trav4225

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   by trav4225 11y ago

   but... but... THE CLOUD! ;-)
2. 332.▲
   by trav4225 11y ago

   Ow, if that's true then we're all doomed. ;-)
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   by trav4225 11y ago

   I think many of us agree that "society therefore suffers when the best ideas do not necessarily compete on an equal footing". Where many of us disagree is regarding the extent to which we have the moral license to do anything abou
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   by trav4225 11y ago

   "I’m going to be charitable here and assume that PG is not arguing against those that want to, literally, end economic inequality completely [...] I’ve never met anyone arguing for this." Interesting. Perhaps I'm misinterpret
5. 335.▲
   by trav4225 11y ago

   This.
6. 336.▲
   by trav4225 11y ago

   Personally, I'm still not quite sure why this needs to be regulated...
7. 337.▲
   by trav4225 11y ago

   Hah, when I first read the headline, I thought the theory put forth was going to be that $250,000 is below middle class. :)
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   by trav4225 11y ago

   IMHO, at the end of the day, how we interact with fellow man matters incomparably more than things like "technology, scientific progress, our guided evolution as a species". If we discard the social component, we risk truly becomi
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   by trav4225 11y ago

   Demand-based pricing.
10. 340.▲
    by trav4225 11y ago

    Interesting. Unfortunately most of their energy still falls outside the common notion of "green energy" in the US: "Three-quarters of Costa Rica's electricity is generated by hydroelectric plants"
11. 341.▲
    by trav4225 11y ago

    oops, thanks!
12. 342.▲
    by trav4225 11y ago

    This made me chuckle. Sarcasm, guys! No need to downvote him! :-)
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    by trav4225 11y ago

    Thanks for your opinion! I sympathize with much of it. I hope everyone here understands that I was not intending to be condescending, nor do I look down upon others for their opinions on this eternally divisive issue. The main purpose for m
14. 344.▲
    by trav4225 11y ago

    UPSERT!
15. 345.▲
    by trav4225 11y ago

    on a similar note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dogs
16. 346.▲
    by trav4225 11y ago

    Free speech, European style.
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    by trav4225 11y ago

    I truly have no intention of sounding callous here, but aren't the words of trolls just... words? The concern about trolling doesn't make any sense to me... is this simply because I predate the social justice generation? Why would
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    by trav4225 11y ago

    I assume the idea is to reward trolls by giving them a larger audience..? ;-)
19. 349.▲
    by trav4225 11y ago

    But "brainfAsteriskUck" doesn't quite roll off the tongue... ;-)
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    by trav4225 11y ago

    Yeah, agreed. I found myself wondering why he kept referring to "reliability". Perhaps he defines it to include data integrity, but it didn't come across that way to me. I kept thinking to myself "nobody I know uses ECC
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    by trav4225 11y ago

    Hah! I just realized that "Kids these Days" would make the perfect alternate name for Hacker News! ;-) P.S. My lawn: get off.
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    by trav4225 11y ago

    My apologies. I believe my intent was misinterpreted. I was not, in the slightest, commenting on the need for social services; I was commenting on the general cultural attitude that children need to be constantly coddled and, tangentially,
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    by trav4225 11y ago

    I generally agree with you. When I was growing up we weren't this (over?)-protective. Culturally, it was a completely different world from today. :) Anyway, in the United States, most school districts operate their own bus systems and,
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    by trav4225 11y ago

    The current cultural trend in the United States is essentially that its citizens are helpless and need the government to do everything for them and to protect them from themselves. ;-) If two parents left for work and let their 6-year-old w
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    by trav4225 11y ago

    As far as I can tell, "a police state" is one of the apparent goals of progressivism.
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    by trav4225 11y ago

    ;-)
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    by trav4225 11y ago

    Web browsers are massive, bloated turds that need to die.
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    by trav4225 11y ago

    In my universe, the beginning of accessible homebrew computing was Don Lancaster's TTL-based TV Typewriter and his "TV Typewriter Cookbook". This first lit the spark for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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    by trav4225 11y ago

    Fry's Electronics filled this role rather amazingly back in the '80s (before they transformed themselves into the low-end version of Best Buy that they seem to be today).
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    by trav4225 11y ago

    Gotcha. Understood.