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I can't believe you have the balls to write "hacker" on your profile, you fucking toad.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't at all intend that as a slight against you specifically.

Liberating proprietary software is a moral good. Full stop. The number of hopeless herbs on here who have so thoroughly internalized "legal == moral" is depressing.

Jesus christ. They successfully bought him off with $20 worth of flimsy plastic crap and company scrip. What a miserable shame.

Vancouver: where senior developers would be genuinely lucky to top out at $90k, a single bedroom on a transit line is $800k, a teardown in a distant suburb is $1.5M, and bottom she…

Short 3rd-party addendum on SA's defunct politics subforum "Laissez's Faire", the secret birthplace of many parts of internet leftist political culture. https://www.reddit.com/r/Ch…

Also, redefining "nature" to include non-physical things does not get you around the problem. We run into a language limitation, when you attempt to define away this fundamentally …

An ontology is an attempt to define any divisions beyond "all of that which is". Whatever I "am", philosophically, is whatever label describes somebody who does not presume to make…

I'm just going to come out and say it. There is no good reason to believe that any ontology you can come up with to help you describe and attempt to comprehend reality, on the time…

Unless I'm missing something, you've just described "materialism", which is exactly what I am arguing for. I'm not saying that we are the only "conscious" systems, or that "conscio…

So you distinguish between dualism and the supernatural by expanding your definition of "natural" to include a distinct realm of non-material "nature" with no definable rules. And,…

How would you distinguish between "dualism" and "the supernatural"?

Even having that argument in the first place is basically crypto-dualism. The idea that there is objectively such a distinction is 100% reducible to any other attempt to assert tha…

Sure, but that's not all. Or maybe it is -- who knows. Certainly not you or I, because the only information that is public is the score and the date. The problem is the opaqueness …

Judging by the upvotes and timestamp on that story (90 points, 4 hours ago), and not being able to find it on at least the first 3 pages of HN (for comparison, there's a story on p…

Fantastic answer, thank you.

Would you mind translating this into english? Even seeing the definition of LTV above, I still don't understand the story your comment is telling. What is "paid user acquisition"? …

But a senior engineer in Vancouver makes less than a coffee-fetching intern in SF.

You're right, that is much more rightfully offensive than just the naming problem. We have a similar bit of bullshit in British Columbia, where government health insurance is paid …

The term "TV License" is 1000% more offensive and outrageous, to my Canadian ears, than "TV Tax" would be. A "license" is a permit from the government to do or use something, and c…

You do not understand what a typeclass is or how it's meant to be used. If you are redundantly restating a single thing in a Haskell program, you have taken a very wrong turn. Give…