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Comment: Re:It's all that old "Self Esteem" nonsense. (Score 1) 263

by cr_nucleus (#40853477) Attached to: Overconfidence May Be a Result of Social Politeness

One can be polite, and even friendly, while still giving negative feedback. This "no negative feedback" bullshit is a result of those defunct social theories that we had to bolster kids' self-esteem at the cost of truth.

I believe that it's related to the widespread confusion of form and substance.
You can point at issues in someone's performance in a very nice manner and alternatively you can give some praise in a very displeasing way.

It could also be connected to the fact that it's often confusing to like and not like something at the same time and possibly for the very same reasons (btw, that's ambivalence).

Encouraging someone does not require lying.

Comment: Just drop the number already ! (Score 1) 395

by cr_nucleus (#40728607) Attached to: HTML5 Splits Into Two Standards

They should do the same thing as the doctype and drop the number altogether.
Like anyone would understand HTML as "the old html from before the beginning of time, when netscape was a browser and people used newsgroups as forums and irc and whatever".

Let legacy apps use HTML 4, xhtml et al and just move forward.

Comment: Re:Only when they don't already know? (Score 1) 358

by cr_nucleus (#39158165) Attached to: US Appeals Court Upholds Suspect's Right To Refuse Decryption

In all seriousness, as soon as the government starts making a distinction between real criminals and John Q. Citizen we can start letting our guards down on this but until then we should always err on the side of less power and intrusion.

I think you're wrong both in assuming there is an actual difference between "real criminals" and "normal citizens" and in believing that you can ever "let your guard down".

As far as the law is concerned, a "real criminal" is any "normal citizen" who was convicted of a crime. So technicaly you can't distinguish between those two mentioned groups during investigation since there's been no verdict yet.
What you're talking about essentially means placing a verdict before any trial.

As always, people will only promote a system that segregates people if they think they're gonna end up on the right side of the fence.

I would like to urinate in an OVULAR, porcelain pool --

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