tabeth

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by tabeth 9y ago
1. When I did mention "income inequality"? 2. Your assertion "anyone who makes more than average is greedy" is your own opinion and claim. 3. "saying that humans are essentially always guilty of coveting" is al
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by tabeth 9y ago
I fail to see what socialism has to do with my comment. I am not even making a value judgment on whether or not superiority is bad, it's just an empirical fact.
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by tabeth 9y ago
That's a strange conclusion to make from my pretty innocent comment. Projection? Besides, pushing down someone and failing to aid them are not the same thing. I'm surprised there's even disagreement here. Our entire society i
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by tabeth 9y ago
Why does one oppress? Oppression is a symptom, not the cause.
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by tabeth 9y ago
If you think about it, all social problems stem from a single word: superiority. So, why can't America solve the hunger problem? Because there are some who want to be superior to others. The end. The main value of being a "have&qu
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by tabeth 9y ago
Your fingerprint can't be "genetically modified," but I'm surprised at the amount of false information here. Burning your fingers or deep cuts will give you a new fingerprint (usually "none") [1]. AFAIK you can
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by tabeth 9y ago
Plenty of students are more than willing and able to help other people, free of charge . I personally think it would be a better use of time cultivating that and structuring it to be of maximum benefit to the tutor and the reader/pers
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Show HN: jsblock – executable JavaScript snippets in your browser(github.com)
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by tabeth 9y ago
Looks neat. As an aside, why is it named after a woman? I'm genuinely curious.
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by tabeth 9y ago
I defined public information as having the property of: free access. I don't believe information inherently is public for the same reason I believe in privacy. is there public information? sure. there's also private information.
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by tabeth 9y ago
What? I didn't say finding 15K users and getting them to pay a cent an hour was easy. I said setting up a website that can easily support 15K users is. I've already provided instructions on how you can trivially setup a phpBB fo
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by tabeth 9y ago
hosting 15,000 users a month is trivial for a forum use case. building a forum is also trivial. you can literally do the entire thing in 15 minutes (buy a domain, use cPanel, install phpBB, done). I think 5K a month is more than appropriate
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by tabeth 9y ago
under this scheme any smart website owner would allow certain amounts of usage to be for free, and optimize discoverability for things that are of high value, a win for both them and the viewer.
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by tabeth 9y ago
I don't see how charging money is any more complicated than serving ads. Couldn't you trivially implement this with a NEED_TIP header and some javascript on the website that makes sure the user has paid (there are plenty of ways t
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by tabeth 9y ago
couldn't you say the same thing about full time employment vs. being a contractor or part timer? why can't people organize themselves if they want to?
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by tabeth 9y ago
i'm interested to know why you think information is a public good (implying free to access and consume). surely you can't actually believe that.
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by tabeth 9y ago
I'd rather someone implement a tipping API where I can allocate money per website per minute (or hour spent). When the money runs out, depending on the configuration, the website can choose to serve me the page or ask me to reload (on
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by tabeth 9y ago
Yeah, I thought that was pretty clear actually.
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by tabeth 9y ago
I think people are intentionally misleading by using a .org though. Otherwise, why not do a .com? Clearly they believe and/or know there's some sort of "social" aspect to it.
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by tabeth 9y ago
I wish there was a TLD that was regulated such that only a legitimate not for profit organization could have it, similar to .edu. Change having a .org TLD is incredibly misleading. It's not a non-profit, and no, B corporations do not
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by tabeth 9y ago
I have very mixed feelings about riding bikes in cities. The health benefits can be completely negated (or worse) depending on the air quality around where you are riding. There are certainly reasons to ride other than that -- speed, freedo
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by tabeth 9y ago
I'm still on the fence to whether or not the ability for big companies to give away free software is a net good or not. On one hand, schools theoretically have more money now to spend on mission critical things. On the other hand, the
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by tabeth 9y ago
funny how there's so much controversy to whether or not diet-poison is a lot worse than poison. fact is, virtually all beverages you can drink, except tea (barring a few variants) and a few types of black coffee are significantly worse
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by tabeth 9y ago
Your premise -- that [facts] are necessary to avoiding failure -- is false. What dictionary are you reading that defines a fact as being something necessary to avoid failure?
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by tabeth 9y ago
Friendship and community work better than both. I was actually in the middle of finding evidence to post, but its so numerous it really isn't necessary. Form good unconditional friendships and your happiness will exceed to new height
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by tabeth 9y ago
I agree that facts by definition are things that are true. I disagree that refusing to believe said facts makes you wrong, unless the discussion was solely centered around asserting said fact to be true or not. In my experience that's
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by tabeth 9y ago
Ah, I apologize. My intention was not to mock or patronize. I'd edit the post to make that more clear, but unfortunately I'm no longer able to edit.
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by tabeth 9y ago
Unfortunately there's no good general answer to this. One could say an email blast with a description of what you're trying to do with a credit card form would be the least possible work you could do. You're unlikely to get
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by tabeth 9y ago
It's so sad that we're still culturally at a point where people care so much what others think in terms of their appearance. I mean if someone is, god forbid, hearing impaired and are wearing a hearing aid (oh, the horror), what
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by tabeth 9y ago
This article doesn't address what I believe to be the actual problem: why should you "believe" in facts to begin with? Despite popular belief, there's no inherent reason to believe in facts. You could argue that factual

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