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mcappleton··on The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond
Why does it all have to be equal? Why can't we acknowledge that men and women have different strengths and weaknesses in different areas? The whole point of diversity is not to make everyone the same, it is to appreciate the differences everyone brings.
mcappleton··on On managing outrage in Silicon Valley
Lol denying reality to support your fantasy is pretty lame too
mcappleton··on On managing outrage in Silicon Valley
Women don't go into tech because they don't like it. Boys like legos, girls like dolls. Sure there are occasional tomboys but the fact is most girls just don't like engineering.
mcappleton··on American Conservative: Don't Whitewash the Hiroshima Bombing
How can you even say that? They were peacefully living when the insane Japanese killed thousands of Americans, and were preparing to invade the USA? It was fight or be killed. So if you are defending you homeland, defending yourself from murder, your wives from rape, you are somehow no longer innocent?

Your like the witch hunters. If you float your guilty so kill them. If you drown your innocent but dead.

mcappleton··on American Conservative: Don't Whitewash the Hiroshima Bombing
Ok so you literally think that it's better to have 500k Americans killed than 250k Japanese, when the Japanese attacked us. And you consider defending yourself terrori sm???

How are the Japanese civilians any more innocent than the Americans? Can you answer this?? No you can't. You are just confused and have no comprehension of how evil Pearl Harbor and the Japanese rulers were. You have obviously never heard of the Bataan death march.

I literally think you are a horrible human being. You would rather sacrifice more of your own countrymen to save the wives and children of the attakcers. You are a straight up evil human being. There are no other words to describe it.

Thank you for proving to me beyond a doubt that liberals hate this country and would gladly see it burn.

mcappleton··on American Conservative: Don't Whitewash the Hiroshima Bombing
Another way to think about it is this. How many American soldiers would be killed in the invasion? The American soldiers who would invade are every bit as innocent as the women and children killed in the A-bomb attacks. Estimates are that Around 500,000 American soldiers would be killed or seriously wounded in an invasion. Every American soldier was an innocent man, defending his country from the Japanese who brutally attacked st Pearl Harbor. Do the lives of these innocent men not matter to you? This perfectly demonstrates what's so screwed up about liberals in America. They would literally rather send many more of their own countrymen to get their arms and legs blown off and killed, rather than kill the enemy. It's sickening, awful and evil how they would gladly sacrifice more of their own innocent fellow Americans to save the wives and children of attackers. Send 500k Americans to get murdered by the japanese, plus their dead, or kill 250k with the a bomb.

The choice is clear once you have the facts. Of course maybe you don't think it matters if American soldiers die. Maybe you think it's better that they die than the enemy. Try telling that to the wife of a soldier lost in battle. Try explaining that to a kid who wonders where his dad is. "The Japanese who attacked us at Pearl Harbor and want to kill us are more important to keep alive than your daddy".

You see think pictures of the a bomb with horror. And rightly so. But you forget the horrors of Okinawa. The terror of Kamikaze pilots literally suicide bombing the Americans.

The a bomb was not only better from a military and casualty standpoint, it was better for Japan in the long run. It completely broke the back of their military empire in a way that not even an invasion could. It was complete and utter defeat that crushed their delusions that they would gain greatness through military strength. That enabled them to move on and rebuild focusing on the right thing, economic power

mcappleton··on Ask HN: How do you decide what is going to be your next side project?
Something you think could make a million bucks. That will give you motivation to finish!
mcappleton··on Your Node.js authentication tutorial is wrong
If you don't understand CPU cycles, your application might get a teeny bit slower. If you don't understand security, your application could get hacked! It's definitely nice to have a good auth framework, but I think security is important enough that it's worth taking 1 hour to learn how to do it right.
mcappleton··on Your Node.js authentication tutorial is wrong
Honestly, I don't think there is a real shortcut for in depth knowledge of how secure authentication should work. I think if your going to be writing a program with authentication, you need to know what is going on, what the framework is doing under the hood. If you don't, you are likely to misconfigure it or trust it to do something it doesn't do.

Writing a secure auth isn't exactly hard, and there is good info on the web about it. It just requires time to implement and not taking shortcuts to do it right.

In node there are not really official solutions - it's just packages. Php has a nice password_hash function which hashes and salts your password for you securely.

mcappleton··on The cognitive differences between men and women
the guy said that the differences don't matter. I was asking him to back that assertion up.
mcappleton··on Serious inequities remain for black Americans
You can thank the welfare state for this. Thomas Sowell, a black economist attributes the problems of the black community today to the breakdown of the black family which is a direct result of welfare subsidizing the breakup of families and birth out of wedlock.

