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by tedks 12y ago
Love the subtle approach into "Ada isn't popular because people are irrational and believe things that are totally off-base from reality." I've never hacked Ada; it seems to have been totally eclipsed by languages like O
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by tedks 12y ago
>Uhm, that was 60+ years ago. How old are you? Are your parents still alive? Are your grandparents? Surprise surprise, when you overthrow a country's democratically elected government to grab some oil, people tend to remember it f
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by tedks 12y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=1984+kindle+mass+deletion
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by tedks 12y ago
You're allowed to write it, sure. But if you try to distribute it, it'll be deleted off of people's kindles, and they'll be added to the NSA watchlist. We have a control state with a mostly-working "free" eco
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by tedks 12y ago
Reddit Enhancement Suite, a ubiquitous browser extension, shows the link karma, comment karma, and account age of any username that you hover over. So, it's totally possible that, like others have said, people deciding which request to
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by tedks 12y ago
This comment was killed -- mods, why? It's the only comment in this thread mentioning image occlusion, a hugely powerful anki technique. I've reproduced it below in it's entirety. """ Medical student here. I&#x
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by tedks 12y ago
>This appears to assume that it's all but impossible to legitimately hold the opposing point of view, or be able to articulate it, without there being a script involved? You're reading a lot into "probably." I'd
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by tedks 13y ago
It promotes "snitch culture." Which you might pattern-match with gang talk about "no snitching" until you realize that the ultimate snitch culture was the Soviet Union and satellites. What's wrong with a snitch line
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by tedks 13y ago
But some things are. So some comments, probably the best, most convincing ones, the ones with the most time and effort spent on them, are sockpuppets from the American military. There's no "parallel construction" or "fal
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by tedks 13y ago
No, it demonstrates that things that the Linux kernel adopts tend to get adopted. That isn't very surprising. Git being faster than the dVCS's of the time probably helped. Popularity doesn't equate to quality. QWERTY is still
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by tedks 13y ago
>What I've found is many people like to complain about a lack of privacy, but are willing to make no real sacrifices to get more of it. At some point in the lifetime of a technology, choosing not to use that technology is tantamount
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by tedks 13y ago
Oh no. Not on your life. It would be better for the entire world if Linus had a heart attack rather than rewriting Make. Make is already unusable; git-style make would be an abomination. Can you even imagine reading the man pages of all t
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by tedks 13y ago
No, it's the same in every field, because the process of getting tenure in about every field is the same: publish lots of times. "Lots" might be different in different fields, but it still comes down to "publish a lot.&q
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by tedks 13y ago
Psychology tends to be picked on more because it's easier to understand and communicate. Researchers in psychology tend to be in areas that have names that are meaningful to humans (like "short term memory" or "interpers
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by tedks 13y ago
>This, like most stereotypes, is built around a core of experience, and then expounded. No, like other stereotypes, it is wrong, and mostly perpetuated by the same myth-engines that power urban legends. >With a lot of vegans, its ofte
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by tedks 13y ago
Cheese is made from milk. Milk is produced by mammals that have recently given birth. Cows are not an exception. Every dairy product you have consumed is built from milk stolen from a calf. That calf is immediately separated from its mother
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by tedks 13y ago
But don't you want to see the HN headlines once the startup scene gets involved with nuclear weapons? * Nukey (W16) aims to "disrupt global thermonuclear warfare" * Show HN: My Nuclear-Silo as a Service sideproject (NSaaS) *
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by tedks 13y ago
Do you need to separate Tolkien from his work? I like consuming Tolkien-related media as much as anyone on HN, but there's little denying its racist and sexist overtones.
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by tedks 13y ago
>Intelligence is just a skill, more precisely a meta-skill that defines your ability to get new skills. But imagination is a fucking superpower. Isn't this the core inconsistency? Intelligence explosion advocates obviously believe t
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by tedks 13y ago
>And I thought boycotts were supposed to be the free-market way of changing company policy. Boycotts are what shrill activists on the losing side engage with. The free-market way to change company policy is to start a new company and mak
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by tedks 13y ago
This isn't an argument for systemd at all; it's an argument against supporting any OS with more than one user. If your OS doesn't matter enough to demand support, it's well within my rights as a developer to ignore you
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by tedks 13y ago
Holy crap, Microsoft donating to the Linux Foundation. Cats and dogs, living together. It's the end of days for real this time. My one real question: How well has the Linux Foundation managed its money in the past? Are they going to be
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by tedks 13y ago
Does anyone really care, though? This is the free market deciding that non-Linux unixes aren't worth anyone's time. If you believe in the free market, you should either stop complaining and get on the winning team, or hole up in B
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by tedks 13y ago
>(and specifically, they don’t silence minority groups—we’ve looked into this) How have you looked into this, and what have the results been? What efforts are you going to take to ensure it stays true in the future? There are other comme
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by tedks 13y ago
It's a fallacy that all technology can be criticized for banality. Technologies are different. Some are more criticizable than others. Telephone was the first infrastructure to provide real-time voice communication. It enables families
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by tedks 13y ago
It is incredibly, blindingly privileged to say that internalized oppression is the worst form of oppression. Being oppressed is the worst form of oppression. And, for people who aren't white men, oppression is a lived reality, not an a
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by tedks 13y ago
Undergrads won't open that link, and grad students and faculty are too busy. To really do damage, you need to create something that'll go viral, and piggyback the link on it. Undergrads will click anything that looks fun. Make it
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by tedks 13y ago
The Soviet Union did actually fall, as well; that was before globalization. Iran will never fall while the world buys its oil. China will never fall while it makes your computer. But this point is too far afield to be useful here.
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by tedks 13y ago
The goals that you set -- are they objective, dependent upon a real configuration of the real world such that your goal is achieved, or are they purely subjective, dependent only upon your opinion that the goal is complete? Since you se
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by tedks 13y ago
>but look at how difficult it is for autocratic regimes of the world today to suppress human curiosity. Westerners say that, as if the Reganesque march of progress will destroy any and all nation-states not ideologically subservient to t

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