rickjames28
Re:Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult
on Saturday October 05, 2013 @01:56AM (#6499595)
go for it. and let's see the extrapolation to a economic juggernaut like the U.S. It's always the "norway" argument. If Norway (pop 4 million or so) can do it so can the U.S.
Yes, I guess Los Angeles could do something like that, but..
Re:The American Dream, RIP?
on Sunday September 22, 2013 @02:37PM (#6427459)
Yeah, I'd like to hear your "course correction" I can guess.
Re:The American Dream, RIP?
on Sunday September 22, 2013 @02:36PM (#6427457)
Another clown(writer) with an agenda.
Re:Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID
on Sunday September 22, 2013 @02:30PM (#6427438)
"Biometrics is fundamentally a technology designed for oppression and control, not for securing everyday device access."
Yes
Re:Things Linus Torvalds said at LinuxCon 2013
on Sunday September 22, 2013 @12:12AM (#6425772)
I was curious what kind of hoops they had to go through to get the woman on stage. Obviously there was a concerted effort to get a woman on stage for a dog-n-pony show. Or maybe she is a major player in the Linux kernel development scene, but I absolutely know there was talk behind the scenes to get her up there.
And before the P.C. gestapo gets on my case. I think it's great that women are involved in software engineering. I'm more interested in the P.C. dynamics to promote it.
Re:Venezuela seizes toilet paper factory to avoid shortage
on Saturday September 21, 2013 @06:55PM (#6424951)
Yeah, right. Just like the Soviet Union was the happiest country when their people sat in line for toilet paper.
I'm sure Krugman would fit right in Venezuela.
Re:The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people
on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @08:43PM (#6402784)
In your bubble, you believe all of those things are good things accepted by the HN hive mind. Hilarious.
Re:The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people
on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @08:33PM (#6402750)
And in 2013 where do you banish to? All I see is swift execution by either the banishing fiefdom or probably swift execution by the resulting "accepting" fiefdom.
Re:How Detroit went broke
on Monday September 16, 2013 @08:45PM (#6396895)
Paul Krugman is a leftist operative - nothing more.
Re:Civet coffee: why it's time to cut the crap
on Saturday September 14, 2013 @11:56PM (#6388073)
Yeah, the PETA crowd argument, which gleans over the fact that the cow wouldn't exist to begin with if not for those evil farmers and human carnivores.
These anthropomorphic arguments tend to be the result of emotional immaturity, something you find in small children.
Re:No more CSS and HTML, just JS
on Friday September 13, 2013 @07:36PM (#6383895)
Yeah, once I read his explanation web components immediately came to mind. You know what the status of web components is in the major browser engines?
Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
on Friday September 13, 2013 @04:54PM (#6383085)
Like many who visit HN, I am an atheist. I am coming to believe, however, that the production of CO2 is the greatest sin, in the religious sense, that exists today
Yes, global warming has become the religion of leftists.
Re:Fog Creek’s Remote Work Policy
on Thursday September 12, 2013 @11:17PM (#6378373)
I found that a previous job where I could work remotely here and there, I was extremely productive. So much time is wasted on the getting ready to go out (more than just grabbing a shower and throwing on some jeans/shorts and a t-shirt), doing the half hour or more commute, "settling into the office" (chitchatting with your co-workers). And then I was ready to blow that taco stand by the end of day. While at home I tended to work longer hours and sometimes twice as productive.
But remote desktop just sucks no matter how fast your connection is.
Re:A Personal Lisp Crisis (2012)
on Thursday September 12, 2013 @10:54PM (#6378301)
So what's the problem with the CL culture?
Re:A Personal Lisp Crisis (2012)
on Thursday September 12, 2013 @10:52PM (#6378291)
I doubt Rich Hickey is interested in those few remaining CL stalwarts that won't come over because he doesn't open up the reader. It's just a non issue.
Re:FreeBSD Is No Longer Building GCC By Default
on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @07:24PM (#6370885)
That's the party line that the FSF has been spouting for decades now and I don't know why anybody keeps on repeating it. I think the people that give a wink and a nod to that FSF talking points don't even really buy it.
First of all, "users" (as in non-developers) don't care about the code..never have, never will. Secondly, the code never goes away. It's not like someone can physically snatch up some BSD code and lock it away for no one else to use.
But what I find most disturbing about this line of reasoning is that it doesn't take into account the developers decision on how she or he wants to license his or her code. If you want to GPL it, fine, if you want to give it a liberal license fine too.
Re:Show HN: My Isometric GPU-Powered Voxel Engine
on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @08:19PM (#6364588)
You appear to have some gripe that goes beyond your ridiculous accusation. It sounds like you're bitter against closed-source in general, but just won't come out and say it.
Re:London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and indi...
on Saturday September 07, 2013 @05:59PM (#6346793)
Wrong. I consider that action by the teacher a direct threat to the student's civil rights at the very least.
Re:London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and indi...
on Saturday September 07, 2013 @05:56PM (#6346780)
The leftist, statist thought police is alive and well in the U.S. educational system.
Students, parents, and others need to stand up and get in the faces of these immoral leftists.
Re:London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and indi...
on Saturday September 07, 2013 @04:29PM (#6346489)
So you dispute the story and the reporting is "pushing an agenda"? Why do I have the feeling that you don't think that the "teacher" was wrong in what he did?
Re:London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and indi...
on Saturday September 07, 2013 @03:32PM (#6346253)
"internet hate mobs" are the people that oppose this pretty douchey teacher?
Re:London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and indi...
on Saturday September 07, 2013 @03:29PM (#6346236)
This "headteacher" should be arrested and prosecuted.
Re:Hey Japan, What's Up With Your Startup Culture?
on Saturday September 07, 2013 @03:17PM (#6346192)
Yeah, and then on the other side we have RMS.
Re:Hey Japan, What's Up With Your Startup Culture?
on Saturday September 07, 2013 @03:15PM (#6346184)
Is there really a controversy that Steve Jobs wasn't "selfish, greedy, and untrustworthy"?
6502 reminded me of one of my favorite books Hackers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer.... I wonder what happened to John Harris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harris_(software_developer... I heard he stubbornly refused to move to C from assembly.
Re:Sweden 'a close partner' in NSA surveillance
on Saturday September 07, 2013 @03:16AM (#6344230)
From your previous anti-American POV, I doubt you actually care about true freedom and you're more interested in anti-americanism
Re:Sweden 'a close partner' in NSA surveillance
on Saturday September 07, 2013 @03:13AM (#6344227)
Oh please...is Sweden so socialist that there's an ambivalence of western vs eastern bloc ideology?
Re:Sweden 'a close partner' in NSA surveillance
on Saturday September 07, 2013 @03:11AM (#6344222)
Why would Sweden be neutral during the cold war - putting aside nuance, you're either pro-eastern bloc or not?
Re:20,000 North Koreans 'disappear' from gulag
on Saturday September 07, 2013 @02:53AM (#6344190)
The core ideology of leftism in action...barbaric.
Re:Syria’s largest city just dropped off the Internet
on Friday August 30, 2013 @10:50PM (#6305529)
"Supporting the revolution" means supporting who exactly?