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badcede··on Big Talkers
“There is no arguing with Johnson,” said Goldsmith, “for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.”
badcede··on Jared Diamond: There’s a 49% Chance the World as We Know It Will End by 2050
Thank God it's not 50.
badcede··on The Mueller Report, Searchable and Accessible on the Archive
> it came back with zero instances of Russian collusion found

Just like the Mueller Report itself!

badcede··on Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing
Nice of the hipsters to be the test case like this.
badcede··on Stepping into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun
"The fact that both Falun Gong and the Communist Party communicate via propaganda makes it almost impossible to understand what’s really happening."
badcede··on SweRV – An Annotated Deep Dive of the SweRV RISC-V Core
Hopelessly off topic but does your username quote this on purpose?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFaZyHxQGYQ

badcede··on Is porn making young men impotent?
Get off my lawn of porn.
badcede··on Inheriting the Trauma of Genocide
Acknowledgment is worth more than compensation.
badcede··on Outrage culture is out of control
Is that a reason to do the same thing to others?
badcede··on Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)
He didn't say he did it.
badcede··on I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry
This comment has bullying energy in its own right.
badcede··on Y Combinator’s latest batch of startups is too big for one Demo Day stage
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln?
badcede··on Startups Rejecting Venture Capital
They're not working 80 hours a week. They're just saying they are, because that's fashionable. Or rather it used to be fashionable. It isn't anymore, so I'm surprised you're still hearing this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17003457

badcede··on GNU ed 1.15
Generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.
badcede··on Third-wave antiracism makes sense, but it's a dead end
Religion isn't going away. It's becoming unconscious.
badcede··on Dostoyevsky's “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (2014)
How?
badcede··on An Apology and an Update
Victims have the hardest hearts.
badcede··on Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign
The best propaganda is whatever truth the other side is avoiding.
badcede··on The Technology (2014)
You don't get in trouble for denouncing dogma in general. You have to denounce a specific one.
badcede··on Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
Eternity is now.
badcede··on Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?
I have an answer to the paradox of how these can both be true:

(1) companies complain about a shortage of programmers;

(2) angry commenters claim otherwise.

If there were few good programmers and many mediocre ones, this is what you'd expect to see.

badcede··on Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love with Their Principal Doomsayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVygqjyS4CA
badcede··on Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: a group from Silicon Valley visits China
> It is extremely concerning to me how these tech executives are so enamored with Chinas working conditions

That's handy! You could read the article linked above, which presents the opposite picture.

“I’m not worried so much about my portfolio companies not working as hard as the Chinese companies,” said Mr. Chan, now a partner at Felicis Ventures. “I’ll worry when they’re less creative and less efficient.”

badcede··on “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
You sure still post job ads on this "bastion of toxicity" though.
badcede··on Continued progress porting Emacs to Rust
An even better chance is that this project will turn those young developers into old ones.
badcede··on Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloomberg's Hack Story
What was "recently discussed in the news" does not necessarily have any truth value.
badcede··on Panama Papers film examines how journalists speak truth to power
Journalists don't speak truth to power. They write down what people in power say. If they don't, they get fired.
badcede··on Silicon Valley's Keystone Problem: A Monoculture of Thought
No way! That's the New York Times' keystone problem as well!
badcede··on Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
Because it feels bad to concede anything at all. Which is a form of greed in its own right.
badcede··on Ask HN: How to take advantage of living in the Bay?
You can grow intellectually anywhere.
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