Cushman

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by Cushman 13y ago
> How would you have preferred to see this reported? What "this"? That somebody built a rifle from a kit is not exactly newsworthy.
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by Cushman 13y ago
Obviously you should always always always have eyes and ears on when shooting. That said, an AK is one of the easiest guns to build from a kit and the bolt and barrel are both professionally machined steel, so if it chambers a round it's pr
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by Cushman 13y ago
> Everywhere at once means "no privileged reference frame". Probably you'll never read this now, but... Nope. Everywhere at once literally means a privileged reference frame. "Over there, now" is a concept with no logical meaning in our
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by Cushman 13y ago
I'm not sure I can do anything at all for Papua New Guinea. Not to sound callous, but I'm more worried about the state-sanctioned torture and killing that takes place much closer to my home. It is the very people whom we have entrusted with
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by Cushman 13y ago
> I don't even want to know on what planet mob lynchings and indignation at the brutalization of a defenseless individual are the same thing, just "anger" It is the planet Earth, your home, and it is not as simple as you wish it were. M
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by Cushman 13y ago
> "Those who make such a judgement are guilty of performing a cost/benefit study without the benefit of studying the benefit." Sounds like the last forty years of mainstream corporate policy in a nutshell.
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by Cushman 13y ago
> I wonder how he would fare if he were given the chance to design the website for the next Halo game. Very well put. The very idea that there could be a "proper" design is just patently false.
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by Cushman 13y ago
This strikes me as a rather lazy analysis of human behavior. We have had consequences for senseless violence for as long as we have had sense, and while it has been slowing it shows no signs of stopping. Can't we do any better than that?
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by Cushman 13y ago
> What? This made me very angry. And anger is what made this happen in the first place. I'm not trying to draw any platitudes or grand truths here. Just... think on that.
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by Cushman 13y ago
Be very careful. There is a kind of "first-world problem" which is objectively rather trivial: My Xbox Live account got banned. My electric car is cold in the mornings. You know what I mean. But there are other sorts of problems: I was impr
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by Cushman 13y ago
Huh... I wonder how much they make when I watch 30 seconds of Colbert and close the window.
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by Cushman 13y ago
While I agree the idea of it is ludicrous-- paid cable subscriptions come with commercials. Is this really so shocking?
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by Cushman 13y ago
So you tell them to always make sure to steal the whole formula?
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by Cushman 13y ago
> Wait. When did this morph into an argument of the existence of God? You sort of brought it up yourself when you said "God created the universe." like it's a fact, didn't you? Maybe you could explain what that's supposed to mean here?
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by Cushman 13y ago
I sort of meant "given experimental observations it all seems quite intuitive", not "you can derive it all a priori". No offense intended to the hard work of Einstein and others :)
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by Cushman 13y ago
Well, I'm not that interested in the theology of an interventionist God because it's not a very exciting fairy tale to me. But as I understand it God is omnipresent and omnipotent and either those things mean a physical presence that is eve
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by Cushman 13y ago
I had this mostly written up, so I'm going to say pretty much what my sibling said in a different way :) It's not about the ruleset so much as the players' attitudes. There's a way to play Apples to Apples that's as a card game. You deal th
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by Cushman 13y ago
I can't rigorously defend something I don't think is true, but I stand behind my previous statement as it is.
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by Cushman 13y ago
I'm no physicist, but my understanding is that observing a virtual particle is a contradiction in terms.
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by Cushman 13y ago
If I understand the scenario, and feel free to restate if I've got this wrong, you're talking about being at a public urinal and noticing another man staring lustfully at your junk. This places you in fear of imminent physical violence to w
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by Cushman 13y ago
Isn't that effectively the difference of opinion I'm highlighting?
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by Cushman 13y ago
In the United States it is the majority opinion (vocally, anyway) that God is a real thing with both interest and power to intervene in both historical and day-to-day events. As to why? A lifetime of indoctrination and social pressure. The
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by Cushman 13y ago
I feel like I was pretty honest in my last paragraph: My sense is that the sort of fear of sexual assault that you're describing is something women I know experience fairly often in public, fully clothed, with witnesses. (And their fear is
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by Cushman 13y ago
On the flip side, I'm excited by the idea that someone won't be able to punch me in the face for any reason without some fairly conclusive evidence testifying to that effect. 'Course that doesn't help me if I really did take a picture of hi
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by Cushman 13y ago
No, to clarify, I mean just in public on the train or at a concert or a bar or whatever. The sorts of places where "mild" sexual assault of women by unfamiliar men is rather routine-- I'd posit much more common than assault of men by unfami
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by Cushman 13y ago
Exactly my thought reading that. That question, "Can you find out? Hell no," is relativity in a nutshell. If you really grasp what that means, the whole deal from simultaneity to time dilation to curved spacetime all falls out more or les
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by Cushman 13y ago
Without judgment or implication-- I'm curious if you feel the same standard applies to a woman who notices a man is staring at her chest.
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by Cushman 13y ago
"I’ve been a nerd all my life, [but] I felt like a mere mortal among an entirely different class of super-connected humans." This is the most insightful passage in there, though it's probably unintentional. There is a separation taking plac
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by Cushman 13y ago
Sorry, reading that again I sound like a dick. I know it's a common error and I didn't mean to nitpick. I only mention it because there's an important difference in that with hashing, it doesn't really matter as much what the strategy is, s
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by Cushman 13y ago
Passwords aren't (usually) encrypted, they're hashed. Hashing buys you time, nothing more; if an attacker has a copy of your hash you should treat your password as compromised. Nothing to see here.

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