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The hubris of this clowncar Presidency is just unbelievable.
Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income on Thursday June 02, 2016 @10:34AM (#11822731)
Oh goody, income is magical. We can all just vote ourselves whatever we want. Let's all be millionaires - it's just a congressional act away.

Real income is earned not commanded. Any attempts to the contrary are doomed to fail.

Re:The Curious Case of Chris Kyle’s DD-214 on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:18PM (#11817320)
This guy should have been around for Viet Nam - he could have stood in line with the "progressives" to spit on the returning soldiers.

There has been a lot of ink spilled on this subject and there is no evidence of intentional overstatement of medals or stolen valor or anything else this clown is asserting. At most, it's an error and no more. These claims are coming from the left, progressives, and anti-war retreads from the counterculture.

I'm sure that Kyle was not a perfect man. I'm also sure he's an American hero and deserves considerably more respect than he's being given by the "let's rewrite history to suit ourselves" precincts of American civilian culture.

Re:Ask HN: Do you use FreeBSD as web server? Why or why not? on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @01:00PM (#11816066)
Yes .... and I have for years, both locally hosted on services like Digital ocean.

Contrary to what others here have written, FBSD is no more 'fiddly' than any other server class OS. It is faster, smaller, and better conceived than linux - which is a achieving Microsoft-levels of accretion and cruft.

Moreover, FBSD is not constrained by the execrable GPL and its variants, uses a far more modern compiler chain, has better release control, etc.

I do use Linux as well - both professionally and for my desktops. Linux is a worthy replacement for the desktop, but Berserkely is an overall more solid server platform.