thedevil

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by thedevil 9y ago
> Why did we fire you? > You’ve driven the point home with your “Goolag” T-shirt and new twitter handle, @Fired4Truth. > You're wrong. > I shouldn’t have had to write this: I’m busy and a little effort on your part would ha
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by thedevil 9y ago
I learned to accept that I feel bad sometimes and it made me happier. But I went farther than that. I also learned to accept that my ideas and behaviors are inconsistent and it helped me better understand the world and myself. And finally,
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by thedevil 9y ago
Or (4) Two things that are good and just can conflict sometimes and cause challenges.
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by thedevil 9y ago
I'm an American and I used to say that I'm antiwar but what I really meant is that I'm anti-iraq-war, anti-Afghanistan-war, etc. I do think there are wars we should fight. We just haven't had any of those in my lifetime.
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by thedevil 9y ago
Thank you for your awesome response. It probably would have taken me hours of googling and reading to find these exact posts. A mere upvote is not enough of a thank you for such a quality reply.
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by thedevil 9y ago
In my state, there's a (fast) road that turns down under a bridge. From a distance, it kind of looks like I'm going to crash into the bridge. Even though I know the road wouldn't drive directly into the bridge, I slow down a
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by thedevil 9y ago
It was a cloudy day, near sunset, low humidity, the car was slightly cooler than outside, and we were acclimated to higher temperatures. 75 was not only safe, it was comfortable.
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by thedevil 9y ago
It actually is a misdemeanor in my state to leave a child unattended in a car if it's in public and there's risk of "hyperthermia, hypothermia, or dehydration." I looked it up after a stranger hung out at my car to nag m
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by thedevil 9y ago
tldr: Google founders have more voting rights than Apple executives. In case you didn't know, this impacts corporate behavior, especially dividends. I thought this would be about the way each interacted with customers, which is far m
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by thedevil 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_...
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by thedevil 9y ago
Note that GDP is only a proxy for value to society. It's based on what's measurable, not on what's valuable. Prisons and wars increase GDP but make us worse off. Likewise, many free apps (e.g. Google Maps) significantly imp
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by thedevil 9y ago
I'm going to go against the crowd and say that Uber survives as a business for now. They may scale back expansion and they might raise prices. They may even get acquired at a lower valuation. But I bet they'll still be operatin
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by thedevil 9y ago
That's way too many emojis for the purpose of quickly conveying high level information.
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by thedevil 9y ago
It's not that politics don't matter, it's that political discussions are not just useless - they're harmful. Political discussions almost always become emotional, rather than intellectual, discussions. They work on the
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by thedevil 9y ago
So every day on HN I see articles explaining 1) why Elon Musk and Tesla are great, 2) why Kalanik is evil and Uber is going to fail, and 3) why Trump is evil and stupid. This article comes very close to all three (only briefly mentioning
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by thedevil 9y ago
As a sincere question, why did people downvote this comment? I thought he was funny and I think lighthearted humor has value to it. It didn't seem snarky to me, did it to someone else? Did it seem off-topic? It's a joke rather t
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by thedevil 9y ago
It's interesting to note that China and India were the global economic juggernauts until only very recently: (first google result to demonstrate the point) https://infogr.am/Share-of-world-GDP-throughout-history
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by thedevil 9y ago
In my early 20s, I used to meet girls at a country swing dancing place. I was really nerdy and this gave me a chance to practice interacting with women and I got quite a few dates off of it. Some of my fellow nerds tried to do the same thi
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by thedevil 9y ago
> what it is that ostensibly makes RT so different from other media networks 1) Different kinds of propaganda. Fox, CNN, MSNBC are businesses that reflect the biases of audience, owners, employees, etc. RT bias is support of the Kremli
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by thedevil 9y ago
I thought it probably auto-updated in Linux (Mint) as it seems to on the rest of my devices. But I looked at my version, and checked Wikipedia and saw it was from a year ago.
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by thedevil 9y ago
Laziness. Although your comment will probably guilt me into finally doing an update. So, I think I owe you a "thanks"?
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by thedevil 9y ago
Not everyone knows basic UI principles and definitely not everyone has the skill of applying (and noticing) them. I derive a little educational value out of it. Although, if I'm honest, my main motivation in reading it is confirmation
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by thedevil 9y ago
Also: The new UI freezes up a lot. And when I try to log in from my linux laptop, it tells me I need a more modern browser (because my Chrome is a single year out of date?). But it's correct in telling me to use a different browser: Li
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by thedevil 10y ago
Shh.... don't give them ideas.
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by thedevil 10y ago
I always knew that lying to oneself is a good planned strategy for lying. But never thought that our natural tendency to deceive ourselves might have the ultimate purpose of helping us deceive others. This is why I love hacker news. I get
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by thedevil 10y ago
> but we made it that way ON PURPOSE Aside from everything else, why would you make animated squiggly lines on purpose? It's extremely irritating because it causes motion in my peripheral vision. I can't see how it adds value
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by thedevil 10y ago
As an HOA board member, I approve of this comment.
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by thedevil 10y ago
My personal experience is consistent with your second point. But I'd be careful about making conclusions from the suicide/antidepressant statistics. It's shown to be highly correlated to altitude. I've included a coupl
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by thedevil 10y ago
Comcast ripped me off much more than that. My HOA signed a (incredible bad) deal with Comcast to provide basic channels (the ones nobody wants) for $35/unit* * for 3 years. Then, Comcast's rep allegedly* forged the contract to l
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by thedevil 10y ago
I'm not sure that achieving a solution is the same as avoiding a problem. And it's not clear to me which has happened.

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