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There is at least one other project with the same name ("btfs"): https://github.com/arvidn/btfs Seems a bit more feature-complete than this one.

> A huge proportion of society is easily manipulated by showing them a "manufactured consensus." And for the rest, you just need to pander to their belief that they're immune to th…

Well, if you go to a collision specialist who's legally prohibited from turning away anyone with a bent frame regardless of their (current or future) ability to pay, it's not unrea…

How on Earth did this make the front page? I mean, it's not that I ever get tired of seeing Massachusetts Yankees and California carpetbaggers use a magazine named after my hometow…

The DPRK's constitution isn't intended for internal consumption.

You seem to suggest that a government which doesn't behave in accord with your wishes is illegitimate thereby. It's hardly unique these days, but one might hope nonetheless to see …

Really? Weimar's human rights laws were second to none in the world for their time, and are considered exemplary even now. If what you say is true, how did the Nazi abuses occur?

The reasoning you present here is exactly equivalent to: - You have a broken arm - Somewhere else in the world, someone has stage IV pancreatic cancer - Therefore your broken arm s…

I don't suppose I can argue your point about the origin of the term. Perhaps "professional shit-stirrer" would be more accurate. Certainly homeschooling isn't scalable. There are t…

Oh, it's quite possible for a troll to believe what he says. The essence of trolling isn't bullshitting; it's knowing how to get a rise out of people. To answer your question as be…

Your erstwhile instructor seems to be a professional troll, which is probably good work if you can get it, but I'm not joking. GP's comment casts the options available to him in th…

Stanford also confers more degrees in social sciences and "interdisciplinary studies" (i.e. degrees in having graduated from Stanford) than in engineering and computer science, and…

Well, yes. When you decided what you wanted to do with your life, and made that decision stick over parental objections, that was in the nature of a declaration of adult independen…

If you want to go to the world's best school for mine engineering, Yale shouldn't be on your list to begin with. It's a sign-off for pedigreed elites, not a trade school .

Only 26? Surely not. Why, at that age he might not even have a master's degree yet!

Option three: do your kids a favor and don't have any.

> And I think we see that in the last 50 years, the meritocracy has created a world that’s getting better and better for the meritocracy and worse and worse for everyone else. But …

That'd be a great idea if psychiatry had any better idea of what moves people to commit crimes, and how to stop them doing it again, than anyone else does. And even then, it'd be a…

It takes bad parenting to give a kid that age the impression that asking questions could ever not be okay. As long as that mistake isn't made, the rest follows organically.

Concern over privacy, which has been severely compromised by the confiscation of ~65k users' data (including stored email) in an investigation into the actions of one, seems not pa…

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774152 for details and analysis.

Yes, but reading is the single skill with the highest payoff, when it comes to learning things that let you learn more things. Why give the kid a fish, if you can teach her how to …

Well, I can't give you a peer-reviewed, n>500, p=0.001 answer, but I can tell you that I've never regretted my mother teaching me to read at age two. Reading has given me a great d…

> In Germany we have learned our lesson, and we will fight for our privacy online on all ends. Except dick jokes, of course.

You might not, too. The LA district shut down. The NY district, which also received a threat, did not. Why? And why the difference in response?