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Ha! "Term of art" is another good one.

There are obviously evil characters, obviously good characters, and ambiguous characters. Mostly ambiguous.

But before you do that, try pulling out functions.

I think the claim is that demanding what is rightfully yours is greedy and selfish. I don't know whether I agree in this case (probably not), but there have been cases in my life w…

That is what I learned from the censorship of the officer's statement.

Why would I take the money? Because I've seen someone sue and win a lawsuit and I just wouldn't want to go through the stress of it. Even if I thought I was right and could win. Ev…

And similarly I don't think YC would offer $4.5M if they knew they were (completely) in the right.

This is trivial, but my favorite part of your post is the use of "a writing" as an expression.

> After hearing the announcement, Guillory contacted Vogt to inquire about his share of the proceeds from the sale of Cruise to GM. Vogt responded that he was due nothing, but firs…

I think "people from place" constitutes an ethnicity, but I'll concede that this isn't a common mindset.

The irony is that the inhabitants of the "San Francisco Castro neighborhood" also form an ethnic group by virtue of living in the same place. Notably, it's a gay neighborhood. Take…

Hmmm. How about "any thoughtful reader"? Works for me.

I agree with you, but I'm going to quibble over: > any reader who doesn't already have racial prejudices because I don't believe these people exist.

The only machine around here that I could totally walk into is an S/390, but oddly enough I don't have the key to its bedroom.

Sam owns YC, YC owns HN, what does it matter? The whole purpose of HN is to make Sam (and the other partners, and investors, and YC startups) money. Mindshare is incredibly valuabl…

On reflection, perhaps this pointless diversion yields the following maxim: You can walk into a house through an open door, but you can't walk into a computer.

Oh, I was literally just arguing the other side about going through an open window because I didn't know for sure if it was burglary. (Common law says no, but that's probably updat…

Yes, but that's using force to open the door, which was in my original claim about no force on an open window. Reading that WP article again, turns out I was just considering the c…

Well, I didn't know, so I looked it up before posting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burglary > Although rarely listed as an element, the common law required that "entry occur as a…

Picking the locks is breaking and entering, going through an open window is illegal trespass, assuming you don't have to move any parts of the window. At least where I live. It dep…

Bipolar depression rapidly gives way to mania if you try to treat it like unipolar depression with standard antidepressants. The chances of this happening are greatly increased if …

Tying your two examples together, the GPL version of free/libre is way more complex than the simple BSD version.

I think maybe you made a mistake, because the exchange reads like this: A: Knives are for eating. B: Eating is only a part of it. Knives are for handling food. A: You can handle fo…

I think that posting the pictures online like that is actually what's creepy. The matching almost has nothing to do with it. For instance, if he just had the subway photos, or he j…