Lagged2Death

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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Surprised that people here are taking this at face value ... No proof has been given. What could any ordinary Twitter user possibly provide that you would accept as proof?
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
People are making all kinds of great new apps, and more often than not, they come out on all three platforms. People are excited about the Desktop again... You could have expressed pretty much the same sentiment about Java ~20 years ago.
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Sure! You say. Disk size is cheap you say! Here's some irony for you: You really need an SSD in a modern PC - largely because of exactly this sort of insane bloat - and as a consequence, no , disk space isn't so cheap anymore.
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Because of its brevity, my story is stripped of context here. In context: 1) this was just one of many such moves on the part of the city government 2) it was very much in line with the prejudices loudly and unashamedly expressed by many in
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
I sometimes wonder why smalltown America prefers "trailer parks" over small-to-midsized apartments. It's a lot harder to make a snap judgement regarding a person's socio-economic status if they live in an unremarkable
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
[Darwin] was passionate and driven, so much so that he was given to anxiety attacks over his ideas and their implications. He many not have spent that many hours sitting at a desk, but he had to be directing a tremendous amount of mental
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
And it’s so damn lucrative that ISPs are crying, No fair! I want a piece of that too! Are they not entitled to pursue such an opportunity? If they give me the broadband access for free then I might feel some sympathy for this line of ar
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
One of the reasons to put tracks on a vehicle is to reduce the pressure it exerts on the ground. A bulldozer might weigh 15x as much as light truck, but if it has 75x the contact area, it would have (much!) lower ground pressure, and would
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Why don't roads count as an "entitlement program?"
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
By global standards, the US government is spectacularly honest, effective, and efficient. That's one reason the US is so attractive to foreign investment and foreign entrepreneurs. Charities and private businesses actually succumb to c
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
I find it hard to believe that surface transportation is going to remain dominated by liquid fuels for that long. Gasoline motor fuel accounts for somewhat less than half of global petroleum consumption. If you could wave a magic wand and
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
>...we really should just leave the border wide open... It isn't, hasn't been, won't be, and everyone perfectly well knows that. In 2016 the US spent about $0.75 on CBP for every $1.00 we spent on NASA. Illegal immigration
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
This is essentially FUD. There is a web portal... The linked article points all of this out in the first few sentences. FUD?
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
...the popular vote for any election is meaningless... Yet the administration itself keeps bringing it up. Making up stories to explain it away. As if it mattered quite a lot.
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
The EO at issue is all about legal immigrants. Don't forget this. Don't let this turn cloudy in your mind. The administration campaigned for a crackdown on illegal immigration and immediately went after legal immigrants inst
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Am I misreading this, or are they forgoing profit purely out of spite? I love how all the responses here are all "No no no, it's not spite , it's perfectly valid extortion . Well what else could they do?"
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
The original is a short and simple declarative list of principles towards a goal. What was that goal? Could it be ascertained from the "short and simple list" alone, or is it only evident in conjunction with a collection of cult
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
The OP is proposing another moral crusade which is just as irrelevant. "Have some thought about the people your decisions effect" is a moral crusade ?
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
...the conventional encryption techniques are also potentially widely exploitable by state-level actors. That really depends on how you define "conventional encryption techniques." As is so often the case, this proposed line of
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
I am still surprised that the Japanese and Germans did not figure out their codes had been broken. There must have been a lot of people who had suspicions. But consider: for many years, US citizens who talked about ECHELON were considered
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
It's interesting that we are entering 2017 and the most popular configuration for users are... But the stats cover Firefox users , not average PC users. I'd guess there's a lot of overlap between (people savvy enough to ke
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Making an "is politics / is not politics" judgement is itself a political act. The goal itself is sort of impossible-in-principle.
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
The team found that those with slick vacuums (about a quarter of the human population) respond poorly to placebos while those with hinky vacuums (another quarter of the population) respond extremely well and those with a mix (half the popu
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Entitled to an education, are we?
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
It's way easier and cheaper to build a given amount of capacity in a single massive installation... This is, IMHO, why we should make it a priority to put PV on large commercial / industrial / institutional buildings. Doubl
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
The sad fact is that the general public only seems to care about the fancy buttons. The general public is (by our standards) astonishingly bad at using computers. http://boingboing.net/2016/11/28/people-real
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
If you trust in free markets, then you really must let the needy themselves decide what they need.
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
The G is part of a block called "IPA extensions." Most of its content is more obviously specialized. This G is a phonetic G. It's not necessarily the case that any given symbol has a bunch of different Unicode representations
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Wikipedia: When Demetrius of Phalerum conducted a population census [of Athens] in 317 BC the population was 21,000 free citizens, plus 10,000 resident aliens and 400,000 slaves.
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by Lagged2Death 10y ago
Hillary has been consistently and vehemently pro-war... Go ahead, tell us with a straight face that supporters of Donald J. "bomb the shit out of them" Trump are pacifists who just want to avoid all that nasty conflict. I'l

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