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I wish we were at the level where some doofus has red too many "Gang of Four" "Design Patterns OOP" bullshit books and gone to town. Because that would be way better than what we h…

> Thanks to heavy subsidization of the industry by Chinese government to gain an competitive advantage. You can't have a functional government that serves the interests of it's peo…

Man, every time where there's a Chinese product category you realistically can't compete with - it's always some excuse of - because Chinese state is subsidizing it and supporting …

> You still haven't directly answered my question. I did actually! > So you do acknowledge an absolute of good and evil, right and wrong. Good. We got somewhere. It's not an absolu…

> I don’t trust anyone who has the general, abstract goal of being a “founder”. The goal isn't abstract - read it as - goal of "not being a wage-slave" and have a shot at being mor…

> Long ago slavery was globally mainstream and accepted until 'some weirdos' pointed to the Bible and said 'Hey, maybe slavery is wrong, according to this we're all created equal u…

> Quick question, how do you know what's right and what's wrong? So, wait a minute, you've got no idea what's right or wrong - and you're incapable deriving and figuring it out on …

> Same for non-Christian people, mind you. Yes, but with Christians there's always some sort of thick-layer of self-serving dishonesty on top of it all. Imagine a person goes out o…

Yes, yes, Christians will "strive" to do better, but never really have try that hard, because you know, it's never gonna be "good enough" anyway, therefore accept that you will do …

> An overwhelming number of Christians do not believe this and do not interpret Revelation in this way. It's actually not that particularly relevant what Christians believe exactly…

> Real Christians believe and rely in Christ and His work alone. The people this verse refers to are to the end *clinging to their own merit and trying to earn their salvation thro…

> I am Christian. Everything in the world seems to be falling apart these days and my faith is one of the few real-feeling things! Well, the world is exactly as "God" created it. T…

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The problem, fundamentally, is that unlike a computer program that won't compile if there's syntax errors, or that will crash on null pointer dereference, etc. There's no such mech…

If they take the most absurd interpretation or nitpick about irrelevant details that doesn't take away from the crux of the point you're making - and that's the best they can do - …

The frustrating part about arguing - on the internet: 1. Infinite supply of people. 2. 90%+ of times before you get anywhere, you find out the person doesn't have "what it takes". …

> One is that money makes people inherently happy. Which is so obviously wrong it's not even worth talking about. Really. The mere fact of having large chunk of cash and resources,…

"money can't buy happiness" is a poor mans cope. It's a comforting lie for proletariat, the opium for the goycattle. If you can't buy happiness either one of these is true: 1. You …

> Most of the things that can be remedied with money are not the truly painful things of life either. Have you done the math of what life consists of for most people? It's 9-to-5. …

Dude, every sane language out there does this. Just generally with 4byte prefix. Null-terminated stuff has always been backwards compat stuff. Pascal strings - historically and why…

Yup, and there you go confirming beyond sliver of doubt that you're a genuine, certified "akshually" type redditor. Fundamentally incapable of distilling the substance of the argum…

> The purpose of consumption for most people is to soothe the pain of working. Yes, for a lot of people it is like this. When I was young, I couldn't understand why people went on …

Why are you being an obtuse "akshually" redditor? > The masses work because they want to consume, not the other way around. Everyone wants more If he wanted to say masses work, bec…

> The masses work because they want to consume, not the other way around. Hell, no. Masses work, because they have to. It's not under threat of violence, it's under threat of sleep…

Pentium 1 133mhz ran Quake2 pretty darn well as long as you had hardware accel. Without hadware accel it was ass. (maybe even Pentium 100)