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If you have enemies, then what better purpose to you could power have?

> Things where a little bit different back then, don't you think? Do you believe nothing that's happened in the last 70 years (most notably nuclear weapons) changes this scenario a…

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> There's a down vote button if you disapprove a comment No, there's only a down vote button if you've gone along with the virtuous and enlightened HN hivemind for long enough.

Humanity isn't yet omniscient; therefore, no-one should hold a total claim to truth in the way that either authoritarians or religions do. Therefore I have sympathy for neither of …

(Presuming that you are using the word "atheism" correctly here, and didn't actually mean to say "agnosticism"...) I may be an atheist, but I'm not going to pretend that it isn't i…

If our worst enemy is indeed a bad enemy, then why should we cheerfully give anything of value to them? (except maybe some fast-moving lead balls) Lots of those countries (e.g. Ira…

I'll grant it's possible that there might actually exist enough evidence in the world today to conclusively answer your question in the negative-and-opposite ... but if someone act…

I'm saying that the patches he has reviewed may have been given more attention-to-detail by submitters and lieutenants because of his personality, in which case by being nicer he w…

Convey to us reasonable people, reading it at a distance as 3rd-parties? Absolutely. ... Convey to the intended recipient, with his inevitable personal/emotional/etc. attachments t…

That's one person of many. And it's not a question of aesthetics of the message in the short term, but of the quality of the overall results in the long term and the effort needed …

Only time will tell whether that change is for better or for worse. (Unless your chosen metric-of-value relies on feelings instead of actual concrete results.)

The inherent limitations of human memory likely made that person assume you use a single password everywhere. Your response makes me assume that you memorize a unique password for …

> I'd say, "what you should do" is to organize with others and enforce boundaries on those who are in the "bubble" of not giving a (meaningful) fuck of continued organized existenc…

Why is the .NET integration a feature rather than an antifeature? Don't null and subclassing tend to poke holes in F#'s type system's ability to detect mistakes? And would it not b…

And also wonderfully devoid of error-handling, too. It's the most common way for beautiful-looking C code to look beautiful.

Oh, it is a bad thing, very much so. The more efficiently we can maintain the U.S. Navy, the bigger we can keep it, and the less likely it is that some smaller nation will threaten…

Satisfying the borrow-checker usually ends up implying that either: a) you used .clone() everywhere and therefore are probably modifying something and failing to propagate the modi…

I've said it before and I'll say it again: loneliness isn't the problem; it's our physical dependence on non-loneliness that is the problem.

(Note: I'm not the OP.) I don't get paid by-the-hour to drive; I get paid to arrive on-time. So commuting in my opinion (like IT in MBAs' opinion) is purely a (time-)cost center. A…

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Why do you presume that aggressive drivers are all entitled? And why do I owe the world a favor?

Your downvoters are probably assuming that you are actually espousing those views, rather than calling-out those views. But surely that assumption is false.

As usual, this is entirely a question-of-facts. In this particular case the relevant questions-of-facts are: what affordances the organic life provide, what affordances the GM life…