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by quasque 14y ago
A rather unpleasant and inaccurate metaphor.
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by quasque 14y ago
This guy appears to misunderstand the purpose of affirmative action / positive discrimination. It's not to make tokens out of people, but to try to remove systemic bias against groups underrepresented in a society or subculture - case in po
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by quasque 14y ago
Who is it racist against?
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by quasque 14y ago
"Imagine also that there are two types of BTC users: Jews [...] and Aryans" What is this Nazi-era shit doing here. It's hard to take the article at all seriously when the author frames it in terms like this.
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by quasque 14y ago
Well I suppose persecution by one's cellphone carrier is better than by race or religion. I enjoyed your outstanding level of hyperbole though.
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by quasque 14y ago
"have a comment thread full of white knights" You're seriously suggesting that anyone here who decries the rude behaviour described in the blog post, is doing so just to impress the protagonist of this drama with their chivalry? What an abs
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The Online Disinhibition Effect (2004)(users.rider.edu)
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by quasque 14y ago
Doing what? Being forced to pay taxes? That happens in every country and is surely a more general complaint, if it is indeed one at all.
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by quasque 14y ago
If I recall correctly, it used to be that a Windows license entitled the user to instead downgrade to any previous Windows version, if they so desired. I wonder if this is still the case with Windows 8.
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by quasque 14y ago
Discouraging or banning ownership seems to work well in many countries. It's a shame that so many citizens of the US feel intimately tied to these violent objects, and for such archaic reasons.
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by quasque 14y ago
I think it's inaccurate to suggest Linus is universally applauded for his rude behaviour. The last public outburst that caught wider attention than the LKML seemed to quite divide programmers in terms of its appropriateness. Personally, I f
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by quasque 14y ago
I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was a strong undercurrent of misogyny involved here, motivating their incivility and rudeness.
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by quasque 14y ago
Perhaps, but comments like "I cannot even make this stuff up" and "eyes bleeding!" are not constructive criticism, just pointless mockery.
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by quasque 14y ago
The NHS is not perfect (as some of your tales of woe cherry-picked from right-wing newspapers suggest), but its core mission is essentially that of compassion and fairness: to provide medical care to each member of the population regardless
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by quasque 14y ago
I don't think one could conceive a metaphor more archetypal of the US than "done at the point of a gun" -- but what do you mean by that, in terms of the UK health system?
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by quasque 14y ago
Regarding his fifth point, that rings very true and not just in open source, but many male-dominated fields. It's almost cliché to see a bunch of guys complaining to each other about the lack of female participants in one breath, and cracki
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by quasque 14y ago
Sorry, I was a bit abrasive in my last reply. Thanks for the information, it was interesting to read and watch.
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by quasque 14y ago
You speak as if death is not an inevitable destination. You're not immortal, you know. You can't stave off your demise forever. One day your existence will end and your consciousness will be permanently obliterated. With that in mind, do yo
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by quasque 14y ago
When I read things like this, it makes me so glad I live in the UK and don't have to endure any of this free market bullshit when it comes to health. The system you describe is just so chillingly brutal and callous.
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by quasque 14y ago
That is very interesting. Do you have any pointers as to where one can read more about the psychogenesis of such things?
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by quasque 14y ago
I'm sorry to hear of your similarly terrifying experience. The mental model you use to describe it is interesting though, and makes me consider that the narratives we (in the general sense) formulate to represent our lives are an important
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by quasque 14y ago
Nice to know that several years of chronic anxiety problems and panic attacks was "just" a bad trip. I'm not on anti-depressants and haven't been for years, but your advice seems completely bizarre. Why on earth would I risk taking the mush
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by quasque 14y ago
It was mushrooms in a hotel room in Amsterdam several years ago. I took them with my then-girlfriend - her trip was okay but mine was awful. The visuals, the thoughts, the emotions all felt terrible and when it really hit me I couldn't stop
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by quasque 14y ago
Yep, looks like it's originally from here (and in much higher quality): http://www.lockpicking101.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=43120
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by quasque 14y ago
Sorry yes I was being rather general and should clarify that I ended up down the wrong path in my software work, didn't feel that I could change to anything more interesting - and really just desired a fresh start. I do appreciate that ther
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by quasque 14y ago
My biggest regret is tripping on mushrooms. It permanently ruined aspects of my mind.
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by quasque 14y ago
Thank you! But sorry to hear your choices are more limited than you desire.
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by quasque 14y ago
Funnily enough, this is exactly why I gave up on software development and went to study a degree in the biosciences. Ten years of fixing crappy websites, writing dull database interfaces, troubleshooting bugs in shit code written by people
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by quasque 14y ago
On that note it would be interesting to see if the EXIF data is typically included at the start or end of JPEG files, or if it varies via compressor.
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by quasque 14y ago
Yes I do agree with you that piracy is not a good option, and if the hypothetical student did indeed have zero budget and enough moral character to refuse to pirate the commercial software, then open source would be the ideal choice in this

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