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by useragent86 5y ago
This is none of my business, and I should probably refrain from offering unsolicited advice. However, in the interest of one human being looking out for another: ** Friend, the best thing a person like you could have done in a situation li
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by useragent86 6y ago
This bigoted, anti-religion, ad-hominem ranting would result in a stern chastisement, or even an outright ban by dang for "ideological flamewar" were it not posted by a user with 14k karma points. And it's far from the only
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by useragent86 6y ago
Really? You actually repeat yourself again after I just pointed out your repeating yourself? You: "Capitalism is failing people!" Me: "Actually, it's enabled much prosperity around the world, so that only a small minori
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by useragent86 6y ago
This is a great example of how public perception has been manipulated by the media. In fact, the Obama DOJ set Flynn up, sending two FBI agents to question him before the transition to the new administration. They pretended that he was not
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by useragent86 6y ago
Which effectively translates to, "Stop resisting! Assimilate! Tell me how many lights you see!" Some people here have yet to learn that HN is not a forum for free, open-minded discussion.
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by useragent86 6y ago
You didn't even respond to a single thing I said. You just repeated your original claim that, "Capitalism is failing them." That's tantamount to propaganda--keep repeating yourself until people believe you. You sound j
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by useragent86 6y ago
If you care about the truth, it's your responsibility to find it, not to demand that I feed it to you. You are on the Internet, after all, and since DNS has yet to be censored, you can still seek alternative sources. Now, you place th
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by useragent86 6y ago
I've mostly given up on HN as a forum for free discussion, because the mods' endorsement of downvote-for-disagreement results in comments like yours (reasonable, historically informed, advocating liberty and actual human rights) b
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by useragent86 6y ago
> This is a very conspiratorial vision of things. History is full of conspiracies. > Really, it's just that social networks work by having a lot of people, and lots of people are on Twitter because other people are on Twitter (I
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by useragent86 6y ago
Those characterizations of yours make it sound really bad. Yet, the quality of life in America, as well as around the world, has improved drastically. How many people have luxuries like cell phones, computers, TVs, cars, refrigerators, ind
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by useragent86 6y ago
I looked at those links. Here's what I got from them: 1. Tutorials "are lessons that take the reader by the hand through a series of steps." They "are oriented towards learning how." 2. How-to guides "take t
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by useragent86 6y ago
So, according to 'adwn, it's "not okay" to ask rhetorical questions to make a point in a conversation, because 'adwn feels like he can read the intentions in my mind, and they're ignoble. Pretty sure that readi
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by useragent86 6y ago
> That's not how discussions work around here. Yes, I know--offering obvious expository answers to obviously rhetorical questions is how discussions work around here. ;) > I assume that those two hypotheticals were intended as c
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by useragent86 6y ago
Thanks, but those questions were meant as exercises for the poster I replied to. ;)
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by useragent86 6y ago
The Salvation Army has a long history of feeding and clothing people in need, including homosexual people.
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by useragent86 6y ago
> there is no practical difference between 1 and 2 since your motivation only exists in your head while the real world effects are the same. Is there a practical difference between someone choosing to join your cause and your coercing so
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by useragent86 6y ago
> ICE were probably breaking the law when they engaged in child separation. Didn't the Ninth Circuit federal court order ICE to follow this practice? See the Flores Consent Decree.
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by useragent86 6y ago
You could look it up on Wikipedia. KDE and Qt are Free Software.
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by useragent86 6y ago
> Half of the utilities I install out of the box on a fresh macOS are built in, and the annoying stuff that used to be editing arcane files is now easy preference settings That's been the case with KDE for 15-20 years now. KDE 3.5
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by useragent86 7y ago
> But on the other hand, emacs w/o 3rd party packages and personal customizations isn't really Emacs! Certainly it is! There are many users who have used Emacs for decades who have only a handful of lines in their init files a
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by useragent86 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic#United_State... CDC estimates that between 43 million and 89 million cases of 2009 H1N1 occurred between April 2009 and 10 April 2010. The mid-level in this range is abo
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by useragent86 7y ago
In that case, I recommend using `general`, which is designed to make configuring EVIL keymaps very easy. It also provides a `use-package` keyword. I use it for all of my keybindings even though I don't use EVIL. https://gi
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by useragent86 7y ago
> Like I mentioned, these are just a couple problems from a longer list. Occasionally, I pick one and (try) to solve it. If I tried to solve them all, I wouldn't have much time left for anything else. :-) > My more general point
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by useragent86 7y ago
> I think it's just the nature of a huge system implemented (mostly) in a dynamically typed, dynamically scoped (!) (though, happily, more and more less and less) language to be partly broken all of the time. To be clear, Elisp has
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by useragent86 7y ago
> I still haven't found a way to make my custom keybindings just work everywhere; every so often I happen to end up with focus in a window where, for example, my normal window navigation bindings don't work and I'd have to
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by useragent86 7y ago
No, it has been demonstrated that servers can detect whether a request is being downloaded or piped to a shell, so they can vary the response accordingly, sending safe-looking content to a user who's inspecting it, and sending maliciou
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by useragent86 7y ago
I don't think this is a good idea: > There are quite a few new things in Plasma 5.18's System Settings. First and foremost is the optional User Feedback settings. These are disabled by default to protect your privacy. > That
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by useragent86 7y ago
IME Emacs provides a very pleasant way to write regexps using the rx library. ELPA also has the package xr, which converts Elisp regexps to rx format, and pcre2el converts PCRE to Elisp. So a regexp like \b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+
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by useragent86 7y ago
I linked to an archive of the GitHub issue in question and the reporter's own blog article about it. Are those not primary sources? And you've linked to Reddit?
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by useragent86 7y ago
The point you have made repeatedly is that other programmers should aspire to use the style you prefer, even if they currently find it difficult to read. In this comment you make the opposite point: that one should write in a style readers

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