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by sushisource 5y ago
Sure it's a loose analogy, but keeping with it: You're gonna starve either way. Might as well try to do something about that.
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by sushisource 5y ago
Even ignoring the other quality replies to this comment, this just seems to me an insane viewpoint. It's kinda like saying "I'm starving, but I won't eat any of the food on this table because I don't like it".
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by sushisource 5y ago
Bad for the free world? That's a bit of a fucking stretch. I think you can pretty comfortably argue the power and e-waste situation created by PoW is much worse for the "free world" than a slightly stronger consensus mechanis
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by sushisource 5y ago
And TikTok at 8% is only 5 years old. The point isn't "everyone uses different stuff" the point is "creating new things outside of the existing framework is possible" and I still think that is very much true.
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by sushisource 5y ago
Huh? People refer to corny one liners from Arnie movies too, that doesn't mean they had a philosophical impact on the way those people think about guns, or whatever. Hackers is a hilarious and fun over the top movie but I don't th
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by sushisource 5y ago
I mean that's fair, but we're talking about airlifting some poor dogs with a cool drone, not exactly a common thing that will lead to long term problems.
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by sushisource 5y ago
People act irrationally when it comes to their feelings on preserving life. Human or animal. I think it's pretty lame to say "Well, we shouldn't save one particular being because we're not maximally saving the most being
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by sushisource 5y ago
To contrast, I think maybe you're being a bit overly cynical. What evidence is there of that happening? Even if they did, is that such a bad thing? Can the guy not want to both save the dogs and make a cool video? They're not mutu
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by sushisource 5y ago
It's just about how it's colloquially used. Even in industry we mostly call ourselves software engineers / developers, but if people say "Computer Scientist", especially in the context, it's generally understoo
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by sushisource 5y ago
What an awful story, I'm sorry you had to endure that. My undergrad is in applied math and I would never even dream of calling myself a "mathematician", so, yeah, tells you a lot about the guy.
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by sushisource 5y ago
Apparently the government doesn't test on Firefox
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by sushisource 5y ago
Sort of hilariously overkill. Was the little guy really gonna chow down on thousands of nuts each of which is probably a days meal for him?
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by sushisource 5y ago
If the limiting factor for a candidate who is "passing" your bar is typing speed, then nearly by definition you have asked the wrong question to evaluate the candidate. Also in the "not sure if this is bad satire or just bad&
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by sushisource 5y ago
Time wise, absolutely true, but as someone who is a reasonably seasoned runner I can say my 3:30 marathon feels lightyears away from 2:00. It doesn't sound 10x harder, it sounds impossibly harder.
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by sushisource 5y ago
Heh, for a minute there I thought you meant Warhammer 40k books specifically, and I thought that was a pretty funny thing to be scraping from HN :)
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by sushisource 5y ago
Sounds like "haters gonna hate" is as old as it gets.
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by sushisource 5y ago
Why is the NSA so good at coming up with sweet codenames for things? I swear it's someone's full time job there.
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by sushisource 5y ago
Not sure I buy that. The articles could be framed as "We need to pass legislation to prevent behavior like X, which for example Amazon participates in" But that just doesn't generate the clicks like "Amazon is evil"
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by sushisource 5y ago
It's not. In general this sort of opinion seems to very much be in the current zeitgeist. Amazon should just be nicer and stop exploiting workers! AirBnB should solve the housing issues in major cities for them! Etc etc. It just... doe
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by sushisource 5y ago
Very true, and yet, enormous swaths of the corporate world do exactly this all day every day.
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by sushisource 5y ago
Many, many times is when it's been a problem. Even your analogy is lame, because it's not like that. The "money" is what you're looking for. It's like being mad that your wallet is so stuffed with pointless exp
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by sushisource 5y ago
Haha, from the article: > We live in a culture where millions of people want to get rich quick — exhibit A: cryptocurrency, something that has no intrinsic value except as use as a form of exchange outside the banking system I mean, a lo
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by sushisource 5y ago
> It's just completely worthless for providing any insight I dunno, I think you might be surprised by how many people genuinely do not seem to understand it. It's valuable to them if they are willing to listen, problem is a lot
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by sushisource 5y ago
I hope people will use Spotify as a case study in how to fuck up a UI over time. The service itself is fine, I quite like some of the music it finds for me on discover, but the UI is on a slow death march towards complete uselessness, and s
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by sushisource 5y ago
I take your point for sure, but, that's not really what we're comparing against, is it? The comparison is more like google drive, or whatever MS's version of that is now. At that point the distinction seems relatively minor t
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by sushisource 5y ago
I agree, but seemingly that hasn't mattered or helped much? Apple is a more valuable company in terms of market cap, and almost certainly a more 'loved' company in terms of mindshare. Many people thought they'd be doomed
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by sushisource 5y ago
That page 24 image was exactly where I felt the otter metaphor was perhaps being stretched to its breaking point.
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by sushisource 5y ago
Or octopodes
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by sushisource 5y ago
What you're saying really boils down to whether or not you think capitalism makes sense, which is a much bigger argument, but ignoring that -- Who defines "should be earning"? You? Currently, we let the market determine it. I
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by sushisource 5y ago
Agree. I also just completely fail to understand what the problem is here. I have 16 tabs currently open in firefox on my MBP. Everything is snappy. On my desktop (which to be fair, is very powerful) I have maybe 40 or so tabs, the majority

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