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by unit91 9y ago
> cheaper over their own long term benefit You're assuming you know better than millions who believe cheaper IS in their long term benefit. Quite a sweeping statement!
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by unit91 9y ago
It's amazing to me how many people think luck is a causal force.
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by unit91 9y ago
Well, there's nothing I can really do about it. When I hit "delete", my company email doesn't actually get deleted. It just disappears from my view. I believe the stated policy is they delete after 3 years post "d
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by unit91 9y ago
Do you realize this would tax people for breathing?
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by unit91 9y ago
>...has turned the US armed forces into a standing mercenary force. This statement makes no sense. A mercenary is "a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army " [1]. It's impossible to be a mercenary for your
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by unit91 9y ago
Short-term, that's not the worst thing on earth when you've got a combat mission to execute, and you need working tanks. Long-term, you're absolutely right. Somebody needs to solve the problem.
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by unit91 9y ago
Well, there's a huge difference in the mindset of deployed grunts vs stateside red-tape laden behemoths. When you're deployed and something important breaks, you have a BIG problem. The impact is usually somewhere between you bei
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by unit91 9y ago
Pilot Varsity. Good enough, no messing with the ink.
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by unit91 9y ago
Last time Indiana Jones tried that, the whole cave collapsed and guys were waiting with blow guns. Have you learned nothing ?! :) ETA: And he almost lost his hat ! Come on man!
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by unit91 9y ago
Oh wow that's really smart. Thanks!
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by unit91 9y ago
What?! How'd they get that black-and-white picture of me? :)
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by unit91 9y ago
Thank you, inetknight, brave Knight of the Internet.
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by unit91 9y ago
I think your sarcasm detector is malfunctioning this morning.
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by unit91 9y ago
Exactly
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by unit91 9y ago
> This system is completely stable—I double-checked with computer simulations. I would think that's a hilarious joke if the author didn't seem so serious.
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by unit91 9y ago
For real, good grief. Telescopic lenses and office windows also exist.
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by unit91 9y ago
That Minecraft CPU video from the article was amazing. It never would have even occurred to me to make such a thing.
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by unit91 9y ago
>I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus’ thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. There's certainly no
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by unit91 9y ago
This coming from a user named "solipsism". What do you mean by "you"?
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by unit91 9y ago
> Children being born today If they even make it that far. We're not so civilized after all...
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by unit91 9y ago
I was a Fortran developer for a few years in the Aerospace business. After a while, I got sick of 1977 and just wanted to be a "regular" full stack guy. At the time Rails 2.X was current and Clojure was pretty new. Both looked p
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by unit91 9y ago
You've assumed that Harvard is, or should be, the goal of healthy parenting. If you have kids, stop doing this to them. You're their father/mother. Love, nurture, train, and instruct them to be good people. If they go to H
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by unit91 9y ago
> stay at home dad Most (not all) of the time I've observed this, "stay at home dad" is a euphemism for "lazy bum".
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by unit91 9y ago
TIL: not everybody talks this way. Y'all get it together! :-)
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by unit91 9y ago
I know the term, I was saying it seems to be used much more frequently around here than in any of my other circles.
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by unit91 9y ago
Ah, thanks for that insight. It all makes sense now...
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by unit91 9y ago
Also ironic: "shibboleth" seems to be the new favorite buzzword of the HN shibboleth.
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by unit91 9y ago
I didn't say, nor do I think, that Microsoft has fewer features, more bugs, and lower profit than everybody else. Rather, that the goals of pretty much everyone in the software business are features, fewest bugs possible, and most pr
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by unit91 9y ago
New features, fewer bugs, increased profitability... that is, towards the goals of pretty much any (software) company.
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by unit91 9y ago
If you couldn't, vocabulary would be impossible.

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