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by zzalpha 10y ago
Just look at how much the majority opinion on dozens of topics has changed over the past few decades. Marijuana legalization. Gay marriage. Mass incarceration. Joeboy beat me to it, but I'll reiterate: that's not compromise. I
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I think it depends on how you define "better". The situation is better in that the listener has a more empathic, more thorough understanding of the speaker. In that sense there was a positive exchange of information and understand
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Who wasn't listening? Did anything in either of my comments imply I wasn't? I read the author's post. I digested it. I provided my counterpoint. Your initial response was essentially dismissal. I prompted you to provide a
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by zzalpha 10y ago
If listening and understanding other people isn't the first step to working through these problems, nothing is. So I'll make a counter-point: let's say we're back in the old slavery days. I'm sure Abe did his fa
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Or you could provide a counter-argument so we can have a discussion. Kinda making my point for me. :)
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Eh, perhaps I'm cynical, but listening to someone, and coming to understanding regarding how they might have developed there beliefs, sounds nice, and it's very compassionate, but I question if it's actually a step toward com
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by zzalpha 10y ago
So, just to understand your position, is your claim that the government should play no role in regulating the messages corporations deliver to the public?
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Well, ignoring the concerns about government intervention vs individual responsibility, the reality is daily fantasy companies advertise in such a way that it makes it appear anyone can be a winner, when in fact the vast majority of winning
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by zzalpha 10y ago
The bridges are the problem because they represent a vector by which hackers can gain access to large amounts of stored value. I really don't buy that. We've seen our fair share of malware that exists to break into bitcoin walle
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by zzalpha 10y ago
but there's also the fact that it's nice to be relatively young and healthy when you're chasing toddlers around the house. Eh, on this point, I'll relate a comment I heard through someone recently. They were talking t
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by zzalpha 10y ago
So, maybe, but only because lawmakers won't let it disappear, all based on hazy justifications about brain development and fine motor skills and <insert modern justification for wanting to preserve an old tradition>.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
No, it's more that regional climate varies and different areas have invested in and prepared for different types of weather events. For example, I live in an area that traditionally receives moderate rain and snow during the winter. Th
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by zzalpha 10y ago
You've just described a necessary consequence of uncontrolled climate change: having to change the way we live to cope with the effects. And it's incredibly expensive. And also a luxury of the relative rich west.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I believe the word you're looking for is "anecdotes".
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by zzalpha 10y ago
How are developers being treated "unfairly"? The work is being released as open source. The developer has already chosen to give up the rights to any profit they might obtain from commercial use of the software. If that isn&#x27
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by zzalpha 10y ago
gSOAP has a separate commercial use license. They use a mix of GPLv2 plus a separate license for companies that want to avoid having to relicense their own products under the GPL (as a consequence of the viral nature of GPL vs something li
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I'm baffled by this attitude. A developer chooses to develop something and give it away for free. Why they do that is up to them... perhaps it's ideology? A sense of charity? Community? Whatever it is, though, they're ch
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Huh? No. Dishonest marketing does not infringe upon your property rights. I've never heard any libertarian claim that limiting speech, for any purpose, is justifiable base on libertarian ideals. Where do you get that idea?
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Wow, they're not wrong to complain... the least he could do is dress it up a little. Maybe a rusted out car on blocks and tires strewn about. An old washing machine would definitely add character. Or, say, a couple coils of chicken
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I'm a Product Manager inside a software company, which means I work with an internal development group to actually execute my ideas (certainly some POs/PMs work with outsourced staff, but that's not the case here, with the ex
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Eh, fair enough. I just reconfigure it and move on, but I grant you that doesn't necessarily work for everyone. shrug
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by zzalpha 10y ago
After 12 years of coding professionally, move from development into product management/ownership. It's like playing an instrument versus playing the orchestra. It ain't for everyone, and I won't claim I'm particula
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Not to start a flamewar, but have you looked at tmux for this kind of thing? "Daemon mode" is the mode for tmux, and the whole stack is designed to be extremely scriptable. "tmux send-keys" does what you're refer
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by zzalpha 10y ago
At this point I'm not even sure what you're arguing. In both cases, the sheer quantity of total garbage content gets in the way of individuals finding high quality content that meets their needs and expectations. Whether the absol
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Apple and Google are just HUGE marketplaces where you can find anything, shoveware included. The same could be (and probably was) said about the Atari game collection.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Read a bit further. It's not really about him deleting apps (his case is an absurd outlier...). It's really more about the fact that, when it comes to apps, Apple and Google are the new Atari: mountains and mountains of shovelwa
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by zzalpha 10y ago
What's the basis for the assumption that correlation equals causation? Heck, where's the evidence for your purported correlation in the first place?
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by zzalpha 10y ago
To be clear, a very very early stage CTO... he was still coding, which is not a job I associate with a c-level executive position. He sounds more like a VP of engineering to me... so, take with a grain of salt.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Not really sure why this is news now. According to Wikipedia, Moore has been spouting off on global warming (among other things) for quite some time now, and not without plenty of controversy and criticism. As for the lead-in: just because
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by zzalpha 10y ago
So... no?

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