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by ytinas 17y ago
It's not inevitable for everyone, just the majority. And guess what: you will support them one way or another. Either by providing a retirement they can live on or by paying for their housing/food stamps. You could try making household ec
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by ytinas 17y ago
Once again: disagreement doesn't equal down vote people. The orange Y at the top should tip you off that you're not on reddit.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Absolutely you are of that opinion? People should slave away their youth dreaming of the day they can retire and when that day comes they can't do anything because they're living on a fraction of what they had before? That sounds like a
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by ytinas 17y ago
Is $50k/year that much in Berkeley? Personally, I wish the government would do away with the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time, a.k.a Social Security, and simply have some required retirement contribution (401k is still ok after the crash, n
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by ytinas 17y ago
>I don't think America is without problems, and I think the direction it is going, especially w.r.t corporations is alarming, but it cannot be compared to China. Can't it? Bush was basically a criminal who used a convenient (for him) t
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by ytinas 17y ago
Nit: This article is too new to be saying C# is "just java again". It started out that way but it's gone past java now in terms of functionality (e.g. closures, LINQ). The two look less and less alike with each passing version.
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by ytinas 17y ago
This isn't surprising. Big companies see that their employees can't easily leave so they take advantage of it. Of course when the economy picks up people are going to leave, but this will be happening to lots of companies so they'll have
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by ytinas 17y ago
I'm not a fan of China's government either (though I hate the US' about equally), but I really think this argument is vastly more complex than you're presenting. For example, you think it's clear cut that US citizens being able to get some
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by ytinas 17y ago
>And guess what, you do have a choice (modulo some paperwork) to live where you want. Actually, not so much. For most countries you can't just go there, you would have to either marry in or get a job there. Getting a job can be harder
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by ytinas 17y ago
I could see your point of view for the most part until this post. You think there are some people fated to be in the "leading" class and we need to just let them lead? Personally, I question the need for government at all, but above all I
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by ytinas 17y ago
Disagree does not equal downvote people.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Go look at how many people US government accidentally kills (e.g. stun gun mishaps, shooting unarmed even innocent people, innocent people receiving the death penalty, etc.) every year and multiply that by 5 (they have 5 times more people).
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by ytinas 17y ago
Fair point but don't forget that the US, while being known as one of the most free countries is also one of the most violent in the world. It's a tricky question to be sure.
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by ytinas 17y ago
While I disagree with some of what you say here, I really get sick of this mentality that we know best and places that aren't like us are wrong and should change. Let china do what they want (so long as it isn't something horrific like gen
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by ytinas 17y ago
Well my mistake, I didn't realize this point was still under contention. I was under the impression that it's common knowledge that new connections are not created in the brain after a certain age (15-ish as I recall) and all new connectio
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by ytinas 17y ago
I'm certainly not trolling and I've paid more than enough attention to the perl community. Please point out where my comments are inaccurate? I most definitely was voted down due to "some weird fanboyism" since when I go to the thread page
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by ytinas 17y ago
Ok, but it's still more work than if throwing an exception were simply the default. And this is just one example. I programmed perl for the better part of a decade and every day I felt the pain of how "anti-Huffman encoded" it is unless yo
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by ytinas 17y ago
But they've been exposed to other concepts, perhaps these new concepts don't become important because they don't understand them. :)
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by ytinas 17y ago
Does it not violate ycombinator etiquette to just vote someone down past 0 without explaining why? My comment wasn't remotely snarky, nor something I wouldn't say to anyone's face.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Fine, but what about error handling? It's been known for quite some time that C-style return code checking is a fail. And it certainly makings coding a lot more verbose. There are lots and lots of situations where doing something in pe
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by ytinas 17y ago
I wonder if people think placebos are magically "getting more effective" because people in the US are actually taking way more drugs today than they actually need to? Out of all my friends back home in the states almost all of them are o
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by ytinas 17y ago
Nice, a perl fan saw this post and actually appears to have gone through all of my posts and voted them down (bringing some to 0). Welcome to reddit!
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by ytinas 17y ago
Personally I've always found Larry's talks very poor. They seem to wander all over the place, full of buzzwords and much of what he claims doesn't seem to have any connection to what he actually did. Huffman encoding? Then why are so man
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by ytinas 17y ago
But this is circular. They don't think about it because they don't have a word to describe it... because they don't think about it....
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by ytinas 17y ago
The children can learn to count. The issue is reaching the age when your brain stops forming new connections without having language for certain concepts. If you lack the language to describe something you can't understand it. The only w
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by ytinas 17y ago
I disagree. A joke will always be more concise than the explanation of what (possibly) makes it funny.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Because everyone who does do this will provide a better user interface than you do. You can choose to make your life easier or your users experience nicer. Personally, my strategy is simply to not write HTML or CSS. I write to a DSL that