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by unalone 17y ago
If I thought that by taking heroin I wouldn't be missing out on anything else in life, I'd have no problem with it. Problem is, I think life is pretty awesome. I feel bad for people who think that life sucks. It takes a certain willingness
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by unalone 17y ago
Ask yourself what it is about Modern Warfare 2 that you like so much. Is it the violence? The community? The adrenaline? The nostalgia you've built up for the maps you play on? (These might be way out of line. I've never played MW2.) A lot
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by unalone 17y ago
I like taking out the trash because it makes my place less smelly. Like, there's a logic to doing some of those things beyond just "somebody told me." But in other situations you find yourself doing things maybe you don't have to do.
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by unalone 17y ago
Heh. I disagree with you on both counts. Guess it goes to show how varying individual tastes are. I like the blue buttons. They're very playful, which is what Google wants. I also like that they don't look like ordinary OS X buttons on the
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by unalone 17y ago
That's understandable. There're more shades to socialism than just the one that gets used again and again in America. It's why this entire conversation is so ridiculous. Neither Paul nor the majority of the commenters here has a clue about
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by unalone 17y ago
What the fuck is that supposed to mean? What does Western Europe have that makes it instantly capable of supporting any random-ass system? It's not like Europe's some magical land of milk and honey. The fact that socialism works in Europe i
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by unalone 17y ago
> they are forms of taxation that allocate the cost of using the tax-supported, publicly available resource rather well. ...which is how socialism functions, by every definition of socialism. But you're sidestepping the argument. In a
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by unalone 17y ago
This isn't about communism. It's about socialism, which has an impressive track record.
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by unalone 17y ago
We could take the circuitous route of pointing out our oil addiction, then pointing out how oil lobbyists strongly influenced our invading Iraq and piling up an estimated hundred thousand deaths. Or we could talk about the sweat shop syst
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by unalone 17y ago
Capitalism has killed millions too, and not just an abstraction of it posing under the name. Capitalism makes human abuse profitable. The best way to restrain that abuse requires practices that are currently being attacked in Amerca for bei
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by unalone 17y ago
You can charge money for a webapp. You just have to use PayPal rather than Apple's built-in procedure. That's fair, right? It's just as fair as buying any other application would be. I just installed two webapps on my iPod and they're quick
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by unalone 17y ago
Dismissing socialism is as silly as dismissing capitalism would be. There is no simple answer to society: The best combination is a mixture of many things. There'll be hints of socialism there. Similarly, perhaps Paul was criticized for his
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by unalone 17y ago
No. I'm saying there are two ways to call the sky a sunken grey cunt. The first is to strive earnestly to describe the sky in just the right way to define the sky. When you decide the proper thing to call the sky is a cunt, then you might
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by unalone 17y ago
It's not worth worrying about. I know I have a tendency to violate HN guidelines about civility when I think the other side's not being civil; downvotes are part of it. I'm not a fan of downvotes on web sites because they let one or two peo
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by unalone 17y ago
Funny that you ignore the response I made arguing that "deep smart lonely" claim to parrot it yet again. I like how in this thread, you ignore all my posts where I'm directly responding to your accusations and focus only on the ones where I
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by unalone 17y ago
Funny. I don't read to brag. Not because reading Ulysses wasn't an important part of my life — it was. But when I brag, I brag about things I've made , not other people's things I've consumed. Fortunately for both of us, I can confirm that
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by unalone 17y ago
> Those dozens of pages aren't boring, they're mostly terrific, but the density can be overwhelming. I think you know this and you talk about this a bit in your post, but in this comment you kinda gloss over this and overshoot your targ
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by unalone 17y ago
It's more whimsical than sardonic. It's too absurd to be taken seriously.
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by unalone 17y ago
Fair enough. I don't have a problem with Lil Wayne. I don't think he's particularly distinguished as a musician, though. He doesn't do anything that's really pushing at boundaries, and so when I go looking for music he kind of slips away. T
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by unalone 17y ago
Seriously? Hacker News has degenerated to outright flaming?
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by unalone 17y ago
That's a term he uses right from the beginning, no explanation given. The mystery of what a sports racer was is one of the things he used to build together a community. The speed at which his site grew in that week is remarkable, and the co
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by unalone 17y ago
The camera cuts were a terrific idea production-wise. It let him produce his videos very quickly and maintain a degree of quality. The Show was quite an undertaking. It's hit-and-miss, but it's hit-and-miss in a good way, where it's obvious
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by unalone 17y ago
Ze Frank is one of those few and fascinating people online who's able to combine a plethora of interests and create work that's both memorable and touching. He's got the same melancholy whimsy that _why the lucky stiff did. Dunno why Ze Fra
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by unalone 17y ago
That's subvocalization. But you can read without subvocalizing and still figure out tone as you read. The problem I had reading Ulysses when I tried at fifteen was the opposite. I was so bent on reading Ulysses as Serious Great Literature t
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by unalone 17y ago
Oh! I didn't realize it was you. :-) I'll be the first to accuse me of a certain sloppiness. I usually try to write as quickly as possible and I don't look back over what I write before I publish. For pieces I want to submit places I do a m
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by unalone 17y ago
Fair enough. Though recent alternatives to Hacker News have lessened a lot of those posts, and I'm glad. Stack Overflow in particular has drawn away a lot of newbie questions (including many of my own that I'd have probably asked here). Now
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by unalone 17y ago
You don't sound harsh. You sound like any other punkass with a short patience. Take five seconds and look at anything else I've done. It's not like I'm coming out of nowhere and saying these things. I'm the Hacker News presence that writes
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by unalone 17y ago
Being a hacker doesn't mean embracing unnecessary clutter. In fact, many people would argue it's the opposite. I don't do complicated and geeky. I'm smart enough to figure it out, but I have better things to do than subscribe to an asshole
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by unalone 17y ago
I do. Since that post went up, I've received quite a few emails from people thanking me for that drivel, too. So I guess it's not drivel after all? If my goal was to write simplistic, overemoting drivel, I'd have namedropped Bukowski instea
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by unalone 17y ago
Here's my big Wordpress problem: It adds too much shit to a default install. Sidebar? Archives? Tag lists? Blogroll? Datestamping? Comment numbers? When I install Wordpress I immediately have to go in and remove everything . It gives me so

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