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by sjwright 5y ago
Implied? No, not even with the most uncharitable interpretation did tombert even imply that being poor makes you "crazy" or that being crazy makes you a criminal. A hindered ability to think rationally might only make one more i
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by sjwright 5y ago
There are many nasty feedback loops caused by severe poverty. Even the most basic things like being able to show up for a job interview in an arbitrary location at an arbitrary time wearing presentable clothing and a relaxed demeanour — try
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by sjwright 5y ago
When did tombert assume that poor = "crazy" = criminal? It's a bit unkind to take general thoughts about psychological pathways and unfairly reify them with the use of equality symbols.
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by sjwright 5y ago
> you can’t even reload the page for the user Can you explain why you'd want to do this? At first blush it seems like a terrible idea to allow extensions to reload pages.
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by sjwright 5y ago
HyperCard would have been a great platform if it was aggressively iterated. Despite being way ahead of its time in 1987, it died because it stood still and the world eventually passed it by.
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by sjwright 5y ago
And to be even fairer, user experience consistency isn't one of Linux's selling points. While there is some limited consistency within individual graphical shells, the Linux ecosystem naturally favours a diversity of opinions inst
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by sjwright 5y ago
That's a red herring. These 3rd party tweaks don't make the Mac desktop experience objectively "nicer", they are tweaks to make it more familiar to people used to other, non-Mac desktop environments. Personally I conside
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by sjwright 6y ago
A shame, because as test cases go that wouldn’t have been a terrible one.
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by sjwright 6y ago
The author could well have been right, but underestimated how much economic interdependence was required for his thesis to hold.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Sorry if I was unclear. 5 kWh/day of idle. That’s how much it uses when we’re literally not home and all I’ve left on is the networking gear, appliances on standby, etc. My average actual occupied usage is closer to 20-25 kWh/day,
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by sjwright 6y ago
Remarkable. I’m in Sydney, my house sounds similar by description but I have gas hot water and stovetop. My house uses over 5 kWh/day for ambient/idle power alone.
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by sjwright 6y ago
IMHO Windows UI peaked with Windows 2000.[0] The main difference being that it eliminated redundant lines and reduced contrast where it wasn't needed. This improved the visual signal-to-noise ratio. I recall no significant regressions.
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by sjwright 6y ago
My understanding is that economic interdependence deserves the bulk of the credit for this relative peace. Tying the economic prosperity of nations together makes it harder to rationalise physical conflict. But perhaps we can also thank glo
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by sjwright 6y ago
A joke I first saw on Twitter: LED status key Green - online Red - error Amber - busy Blue - modern (Source: https://twitter.com/deviantollam/status/1345143016307113985 )
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by sjwright 6y ago
I wouldn’t apologise. I strongly respect the social rules of hacker news but they are by no means perfect and tend to break down in the face of a well calibrated troll. This particular variant is the verbose non sequitur anti-pattern. It’
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by sjwright 6y ago
In the UK, children’s clothing is exempt from their VAT sales tax. (Yet another way that unusually short people can lord it over the rest of us.)
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by sjwright 6y ago
I don’t think is right to analogise between clothing and healthcare. Everyone needs clothes; specific needs are highly correlated with climate. While this is also true of some basic functions of healthcare (dental care being the most obviou
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by sjwright 6y ago
If you can describe how what I said fits the informal fallacy of begging the question, I'll concede all disagreements, accept that you're correct in everything and donate AU$500 to a charity of your choice.
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by sjwright 6y ago
If you can describe anything about my argument which soundly qualifies as circular, I'll concede all disagreements with you, accept that you're correct in everything you have said and I'll even donate AU$500 to a charity of y
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by sjwright 6y ago
You wrote all that to tacitly admit that you had failed to convey your point effectively. Cool.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Actual problem: believing that the distinction between those two is relevant.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I didn’t offer a diagnosis.
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by sjwright 6y ago
> Consider this: I have a high emotional IQ Given that you felt the need to say that, you might want to reconsider whether your powers of self-diagnosis are as accurate as you previously thought. > I just don't have the kind of b
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by sjwright 6y ago
> I'll note that you didn't start your response here with pleasantries, and no one else has, either. There are obvious differences between expressing an opinion and asking others to do something for you. Understanding that dist
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by sjwright 6y ago
And they are.
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by sjwright 6y ago
That's a non sequitur. What you have cited isn't Tesla giving its employees Elon's Tesla shares. Yes, Tesla did offer Elon share options. He still has to pay for them with his own money. The reason why these options are l
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by sjwright 6y ago
That makes no sense. Elon's Tesla stock isn't Tesla's to give away to its employees.
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by sjwright 6y ago
And that appears to be another non sequitur. It was Elon's personal assets which caused those paychecks to exist in the first place. Elon has risked over 100% of his personal wealth on multiple occasions and there are moments in Tesla&
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by sjwright 6y ago
It's easy to see all the change caused by a union; it's harder to see all the change that didn't happen because of the union.
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by sjwright 6y ago
It is unreasonable to equate imposing something upon others and "imposing" nothing upon others. When all else is equal, the higher bar ought to be placed upon the imposition of additional layers of bureaucracy in other people&#x27

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