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by wfo 11y ago
edit -- in light of iak8god's post below, deleting this since while accurate it doesn't particularly contribute to the discussion in a positive way. Instead I'll summarize in a slightly more polite way by saying this: every d
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by wfo 11y ago
They are just like every IT worker in a large non-software industry: instructed by their boss that more important employees than you are currently unable to do their jobs because of your security restrictions, so remove them or be fired.
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I'm implying that businesses do what is most profitable. If a certain business leader has an inconvenient moral compass they will, eventually be replaced or undercut by those willing to get their hands dirty. This is unfettered 'c
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by wfo 11y ago
Shrug I'd agree you can definitely find fault with many of the programs that currently exist on the command line though every single one is still miles and miles better than a GUI -- if you're going to do something one time, it&#x
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by wfo 11y ago
I'm sure that you will be greatly comforted by a return policy or the fact that a company had to spend a few dollars to hire an Internet PR consulting firm or buy off yelp to smooth over any temporary loss in brand loyalty that occurs
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by wfo 11y ago
Is a shining example of a failed economic principle which has caused unmitigated disaster whenever it is employed and is immediately rolled back by any group of human beings who care at all about what's good for anyone in the group.
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by wfo 11y ago
Yeah, me too! Any time anything bad happens under my econo-political regime of choice, it's not really my regime, since my regime ensures bad things can never happen. So any example that makes my regime look bad is by definition not an
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by wfo 11y ago
We prefer keyboards for data entry because keyboards are what enter the actual data we need to enter: we prefer typing text over the 'point and grunt' method of GUIs, where some interface takes our clicks and tries to intelligentl
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Attacking someone's tone, ignoring their substance and walking away is usually what I do when I lose an argument as well so at least in that we agree. Taking a position like yours which is so fundamentalist and extreme and simultaneous
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by wfo 11y ago
Most people who are taking classes from a professor haven't built enterprise software or been in client meetings. Most of them don't realize that their work while it probably makes life better for young rich white yuppies like the
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by wfo 11y ago
Our electoral system is broken in that it doesn't allow voters to reasonably express preferences which aren't one of the two mainstream options because of this spoiler effect. I'm not sure what the correct answer is, to compl
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by wfo 11y ago
No, nobody, say, anticipated that I would try to upgrade Ubuntu while using Spotify. Otherwise it wouldn't have broken the app. Nobody anticipated that my friend would have upgraded to Windows 10 in whatever machine state he did it oth
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by wfo 11y ago
Okay, a trivial and meaningless nitpick but a technically accurate one. Every general purpose computing machine that you can interact with and reprogram can be done by command line. Sometimes you have to plug another machine and use ITS com
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The command line isn't an abstraction: a particular shell is, sure. Directly inputting machine instructions is a form of a command line. At its most basic the computer is executing an ordered sequence of commands and you need a way to
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The use of resources and property is what drives coercion in the first place. It's very convenient of you to not be interested in property; if you ignore resources and access to them and every driver of conflict and coercion then sure
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Honestly it comes down to whether or not you want to understand how something really works. If you are 99% of users then someone has pre-anticipated everything you will ever do with a computer and so there are nice pretty GUI tools to do wh
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What gives you the moral authority to prevent others from using things that you claim you own? Where do your claims come from, if not the government? Because a relative who also claimed to own it in the past and backed that claim up with ph
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by wfo 11y ago
If you claim that you "own" something, like property or a car, and the government disagrees, and you threaten to shoot anyone who takes it, but then the police come and take it from you, who has "initiated" force? All of
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Minority groups will generally underperform when tested by majority groups (i.e. hispanic student white proctor) according to studies though I'm citing from memory so I may be incorrect. Also minority groups have access/insight&#x
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Comparing them to tech industry folks is not doing you any favors; the tech industry is EXTREMELY insular and thinks in almost lockstep. Look at the magic contentless words people use like "disruption" like a mantra to express gro
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"Journalists' jobs are to sell sensationalist garbage, not to do journalism" -- I think that in fact you are correct (who can disagree with the market in a cultural regime of extremist capitalism?) but it's a troubling s
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Sure this is the case sometimes but generally you need to check and make sure you aren't gaming some odd property of the tests somehow; does your algorithm give up speed somewhere in order to recover it somewhere else. Is there a worst
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This is a potential pitfall of private research. Ideally any real scientist who is earnest and dedicated about his or her work and is passionate about its benefit to humanity or contribution to human knowledge would, upon making a breakthro
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by wfo 11y ago
Part of that comic is referring to the parent but I think a great deal of it actually refers to the way teachers are treated. They are treated like garbage by parents and administrators alike. They don't get to make any decisions in th
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by wfo 11y ago
No. Public schools don't get to pre-select their students and then claim to ourperform other schools because they just picked the best ones. Public schools are not faith-based. Public schools do not have enormous administrative salarie
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Of course it's a money issue. We pay teachers garbage for working harder than anyone else, who wants to do that job? If you got the A-types who go into finance or law or medicine into teaching you'd see a very different scenario p
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This thread is full of people saying "every study in human history has shown drinking is associated with an increase in aggression" and normally thoughtful level-headed hackers saying "my limited non-representative experience
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by wfo 11y ago
Redefining 'voluntary' to include the situation where you must do X or die makes the word 'voluntary' meaningless. And in fact I'm inclined to agree with you -- here slavery is not appropriate, but nor is voluntary,
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For the vast majority of Americans, surveillance and internet security are pretty close to the bottom of their list of concerns. This is a forum is an echo chamber full of a tiny concentrated group of technical people many of whom are very
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by wfo 11y ago
He can get away with it because he founded the company that owns this well-respected discussion forum; he can say whatever he wants and people will at the very least read it. It is a credit to his hard work in the industry and the even hard

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