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by santoshalper 2y ago
Dagny is the first "Anti-Mary Sue" I can remember in literature. She's ostensibly the protagonist, but is literally worse at everything than her male couterparts.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
The "vibe" of Atlas Shrugged (other than "fucking boring") is pretty much "Insecure guy who wears a suit to high-school and is on the debate team" or I guess more simply "Ben Shapiro". So yeah, I gues
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Paul would much rather make a punching bag out of straw than actually grapple with the massive inequality that he has personally helped cause. Just remember guys, the real problem our society faces is that someone was once mean to paulg on
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by santoshalper 2y ago
It's a weird feeling to live in a world where even extremely detailed, documented, and cited facts have near zero impact on popular opinion. Belief has always been a mix of feeling and fact, but I don't remember the balance being
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by santoshalper 2y ago
The phenomenon you're observing is broken-down drones who are bitter that other workers are refusing to tolerate the abuse that they accepted.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
The only people opposed to "civilian" oversight (Are cops the military now?) are corrupt cops.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
What on earth are you talking about? This doesn't make any sense.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
I think he's saying they have to grow 25% per year to please their PE overlords.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
1. It's Fannie and Freddie, nobody uses the acronyms, but if you must it's FNMA and FHLMC. 2. The mortgage meltdown started with subprime loans, which were not guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie. It was private lenders selling loans
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by santoshalper 2y ago
They never cared about DEI. The difference is that now they don't feel pressure to pretend.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Also, OUR idea of ownership, at least legally, is based on the idea of usage and access. You may own a piece of land, but not the mineral rights. You can't prevent an aircraft from flying over your property etc. Ownership is a bundle o
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by santoshalper 2y ago
This may be the most Hacker News thing I've heard since Soylent.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Nvidia probably could sell cards directly now, given the strength of their reputation (and the reality backing it up) for graphics, crypto, and AI. However, they grew up as a company that sold through manufacturing and channel partners and
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by santoshalper 2y ago
There is a backlash against COVID actions that is happening now, is because people are terrible at math and worse at assessing risk. The idea that COVID was not a valid emergency is pure historical revisionism with no base in fact or data.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Nice nostalgia piece overall, but I especially enjoyed this line: "The distinction between noise and signal becomes decreasingly apparent the further one gets from their source." Very succinct and insightful. I will use that in th
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by santoshalper 2y ago
That's what I love about these junior devs, man. I get more experienced, but they stay noobs. All right, all right, all right.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
They do sell some PCs, but their market share is very low, and I can't imagine it's a significant part of their revenue. They definitely wouldn't bother slowing down Windows 11 adoption to sell a few more Surface Books.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
If you're going to run Windows 11 anyway, why would Microsoft care if you do it on a new or older PC?
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by santoshalper 2y ago
I don't see how you're going to catch people like this without doxxing them. They rely on opsec and misdirection to avoid getting caught. Do you have examples where the information was gratuitous?
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Your bookkeeping service shutting down with no notice over the holidays is not cheap either, my friend. Some things are worth paying for.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
This would be a great question to answer and would provide a lot of peace of mind.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Actually, parent is wrong. You're not supposed to do that shit on Windows either. That's what AppData is for. Writing configuration files and folders to "Documents" or the user's home folder is sloppy shit.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Do the right thing even when you really don't want to is a valuable lesson, but I'm not sure I believe that the right thing to do is attend funerals for people who you were not actually close to. It feels extremely insincere.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Not really. Free Press is only pretending to be journalism. In an article defending JK Rowling, they describe people who are upset with her views on transgender rights as "maniacs, who are then flattered by cowards". It's a p
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by santoshalper 2y ago
The author is really laying the populist manipulation on thick. After about two paragraphs, I felt as greasy as a McDonald's hash brown.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
1. Neither Hamlet nor Macbeth kill their parents. 2. Neither Hamlet nor Macbeth incite violence. In both stories, violence as portrayed as something that evil people commit. Good people are wracked by guilt when they commit violence. Also,
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Much more likely is that self-reporting is notoriously unreliable and "paycheck to paycheck" is a state of mind.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
I don't think it's hate, exactly. Derek is a well-loved guy around here for good reason. I just think people are tired of hearing that the key to success is to work themselves to death.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Derek is great, he's had a very interesting life and accomplished quite a bit. But if this is supposed to be advice for aspiring songwriters and musicians, I think you have to at least consider that he was not an especially successful
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Man, I was so afraid this was going to be about Fortnite. Turns out it was a fantastic read. I feel really sad but unsurprised about his description of what it's like to be an Open Source maintainer.

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