rosser

82 ms·

721.
by rosser 9y ago
I find myself periodically fantasizing about building a skoolie, or buying a sailboat and going live-aboard.
722.
by rosser 9y ago
Walnut Creek to Palo Alto is a bit more than "suboptimal". Google maps says driving and mass transit could both take two hours , if not more, depending on traffic. That means leaving at 6:30 to be at the office by 9:00. Yes, it
723.
by rosser 9y ago
You admit you aren't an expert, but are demonstrably willing to extrapolate from the "few" you've known to "it's a moral failing"?
724.
by rosser 9y ago
I believe, though am not in a position to dig up a citation right now, that the spike in drug use you're referencing was also temporary , and that usage rates fell significantly, to well below the "baseline" level after that
725.
by rosser 9y ago
It not being the ideal choice for your specific use-case does not in any way make it a "total dog". Just unsuited for you.
726.
by rosser 9y ago
I think your comment's parent was asking about what happens to your regular military pay, during your time as a PoW. That's what I read, anyway.
727.
by rosser 9y ago
My paternal grandfather was a B-25 navigator/bombardier. His plane was shot down over the Battle of the Bulge, and he spent the rest of the war in a PoW camp. The quality of the treatment (and particularly the nutrition) he received du
728.
by rosser 9y ago
> In their article, Das and Kramer claim to only send back information to Facebook that indicates whether you self-censored, not what you typed. The Facebook rep I spoke with agreed that the company isn’t collecting the text of self-cen
729.
by rosser 9y ago
It's customary in some contexts to italicize "loan words". The terms for the fallacies come from the Latin. Ergo ... As for your second point, I think it's pretty clear from both my comments and their context why I&#x27
730.
by rosser 9y ago
Where do trying to be "Jesus-like", relentlessness, or replacing one fixation with another come into it? That's the bias I'm talking about; you're making a leap from one extreme to another that's unsupported by
731.
by rosser 9y ago
Can you please clarify the point you're making here? Because this is a complete non sequitur to me.
732.
by rosser 9y ago
I don't read "give until it hurts" in "give over and over myriad petty, unsexy ways". That's your own bias creeping in, I think.
733.
by rosser 9y ago
I majored in philosophy, not CS. Some of the best technologists I've ever worked with were film majors, history majors, philosophy majors, sociology majors, &c . By far, the most important skill for this kind of work is critical
734.
by rosser 9y ago
This is so dismissive. You may not find those things valuable, but that doesn't make them valueless.
735.
by rosser 9y ago
Depression is orthogonal to critical thinking skills. Suggesting otherwise is ad hominem .
736.
by rosser 9y ago
That's not trustless, though. It's just ... call it "distributed" trust. The communities in question have, in whatever way, earned (or at least been granted) your trust.
737.
by rosser 9y ago
I think the only obvious thing there is that leaving it to people whose actual motive is their profit, over your being well-informed, is obviously not the way to do it. It serves their ends to manipulate and monetize your attention in the
738.
by rosser 9y ago
I still have my Freerunner in a box somewhere. So much promise... I keep wondering if there's something I could do with it. At this point, though, it's probably more a historical footnote than anything.
739.
Predatory Journals Hit by 'Star Wars' Sting(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
2 points by rosser 9y ago|0 comments
740.
by rosser 9y ago
I've said for years that using an ORM is ultimately a piece of tech debt. Same point, far less inflammatory.
741.
by rosser 9y ago
Your comment's parent was sarcasm.
742.
by rosser 9y ago
Why is it that people who never use a service ought to be forced to suffer its externalities? (That is: pollution, strip-mining for resources, &c, which disproportionately affect the poorest people in the world, and benefit the rest of
743.
by rosser 9y ago
Doesn't PG&E charge customers who have residential solar installs a higher rate, because they have residential solar installs?
744.
by rosser 9y ago
This is broadly my process, too. I'll do a search, and background-open all of the results that seem responsive as I skim them, to read in depth once I think I've found "enough". Most of them of course get closed quickly
745.
by rosser 9y ago
You're explicitly wrong about downvoting being a mark of disagreement. That's been black-letter HN culture since forever. I don't entirely like it either (though I'll admit that I do it, too), but 'pg repeatedly wen
746.
by rosser 9y ago
I didn't realize no one had "invented" anything before we "invented" capitalism.
747.
by rosser 9y ago
Yeah, when I saw the 4˚ bit, all of my surprise vanished. There's nothing new here, except the degree of coverage the story is getting.
748.
by rosser 9y ago
In theory, sure. How's that working out for us? EDIT: Meta, I will never tire of hearing people be all, "But markets !" as if they aren't just as corruptible as any other human institution — if not more so.
749.
by rosser 9y ago
I agree at one level, but also see it slightly differently. To wit: Feelings are facts. Emotions are labels we apply to those feelings. The Fine Article deliberately glosses over this rather key distinction in a way that cedes an opport
750.
by rosser 9y ago
I'm reminded of the Otto von Bismarck quip about laws and sausages. This is why I have zero qualms about using ad blockers, blocking third-party cookies, white-listing first-party cookies, and, and, and... An industry with as demonst

More ›