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by 392c91e8165b 5y ago
I wonder how much of the bad decision-making that led to the US's wasting more than 2 trillion dollars failing to effect any permanent change in Afghanistan can be ascribed to the fact that it is career suicide to imply that the people
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by 392c91e8165b 6y ago
>all this energy . . . might be better focused into social disapproval of the portrayals of murder, rape and the rest of the violence we inundate ourselves and our kids with on a daily basis. I tend to agree, and the "rekt/gore
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by 392c91e8165b 6y ago
ACR == Automatic Content Recognition "ACR is a technology that (with device-owner permission) reads pixels on a smart, internet-connected device screen as it delivers content to a . . . consumer—on a second by second basis. A recent Fo
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by 392c91e8165b 6y ago
Good point. My explanation for the discrepancy is that Canada, Australia and western Europe are more homogenous racially and ethnically than the US is, which makes them less vulnerable to the excesses of an ideology or religion-substitute t
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by 392c91e8165b 8y ago
It is just as cheap to access a telnet server half way around the world as one next door, so bringing up telnet is changing the subject.
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by 392c91e8165b 8y ago
I'm not convinced that the US government is more broken than the others you list. Most people killed by a government are killed not by police forces, but rather by armies, navies and air forces. And if you live in or near the US you ha
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by 392c91e8165b 9y ago
I would call the scientific revolution a blossoming, and although democracies (notably the Dutch Republic) participated, most of it happened in monarchies and principalities.
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by 392c91e8165b 9y ago
Are you sure it was 1992? Wikipedia says that there were only 50 web servers in the world in January 1993, and my recollection is that were all at educational and research institutions. I don't think for example that any of the major c
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by 392c91e8165b 9y ago
Interesting. (But the Pixel 2 was discontinued 11 months ago, and there is no replacement, i.e., no Pixel 3.)
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by 392c91e8165b 10y ago
Sleep deprivation would be a bad idea for me because sleep helps the immune system, and my immune system needs all the help it can get (because of my chronic infectious disease). I have found however that _listening to music_ during sleep w
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by 392c91e8165b 10y ago
That's fair. I now wish I had resisted the temptation to post something sarcastic. Is the following comment any better than my previous one? The greatest cultural strength of the US IMHO is the belief, which used to be widespread, that
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by 392c91e8165b 10y ago
Well, that's a relief. I was worried about the possibility that a fraction of Apple's workforce would not accept the results of the election. OK, sorry for the sarcasm; please allow me to restate my point without sarcasm: this mem
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by 392c91e8165b 10y ago
They were homogeneous for centuries, then non-homogeneous for a few decades. Maybe it takes a few decades for the adverse effects of the non-homogeneity to become apparent.
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by 392c91e8165b 10y ago
I still like computers, but dislike this decade's web . I wish I could access all of the web's text , images and hyperlinks without running Firefox, Chrome or a similarly massive code base. I am aware that my wish is impract
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by 392c91e8165b 10y ago
I'm okay with the fact that I spend more than half of my waking hours staring at screens . It's the web I worry about. (And maybe smartphones, but I've yet to own a smartphone. And, speaking of screens, I don't partic
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by 392c91e8165b 10y ago
Not only does Pao expect everyone she works with to agree with her on her Important Concern, but also she expects the Important Concern to override all other potential considerations that might go into a person's decision on whom to su
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by 392c91e8165b 10y ago
I'm skeptical that Europe will ever be as united by culture as the US is as long as Europe is divided into different language communities. (Although there are millions of Americans who do not speak English, only the tiniest fraction of
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by 392c91e8165b 11y ago
>Even though I'm Emacs-inclined (though not living in Emacs), orgmode is too unwieldy and complicated for me I do live in Emacs, but I prefer the mouse to the keyboard for tasks that can be done both ways, and balked at learning t
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by 392c91e8165b 11y ago
This seems like a good place for me to react to the dozens (hundreds?) of comments I've viewed here over the years that value passion and cool coworkers very highly. I would prefer a job that pays X + $20K per year and is mostly boring
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by 392c91e8165b 11y ago
Just to add even more counterbalance, I consider both Google and Mozilla enemies of public discourse on the internet. What I'm referring to is the fact that turning the web into a platform on which a wide variety of applications can ru
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by 392c91e8165b 11y ago
One point not mentioned in the OP: the people in charge of Firefox, Opera and Chrome have been and will continue to be a hindrance, not a help, on net to users who agree with the manifesto. The qualifier "on net" is intended to ac
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by 392c91e8165b 11y ago
One thing I do to try to slow down the rate of change on the web is to upgrade my browser less often than most people. Specifically, I use Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR). Mozilla resisted providing this "update channel" (F
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by 392c91e8165b 12y ago
I meditate, but only for 2 to 5 minutes at a time. When I do it much longer than that, vaguely-bad things happen. (It would take a long time to explain. Suffice to say that I am chronically ill, and if I were healthier, I could probably med
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by 392c91e8165b 12y ago
Yes. When my main motivation for programming was to get the high that comes from long stretches of time spent in intense absorption, my programming time seemed to be less productive than it is now.
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by 392c91e8165b 12y ago
Replying to myself and quoting myself: "Am I the only one who believes that it is bad for me to spend more than 20 hours . . . a week in the state?" That is misleading because it gives the impression that I spend a non-negligible
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by 392c91e8165b 12y ago
In my late teens and my twenties, I spent 10s of 1000s of hours in a state of intense absorption on programming tasks. (I am in my 50s now.) Am I the only one who believes that it is bad for me to spend more than 20 hours -- and perhaps as
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by 392c91e8165b 13y ago
I use honey along with something called the specific-carbohydrate diet to control (but not eradicate) an infection in my gut. Certain honeys -- and not particularly the more expensive ones -- are much more antibacterial in this regard than