white_devil

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by white_devil 14y ago
> Why does Chicago do so poorly? It doesn't take a genius to figure out that it has nothing to do with money or school quality, but the fact that 86% of Chicago's students come from low-income families, and 87% are disadvantaged ethnic
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by white_devil 14y ago
I don't really get why you'd draw this out all the way here, but OK. :p
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by white_devil 14y ago
An economy that depends on endless, exponential growth not to implode is clearly not sustainable, regardless of what snarky terms you might come up with to ostensibly describe my position. My position is that of common sense.
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by white_devil 14y ago
The way you speak and the way you dress are also considered part of "professionalism". Those are the parts that I take issue with.
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by white_devil 14y ago
In case you weren't aware of this already, our economies are imploding behind the scenes, and completely unsustainable. > In the immediate, S goes up - the "wise little worker ant" effect, if you will. But soon after, companies that cre
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by white_devil 14y ago
> What's professional is defined by the context. What's professional is just meaningless uptightery. What actually matters is getting shit done, and treating others well.
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by white_devil 14y ago
> People buy stuff _because_ they need or want it, but they buy it _when_ they think it's a good time to buy it. If you need a computer right now, you'll buy it now. But overall, people only really need a handful of things, like sus
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by white_devil 14y ago
> This sort of feedback is not all that uncommon and at this point the Ember team has to be deaf, dumb, and blind not to know about it. The kind of feedback that has a point?
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by white_devil 14y ago
> And so I signaled that I empathize with his frustrations (because I do) but I can't participate in that discussion because it violates community norms I'd like to uphold. I wanted to post this to your original comment there, but could
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by white_devil 14y ago
You're right, it doesn't make sense to keep $BIG_BUCKS lying around on an account somewhere, losing value to inflation. It's a better idea to seek a return on that kind of money. But saving makes sense even just to prepare for unexpected ex
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by white_devil 14y ago
> People who have a high amount of debt relative to income (generally the poor, the middle class, governments) benefit from inflation, not deflation, as they can spend full value money today and pay it back with diminished value money l
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by white_devil 14y ago
> If people don't spend their money, or lend it, the economy suffers. Do you think people buy stuff because their currency is steadily losing value, or might it be because they need or want stuff? > When there is high inflation peop
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by white_devil 14y ago
> What is the demand for a medium of exchange? People accept a medium of exchange in exchange for their goods and services because they trust that they can later exchange it for something they want. The "demand" for a medium of exchange
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by white_devil 14y ago
You sure are biased against Bitcoin and the like. > this analysis misses the time dimension of money: lending, borrowing and interest [1]. Keynes knew that, and before him Marx, and I bet someone before him too. And in this aspect, I fi
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by white_devil 14y ago
Just when we were discussing the complete lack of online privacy, here's a free app that just happily added new servers and 10x bandwith to accommodate 500 000 more users. Sweet. Nevermind how they can afford all that capacity. Maybe they
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by white_devil 14y ago
> There will always be developers who will be willing to do this either because it's challenging or because they need to put food on the table. Of course, but that's bullshit, and they're being immoral. Evoking romantic images of provid
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by white_devil 14y ago
I can't help but wonder how you're planning to make money with a product you plan to give away for free forever.
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by white_devil 14y ago
> IANAL, but is it not true that you can only sue the government to the extent that it lets you? It doesn't really matter what laws say about that. Your only recourse against wrongdoing by the government is the justice system run by
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by white_devil 14y ago
Oh look! -It's a Google fanboy apologist! Obviously, this is a good thing because it lets all Android users enjoy The Full Open Web, now that it's been Opened up a bit more. Open is Good. Google is Open. Google is Good. Open open open.
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by white_devil 14y ago
I couldn't resist the temptation to "brag" a little. Here's what you can get for 15 euros ($19.5) per month in Finland: - 2800 minutes. - 2800 texts (and MMS). - 1M bandwith with no traffic limit. - Month by month, cancel any time
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by white_devil 14y ago
Chrome, Firefox and Opera provide more than enough credibility to the argument, even if Safari no longer works on Windows. Besides, OS X has moved towards multi-touch gestures, for example, which Safari supports. It makes sense that they'd
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by white_devil 14y ago
> Pythons whitespace usage, for example, makes it DOA for me. I'm not touching it. If it works for you, great. It doesn't work for me. So you've never even tried it? If you like YAML, SASS or CoffeeScript, you would like Python's inde
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by white_devil 14y ago
> You cannot motivate people with fear, at least not with fear alone Fear is exactly what has kept North-Korea going for ages.
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by white_devil 14y ago
> "The U.N. Human Rights Council is widely expected to order an inquiry next month into its leaders' responsibilities for crimes against humanity." - Take your time! It's not like the "crimes against humanity" have been going on for
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by white_devil 14y ago
> Considering how many people/companies fail so spectacularly at it, why would it be baffling? It's baffling because it's always meaningless PR-bullshit-we-hope-you-won't-stop-giving-us-money, and people should be aware of that already.
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by white_devil 14y ago
> There are people out there that say "And personally i like to beat my wife and kids" and there are societies where this is accepted behaviour. Don't equate smoking marijuana to beating another human being. I've never even tried it, fo
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by white_devil 14y ago
Faith in Humanity: +1pt
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by white_devil 14y ago
This is spot-on. Of course they're going to post something , and of course they'll make it sound as good as possible. But it's baffling how so many people applaud such meaningless damage control drivel time after time.
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by white_devil 14y ago
Try www.kimsufi.com .. they have ridiculously cheap dedicated servers. I'm using one now, but haven't had any "real load" yet. Or if you insist on getting a VPS, how about www.gandi.net ?
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by white_devil 14y ago
Humans are such fucking sickening scum . It saddens me to be part of the same human race as the monsters running North-Korea.

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