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by olavk 8y ago
The academy award is called "best adapted screenplay" and awards the best screenplay (by oscar standards) which happen to be an adaptation. Whether the adaption if faithful or improves of the source material is not a factor, only
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by olavk 8y ago
The Oscars are not awarded for historical accuracy. Best adapted screenplay does not mean most faithfully adapted, it just means the best screenplay which is adapted from some source (often fictional). Hollywood is in the business of tellin
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by olavk 8y ago
> "Reality is indescribable" becomes a bit of a liar's paradox. There is a difference between an imperfect description and a lie. Kuhn does not say that all descriptions of the world are lies, or that "anything goes&q
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by olavk 8y ago
No, I do not believe that it is an "entirely independent" statistics/rate. I believe they are very closely related. But if you sincerely believe they are entirely independent statistics then I kind of understand the logic of
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by olavk 8y ago
Not necessarily. For example, the history of the Vietnam War is mostly written by Americans, even though the US lost.
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by olavk 8y ago
I think this ignores the historical context. The US had air control and been bombing the mainland relentlessly for a while. The firebombing of Tokyo had already caused bigger loss of life than the Hiroshima bomb did. So it was clear to both
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by olavk 8y ago
Just to be clear, do you understand what it means to say that the incarceration rate is six times higher in the US?
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by olavk 8y ago
The US does have an "imprisoning innocent people" problem, as witnesses by this story and by the Innocence Project. The problem is the horrifyingly large number of people who are imprisoned for years, some times decades, even th
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by olavk 8y ago
Direct evidence is a witness testifying they directly observed the defendant commit the crime. Any other evidence is circumstantial.
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by olavk 8y ago
If the incarceration rate is higher then more innocent people will be in jail, even given the same quality of justice. Many more innocent Americans are in prison than innocent Frenchmen (even adjusting for population size). Now you may argu
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by olavk 8y ago
So you are saying other countries are "just as bad" when it comes to imprisoning innocents? I don't see how that is even possible given that the incarceration rate in the US is so much higher.
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by olavk 8y ago
Given that the the incarceration rate in the US is more than six time the rate in France ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/300986/incarceration-rat... ), and the US population is much larger in absolute number,
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by olavk 8y ago
Blaming crime shows for miscarriages of justice in the real judicial system? Is there anything which cant be blamed on the media?
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by olavk 8y ago
The actual killer confessed, I think that is already a "flag".
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by olavk 8y ago
If you criticize the code by pointing out factual issues, then the the author can lean and improve by understanding these issues and improving the code. Calling the author an idiot does not help to improve anybody.
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by olavk 8y ago
But personal insults are not direct non-bs communication. Saying to someone they should have been an abortion is not a sign of emotional maturity. Accepting denigriating insults without complaint is not a sign of strength or emotional mat
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by olavk 8y ago
If anyone can opt out the rule of law at any point then it is the same as having no law in the first place. Which means the ones with the most weapons get to decide. Which means we are back to having a government except without any rights a
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by olavk 8y ago
For someone acting in bad faith (e.g. trolling, deceptive agenda) insults are probably justified. On the other hand, this is probably the actors who are not really deterred by insults, so I wonder how constructive it is.
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by olavk 8y ago
I wanted to get back to my main point which was not the particular turn of phase in my example, but just that politeness have nothing to do with incompetence. This was in response to the comment that stated that politeness would mean accept
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by olavk 8y ago
Well if there actually was a bug, as you state, you are clearly in the right to point it out. Both parties in a communication have a responsibility. The party criticizing the code has a responsibility be factual, concrete and constructive,
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by olavk 8y ago
In any case, using phrases like "thanks, but..." is an example of politeness.
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by olavk 8y ago
I guess this depends on the context, but I don't really see the problem. If I reject a patch due to some specific problems with the code, then surely I should reconsider if the submitter could refactor to avoid the reasons for rejectio
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by olavk 8y ago
Why would you start fighting and/or feel resentment if you received a reply like the "polite" example? Genuine question, I don't see the issue but I'm ready to learn.
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by olavk 8y ago
So you are equating politeness with not halting bad ideas. That is not politeness, that is incompetence. Competent people would halt bad ides, but it can be done in different ways: - Abrasive: This idea is the dumbest ever and you are an id
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by olavk 8y ago
You are comparing a contributor submitting a kernel patch in good faith with people holding a klan meeting in your house?
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by olavk 8y ago
I'm sure nobody decided that it was an explicit goal of the site to have accessibility issues. It has those issues for historical reasons. Maintainability to me is being able to fix such relatively minor issues without everything comin
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by olavk 8y ago
Thanks for an interesting answer. I really appreciate to hear the thinking behind the design of the code. But when it comes down to it, the argument seem to be that this piece of code is not supposed to be maintainable because you don&#x2
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by olavk 8y ago
I don't like criticizing the code since it clearly works as intended and HN works very well, and I am a happy user. But since you argue that the code is very deliberately maintainable I will challenge that, because I am not convinced.
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by olavk 8y ago
While I agree that comment would be very helpful given the code, It would be much better to rewrite the code so it didn't have to know about those three nodes at all. For example by collecting them into a single element which could b
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by olavk 8y ago
> Do web designers still exist that only do HTML/CSS but no JS? That is really beside the point. HTML and JS should not be coupled to the extent that adding or removing some whitespace from the HTML will cause the JS to fail. This k

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