CodeMage

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by CodeMage 10y ago
I would encourage you to watch the Defcon 18 talk by Moxie Marlinspike, called "Changing threats to privacy". It explains why "simply don't participate in X" is not really a valid option. Here's the link to the
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by CodeMage 10y ago
What everyone's trying to tell you is that your point is beside the point.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Only when Mars becomes self-sufficient. As long as Mars is dependent on Earth, enforcing regulations would be ridiculously easy: do as we say or starve (or run out of some other essential resource).
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Ignorance that can easily be misinterpreted as malice is actually just a passive form of malice.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I can confirm this. When I type back tick in the search box, the cursor doesn't advance to the right. The next character I type after one or more back ticks will look like it has an accent on it (e.g. `````a becomes à). I'm using
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by CodeMage 10y ago
How I wish hashtags were actually useful. One of the things I hoped to get out of Twitter when I started using it was the ability to follow my favorite authors and hear more about their public appearances (e.g. book signing), progress on ne
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I enjoy Peter Welch's "Still Drinking" blog for its genuinely fun content, but aside from that, one of the reasons I keep going back to it is its title tag: "Have a nap. THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!"
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by CodeMage 10y ago
> The problem is that language is much higher bandwidth than the information content of the words. On the contrary, the problem with a natural language is that is imprecise, vague and ambiguous. This is why it's so easy to allow a
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by CodeMage 10y ago
The quote is somewhat apt, because it describes, to a certain degree, the current state of federal laws. That's the best thing I can say about the quote. It certainly isn't good. Those same views of the nature of power were much b
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I was tempted to reply with a "found the objectivist" just to illustrate what "ad hominem" really means, but I'm waiting for a build, so I have time to kill. Ad hominem would have been to attack Ayn Rand. I didn&#x2
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by CodeMage 10y ago
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an e
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Don't forget Friday beers with PFY.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
There's no definition of "ironic" that I can think of applying to that. It's like saying that "beautiful painting" is subjective and contextual, but "still life painting" isn't. It just happens t
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Honest question: if I can't see the artifacts without zooming in, is there any reason why I should care? Of all the conversion results offered, the Photoshop export actually looks the best to my eyes, so I'm genuinely trying to
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by CodeMage 10y ago
People oppose death penalty for a variety of reasons, not just out of conviction that "life is hallowed".
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by CodeMage 10y ago
> Then we'd start studying its anatomy for its prime calculator. Well, that explains all the stories about people being anally probed during alien abductions.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Even if I hadn't quit smoking, I would definitely not inhale cigar smoke ever again. That one time I did it, I couldn't speak the next day. My voice just didn't work.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
As someone who used to smoke an average of one pack of cigarettes a day, for five years before quitting, I am curious: what's the appeal of smoking cigars? I only smoked one once and even then I missed out on the authentic experience,
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I wouldn't say there are "nods to aristocracy". The whole Faufreluches class system was quite deliberately designed for the Dune world. Herbert has his characters criticize it subtly at various points of the first three books
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Will it? Why? If anything, Google and Facebook seem to be more firmly entrenched in everyone's day-to-day lives and are more likely to get the "too big to fail" treatment.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
It would be interesting to see whether it really happened like that, but I'm sadly not interested enough to invest that much energy. I did try digging more into why PHK picked on Brett Glass specifically in his e-mail and I turned away
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I agree that it's not always possible to know how serious an issue is from a first glance at its symptoms, but my first sentence wasn't about issues, it was about systems. Feel free to substitute the word "system" with &
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Before I dive into my comment, let me just state that I agree with you on the impossibility of delivering 40 hours of "quality brain time" and on the stupidity of measuring productivity in "butt-in-chair hours". That sai
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I think @grecy was pretty clear, but FWIW, here's my interpretation: the system is either important enough to disturb employees after hours or it isn't. If it is, you need to define and implement a support protocol: on-call rotati
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Overtime? For software engineers? Where?
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Believe it or not, there are different motivations people have for choosing their careers. Some become footballers because they want to rake in as much money as Beckham, others because they enjoy football so much that they decide that'
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I don't know what happened, because I wasn't there, but I do know that it's perfectly possible to communicate an unspoken insult in a perfectly neutral sentence. I am not convinced that your assumption about his negativity is
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by CodeMage 10y ago
High freedom from corruption in Chile, a country whose government is essentially a kleptocracy? Yeah, I would take that with a hefty dose of sodium-chloride.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
The word you're looking for is "nationalist", not "authoritarian". Authoritarianism is when you're commanded to do the stuff you quoted. Nationalism is when you do it of your free will or out of peer pressure f
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Then it would work better, although you could still get false positives from neighbors' appliances when your windows and their windows are open. That, however, is completely beside the point. The point is that the audio pitches aren&#x

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