JackCh

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by JackCh 8y ago
If you've got more than two braincells to rub together and are communicating with an ignorant listener , the off-the-cuff improvised toddler friendly vocabulary version probably works well enough for you. The problem is when an improv
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by JackCh 8y ago
When you use the word "religious" loosely like this, broader than "supernatural spirituality", I've noticed that it tends to make a certain set of people quite cross with you. It seems to violate the dogma of some
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by JackCh 8y ago
You need a better ad-blocker. uMatrix/uBlock Origin works perfectly on this page.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Calling a bloom filter a filter is a tautology and tautologies don't have much pedagogical value. Explaining what a bloom filter is (and/or is useful for) by imperfect analogy to caching is less precisely correct than a tautology
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "Disk usage" could plausibly be the command that tells you how much space you've got left. "Red touches yellow, you're an okay fellow. Red touches black, you're a dead jack" It's a good thin
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "what is essentially larceny" Quantity has a quality all of it's own.
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by JackCh 8y ago
How many of those individuals will come to realize this particular guy is the one who scammed him? Has there been an effort by the government to reach out to each of his victims and notify them of the identity of the man who scammed them?
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by JackCh 8y ago
That depends on how you define "used". And furthermore, while it may be true for guns on average, it's not true for any individual gun. You are confusing individuals for averages.
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "The article I posted appears to disagree that guns are used for self-defence." It doesn't say that, but perhaps it appears that way to you. You read it that way because what you seem to have is a fundamentally dehuma
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by JackCh 8y ago
That's not obvious to me. It seems very plausible that Musk talks a lot about Mars to give himself a solid support base of science enthusiasts, many of whom work in technical fields and have salaries that make them a valuable demograp
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "Once MySQL published this invalid character set, it could never fix it: that would force every user to rebuild every database. MySQL finally released UTF-8 support in 2010, with a different name: “utf8mb4”." Had MySQL defi
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by JackCh 8y ago
I've heard some people cynically suggest that stalling public transportation projects is the true objective of the Boring Company, similar in motivation to the General Motors streetcar conspiracy. But I'm pretty skeptical of this
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by JackCh 8y ago
Maybe Musk having some agoraphobic bias is the root cause. Or maybe it's because Tesla doesn't sell trains.
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by JackCh 8y ago
I see. I was under the impression their major objective was reusable machines. I didn't know a smaller bore size factored into that.
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by JackCh 8y ago
The article has Musk saying "maybe" to rails: > "It is unclear exactly what the Boring Co. high-speed airport link would involve, but last year Musk tweeted about his ideas for Chicago. "Electric pods for sure,"
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by JackCh 8y ago
I'd be very surprised if they attempted to build anything other than an electric train. If they're trying some sort of "hyperloop" I would share your skepticism, but as I understand it the Boring Company is about boring
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by JackCh 8y ago
Accelerationism could be advocated by anybody who wants radical change that the majority of the public are not on board with, under the belief that the present course will bring more people to agree with them. If it makes sense to the Marx
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by JackCh 8y ago
It seems unlikely to me that the national debt will ever be paid.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Whether or not owning a gun makes you statistically safer is another matter entirely from whether or not guns can be used for self defense. There is no shortage of real world examples of guns being used for self defense. So objectively th
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by JackCh 8y ago
What if tether is the tether holder and they simply decide to never call in that debt against themselves? That would mean they lost their own money, but they still may have made enough money over the course of the entire scheme to pay off
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "The most contrarian one could argue is that people who sold bitcoin for fraudulent tethers haven't tried to withdrawal them /at all/" Or they're just matched by the number of people with 'legitimat
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "I do enjoy targeted ads because when I am looking for something those ads could help a lot" You said could instead of do . Have they ever actually? Do you really click on ads? I don't think I've ever encoun
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by JackCh 8y ago
For what it's worth I found uMatrix easier to use than uBlock Origin's "Advanced user" mode. Both took a few minutes to get a hang of since neither have particularly discoverable interfaces, but I find the uMatrix inte
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "Do they? I agree with your view on the takeaway from the Milgram experiments - that conviction in cause is the necessary factor in addition to the nudging from the authorities. Does it makes it any better?" A Nazi who is
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "People claim those who were the teachers knew it was fake, but interviews years later have people claiming they really thought they killed the person in the other room." Some of the teachers undoubtedly thought it was fake
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "He influenced policy in this way, with what seems to be obvious malicious intent" Actually he probably thought he was doing a good thing. He didn't intend to harm people, but to help people (by creating a fraudulent
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by JackCh 8y ago
As I understand it, the opinion itself is not illegal, but the act of specifically targeting jurors might be. But I'm also under the impression that these sort of charges often but not always get tossed. I'm pretty damn confident
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "Psychiatry and psychology rejected Freud as an unscientific laughingstock a long, long time ago." In my experience few laugh at him. Most respect him, even if they don't believe him.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Milgram didn't persuade these people that science is good. He persuaded them that what they'd be asked to do was for science. In either case, it's far off from the "people follow orders" narrative. When teachers i
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by JackCh 8y ago
> > 1. The actual reality: this is an ethical experiment and no one is at any risk > It's unlikely that the "teacher" subject believed #1 There is ample evidence that many of the teachers believed the experiment t

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