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At Mark Zuckerberg's school I remember a story about him getting in trouble for PHP. The school had a zero tolerance drug policy and PHP was confused with PCP.
FTP is common Protestant insult to Catholics.
This constant linking to other things is a bit annoying. I found most of them are older books. I clicked the spanking link to maybe find a book on why you should/shouldn't spank your children and instead got a porn site. Who is this guy?
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The idea that governments spend their money responsibly and according to the wishes of their citizens is... The kindest thing I can say is that it's not a universally held opinion (or even, in my experience, a significant-minority held opinion).
A billionaire is a single unelected person. Only a pure dictatorship is less representative than that. I’d take a flawed government with some semblance of an electoral process and representative taxation over dependence on a benevolent individual. For every Bill Gates there is a Charles Koch.
>If your son has requested a new "processor" from a company called "AMD", this is genuine cause for alarm. AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, "knock-off" copies of American processor chips. They use child labor extensively in their third world sweatshops, and they deliberately disable the security features that American processor makers, such as Intel, use to prevent hacking. AMD chips are never so…
So this is what the CPUBenchmark authors wrote before making CPUBenchmark
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You would be an asshole though.
Maybe, but billionaires shouldn’t exist even if they are philanthropic. There’s a reason Bill Gates is a household name and many other innovators are not, and it involves a lot of zeroes. If you are going to be a billionaire, you surrender your life to being on the front page of the tabloids. In my mind the only reason to continue working after making around $10 million is greed. Bill Gates himself cites his busy sch…
>In reality, you don’t become a billionaire without being ruthless, cut-throat, and a very big asshole.
Very much agree. It's so strange that so many people around the world try and align themselves with billionaires to some degree or another. In some cases, they'll even defend them tooth and nail when met with any critique (like Elon Musk's harem of fanboys).
Idolizing billionaires or trying to align with them makes no sense because there isn't a realistic chance that you'll ever see the level of success they did. Maybe it's fun to fantasize about or gives you something to work towards but there are much more interesting and worthwhile things you can do with your time than endlessly pursue wealth.
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I come to Hacker News to avoid garbage like this.
People are often surprised at how similar HN is to all other forms of social media. The only thing saving it is the quantity of people who don’t know about it. It is 100% always a waste of time and I’m literally wasting time right now when the other screen in front of me has the thing I should actually be doing.
And look at that, the comment in question is now dead. That’s the system working.
I lost it.
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A billionaire is a single unelected person. Only a pure dictatorship is less representative than that. I’d take a flawed government with some semblance of an electoral process and representative taxation over dependence on a benevolent individual. For every Bill Gates there is a Charles Koch.
The other, important, difference being that I am not required to fund the billionaire. If I object to the actions of a billionaire, it's not my money that's being misused.
How should I stop using Comcast for my Internet?
What other internet browser could I use in the 1990s besides IE on an ActiveX page?
What other phone can I use besides a Google or Apple phone?
How do I avoid giving Nestle or Unilever money? By avoiding a massive list of thousands of brands?
These are just a few examples of the negatives of capitalist consolidation.