silent_cal

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by silent_cal 3y ago
Is this the most Hacker News title ever?
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by silent_cal 3y ago
I hate Bauhaus
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by silent_cal 3y ago
“Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.” - St Augustine
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by silent_cal 3y ago
Yeah I think there's a great argument to be made for that. I wish all my tax money went to stuff like this. But in that case it's not a benefit for the poor, it's a benefit for the taxpayer. It's the false advertising th
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by silent_cal 3y ago
I have no idea. My internet provider asked me to apply, so I did and was accepted. And no, I did not falsify my income.
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by silent_cal 3y ago
My ISP sent me an email and invited me to apply, so I did and was accepted. And yes, I filled out the form accurately.
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by silent_cal 3y ago
Yeah, it's very simple, just lower the income requirement. There is no cost to it at all.
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by silent_cal 3y ago
Yeah I agree with this. I'd prefer a society of mostly "self-reliant" people, but those days have long passed. We live under a welfare state, and we pay so much in tax that we might as well get some free services out of it. U
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by silent_cal 3y ago
Over 100k, 2 parents and a baby. But the baby came in December.
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by silent_cal 3y ago
It's not cheaper to allow error when the error is the only thing driving excess cost.
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by silent_cal 3y ago
Yes there is some truth to this. But I live in a State with very low cost of living compared to others. If I lived in Los Angeles on this income I might be in trouble.
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by silent_cal 3y ago
The second one - it's not meant to help the poor only. They just use that language to make it more popular. It should be more difficult to qualify for this program, such that people well over the poverty level like me would not receive
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by silent_cal 3y ago
My family is at least 4x the poverty level income.
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by silent_cal 3y ago
This program was not for the "poor". I know because I got this discount, and I do not need it at all.
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by silent_cal 3y ago
And many others would do the same as you. But I must say I have far less respect for you than for those who offer their sufferings to God. And there are many of them, too.
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by silent_cal 3y ago
Immaterial concepts are abstracted from the physical world, but they in themselves are immaterial. You can hide this plain fact in all the mumbo-jumbo you want, but it remains a fact. Even a simple concept, like the definition of a circle,
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by silent_cal 3y ago
I do, but it's hard for a single man's mind to comprehend the whole truth. I think generally you can only master a few aspects of it. I believe Catholicism is the correct religion, but I still admit that there have been many great
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by silent_cal 3y ago
It implies that they wouldn't all agree on religion, just as they would not agree on virtually any other subject
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by silent_cal 3y ago
I'm not referring to any specific religion. I'm just saying they were religious. Which religious tradition has the most great minds is a separate question and I don't know the answer, but I would suspect Christianity. But all
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by silent_cal 3y ago
No, it's not just because of the implications. It's because materialism is illogical. If materialism were true, you would not have any immaterial concepts. But clearly you do.
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by silent_cal 3y ago
But did your grandparents really believe? What was different about the cultural situation that they lived in and yours? Or were they just a different kind of person who found it easier to believe?
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by silent_cal 3y ago
Never thought I would meet a sede on Hacker News of all places. You guys are nuts.
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by silent_cal 3y ago
You can be an atheist, but if you think religion is "obviously make-believe" than you're just being dishonest. The majority of the greatest minds to ever live were religious. You don't gain any IQ points by dismissing it
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by silent_cal 3y ago
France has such a rich history, it boggles my mind that they can't find more cultural inspiration there than from the USA.
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by silent_cal 3y ago
I thought Ireland did this too?
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by silent_cal 3y ago
This is always so interesting to me. Are you European? Or do you have any insight as to why this might be happening?
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by silent_cal 3y ago
This is awesome, thank you for building this. I've been looking for something like this for a long time. Does it have any built-in authentication features?
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by silent_cal 3y ago
If you can find me one person that uses an emulator and doesn't play pirated games on it, I'll send you a dollar.
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by silent_cal 3y ago
Much like we can't have Chinese-style factories in the US, so we just let the Chinese do it.
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by silent_cal 3y ago
My sentiments exactly

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