newdayrising

There are many pleasure walkers here who seem to be so upset at the guile of someone who dares criticize their beloved pastime that they completely missed the point of the article. The author's issue is with walking "culture" that encourages walking for walking's sake. In other words, walking that ignores surroundings and is more concerned with either the concept of walking or an interior journey where surroundings are just a backdrop to encourage thinking. I completely agree. These type of walkers aren't walking to see nature or observe new surroundings, they're walking to just "be". It reminds me of running hikers or mountain bikers that blow past you on beautiful hiking trails oblivious to the beauty around them. Walking or hiking to these people is more about the personal narcissistic pleasure they can wrench out of their surroundings rather than being receptive and "taking in" the beauty of nature. It's about "running" or "walking" and consuming views. I actually prefer Instagram hikers over runners. At least the Instagrammer is looking for beauty to share with others. The runners, pleasure walkers and mountain bikers are blazing over nature, the rest of you be damned.

I think it's the opposite. There are scientists who are obsessed with finding extraterrestrial life because of their philosophical views regarding man's place in the universe. The fact that our universe seems primed for life has bothered so many gung ho atheistic scientists that they've conjured all sorts of semi-pseudoscientific multiverse theories (Sean Carroll). That's one part of it. The second part it's reducing abiogenesis to a simple process that just "takes time" and is almost inevitable. The goal is to try to shove bare faced facts into a dusty drawer while you trot out the latest sensational theory. This is why there's been constant attacks on the Big Bang theory even though it's one of the triumphs of modern cosmological science. It all becomes so easy to justify when you define science as "what atheists believe."

Cool snark, bro. Care to contribute to the conversation?

Not really the type of attitude HN wants on here.

What I find interesting is the people that decry metaphorical book burning (censorship, banning) are the same ones that want to destroy authors and prevent their books from being published. It's like they think that if they can prevent a book from being published, they can't be counted among the Firemen - which IMO is rather bad logic.

You sound far more motivated by bias than the author. At least he makes it pretty clear that his is an opinion.

"Dylan Davis (@JennaMagius) is a senior security analyst at RiskSense. He has performed a variety of Fortune 500 incident response engagements, discovered new CVEs in major software, and performed vulnerability analysis on a wide variety of embedded devices."

It is a "guy":

"Dylan Davis (@JennaMagius) is a senior security analyst at RiskSense. He has performed a variety of Fortune 500 incident response engagements, discovered new CVEs in major software, and performed vulnerability analysis on a wide variety of embedded devices."

Your attitude is quite childish, IMO.

As a counterpoint to this article: https://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/fi...

The author of the article is using words as a tool for propaganda. He connects very complex situations that are entirely dissimilar to paint Churchill as a mass murderer:

"Dealing with unrest in Mesopotamia in 1921, as secretary of state for the colonies, Churchill acted as a war criminal: “I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against the uncivilised tribes; it would spread a lively terror.” He ordered large-scale bombing of Mesopotamia, with an entire village wiped out in 45 minutes."

In Churchill's own words, he approved of gas to prevent deaths. When reading the article it's hard not to connect the words "bombing", "poison", "terror", "wiped out" and come out thinking Churchill was a mass murderer. But the bombing of Dresden was a bit more complicated, no? And including "poison gas," an ambiguous term, in the same paragraph as "an entire village wiped out in 45 minutes," is extremely dishonest.

Why is this on HN?

Leave it to the New York Times to call Chairman Mao's rule "traumatic." 46 million dead is, at the very least, a genocidal rule. Not mentioning this fact in an article about Communist China's totalitarian tendencies is a problem.

Do you have a Xamarin vs Flutter benchmark you'd like to share?

I've been wondering this for a long time - what's to stop a terrorist from flying and attaching a drone with an explosive payload to a large commercial flight? Especially at night while the plane is taxiing?

Please tell me how society "pushes women out" of programming. I've only seen women being pushed toward programming. It's up to the individual woman to choose programming - just like it's up to the individual man to want a degree in, say, clinical psychology. The only pressure I've seen is that of the gender majority. Men and women tend to overlook careers where there is a majority consisting of the opposite sex. It's not society's job to equalize gender ratios and yes there are real differences between men and women. It's not true that if there's a majority gender in a field it must be because of discrimination.

Only someone that knows very little of philosophy would say such a thing. Oh, and I doubt you'd appreciate someone similarly pissing on your profession.

Really wish everyone was as hard working as you.

Definitely Elixir/Phoenix. Front-end it really depends on the type of app.

Penetrating analysis. You must be a doctor or familiar with the research.

Penetrating analysis.

So with zero evidence it's the result of shadowy US influence? C'mon man, even socialist utopias can make mistakes.

That's simply not true. The middle and upper class can largely afford insurance. If you consider how much people (in countries that offer universal healthcare) pay in taxes, the difference diminshes.

If you're criticizing the Left's fantasy of "free" healthcare you must be an evil liar.

Someone disagrees with you so you act like a child and tell them they're bringing the "quality down" on HN? Tip: If you want people to take you seriously, act like an adult.

Do you think letting ISIS operate freely in the region is better than the speculative notion that building debris will cause cancer someday? Do you think the US should merely inform the local governments and hope they will do something?

Regardless, I agree that the US should never get involved in the Middle East militarily. There is NO way to prevent civilian deaths, there is no way to prevent people on the Left from reducing ALL military action to American imperialism.

How many artists, do you think, value their fans over money?

This is partly why the ticket prices are so damn high - manufactured exclusivity. IMO a "true" fan is there for the music and performance, not so they can brag about their manufactured exclusive moment on social media.

The artists will pretend like they're performing for the fans, being the good liberals that they are - in reality they're rich partly because of exclusivity.

Become a novelist and write adventure stories.

This isn't a fair comparison unless SL has the same features as VSCode and Atom - Git integration, right-click file options, etc.

Until you need to get a job and a bachelor's degree is required simply as a method to exclude candidates.