Th4tGuyII

What?! You mean to tell me that cutting funding to various public services and cutting taxes for the rich did nothing to help the general public?!
Next thing you’ll be telling me is that trickle-down economics is a load of shite

(/s for anyone who needed it)

Haste makes waste - if you want quality content, let the dev and their team take the time they need.

Considering how her month long stint as PM went, I fully welcome her endorsement of Trump

Pretty much…

Recessive malfunctions can hide away amongst carriers for generations before manifesting any deformities, during which time they have no effect on the carrier’s survival, so there’s very little selective pressure against them.

Dominant malfunctions which cause deformities simply can’t hide away, so have enormous selective pressure against them.

Interestingly enough though, there are times where dominant malfunctions can survive that pressure…
For example, having Sickle cell disorder increases your resistance to Malaria, so even though the full form is rarely passed on, the single allele form (which caused partial disorder) is passed on due to a slight positive selection pressure.

Exactly. Information is a luxury - you could go your entire life without learning even a shred of information, but you’d still need to eat.

Firstly, capitalism isn’t going to just “poof” away just because there are more resources available. The rich will just hold them back to create artificial scarcity - like is done with diamonds.

Secondly, even discounting that, there are plenty of resources that are genuinely scarce no matter how much money you have to throw at the problem.

But if you’re referring to just the scarcity of information - then you’re still not quite right as not all that information out there is good information - a lot of it is misinformation (i.e. propaganda, etc.)…

And even that discounts the fact that for many people, they don’t have the tools/capability to access the information, or simply can’t access the information full stop (I.e. due to censorship, etc.).

I’ll try to keep it relatively simple - your cells contain chromosomes that contain your genes. You usually* have two sets of every chromosome.

These genes come in different variations/mutant forms called alleles. Most alleles function more or less the same, but some malfunctions result in deformities.

If a malfunctioning allele results in errant gene inactivation, it is known as recessive, which means as long as your other copy works, you’re all good.

If a malfunctioning allele results in an errant gene activation, it is known as dominant, which means if you have the allele you get the deformity regardless of if your other copy works or not.

Fortunately for life, most malfunctioning alleles are recessive, so as long as you’ve got high genetic variance (a lot of alleles) in a population, the chance of two people meeting with the same recessive malfunction is low.

Incest can result in a drastic decrease in genetic variation, which can result in malfunctioning alleles becoming much more prevalent than they usually would be, resulting in many more cases of recessive deformities than in the wider population.

*For males this is not true of their sex chromosomes. Many genes present on the X chromosome are missing on the Y chromosome, which can lead to sex exclusive traits and diseases.

For example, it is the reason why there are almost no calico/tri-colour male cats, as the genes for it are in X but not Y chromosomes.

Anyone want to take bets on how long it’ll take for this guy to end up falling out of a building or get into a plane crash?

Well the idea is that you’re paying for someone who is both qualified in dealing with mental health issues, and is completely unattached to your life to provide a confidential, non-judgmemtal outsider perspective on your life.

The people who know you almost certainly can’t provide that level of support in your life, and many people need that space/perspective to help them recognise their issues, or push them towards the correct solution to resolving them.

It’s not everybody’s cup of tea, it ain’t mine, but for those it does work for, it works well

Now taking bets on this man having a tragic accident before next week

As long as there us incentive to do so, malicious actors will exploit the source code whether it is open or closed…

Making something open source does make it easier for malicious actors, but it also allows honest actors to find and fix exploits before they can be used - something they won’t/can’t do for closed source, meaning you have to rely on in-house devs to review/find/fix everything.

No, my point is that they’re lost causes and they’re untrainable.

Ah… I still don’t get how that’s meant to refute the previous person’s point that elitism and the “git gud” attitude around Linux contributes to it’s inability to become mainstream.

If anything your reply only reinforces their point, because you seem to be suggesting we throw anybody who struggles to learn it to the curb.

Is your point meant to be that these people who already have trouble learning GUIs would somehow have an easier time intuiting command line?

If that’s correct, that’s an absolutely BS argument

I’m not a Linux fan boy by any means, but you’ve at least got to give it a fair deal…

Saying Linux sucks because of Google’s Android is the equivalent of saying you hate all vegetables because Brussel Sprouts suck.

I think that’s a per installation thing, cause mine has always had issues with sleep mode - ironically no problem with hibernation though haha

Pointing out that you find it easy because you do it for a living isn’t a very good counter to their point - most people do other things besides Linux for a living

I don’t think that’s what they’re saying, I think they’re pointing out that Trump says so much and has so much said about him that what he actually does ends up getting swept under all the other news.

Sure those in the know can keep track but the average person is just seeing the headlines as they come - and this article is part of the very same problem that it is pointing out

The only news we should be reading is about him being behind bars, but unfortunately it seems he’ll die before that ever happens

It’s not that people aren’t paying attention, it’s that the people who have to most power to do anything about it won’t because they’re either in his pocket already, or fearful of stirring up another insurrection

I know your feeling - though I find it hard to truly lose my temper, I do tend to stress out easily and start venting outloud.

I feel like externalising my stressors is the only way to let them go, even if nobody wants to listen, otherwise I just end up bottling things up.