MadWombat

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by MadWombat 7y ago
Why? The original comment I was replying to claimed that Google is not a monopoly because you can easily replace Google with DDG. Which is bullshit. Google provides dozens of services (search, gdocs, photos, youtube, maps etc) where DDG onl
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> just look at the ground next time you're walking outside to see all the cigarette butts Amusingly, this is more of a result of anti-tobacco campaigns. I have recently visited Prague and one of the things I noticed were the ashtray
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> but few are actually practicing those things It really depends on the kind of books you read. If you are reading a self-help book of some sort and you think its ideas are sound, sure, you should at least try to practice what it says. O
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by MadWombat 7y ago
Does DDG do spreadsheets? Document editing? Maps and direction finding? Video streaming? Photo management? DDG is nowhere near providing the services that Google provides.
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by MadWombat 7y ago
For what it is worth, I have read at least a few works of science fiction where "access to information as basic human right" question was either discussed o at least brought up.
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> ISPs are different because of the lack of competition. If you don't like Google you can use Duck Duck Go. This is very much not the case both ways. Yes, you could use DuckDuckGo instead of Google. But by the same logic you can alw
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by MadWombat 7y ago
I don't know. But if all we have is a correlation, than calling it "settled science" is misleading.
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> Understanding that we are changing the balance of greenhouse gases Are we? How settled is the science on anthropogenic part of AGW? Between the natural ocean cycle of carbon dioxide emission and absorption and constantly changing cloud
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by MadWombat 7y ago
I am rather curious about your sugar industry and coral reef claim. Do you have any good sources I could check? As for climate science and its predictions, I tend to keep an open mind myself, too much advocacy seems to be floating both ways
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> Why is it wrong to say explicitly offensive things Because they are offensive > and why should someone be legally punished for it Because that is what legal systems are for. Punishing people who do things we, as a society, find obje
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> On the extreme end, a video can be totally fake Sure. And either you can prove it or not. But that is not what I am arguing against. The way things seem to be working today, is that you say "person X cures cancer" and I say &
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by MadWombat 7y ago
This is a bizarre line of reasoning > his perception that there are a set of correct facts and incorrect facts is just so meaingless Yes, there are facts. In your example, if I say "person X said Y" and have a video of them say
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> The mainstream media - both the news media and entertainment media more broadly - was extremely accommodative and deferential to the Obama administration You don't watch FOX News much, I assume
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> and didn't have to write CSS hacks for electronics stores could you explain that?
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by MadWombat 7y ago
Also, "mp3 is license free" rhymes :)
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by MadWombat 7y ago
I am a somewhat active SO user and one thing I see other contributors repeating over and over is "stackoverflow is not a code writing service". Usually this comes up in the context of some kid posting their college assignment and
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by MadWombat 7y ago
I have been using Docker on OS X for a while, haven't had any major issues, but maybe my experience is atypical.
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by MadWombat 7y ago
I looked at other options a few times. I do not see how I can convince my whole social circle to use anything else. Especially in the absence of any feature complete alternative.
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by MadWombat 7y ago
I don't know about everyone else, but to me these are confusing as fuck. In continue/break/early return diagrams, there is no second condition, so it is not clear when/why the dotted line logic path happens. The "no
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by MadWombat 7y ago
They don't pass the actual label, the pass two images and a 0/1 valued boolean "Are these images in the same class?"
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> Why wasn't I required to return this box for reuse? Because I wouldn't order anything from a service that required me to return the box. Going to a postal office is highly inconvenient for someone working full time. Of course
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by MadWombat 7y ago
In the problem, the people are tied down to the tracks. Or possibly glued. Or to make it even more horrifying, riveted :)
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by MadWombat 7y ago
Consider a variation on the trolley problem. Just like always, there are two track branches and a switch. On the main track, there are five people, on the side track there is one person. But this time things are a tiny bit different. The tr
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> In fact I can't think of a single good design reason to ever animate an icon I can think of a few cases where animated icons make sense. 1. Control feedback. If your icon deforms slightly under your mouse when you click, it provid
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by MadWombat 7y ago
The general problem with "ends justify the means" arguments, as I see it, is not as much completeness of the consequences, but rather the risk analysis. A lot of "ends justify the means" points of view involve doing cert
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> keeps producing markets where the available choices are only skin deep Because it turns out that catering to minority demands only works for some markets, but not others (i.e. all cell phones look and function the same, but there are d
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> I just don't understand why people run windows. My use of my home computer mostly consists of making/learning music and playing games. Both of these activities pretty much require Windows. There are some ways around it, like
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> so your “sense of self” does not get affected by what anyone says But it should be affected. As the substance abuse programs say "the first step to solve any problem is to acknowledge that there is a problem". For example, if
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by MadWombat 7y ago
Thank you so much, you are one of the very few people I have met online who acknowledges that "meditation" is not a single practice. That said, I am not sure I understand what you mean when you say "cravings and aversion come
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by MadWombat 7y ago
The problem I have with statements like the one commented on is that there is no such thing as "meditation". There is a whole bunch of very different techniques from a whole bunch of different cultures that are all called meditati

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