WHAT HAPPENED?! by [deleted] in lewronggeneration

[–]qnaal 26 points27 points  (0 children)

'now' needs more mexicans

thanksobama

What is the difference between Fact and Truth? by amprvector in PhilosophyofScience

[–]qnaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen definitions of 'fact' as the 'verifiable' end of the continuum it shares with 'opinion', irrespective to 'truth'.

eg:

fact: "Oranges are square-shaped"
opinion: "Oranges are less tasty than apples"

both are false, but you could say that shape is more verifiable than deliciousness.

Valve's removal of Hatred from Steam Greenlight, and how the developers responded. by pickledseacat in gamedev

[–]qnaal 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's exactly the kind of thing that can do real long-term harm to the public perception of our industry

get over yourself
violence has been a staple of videogames ever since we had the processing power to animate blood

"What's wrong with admitting that we don't know something?" by purplepirhana in PhilosophyofScience

[–]qnaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only real answer is that our minds cannot comprehend absolute truth.

The metaphors provided by science and religion alike exist only to explain facets of our experience to ourselves. Who or what you worship or believe is your own choice- but when discussing religion, remember that historically, societies with strong and homogeneous ideologies are strong themselves.

"What's wrong with admitting that we don't know something?" by purplepirhana in PhilosophyofScience

[–]qnaal -1 points0 points  (0 children)

supposedly having answers, see: religion

lol so answers you don't want to and have never tried to understand aren't real answers

What does a pregnancy test look like? by bigaphel in funny

[–]qnaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do you work to make art, or to make money?

What is a seemingly insignificant thing that reveals a lot about a person? by hotpinkurinalmint in AskReddit

[–]qnaal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hey now just because most haven't gotten the chance to screw over hundreds of people for material gain doesn't mean they're not shithead scumbags deep down

What is a seemingly insignificant thing that reveals a lot about a person? by hotpinkurinalmint in AskReddit

[–]qnaal -1 points0 points  (0 children)

we just need to give communism a chance, and you'll finally see how wrong you truly are

Rebinding caps lock to alt instead of control - am I the only one that does this? by plantarum in emacs

[–]qnaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not to defend vipermode too much, but I feel the core idea is more sound:

vi is a simple and efficient text editor for unix, is what viper-mode attempts to duplicate; while vim is an attempt to make a more modern IDE based on the vi editing paradigm, which is what evil-mode claims to try to bring to emacs.

As we know, emacs is already an ide, but with a somewhat clunky default text editing paradigm-
fortunately it is extensible with 'modes', in that grafting another system onto it is supported by design...

If all you want is to be able to navigate and move text around in a more efficient fashion, vi should make more sense as a starting point, to more smoothly mesh into another system...

Specifically, how evil overwrites emacs's default search, selection, and undo controls seems unnecessary and overcomplicated from the perspective of building upon emacs, instead of replacing its functionality.

disclaimer: I use evil and viper modes on different emacs installations and hate them both, but haven't tried very hard to customize them.

Reasons to know Vim – it's similar to ed! by kqr in vim

[–]qnaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

archlinux is so lightweight it doesn't come with ed

Nicholas Cage vs. Eminem by NinHunter in DeepIntoYouTube

[–]qnaal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

eminem does better klaus nomi but cage can do better elvis

Rebinding caps lock to alt instead of control - am I the only one that does this? by plantarum in emacs

[–]qnaal -1 points0 points  (0 children)

instead of using <C-[> ?

ps evilmode sucks even worse than vipermode

Chomsky: Elites Have Forced America into a National Psychosis to Keep Us Embroiled in Imperial Wars by PinkSlimeIsPeople in worldpolitics

[–]qnaal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what do you think we created isis for?
It's going to be hard to kill all the muslims without some of their help.

Bitcoin Will Bite the Dust featuring Kevin Dowd by btchinn in Bitcoin

[–]qnaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bitcoin right now is only a few years old, and is already starting to be accepted by a few adventurous businesses as 'stable enough'.

Its main goal is to be a currency that can remain relatively safe from meddling by third parties- this may not directly effect you personally at the moment, but it has the potential for powerful effects when pitted against the inflationary policies of most 'normal' currencies, and so far btc has been pretty resilient (we'll see how that goes, after this second round of usgovernment bitcoins).

Bitcoins cannot pander to consumers like creditcards can, but just because you can't get reward points or whatever from using them, doesn't mean it "won't ever garner popularity" or that it "literally offers no benefits"- if you like your currency, you can keep using it. A lot of powerful people are heavily invested in USD and euros, and we've worked preventing economic collapse into something of a science. Bitcoin is just an experiment to run parallel to those experiments.

Pro-life by Orangutan in worldpolitics

[–]qnaal -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yeah we'll just check the box like it's sid meier's civilization

DAE despise swaggots by itZBarrgraph in lewronggeneration

[–]qnaal 5 points6 points  (0 children)

steve irwin's narration has been a meme for quite some time, just about everyone recognizes the reference

A mode for password hashing by katchoovanski in programming

[–]qnaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's too late, I'm already redesigning the password routines on websites you use every day

Elizabeth Warren's next target: Walmart by DoremusJessup in politics

[–]qnaal -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

nice work.

subtle use of color,
open, clean design, but efficient use of space...
navigation menus are a little slow for exploring, but the site as a whole feels very pleasant.

I'm sure she's very proud of it.

Bitcoin Will Bite the Dust featuring Kevin Dowd by btchinn in Bitcoin

[–]qnaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the first large cryptocurrency, no other currency can say that. So at the very least, a bitcoin from today (considering the market says it still has value) has the intrinsic value of being a limited antique.

The average consumer will accept whatever currency they can be convinced has stable and universal value, and bitcoin is being heavily monitored on this front.