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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
right, you're not actually interested in helping people, that's the point. If you were, your response wouldn't be "you've done it, but that doesn't matter".
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
By designers I mean people who are involved in the design, I don't care what their official title is. Having said that, at no point do I really believe the role isn't involved in decisions like hiding the randomize button in iphon
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
The problem is that it's gone too far to the other side, aesthetics with little respect for function. It's akin to that office that has no desk because it would ruin the aesthetics. The desk has to be there, your challenge is (sh
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
interesting, thank you, I'll have to check that out.
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
I was skimming specifically looking for price and must have missed the earlier, cheaper, listings. And when they said that $818 price tag was "relatively cheap" I took that to mean that's the entry-level fee and decided to n
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
> Comments of the form "price X is unreasonable because I'd never pay it" are mildly annoying. You're an individual, not a market, and as such don't get to choose what a "reasonable" price is. When my g
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
In addition, my pet theory is that if society _really_ wanted to help poor black communities (as an example) they would start, not by throwing money at the school, but by throwing money at the _community_ around the school. "throwing
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
So your argument here is that someone didn't have the money for housing and the coping mechanism the non-drug addict chose is to start doing drugs? Typed out that way, does that still make sense in your head? This is not your typical c
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
The answer to your hypothetical question is because many people have mental illnesses that make them dangerous to be around in some shape or fashion to the point that only a state actor can safely step in and help.
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
For anyone reading this, just note that when you employ these tactics the value of accuracy gets lost. Because that's often what these things are, a test of the values considered important. If accuracy is not important, by all means,
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
> Recognizing privilege or advantages or whatever you want to call it has nothing to do with guilt and everything to do with empathy and understanding of the world around you. Pack it in boys, we're the generation that's finall
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
As someone who came from extreme poverty, I don't agree with this take at all. Yes, some people are in terrible circumstances due to forces beyond their control. But what you're doing is trying to convince everyone men should be
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
> Life is unfair and we are all different. What you do with your talents and resources is what counts. Not what some ancestor of yours did. It’s ridiculous. If you do feel privileged, give away your wealth. If you don’t, then don’t. But
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
Unless you've actually lived through it yourself, you yourself don't understand so there's no chance to instill this in your children. It would be akin to trying to get an extremely wealthy child to understand the experience
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
> the real answer to your question is; nobody, because this device seems to be a phone Well said, that's _exactly_ how I feel. I would 100% purchase a dedicated music device, but it can't be a glorified phone (I don't eve
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
Is that player comparison site still around, or do you have a recommendation for someone who has long had the thought of getting a dedicated music playing device? The article listed those as $800, which is ridiculous and there's no way
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
> Who IS the target market for something like this? It's almost as big as a phone, and costs as much as many phones... Me, but I aint paying $800 for it (if I understood the article correctly). Give me a walkman made specifically fo
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
Because this was all standardized back when interoperability meant standard fixed-length data formats that everyone had to understand rather than versioned API's and the inertia of the established file formats is too great. Hell, if yo
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
This is why I stayed away from Rails. I did a contract with a Rails shop and refused to renew it. Without Rails there's not a strong reason to use Ruby. It's a beautiful language, no doubt, but other languages fill its niche jus
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
They're describing former programmers who stopped when their role changed.
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
What do you mean might? Is there a major RDBMS out there that struggles with 150MB of data?
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
you're giving a completely different, physical example with a clear risk if said policy isn't followed. What should they have done in this case that didn't involve flat out preventing it?
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
It's possible for people to genuinely dislike the smell for whatever you have in mind for "ethnic". And they have a right to that. Which is why this thing needs to be thrown out on its head. Whatever ethnicity also has a ri
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
I know of no place on earth that has banned smoking in or around your own property because it offends the nose of neighbors. That doesn't mean private places haven't made the decision to be smoke free, I certainly don't allow
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
sure, but you're not suing your neighbor over it or claiming you have some right to determine what they can and cannot due to do an annoying smell. We all deal with things we don't necessarily enjoy.
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
Said poster is going to have to accept that it's legal and in 20 years no one is going to give a crap about their opinion. It's just fresh and this is just a way for people to try and enforce their own morality around the use of i
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
That's not about the smell.
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
If a neighbor comes and tells me my grilling is a fire hazard, we'll talk about it. If they tell me they don't like the smell, quite frankly I don't give a shit. But here's the thing. I used to live next to a neighbor w
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
The only interpretation of this post that isn't a clear strawman is that you're implying smells are akin to physical violence.
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by tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y ago
> implies that unhappiness pushes one to become a philosopher because they start thinking about how they became unhappy. I see, thank you for the explanation. That's definitely not how I view philosophy or the motivations of those

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