passivate

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by passivate 4y ago
It seems like there are ways to solve the commuting problem, by moving closer to work for example, in much the same way as you say others should find a job to satisfy their in-person work requirements. But opinions aside, what is true is th
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by passivate 4y ago
I do wonder at which point does modern agriculture stop being natural? We killed micro-ecologies from vast areas of land, removed wild plants/rodents and other so-called "pests" and forced large scale growing of plants in var
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by passivate 4y ago
So far he has lost a ton of cash on lawyer fees, M&A costs, etc. And EPIC now has to individually manage the acquired companies, make sure they're not competing against each other in the same market, etc, etc. I don't think th
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by passivate 4y ago
Sure, but you can say that about a lot of things. Students who have the means to pay for tutors have a higher chance of success at admissions. Athletes with access to expensive training programs/equipment/supplements/time-off
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by passivate 4y ago
That's harsh. I don't think people should be taken to task for for taking advantage of the "privilege" they were born in. Why wouldn't you take advantage of college (and thus a decent well paying job) when someone b
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by passivate 4y ago
My guess is Google would fire their own employees if they started making a list of co-workers habits/interests.
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by passivate 4y ago
The open-source (also high-profile) nature of the project probably helps Google themselves keep their own team in check with outside accountability.
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by passivate 4y ago
Maybe there is room between the two extremes?
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by passivate 4y ago
For a new company, product features tend to overlap current or future needs of the users. If they didn't think of other people, they would probably not be billionaires. I suppose once you're a large company you can influence users
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by passivate 4y ago
I don't know if you know this - all rights are made up. To the extent that we can convince others to adopt/agree to them, they can be considered universal, but otherwise they don't mean anything. It remains to be shown, but I
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by passivate 4y ago
It completely depends on how you approach the term idealism, and what your consider ethical. You're framing the argument as-if goals should be above ones ideals. If you can't convince people about the importance of free-software t
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by passivate 5y ago
By that same logic the US should immediately stop giving foreign aid to developing countries or investing in other programs since we still have homeless people here. The reasons why entities spend money on specific things is not a univariat
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by passivate 5y ago
>The common portrayal (at least in the US) is that unions are evil. >That's why American unions and union activity have been almost completely squashed in the US for decades now. But the public favourability hasn't declined
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by passivate 5y ago
>You could just as easily define 'right' as everyone intervening anywhere, regardless of borders, to prevent mass civilian casualties. One obvious case comes to mind. The US hasn't intervened when it comes to mass civilian
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by passivate 5y ago
Why do you think you can pressure me into accepting your opinions? I don't want to argue with you so how about this - you do it your way and I'll do it my way. But, thanks for your concern.
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by passivate 5y ago
Your analogy is flawed. The CPU doesn't care at all about how or what code looks like, all the nice comments explaining what it does, nice naming conventions, whether its easy to understand or not. They have zero impact on the final
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by passivate 5y ago
I don't have a hot-line to any executive branch of government, so I am going off of historical actions presided over by elected representatives of both left/right.
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by passivate 5y ago
>But it does mean opposing fascism and racism, and sometimes fighting against them. Indeed, the US should oppose those things inside their own boundaries where they have the right to. There is no reason to assume the US is virtuous and r
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by passivate 5y ago
When people complain about hiring practices, often, but not always, the concern is a false negative - missing out on hiring a talented and qualified candidate. Ultimately, if the point is "you guys are doing it wrong", they'r
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by passivate 5y ago
To be accurate, the parent talked about 'support' for war - which is true. The elected representatives of the left have doubled-down on wars, expanded them and presided over mass civilian casualties.
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by passivate 5y ago
Everyone has a very narrow range of specialized knowledge, opinions and beliefs, and people overvalue their own approach as nuanced and balanced and see-all-sides. Even on HN, there are several times when conversations on economics, pubic p
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by passivate 5y ago
Your #3 point is great, I hadn't thought about it this way!
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by passivate 5y ago
How does it encapsulate that? Can you explain? I see a story about a criminal.
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by passivate 5y ago
How many developers that you know have been fired for introducing security bugs?
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by passivate 5y ago
>someone with sufficient interest can exploit this Sure, but that applies to any technology on any platform at any time.
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by passivate 5y ago
I don't think your argument is all that strong. Memory bugs are not equivalent to vulnerabilities. To get to a security vulnerability you first need a logic bug that makes incorrect assumptions about the program state, the hardware, th
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by passivate 5y ago
If these colleges don't value what you bring, why apply to those colleges? For many areas of study, we have amazing and relatively inexpensive access to instruction/training/knowledge - if that is one's goal. If ones goa
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by passivate 5y ago
For one, they don't all have 11 aircraft carriers and 62 destroyers backing their money as the reserve currency in the world. For another, China certainly is.
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by passivate 5y ago
Are you able to go back to a regular diet or is this more about managing diabetes and keep doing it long term?
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by passivate 5y ago
I don't disagree with your general view, but all aspects of human biology have a certain level of uncertainty associated with them. Nobody expects guarantees with medications, surgical procedures, treatments for illnesses etc. Being sk

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