60% of people in prison grew up without a father. you want to help the black community get out of prison? Support strong families. But if your a family hating feminist, you are in large part responsible for the imprisonment of blacks today, because you support policies that take away from young black men the thing any boy needs most - a father.

mcappleton··on The new Silk Road will be in the blockchain and impossible to take down
I feel like this is just tempting the government to ban cryptocurrency outright.
mcappleton··on The cognitive differences between men and women
For thousands of years men have run society and women have been homemakers. We are biologically wired with those roles in our DNA. Today we are trying to upset those roles, and It causes a huge amount of psychological problems. Women are not designed to run their own lives. They are designed to follow the significant man in Their life. Today since they are expected to be like men, they are completely overwhelmed and are now doped up on drugs like xanax to cope.

More freedom is not always a good thing. Studies show that with more rights women are actually less happy today than they were 40 years ago.

mcappleton··on Women write back to Google engineer
It crazy how much flak someone can get from stating the obvious.
mcappleton··on ‘My sister says I am an alien’: 9-yr-old applies for planetary protection job
I love it when people like that are so kind to kids. That makes a big impact on them. Kudos to the guys at NASA.
mcappleton··on Ghana’s first satellite now orbiting earth
I kind of feel like entering the space race requires building a rocket, not paying someone else to launch your satellite.
mcappleton··on Uber’s search for a female CEO has been narrowed down to 3 men
If they were searching for a male CEO it would be sexist. If they are searching for a female CEO, it's great!
mcappleton··on The cognitive differences between men and women
>Yes, there are cognitive difference, but it doesn't matter.

Do you have any evidence to back up this claim? You make a lot of assertions that I think these guys scientific experiments refute.

mcappleton··on A timeless Twitter Bootstrap theme built for the modern web
Lol my favorite part was the fire in the text box when there's an error
mcappleton··on There Have Always Existed People Who’ve Simply Wanted to Be Alone
You don't have to. I sometimes feel similarly to you. I dropped out of college and am so happy I did. In high school my parents pushed me so hard. In college I was doing honors going for a 4.0. But now I just do freelance coding and live on very little. Sometimes I do coding for other people, but I have a lot of free time to code my own projects. I keep it that way on purpose

If your gonna live in society, you are completely dependent on other people. Without them giving you food, a place to live you would die. So just do some freelancing to get some money and then you can do what you want in the rest of the time.

You probably don't hate interacting with people that much. It's probably just that your interactions are out of control and on overload in the office. You'd probably be happier freelancing so your interactions would be far fewer and more structured.

mcappleton··on When Will the Tech Bubble Burst?
If it was always at equilibrium, price would always be the same. A crash occurs when there are no buyers. To generate demand people offer their shares at very low prices. Then hopefully someone will buy. But if no one does, the offer their shares at even lower prices, and that's how the tumble works.
mcappleton··on Google tries to patent ANS, which they did not invent
A lot of it is probably defensive. If they don't Microsoft will and they'll just have to pay Microsoft. It's not their fault. It's the patent systems fault. I don't think you should be able to patent an algorithm, but that's just me
mcappleton··on When Will the Tech Bubble Burst?
The point is that when novice investors finally know about it and get in, all the good investors have already been in for a while. At that point, there is no one left to buy. If there is no one left to buy, the stock quits going up. Of course then people will start selling, the smart ones first.
mcappleton··on Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?
The center of every galaxy is a black hole. Lol so the center of this creature would be a black hole?? Some weird creature
mcappleton··on Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?
Look, the vast majority of a galaxy is empty space. A living creature is obviously not empty space, so all that space would have to be filled with the creature's matter. Well, if you put that much matter so close together, it will all collapse on itself and create a black hole.

So no, you could not have a living creature as big as a galaxy.

mcappleton··on Adobe Open Source
Brackets is pretty good and it's very fast for a hybrid. I don't use it much these days though except when I just want to use a different editor for a change.
mcappleton··on Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
Yeah, but judges are no better at interpreting the law many times. If you don't believe me, go read some of the decisions by americas Supreme Court. For example they said a man was black therefore no a man therefor he had no right to sue in court, which basically means no rights at all. How they missed the part about due process I don't know.
mcappleton··on Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
First, a judge can usually give a "directed verdict" of the person is obviously innocent.

Secondly it is much easier to pay off a judge and keep it quiet than a bunch of random jurors.

Thirdly judges can become calloused by virtue of their continued sentencing people to prison. They won't have the empathy that the jury will feel for both the accuser and the accused.

Fourth, the jury can ignore an outrageous law. For example oftentimes they refused to convict escaped slaves in the north.

Putting your freedom in the hands of one person who may very well be corrupt is much more dangerous than puttIng it in the hands of regular people.

Additionally I can't remember where, but I heard that 10 people or so working together usually come up with as good a solution as an expert anyways.

mcappleton··on Is it possible for aliens millions light years away to see dinosaurs on Earth?
That was hilarious, thanks for sharing.
mcappleton··on Verizon and AT&T Are Slower After Adding Unlimited Plans
Don't feel bad. It's just a matter of time before regular plans get data caps that high.
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