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  1. Only kids hide behind pseudonyms on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Real adults like myself use their real name.

  2. Re:Pseudonymity on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a co-worker who posted online in a psychology forum using his real name. Some of those posts were used against him in family court, and he was denied custody of his children.

    I have a solution for that: live in a country with less backwards values about marriage and divorce.

  3. Re: Microsoft on Google Doubles Down on Linux and Open Source (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I have branched the Linux kernel (but never managed to get my patches merged), I know how to use git.

    This is not what forking a project means. The only one making idiotic statements is you.

  4. Re: Microsoft on Google Doubles Down on Linux and Open Source (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I never claimed they did. Why are you making irrelevant statements?

  5. Re: Microsoft on Google Doubles Down on Linux and Open Source (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I am making a parallel between the difference between murder and manslaughter and the difference between a fork and a patch.

    Both are a matter of intention, which you said was irrelevant.

  6. Re: Microsoft on Google Doubles Down on Linux and Open Source (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Intention is also what makes the difference between a lifetime in jail or not.
    It's crazy how the world works, isn't it?

  7. Re: Microsoft on Google Doubles Down on Linux and Open Source (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    No, it really isn't.

    Forking means you have no plans to ever rebase your changes, because you aim to become the new upstream.

  8. Re: Microsoft on Google Doubles Down on Linux and Open Source (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Patching the kernel is not the same thing as forking.

  9. Re: Facebook too on Gmail Proves That Some People Hate Smart Suggestions (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no good real email client anymore.
    The formerly good ones were all made slow. It's like people developinh those don't even have a billion emails and don't know how to make things scale.

  10. Re: The so-called Flynn Effect... on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not true. A lot of professions require some actual creativity.

  11. Re: The so-called Flynn Effect... on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Deadpool, with its rude farting jokes and unsophisticated humour catering to the lowest common denominator, is a masterpiece of modern filmmaking?

  12. Re: The so-called Flynn Effect... on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I think your entry is better.
    What he says is valid, but it actually applies to most professions.

  13. Re: The so-called Flynn Effect... on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Crime in the US is still significantly higher than any other developed country.

  14. Re: The so-called Flynn Effect... on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you talking of a TV?
    That artifact from the previous century still exists?

  15. I've traveled all around Europe and what you say doesn't ring true at all.

  16. Re: Because that's the only way on Microsoft Announces Breakthrough In Chinese-To-English Machine Translation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Most so-called bilinguals aren't.

  17. Re: It's one of the criteria my company used... on Slack Is Shutting Down Its IRC Gateway (slack.help) · · Score: 1

    There is no good email or nntp client anymore, so everyone moved to web applications.
    Blame Mozilla for fucking up and bloating their client with useless features that make it slow and unusable whenever you have 100k+ emails.

  18. Cry me a river.
    In Europe, a 50% tax rate is pretty normal.

  19. I earn several times 6 figures in a stronger currency and a simple one-person apartment is half my salary.

    California is cheap.

  20. AMP is irrelevant on Google Launches AMP For Email To Bring Web-like Actionable Content To Gmail (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just stop trying to create technologies that do the same thing as what established standards already do, but in a sillier way.

  21. What are those ads people are speaking of? on YouTube Will Remove Ads, Downgrade Discoverability of Channels Posting Offensive Videos (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never seen any ads on Youtube.
    Where are those?

    All I can see is sponsored videos, but surely youtube isn't really involved in that process.

  22. Re:Because "the best people" do NOT change paradig on Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Changing paradigms is easy enough to do if you have the business experience to know better.

  23. Re:Define "the best" on Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how hiring works.
    You try to evaluate whether they'd be a good fit for the role you're hiring for, not whether they're as good as you at irrelevant stuff.

  24. Re:But where are the diversity success stories? on Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    People already naturally hire for diversity in skills, because that's actually useful.
    It all depends on what the business needs are, what skills we already have on the team, etc.

    Diversity in sexual orientation, race and all that shit is useless.

  25. Re: I'm shocked, shocked! on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The French just speak their mind instead of being false like Americans.