towaway1138

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by towaway1138 8y ago
This sort of moral panic should be slapped down hard. The 1890s are over, and no, we don't need to protect our womenfolk from perverts who went to med school hoping for free gropes, no matter what races are involved. It's time to
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by towaway1138 8y ago
I bought this when it came out, but thought it was horrible. The only good bit was the preface by one of the Unix authors (Ritchie?). The rest just seemed like whining by people that didn't really get the Unix philosophy.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Probably largely random. But beyond that, they sound like the diametric opposite of upstanding and boring citizens, so not really that surprising?
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by towaway1138 8y ago
This doesn't seem particularly unreasonable. This is a poor method of funding education, and rife with all sorts of potential for abuse. Not to mention that generally we want the poor kids in the district to be funded as well as the
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by towaway1138 8y ago
From my perspective, news has become far more angry and vicious in the last couple of years. Writers who in the past were more or less kindly and factual (if sometimes a bit goofy) have started putting out really hateful stuff. It's
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by towaway1138 8y ago
I'm aware of these, and to a degree suffer from them directly--I just don't think "left to die" is an appropriate description. Furthermore, the group most affected by these issues, aging white males, are also the group
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Shockingly ignorant, as usual. No one in our society is "left to die" because they don't have a job.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Went on a job-hunting trip there a couple of years ago. Certainly many nice things about it. But after considering its problems, and the local toxic politics that appear to stand in the way of progress towards solutions, we nope'd ou
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by towaway1138 8y ago
My alternative is to think carefully before hitting return. As a bonus, this works for other commands, too. Also, '\rm', as many distributions insist on aliasing 'rm' by default.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Maybe so, but I still want a surgeon who's going to get the job done. http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-yo...
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by towaway1138 8y ago
You're arguing for limiting speech. I'm arguing against.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
> the material changes this rise in anti-intellectual, conspiracy minded, anti-science free speech crusaders are attempting to cause You lost me here, as in my experience, such activity has been in significant decline over my lifetime.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Some believe in the three laws. Downvoters, not so much. :-/
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Note that the laws of thermodynamics only specify the minimum number of calories you must consume (i.e., to not lose weight, or to not die). There is no real maximum to the amount of calories your body can waste (as heat or by excretion).
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by towaway1138 8y ago
So? Yes, they will continue organic growth in NYC, like everywhere else. The HQ plan would have been a massive jump and very likely an increased growth rate thereafter. That won't happen now.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Maybe, but I still want my surgeon to really good at surgery.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
This would be awesome if I get to choose what I consider to be toxic. I'm not interested in Google's opinion.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Fair enough. But please don't post such links on HN.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
I have. My gross is now about one-third of what it was a few years ago. Briefly, a really ugly divorce that I didn't see coming pretty much sucked the life out of me. I'm inferring that you have a family to support. (If it&#x27
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by towaway1138 8y ago
This is an outstanding article with life-changing insights. Everyone should read it. Certainly explains a lot of awful and baffling things I've seen and experienced. Unfortunately, though it lays out the problem clearly, it doesn&#x2
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Arguably rpm/yum is still a kludge compared to dpkg/apt.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Also ran into this. Even had a Google manager I've known for years go to bat for me internally. No dice. Which is crazy, since web logs would have shown that the account was completely and always under my control. Like a distant god
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by towaway1138 8y ago
No, but there's a lot to be said for knocking down the easy 90-95% of it...
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by towaway1138 8y ago
So many tasteless jokes--so little time. Also, it's 2019... :-(
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by towaway1138 8y ago
There are a lot of ways to judge this, but obvious candidates would be GNU Emacs, the GNU coreutils packages, etc., and the Linux kernel itself. (Probably also the BSDs, though I don't know these.)
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Anyone complaining about gendered voices seriously needs to get a life. If I call the airline, should I really be outraged that the person answering sounds like a female? Or alternatively, a male?
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by towaway1138 8y ago
The article seems to hint that men selecting younger women is some sort of moral or character issue, which strikes me as crap. The right reason for not dating someone a decade younger (regardless of your gender) is that young people are st
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Came here for the dumpster fire, was not disappointed. My own take: Erotica is a good thing to the degree that it takes the edge off of libido. Being dragged around by your "little man" is a curse, and your life will greatly impr
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by towaway1138 8y ago
What an ass.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Maybe it's unavoidable, but this is very sad to me. A library cannot simultaneously be a flophouse for the homeless and an institution for learning for kids. And unfortunately, in many cities, we've decided that the former matte

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