Cushman

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by Cushman 14y ago
In the nicest way possible: You are coming off as extraordinarily abrasive. If you think that doesn't matter because "facts are facts", you must be new to human society.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> (I gathered from these exchanges that programmers have a perpetual competition to see who can claim the most things as 'simple.') Nobody hits my brother but me. Programmers are persistently frustrated in our tools-- when you can see h
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by Cushman 14y ago
I think you're looking for something more complex than that post brings to the table. As a community, we're trying to circle our wagons around a simple piece of advice about code that stores passwords: do not write code that stores password
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by Cushman 14y ago
I agree with all of that :) I actually think DDG's open approach will win out in the end over Google's monolithic big-data strategy, but they certainly have a good head start.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> The only difference that I can tell is that Google puts some of the standings in a table on the search results page, which doesn't seem like a huge deal to me. It depends what you mean by a huge deal, I guess. Going from information o
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by Cushman 14y ago
The only thing you exercise by playing chess is your memory of chess strategy. I'm sure there are ancillary benefits to that, but it's not really a complex intellectual activity the way it's commonly perceived.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I think that's a red herring. First, slavery is not death and removing someone from slavery is not saving their life. Second, if it could be proven (though I doubt anyone has the means) that confiscation of gold sped economic recovery signi
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by Cushman 14y ago
What if it's not a TV, but a human being? Just pointing out there are some concepts more sacred than property.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Agreed-- take a look at the second half of the second video, though. It's a lot better.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I actually tried to imagine a hole-based knowledge graph... it sounds really interesting.
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by Cushman 14y ago
One of the things I'm experiencing Now is a sense of limitless unfolding possibility for the future. Ignoring that would also rob me of a deep experience of what I have.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Your point is well-taken, but I don't think it actually goes against what I'm saying. Abortion in the US was not Federally illegal, but it was illegal for many women and many women died for that. That ended when Roe established it as an a
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by Cushman 14y ago
Imagine a descendant of humanity fifty thousand years from now unearthing my bones and tell me I'm not primitive. When you worship the beauty and wonder of the universe, don't forget to include the most wonderful part: the future .
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by Cushman 14y ago
I am a brain, wired permanently to a pretty primitive first-run body. It works okay, but it's all downhill for the next fifty-eighty years or so. Why on earth wouldn't I want to upgrade that?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Perhaps you are not aware-- that is precisely the same situation as in the United States until Roe v. Wade in 1973. The phenomenon you're describing is pretty common knowledge in our left-wing political circles; on the right, it is delibe
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by Cushman 14y ago
Sure, and let's say that I'm offended by your face, and I want a million dollars for that . How do we resolve this? It seems to me that we exist in a community that has a pretty well-evolved process for determining what is reasonable.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Yeah, I mean, if we're in a public place I'm gonna do my best not to upset you. If we're at your place, I'll leave; if we're at my place, you've gotta leave. If it's a bad enough disagreement we can take it to court and let someone objectiv
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by Cushman 14y ago
Perhaps someone forgot to multiply by 8.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> Should we then be responsible for everything we do that offends others? Yes. > What level of recourse should they have for being offended? If we think that punitive action is appropriate given an offense, how do we determine what
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by Cushman 14y ago
Functional programming doesn't have to mean deep recursion-- it's not like you can't use functions and loops in the same code.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> "oh we have to be politically correct in any f ing way to avoid lawsuits" Let's parse this out a little more. "We must act to avoid lawsuits." Or put another way, "We must not do things for which we might be sued." Or put another way
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by Cushman 14y ago
> Women should stop buying video games that don't portray women in a good way / reinforce stereotypes / try to typecast characters. Women? Everyone should stop buying them.
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by Cushman 14y ago
What is your cutoff for "boiling over"? Rape and violence against women is not exactly unheard of in America.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Anyone who can place JavaScript on a page can just redirect you to the malicious site without you needing to click anything.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I thought this was sensationalist the last time it came up, and I still do. This is an attack which targets people who are carefully checking the link URL before clicking, but who then ignore the actual content of their URL bar. That has to
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by Cushman 14y ago
Not the only problem gTLDs are going to cause, either. I'm still hoping they pull the plug on the whole concept.
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by Cushman 14y ago
That's what the spec says. In practice, no one uses fully-qualified domains, and users who generally do not even know they exist rightly assume any domain name ending in a TLD should take them to the site indicated by that root, and it's
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by Cushman 14y ago
Not the same thing, really, since domains are reversed compared to file paths. In domains, the root token is optional and assumed; like if 'home/user' meant the same thing as '/home/user'.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I don't see it. Bush started a literal war of aggression with press support ; we're supposed to expect them to get up in arms over a few assassinations?
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by Cushman 14y ago
This also means that if you are in, say, a wilderness survival situation where help is not coming, CPR will not save a life, but it is still recommended that you perform it-- the emotional impact of just watching somebody die will be danger

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