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by vacri 9y ago
There's tons of humourous comments these days. When I first started here (well after the name change), if there was even a hint of comic intent in your comment, it'd be pounded deep into the gray, never mind anything like the co
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by vacri 9y ago
I started reading it in the 80s, and think that the best content was from the 60s and 70s, and took an objective drop when they started to include advertising (as does anything when you start slapping advertising on it).
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by vacri 9y ago
Sure. It's much more general-interest than it used to be, and business content has cratered.
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by vacri 9y ago
There's a difference between discussing taboo topics and simple abuse. Calling people libtards (the #2 when I just looked at Voat) is simple abuse, not discussing a taboo topic.
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by vacri 9y ago
You'll also have a smaller pool of candidates you can hire, no?
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by vacri 9y ago
> if someone is in pain/unhealthy there is a reason. Rarely it is psychological Work in medicine, and you'll find a lot of malingerers. Some of them don't even realise that they're faking it. Yes, it sucks from your
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by vacri 9y ago
Implying that Daishiman's comment considered them 'the exact same thing' is specious.
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by vacri 9y ago
Doctors are incredibly politicised and senior doctors have no qualms throwing junior doctors under the bus (speaking demographically), in exactly the same way as pilots do. A union doesn't work so well when there's sizable power d
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by vacri 9y ago
You're right. Life around the world would indeed be better if absolutely everyone was upper-middle-class with in-demand skills and leverage.
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by vacri 9y ago
> well their original purpose was racism pure and simple Exactly how much work-oriented racism was there in 14th century England, when trade unions were first outlawed? Or in industrial age Britain? Stop spreading your crazy FUD.
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by vacri 9y ago
> Chernobyl's RBMK design is so dangerous that I'd call it borderline criminal Good thing that companies in the US never do anything that's borderline criminal.
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by vacri 9y ago
Those numbers are hugely out-of-context. All three are very low compared to other energy sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities
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by vacri 9y ago
The figures in TFA don't talk about solar, and the parent comments don't mention it. Who is making the supposed double-standard here?
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by vacri 9y ago
> Can't we have a stupidly simple system No, because what you're describing isn't stupidly simple, but incredibly complex. Even just the 'call the police' bit - How? Which police? How do you communicate with th
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by vacri 9y ago
You've misread the article. He isn't complaining about her not knowing the proxy setting. He's far from being arrogant - he's complaining about how people look down their nose at 'support' while being clueless
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by vacri 9y ago
once when I was working support, I needed a client to read back to me the contents of an error box - it could only be one of two boxes. She said the content was something else ("the files are corrupt"), which wouldn't happen
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by vacri 9y ago
> iOS is now ten years old with no major malware outbreaks -- it can obviously be done If even a company with $200B in ready cash on hand, humongous design and manufacturing resources, and full control at every part of the vertical sta
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by vacri 9y ago
This means that any software with any learning curve at all is bad software, which is clearly not true.
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by vacri 9y ago
> The real answer is, computers suck. Seriously, computers are effing awful machines No, they're amazing machines and don't suck. They just don't meet our arbitrarily high expectations.
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by vacri 9y ago
HN has several moderators. If you're willing to add eyeballs, any system can work.
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by vacri 9y ago
> other leaders / politicians will now be thinking Since when have western leaders ever taken policy direction from Russia?
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by vacri 9y ago
Books have always been expensive. My mother ran a bookstore, and in the early 90s there was a new form of sales tax (Australia's GST) where books would no longer be exempt - it was a real concern that this minor increase in price might
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by vacri 9y ago
> I have trouble rationalizing this romantic view of the homeless as these poor downtrodden, down on their luck people who just need a hand up, with the realities I see everyday of mentally ill, dangerous, and completely uncontrollable
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by vacri 9y ago
> We already limit library use to those who live within the library's community. "You have to be in the same physical location to use a building" is one of the softest restrictions in history. In order to borrow somethin
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by vacri 9y ago
So don't put it on Amazon. It's their ballpit; they're not stopping you from selling elsewhere, and they're not the only game in town when it comes to online sales. I can't buy a Honda from a Toyota dealer, but that
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by vacri 9y ago
> For example, I read a persons blog post who said amazon had a rule that you can't sell your product on amazon and sell it for less on your own site. That's just rotten. How is it stifling competition to say "If you wan
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by vacri 9y ago
A colleague of mine who wants to play with haskell tried it out and threw it in the too-hard basket - apparently to configure it you write haskell in the config files; not where he wanted to be trying his hand at the language.
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by vacri 9y ago
Creativity and art don't have to be for other people to be of value.
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by vacri 9y ago
> Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientific dogma of his day. > ... > He earned his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Chicago four years later ... returned to eastern Washington to take a closer look at
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by vacri 9y ago
Impressive that FBSD only had 20% more bugs over OBSD despite having 200% more lines of code.

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