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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
Hacker News is good because it's a middle ground. It's not toxic like metafilter where users know each other well enough to form factions. It's not as big as reddit so that you lose any sense of community.
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
Metafilter is like any community. You'll enjoy it if you buy into most of the group think. Even hacker news has that guy who does great satire of how out of touch this place can be. I favor hacker news over metafilter specifically beca
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
Yes metafilter is a mess. The number of reasonable people who have abandoned that community is very high. Bad actors everywhere are really all the same. They build up good will with insightful content and active participation, then they use
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
They tried that in the US with Obama's mandate. You had a choice of getting of getting health insurance or paying a penalty roughly the same cost as getting the insurance. Trump getting rid of that mandate is one of the few things I&#x
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
In my experience offline twitch chats are the new irc. It's pretty much as close as you can get to an irc experience like gamesnet or quakenet in the early 00s. Discords are mostly a waste of time. Barrier to entry is too low/easy
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
Many of the opinions downvoted on HN fit the same mold. They're what I call "if you're an alcoholic just stop drinking" arguments. They're totally reductive and really just serve to stroke the speakers ego or shame
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
If the solution to a hard problem is that obvious and people aren't doing it then it's not really a solution and/or you haven't correctly identified the problem. Those comments are unpopular because most people can see t
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
Yeah 4chan is great but it differs from reddit in a fundamental way. You can have a normal thread where someone will casually drop the N word or other slur and it will just sit there, maybe not even acknowledged but also not downvoted or de
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
Spend enough time on 4chan and you'll realize reddit is a safezone kid gloves hug box. And 4chan isn't even that bad in terms of bad or illegal content so that goes to show how relative it all is.
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
You used to be able to close the pop up login box
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
They've been that way for over a decade now
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
Super common in NYC. People will yell at you if you stand in the left lane on an escalator. First random video I googled for nyc escalator shows this behavior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmCOjC_9Iyc
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
I switched to nicotine gum and it was just as bad. When i tried to quit gum I would wake up every hour, sometimes sweating. I was building up a chewing tolerance way beyond what i had with cigarettes. Nicotine is really powerful stuff. I be
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
The use of "such as" in that question feels weasely. I think plenty of people walk through a museum and feel that certain inanimate physical objects carry a nearly spiritual weight. That didn't mean they think there's he
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
>Starr’s conquests include David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Mick Jagger just to name three. But her favorite is said to have been Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin. It's illegal and morally questionable but statutory rape isn't forcibly
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
>probably the craziest thing that the interviewers had ever heard (we didn’t have vocal flat-earthers on the Internet back then) Talk about fake news. The moon landing hoax is up there with the JFK assassination in terms of popular consp
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
>The drive for creativity and creation is innate. I have a minimum wage job where I perform the same repetitive manual labor tasks every single day. Effort isn't accomplishment but for some people it's all they have. I wouldn&#
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by verylittlemeat 8y ago
Understanding the Bible by Stephen L. Harris is a great comprehensive textbook for any person trying to understand the historical and metaphorical meaning in the Bible. It's formatted like a college textbook but i found it very readabl
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by verylittlemeat 8y ago
Can someone explain how or why these are any better than a Jarvis despite being $100+ more expensive? I'm in the market and don't really see any major differences.
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by verylittlemeat 8y ago
I use tabbles on windows I can organize, tag, annotate any file and then use the powerful search when I need it. It has useful plugins and is easy to batch tag things. I don't even bother organizing files or folders anymore I just dump
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by verylittlemeat 8y ago
Andrew Johnson was a norm breaking president and the United States survived
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by verylittlemeat 8y ago
Anyone who doubts this should read the book Legacy of Ashes
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by verylittlemeat 8y ago
Ubuntu did it with Amazon. Mozilla did it with Pocket. I'm sure there are endless other examples. Dismissing windows 10 as merely "adware" is inflammatory to the point of meaninglessness. It's really the kind of rhetoric
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by verylittlemeat 8y ago
It's pretty trivial to disable all of the telemetry in windows 10. I'm not saying microsoft should get a pass for such nonsense but it's a little over the top to act like windows 10 is DOA botnet.
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by verylittlemeat 8y ago
I think what really galls people is the hypocrisy. The flat hierarchy turns out to just be a feint to mask screwing people. If the first rule is "everyone is equal" then you can never complain about inequality because that's
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by verylittlemeat 8y ago
It's unfortunate but I wouldn't just dismiss it as a tangent. The second result from googling "oathkeeper" is the hate group and it's pretty well known in the US at least. I doubt anyone will think this product end
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by verylittlemeat 8y ago
Anyone reading this article or talking about Hawaiian shirts is using Hawaiian colloquially. Maybe you live in a milieu where a distinction is necessary but for most people it just comes off as word policing.
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by verylittlemeat 8y ago
How many of those people in tent cities would even take a job if you offered them one? How many are drug addicted or mentally ill to the point of being unemployable? Society shouldn't pretend these people don't exist but they&#x27
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by verylittlemeat 8y ago
I have both a standing desk and a desk treadmill. Personally I think you have to be a bit of a masochist to use a standing desk alone for more than 15 minutes per hour. I have used anti fatigue mats, massage balls under my feet and objects
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by verylittlemeat 8y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot lately and I'm pretty down on strong belief in general. I find it depressingly common that believers of any stripe come from a foundation of reaction and not introspection. Their ideologies need

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