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by ythl 10y ago
> Why do we have guardrails for LSD? Works fine for me! Why do we have national guardrails for weed? It's legal in my state and works fine for me! And why in the world is alcohol legal? This is a toxic substance, it's seriously
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by ythl 10y ago
> But they won't touch you for not adding guard rails to your private roads. So I'm not liable for what happens to people on my property?
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by ythl 10y ago
> Do you accept that most people who use it can enjoy it but there are some unfortunates who can't and that's just the price of the freedom to drink? Do you accept that most people who own and use guns do so responsibly but tha
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by ythl 10y ago
> What would you forecast the expected effects of you trying LSD or cocaine would be? For me? Probably not much. But who knows, maybe I'll try it the first time, nothing happens. 10 years later I fall on hard times and then I try it
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by ythl 10y ago
> Right now a percentage of otherwise law-abiding people have had their lives destroyed by the justice system because they got a little too curious about drugs, and still more by all the crime and conflict that's fueled by prohibiti
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by ythl 10y ago
> Your argument is offensive. My argument is not offensive, you simply chose to be offended. > If you need to be protected from your lack of self control then to make the rest of the world suffer is depraved. Yeah, let's get rid
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by ythl 10y ago
> It's worse than useless (like negative net effect) in terms of protecting society and individuals from the harms of drug abuse. I wouldn't say that. For generally law-abiding citizens like me, the lack of availability has don
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by ythl 10y ago
byzanz https://github.com/GNOME/byzanz
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by ythl 10y ago
Code or art? http://www.ioccc.org/2013/birken/birken.c
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by ythl 10y ago
Can't craftsmanship have artistic flair? The result of creative emotional expression while crafting?
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by ythl 10y ago
This is the most compelling argument I've read in the whole thread as to why engineers are not artists
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by ythl 10y ago
> there is only a balancing of time, money, reliability, reusability and other purely mathematical concepts And therein lies the art. An experienced engineer can come up with simple, elegant solutions that balance those things. Novice en
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by ythl 10y ago
Really, because I feel like "craft" and "art" are highly subjective terms. How is the iterative process of creating perfect code any different from the iterative process of sculpting the perfect sculpture? Haven't y
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by ythl 10y ago
Being a landlord sucks, you don't know what you are talking about. Tenants are terrible for wear and tear on your house. Since they don't own the house they don't treat it with care. Lots of maintenance and tenant problems th
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by ythl 10y ago
> I've been saying for a while that the health care system is the biggest impediment to entrepreneurship in the US. So why isn't Europe an entrepreneural juggernaut? Tech scene in Europe seems worse than the US IMO.
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by ythl 10y ago
At least you had the option of not having healthcare and just creating a startup without it. Now with Obamacare you are forced to buy it by law which means no startup for a lot of people.
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by ythl 10y ago
That's because for us mortals, the flavor is completely overpowered by the capsaicin in most cases. I have relatively low capsaicin tolerance, and so I can't tell the difference between flavors of two different but equally spicy p
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by ythl 10y ago
Well now, yes. But /r/politics has almost always been this way, even when GOP had fairly good candidates (Romney)
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by ythl 10y ago
/r/politics used to be extremely anti-Clinton not too long ago... instead strongly favoring Sanders. But yeah, you'll never see a single pro-conservative story on /r/politics
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by ythl 10y ago
Stop saying I'm lonely and bored! I'm neither lonely nor bored, and my trolling is purely for entertainment value (often to be shared with others after the fact). For example, sometimes I'll make a throwaway stackoverflow acc
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by ythl 10y ago
Yes, but most people don't even realize they are being trolled. Why would they pity me? Do you pity people you disagree with online?
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by ythl 10y ago
In that case it's doubly efficient as we are both entertaining each other at no cost to sensitive community members!
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by ythl 10y ago
As in, has anyone successfully trolled me? Or have my "victims" defeated my attempts? If the latter, all the time. The people that defeat me are the ones that just ignore me. Once I can get people to engage with me, I'll try
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by ythl 10y ago
I troll a lot, and this doesn't describe me at all. For me, it's simple - I like eliciting reactions out of people. I like saying controversial things to see if someone will get upset or offended. It's fun. Same reason I like
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by ythl 10y ago
I know. I hate when someone comes to promote their new language, but then fail to actually showcase the language anywhere. The very first thing I want to see is what the language looks like, not testimonials about how great it is. It took m
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by ythl 10y ago
> and security is hard. Security experts act like it's very trivial and basic to get a fully secure shop up and running if we simply do everything they say. When something fails, the security expert gets fired, and a new one comes o
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by ythl 10y ago
Anytime a headline presents two alternatives - one supernatural/mindblowing, and one ordinary, it's almost always the ordinary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... "Are 234 al
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by ythl 10y ago
Gotta have that Sard worm-cheese
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by ythl 10y ago
I don't like the idea of "sharing" upholstered seats with other people. I'm very neat and tidy, and other people aren't. Other people are going to eat their chips and junk in the car and get crumbs everywhere...
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by ythl 10y ago
"Car seat" in the US means an extra seat for infants that go on top of the car's native seat. https://www.amazon.com/baby-infants-car-seats-booster/b?ie=U...

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