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Oh, get fucked.

> I can't murder your sister if you don't have a sister.

But I believe you can conspire to murder my sister, even if I don't have a sister.

Oh, go fuck yourself.

The passage in question, as neither of you seem to have read it closely:

> Donald Knuth says he wrote his books for "the one person in 50 who has this strange way of thinking that makes a programmer". I think the most amazing thing about SICP is that there are so FEW people who hate it: if Knuth were right, then only 1 out of 50 people would be giving this 5 stars, instead of about 25 out of 50. Now, a big part of the explanation is that the audience is self-selected, and is not a representative sample. But I think part of it is because Sussman and Abelson have succeeded grandly in communicating "this strange way of thinking" to (some but not all) people who otherwise would never get there.

Try reading it again.

> Our general policy is to only add protocols if we can do a better job than the alternative, which is why we have not implemented HTTPS for instance.

Problem: Hamburger buns aren't noticeable enough. Solution: A cheeseburger with a lightbulb inside.

Problem: Some humans are currently suffering. Solution: Destroy the universe.

Just because you are cheating on your wife doesn't mean that everyone else is too.

> "We as a society" didn't really do this.

Yes, we most certainly did. Start with the Bank Secrecy Act which was enacted, by duly elected representatives of the People of the United States, in 1970. This group of regulations "require[s] financial institutions, which under the current definition include a broad array of entities, including banks, credit card companies, life insurers, money service businesses and broker-dealers in securities, to report certain transactions to the United States Treasury."

> If education is the primary path for upward social mobility, then every parent should have some choice in where their child goes to school.

I don't see how this follows.

> Accepted payment methods: Bitcoin, pogs, that Billy Ripken baseball card with an expletive on the bat, good intentions.

I personally consider the Pre2 the high-water mark for smartphones.

Go fuck yourself, Joe Conway.

Wait, maybe I should make this reply a blog post instead.

> Government "protections" can only make it worse.

Bullshit.

> Similarly child labor is only a problem when families are too poor to survive if the children don't work.

Bullshit.

> Minimum wage laws "protect" the least profitable workers from getting legal jobs, forcing them to get illegal jobs or survive on government handouts.

Bullshit.

> Environmental destruction happens because government restricts property rights and creates commons which belong to no one.

Big surprise, bullshit.

I actually could go for some McNuggets right now.

"Impact" implies causation. Low growth, for any reason, would lead to a higher ratio of debt to GDP. The original (erroneous) results of this study suggested that there was a point at which the relationship between the two changed.

I would suggest that in a situation like this, "the difficulty of reviewing Excel code" is even overstated. The direct dependencies of any cell are discoverable with trivial effort.

Your citations don't even remotely suggest your conclusion.

I would say the single most useful thing in bash is the ability to type in commands.

The former, as it's not make believe.

Why do they need to be consistent?

Sure, if by "barely modified a tiny little bit" you mean "completely redrawn."

Not here.

How is that the proper response? If one person gets away with running a red light, do we just turn them all off?

The travesty of HSBC getting away with their crimes should be a reminder of the value of the rule of law and an impetus to fight even harder against those that would think themselves above it.

I'm not sure why that second sentence is there, it doesn't really make much sense. The rest of the point is valid, especially regarding money laundering.

I sure hope so. I'm already getting sick of the "Show HN: Only Works In Chrome (only works in dev version of Chrome)" links that were starting to show up.

Wow, I love how casually you exclude about half of the world from your little site.

Trying to figure out how to scroll was a great game. Page down? Nope. Down arrow? Nope.

> I don't want to work with any company that will, at the least, exchange a couple of emails with me.

You like it when they play hard to get, eh?

For future Google browsers, maybe.