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Fortunately, you can do both.

Diversity is, on it's own, something that's been shown to improve decision making proficiency.

You should read the article, it does a very good job of outlining exactly how conclusive this finding is.

"The best person for the job", as you say, is the diverse pick.

SSH is a protocol, not an implementation, all your complaints are just engineering problems.

I'm playing the odds, and using my judgement. Combined, this submission is most certainly not what PG had in mind when he founded HN.

I could be wrong, but I don't see how.

Other than your idea about the path forward, I completely agree. I too am exhausted by the EFF's constant "the sky is falling" attitude.

Their strategy probably works for funding reasons, but I wish a more moderate voice would pick up the net neutrality cause, so I'd finally have a place to send my money.

Politics is off topic, that's clear to anyone who reads the rules. Don't make this about you or me, that's pointless and small.

That I'm human and capable of making mistakes doesn't mean what I just said is wrong now.

What grandparent post is failing to understand is that we're part of the process. Our outrage was anticipated, and the system expects us to cry out when a bad law gets proposed.

Nope, this is not up for interpretation. It literally says, "politics is off-topic" in what you quoted.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This is about politics. It is off-topic. You can argue how the rules are written, but as they currently stand, this is off-topic, by definition.

This is super duper off-topic for HN...

Linux has never been very good for standard desktop use in the form presented by OS X and Windows. It's still a hobby OS, where your computer itself must become your hobby, rather than whatever it is you want to do on the computer.

I actually do wonder how many people refrained from using this mailing list because of the underwear color requirement, because I honestly suspect it to be literally zero, and would be fascinated by any other answer.

> There's atleast 15% wiggle room on each journey, seeing as Uber takes 20% off the top.

Seems like a number pulled from nowhere.

But all things are most certainly not going to be equal, least of all cost and availability.

I explain in greater detail the problems with the original comment in another comment, if you're interested in something more than verbal sniping.

It's simply not true that I must be able to provide the correct answer in order to identify and critique an incorrect answer.

I elaborate somewhat on each of those statements in another comment. Criticism of false "expert" advice is critically important for HN.

Here are the reasons why I don't believe you should have written your comment:

* You falsely (implicitly) assert expertise on a topic (nutrition) to which you've had no actual training.

* You believe "just a comment on HN" doesn't deserve your full effort.

* You elevate yourself above the level of an ambiguous group of "others", without any evidence or actual reason for doing so.

* Your actual content comes without any citation or reasoning. You expect others to simply "take your word for it", or worse, do their own research, which you've given zero helpful information to help guide, other than random statements about nutrition.

* You overvalue your personal experience, while simultaneously undervaluing the research/experience/knowledge of others.

My contribution to this discussion is to point out to others your distinct lack of actual knowledge, despite your insistence on passing yourself off as an "expert"-- no, sorry, you said you're not an expert, just a guy who's "done a lot of independent research" (whatever that means).

I realize this comes off as harsh, but please realize, I don't know you, and am not making a value judgement of you as a person, just on what you've written here in the last hour or so. I'd bet you're not like this all the time, this just wasn't a very well thought out conversation.

I didn't say you were implying anything, what I said was I find it astounding how little actual data you seem to have collected, compared to the sweeping conclusions you're drawing.

I take issue with your condescending tone, because it doesn't fit whatsoever with your clear ignorance on the topic. I'm particularly sensitive to the topic of food, because people in your situation (who have found success but have no idea why) are immensely harmful to nutrition education.

Comments like yours are precisely why there are so many misconceptions out there.

What blows my mind is that someone like you can see a sample size of one (you), pull like 15 different levers, and then proceed to "know" which of the levers actually worked, and which levers would work for everyone else.

The sophilistic nature of your comment is astounding.

I mean... you literally can't legislate crypto, can you?

Could someone explain what this would look like, in a practical sense? Would self-signed keys become illegal, and all PKI would have to have a "government" parent key of some kind?

Yes, the USSR and the US had/have central banks.

Yes, "degree of control" is not at question, it's the "degree" itself that's at question. The USSR had a much higher degree of central planning for the USSR's economy than the US does. This question is worded explicitly to draw a parallel when there is none, another example of which would be, "Do both Obama and Stalin read books?"

Yes, but again, this question is not about a boolean yes/no, but rather the degree to which it happens. There's also a strong question of what "forced" means in this context. Does the US force resource allocation to the growth of corn? No. Does the US encourage the growth of corn in the form of subsidies? Yes. The USSR simply would have started growing corn, as the agriculture business was directly under the control of the government, whereas the US has no mechanisms to legally force farmers to grow crops of any kind.

Socialism in the USSR was actual socialism (the government owned the companies, dictated exact salaries, completely regulated supply, etc), whereas in the US the government goes through all kinds of steps to determine which private company (non-profits) gets funding to perform the tasks.

The difference, in principle, is a spectrum, with actual socialism on one end, and US social programs (not socialism) on the other.

Some of the "socialist" programs the US has? Sure. I'm guessing you don't know the difference between a US "socialist" program and the "USSR" kind of socialist, though.

And I welcome them with open arms, as do a majority of the rest of the citizens of the US.

My only reservation is that I don't personally think they're being treated well enough.

Anyone who comes to the US with plans to make a life here and obey the laws are exactly the kind of people I want in the US. Even if they're only here long enough to wait out a horrible regime back home, I welcome them.

I have absolutely zero evidence for this, but I'd bet large sums of lint from my pocket that this article was discussed by a Facebook PR person and an EFF person.

It's the kind of thing that happens all the time in the industry, but it's precisely the kind of reason I find the EFF to not be worth sending money to.

Notifications aren't new, this only changes how notifications work.

If you're not currently using Chrome notifications, nothing changes for you.

With cash? Dunno about that...

But it does give a judge something to point at and be like, "Why couldn't you do it here (in a different situation) like you did over there (this situation)?"

Not much, admittedly, but it's something.

There are far fewer reasons not to use Gitflow than you might initially think.