "superficial" respect from genuine respect? I guarantee you the criteria you use to judge people look equally ridiculous to other people too.
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by n09n 14y ago
By then it's too late. The point is not to get more out of it if things go south. The point is to make sure they don't. This is basic game theory, buddy.
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by n09n 14y ago
Two people propose to you with rings that cost 25k each. One ring is resellable for 20k. One is resellable for 5k. Which one do you think is more likely to renege?
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by n09n 14y ago
Yes there is. It's like the classic burning of your ships once you've landed. Once you know there's no turning back, you have no option but to make things work by going forwards.

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