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This sort of moral panic should be slapped down hard. The 1890s are over, and no, we don't need to protect our womenfolk from perverts who went to med school hoping for free gropes…

I bought this when it came out, but thought it was horrible. The only good bit was the preface by one of the Unix authors (Ritchie?). The rest just seemed like whining by people th…

Probably largely random. But beyond that, they sound like the diametric opposite of upstanding and boring citizens, so not really that surprising?

This doesn't seem particularly unreasonable. This is a poor method of funding education, and rife with all sorts of potential for abuse. Not to mention that generally we want the p…

From my perspective, news has become far more angry and vicious in the last couple of years. Writers who in the past were more or less kindly and factual (if sometimes a bit goofy)…

I'm aware of these, and to a degree suffer from them directly--I just don't think "left to die" is an appropriate description. Furthermore, the group most affected by these issues,…

Shockingly ignorant, as usual. No one in our society is "left to die" because they don't have a job.

Went on a job-hunting trip there a couple of years ago. Certainly many nice things about it. But after considering its problems, and the local toxic politics that appear to stand i…

My alternative is to think carefully before hitting return. As a bonus, this works for other commands, too. Also, '\rm', as many distributions insist on aliasing 'rm' by default.

Maybe so, but I still want a surgeon who's going to get the job done. http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-yo...

You're arguing for limiting speech. I'm arguing against.

> the material changes this rise in anti-intellectual, conspiracy minded, anti-science free speech crusaders are attempting to cause You lost me here, as in my experience, such act…

Some believe in the three laws. Downvoters, not so much. :-/

Note that the laws of thermodynamics only specify the minimum number of calories you must consume (i.e., to not lose weight, or to not die). There is no real maximum to the amount …

So? Yes, they will continue organic growth in NYC, like everywhere else. The HQ plan would have been a massive jump and very likely an increased growth rate thereafter. That won't …

Maybe, but I still want my surgeon to really good at surgery.

This would be awesome if I get to choose what I consider to be toxic. I'm not interested in Google's opinion.

Fair enough. But please don't post such links on HN.

I have. My gross is now about one-third of what it was a few years ago. Briefly, a really ugly divorce that I didn't see coming pretty much sucked the life out of me. I'm inferring…

This is an outstanding article with life-changing insights. Everyone should read it. Certainly explains a lot of awful and baffling things I've seen and experienced. Unfortunately,…

Arguably rpm/yum is still a kludge compared to dpkg/apt.

Also ran into this. Even had a Google manager I've known for years go to bat for me internally. No dice. Which is crazy, since web logs would have shown that the account was comple…

No, but there's a lot to be said for knocking down the easy 90-95% of it...

So many tasteless jokes--so little time. Also, it's 2019... :-(

There are a lot of ways to judge this, but obvious candidates would be GNU Emacs, the GNU coreutils packages, etc., and the Linux kernel itself. (Probably also the BSDs, though I d…