Agamus

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by Agamus 4y ago
Thank you for posting this! I imagine some people reading it may have not considered it before. Does this idea also extend to ethnicity? This is far from the original topic, but if I emigrate to my wife's home country, I don't th
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by Agamus 4y ago
The first thought that popped into my head when I was reading the pitch was, "Don't be evil". The second thought was, "basta!"
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by Agamus 4y ago
"Fish are my friends, and I don't eat my friends" Then again, I'm also allergic.
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by Agamus 4y ago
Today I learned that mobile connectivity issues are another thing I love about IRC.
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by Agamus 4y ago
The fact that there is any confusion about this, (and clearly there is!), makes this an issue. For my part, I would never travel to a middle eastern country for any reason, specifically to avoid the possibility that something I never suspec
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by Agamus 4y ago
Based on everything I have seen over my lifetime (~50 years), the answer is yes. At this point, it should be clear to all that we need to raise the age to purchase alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and to vote. I'm saying this as someone wit
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by Agamus 4y ago
If I have it right, this service would allow me to have another company between me and what I am trying to do when I use internet technology. Why on earth would anyone in their right mind do this? I use things like noScript to specifically
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by Agamus 4y ago
They sure are: https://www.magnetar.com/ It was famously suggested that they caused the 2008 market crash: https://www.propublica.org/article/all-the-magnetar-trade-ho... https://en.wikipedi
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by Agamus 4y ago
Hey now, sharks are people too - they're not all bad guys.
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by Agamus 4y ago
I am eternally grateful to IE for shoving me early and squarely to the Linux/FOSS side. Thank you, IE - and good riddance!
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by Agamus 4y ago
I think this is correct. My sense is that the assumption of _individuation_ is at the core of logic, which then infects all rational thinking. (We add the predicates to "things", and then forget that we added them!) If there are n
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by Agamus 4y ago
I didn't mention #4 of also purging all that other stuff when the browser closes. Honestly, try it with me - it's not so bad. 1, 2, 3, everybody now!
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by Agamus 4y ago
Bingo! Their tagline should be, come here to get screwed!
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by Agamus 4y ago
Agreed, the solution is to work with others toward a solution. In my defense, I don't see it as a workaround - I wouldn't use it any other way. There was a time when one didn't need to do this, but the internet has become mor
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by Agamus 4y ago
The solution still seems to be to: 1. Use Firefox, block .js by default, and selectively allow. 2. Set browser to block cross-site cookies, and to purge all cookies when closing browser. 3. Avoid tabbed browsing, and restart browser after u
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by Agamus 4y ago
I tend to agree with your base premise. My question is, do we say "Yes!" to that, or "No!"?
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by Agamus 4y ago
My team was once described as the "Harry Tuttle" of the company by a VP - it was one of the happiest moments of my life.
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by Agamus 4y ago
In other words, life is inherently coercive? Life is... life under duress?
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by Agamus 4y ago
Definitely, but it also addressed something I'm trying to tease-out here. For people who had never really used computers, and had not been online, the buzz about how the Information Superhighway was going to change everyone's life
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by Agamus 4y ago
There was an excellent episode of In the Heat of the Night in 1991 called "Sweet Sweet Blues", which was a murder-mystery about a murder ballad. The crime happened 40 years earlier, and they solved it by tracking down the composer
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by Agamus 4y ago
Your cat was domesticated. The OP here is correct on most parts, but wrong on a major one. Humans are animal. The only reason we exercise compassion or empathy is because we have mastered limited power and resource - we are mostly comfortab
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by Agamus 4y ago
* The Perseus Project: searchable Classical texts in the original language or in translation. Etymological and philological study tool from the gods.This thing has looked this way since at least 2003. Show me a more awesome website, I dare
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by Agamus 4y ago
Since about 1998, whenever I need a rickroll-style URL placeholder for whatever reason, I use zombocom. This is my favorite website ever, because, quite simply, you can do anything at Zombocom. For those who don't get it, in the late 9
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by Agamus 4y ago
I'll reply on my own comment here to add that the same reasoning applies to gun rights. We need a critical mass of the populous to have personal responsibility, or we are missing parameters in the calculus of our right to bear arms. Un
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by Agamus 4y ago
Humans have not yet reconciled our sharp and flat teeth. This is a deeply biological issue, with roots in our teeth: http://www.katabane.com/mt/dentist.html
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by Agamus 4y ago
Excellent post. The more one thinks about it the way you describe it, the more one makes themselves open to understanding or vicariously experiencing another's perspective. At that point, it is called compassion, and it is probably a f
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by Agamus 4y ago
I tend to think that fate and free will work like electricity and magnetism. I call the combined result 'destiny'.
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by Agamus 4y ago
I haven't needed to count cash with my eyes closed yet, with several decades behind me. Aside from how awesome it must be for people with visual impairment, I can't think of how else it is beneficial (though that is definitely eno
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by Agamus 4y ago
This is a bit off-topic, but I'm curious about what other think here. I like the aesthetic of US cash. I find it elegant and pleasing. It was better before they made all the heads huge, but I have learned to live with it. I cannot stan
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by Agamus 4y ago
"Besides that, what's wrong with..." Nothing 'wrong' with it, per se. But the whole concept reads like a bad Saturday Night Live skit.

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