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no, deleted displays a different message than dead, and i can still read the comment. it's not deleted. turn on showdead.

why is NSX2's comment (sibling of this comment) dead? does anyone else see anything wrong with it? (i'm not saying i agree with it, just i don't see any reason it should be killed)

and if your lengthy list contains a mistake somewhere?

wow, that's some amazing deference to authority. you don't know what happened, but assume if someone gets in trouble they must have deserved it.

My votes don't count, so I write them in comments. Feel free to complain to pg.

the / is like an irc command or various other places.

PS your profile says to email you but doesn't give an email address.

You don't intend for your children to make up their own minds about religion?

Thomas Paine I know about. I read his book about the French Revolution -- the reply to Burke. It's really bad stuff. He doesn't understand Burke at all, makes bad arguments carelessly, and throws in lots of insults. (I realize I'm being insulting. Besides the low quality thinking he made excuses for massive bloodshed as well as glorifying some of it. And I have detailed notes with which I could back this up.)

I don't know early American philosophers very well offhand. But wikipedia says Jefferson sympathized with the French. The dates are around the time of the French Revolution. So, my guess is I dislike him. The French Revolution was really awful and revolutions in general are bad.

But I don't think libertarian is the wrong label (no worse than others). if "classical liberal" makes you think it is, maybe that is the wrong label?

well didn't you basically just tell me to avoid the label libertarian because it's too misleading? i don't entirely agree, but thought you had a point. it is misleading. so are all the others. the only half-decent ones for me are pretty specific like Popperian.

It's an insult based on his femininity.

libertarians are mostly very pro-free-market, and pro-small-government, as am I. I like Rand and Hayek. I can communicate these things better with the word 'libertarian' than with the word 'liberal' which few people understand in the way I'd mean it. I'm closer to right-wing than left-wing, by present day American standards. meh. avoiding labels requires a lot more words.

PS I'd upvote you if I could vote.

big name sites should stop asking for people's username and password from other sites.

Please don't hold all libertarians accountable for Lew Rockwell. Some of us are "classical liberals" in the style of the Enlightenment. The libertarian movement is far from a perfect fit, but it's closer than the other parties.

You didn't say "the content of this is bullshit" you said "more bullshit from 37 signals". you brought up the source to go with your attack.

also, amusingly, you've now called DDH a pretty-boy, which is attacking him personally as well as homophobic (or possibly sexist instead?).

/downvote for ad hominem, including completely unsupported ad hominem (it says more bullshit but doesn't reference any previous bullshit)

do you know any public places worth discussing philosophy at?

weird. i don't know anyone on yahoo. msn only warcraft III players. AIM everyone else.

/upvote for caring about the source of motivation

63,000 people with more time to go shopping

edit: or even better for a web company. poor, bored people can spend plenty of time online

mac programs avoid using right-click context menus as a primary interface approach. so what do you need it for?

for gaming you need to plug in a mouse anyway. otherwise occasional ctrl-clicking isn't hard, nor is the 2 finger thing.

for the GUI, macs are the best, it's not close

for the unixy stuff, macs do a good job, but they don't blow linux away

macs make lots of stuff more convenient. customizing is no problem for anything especially important. you can also download stuff to change, say, the builtin Dock, if you want.

i strongly recommend a mac. but consider a macbook (not pro) if you're worried about price. pro only has a certain limited set of advantages you might not need.

macs do have page up and page down keys

/upvote b/c at 0

you're right of course.

/upvote

i also prefer safari. but another reason to use firefox is in combination with Spaces, which isn't very good at having an app's windows divided between spaces. (yes there is a setting to change this, but it has its own downsides)

no, it's half full

no problem.

personal emails are more distracting than yc? :)

for line, cmd + left/right arrow (+ shift)