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by sethrin 9y ago
It's difficult for me to even respond to this politely, but I'll give it a shot. > For now, for work I spend a couple of hours a week maintaining a website. So you have some sort of life where you have no responsibility and don
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by sethrin 9y ago
As this is partially a matter of opinion I believe that the character and prejudices of jwz can be called into question in a relevant manner. He was once renowned as a wise and talented programmer. That was a while ago. He's most famou
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by sethrin 9y ago
I think that jwz enjoyed a reputation beyond his deserts. I don't find him particularly insightful. I also don't seem to take your point in mentioning this? Is this really an "open source" thing? Is it a bad thing, or me
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by sethrin 9y ago
Having an expansive definition of theft merely serves to raise the noise floor. The "true" purpose of the ACA was to do something about spiraling health care costs. What was passed was a "compromise" where the people pus
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by sethrin 9y ago
Fair enough. I'll let you know when I find it :)
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by sethrin 9y ago
You admittedly lack foundational knowledge on this topic, which means you should be asking questions from the position of an open mind rather than trying to insist on the impossibility of something. Even better, you might try to pro-activel
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by sethrin 9y ago
He believed that money was God's way of showing favor, and somehow that worked out to, "Anything I do to get money is okay." He ended up appropriating most of my possessions. This was of course the first and last time I asked
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by sethrin 9y ago
I'm currently working with Laravel and have worked with other PHP frameworks, as well as Rails and Sinatra. Both Rails and Laravel can be very easy to create new projects with, but I don't think that claims of a clear advantage fo
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by sethrin 9y ago
Isn't the point of technical interviews to determine one's knowledge of useless trivia? That is to say, that is what is typically measured, and it's seemingly the rare workplace that even attempts to measure whether their hir
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by sethrin 9y ago
Sigh. This reminds me of an ex-roommate. So I worked at a factory and he was a notary or some such function connected with real estate, working from home. One day I was running late for work, which was maybe fifteen minutes away by bicycle,
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by sethrin 9y ago
Please review the existing literature on this subject. Particularly, take note that an Earth-normal atmosphere constitutes a lifting gas on Venus. This is not the game where you utter every trivial objection that springs to mind on the basi
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by sethrin 9y ago
I can see how you might think that, I suppose, but you do actually have an entire planet full of useful resources at hand, even if they're not ones that you might immediately think of. There are many things that you can reasonably extr
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by sethrin 9y ago
What exactly is cultural dilution? It sounds like a dog whistle for base tribalism.
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by sethrin 9y ago
Comments like this which are political rather than technical in nature are considered off-topic. If you post like this frequently you are very likely to be banned.
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by sethrin 9y ago
I think the tone of that comment is completely unjustifiable in any polite context. Also, bile obscures text: adding invective just lowers the SNR of your speech. Your comment is an example of virtue signaling, which is equally boring.
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by sethrin 9y ago
You should read more about proposals for Venusian colonies before assuming that your knowledge of the subject is sufficient for discussion. No one is proposing to live on the surface, and the sulfuric acid is not a particularly large proble
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by sethrin 9y ago
You should look up proposals for Venusian cloud cities. In many senses Venus is more hospitable than Mars.
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by sethrin 9y ago
I feel like the difficulty of obtaining rocket fuel on a given rocky planet is equivalent to within the limits of napkin math. I've never heard a particularly convincing argument for using the Moon as a springboard to the wider univers
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by sethrin 9y ago
> somehow we're supposed to accept this as normal for DEs? No, but it is the normal result of an open source development process. Being able to fork at any time is exactly why the fragmentation exists. Don't like it? Use a comm
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by sethrin 9y ago
I feel like what you say is sensible, but that your tone is needlessly derogatory.
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by sethrin 9y ago
I started in PHP, migrated to Ruby, and now I think I am beginning to be annoyed at Ruby's occasional lack of expressivity. I am probably on a similar course towards FP nirvana. Do you know any place on the left coast that's playi
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by sethrin 9y ago
I believe Joomla is worse in every conceivable way. And then of course there is WordPress, which I sincerely hope is the last major procedurally-written codebase. PHP has come a long way as a language (it can almost be confused for somethin
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by sethrin 9y ago
I think that arguing in that manner with that username will be a very effective strategy, but not for your side.
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by sethrin 9y ago
People have been downvoting you because you're wrong, but someone should say why: the difference between your two examples is that a social network has some sort of value with a limited network, but a currency only has value where it
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by sethrin 9y ago
Nonsense. One's personal experiences are worthless as evidence, and all theories are subject to Occam's Razor. That you dislike these principles being applied to some subject is your own problem.
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by sethrin 9y ago
Right, because the argument is fallacious, which was the point of the example. We don't argue medicine from first principles in this century, by the way. Absent hard empirical evidence, you can speculate what you like, but Occam's
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by sethrin 9y ago
Yes, the form of argument would be called reductio ad absurdum .
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It's generally held that government is a local monopoly on violence. Anarchy is in these terms an unstable local minimum, and the first two thugs who agree not to plunder each other's pockets have started the cycle of government a
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by sethrin 9y ago
Samuel Johnson springs to mind, but if you'd like, substitute "contradict the argument of my previous post". I would prefer that phrasing, but I've often been disappointed at the tendency of people to take issue with sma
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by sethrin 9y ago
Repeating the argument does not make it more correct. If you're trying to contradict the idea that government regulations are not a large barrier to entry you might show some evidence, preferably in the form of a peer-reviewed study. Y

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