MrPatan

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by MrPatan 4y ago
To me, the security implications of a compromised uBlock on my browser with access to everything seem worse than a compromised pihole on my network. Am I wrong on this? Honestly not so sure.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
How would you feel about being the one that has to teach your children a language that will hinder their prospects instead of one that will help them succeed, just so that the speakers of the bigger language feel good about themselves that
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Better late than never.
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Or they could put the license you purchase in a public distributed database.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Trolley problems suck. Anybody's response is meaningless unless we take into account the context they have in their heads. A very common piece of context is: "If you touch something and people die, it's your fault. If you do
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by MrPatan 4y ago
What would be the minimum number of passengers it'd need before it can go by itself?.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
The turtles don't seem to be worried about it.
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I've observed something like this on myself. I eat less, and better, when I exercise. I don't know if you can outrun a bad diet, but maybe you can lift it.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
"deserve of club but heart in right place" I love it.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
This is true and excellent, and I'd put it next to Hickey's "Simple made easy" and Metz' "The Wrong Abstraction" as something I wish every developer would grok.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
What's the excuse of the FDA then to allow tobacco?
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Digital art and collectibles with easy ownership and provenance guarantees. You can't do that any other way. No, a centralized database doesn't cut it. Remember how you hate "buying" movies from Google or Amazon only f
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Have you ever picked strawberries for a whole day? I haven't, but I don't hear good things about it.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
> Paying more/longer requires more money. Where does that money come from? From defunding shit research. And don't give me that crap, you know exactly what kind of research you could cut without anything of value being lost.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
That's ok, all the xps I've had has faulty audio jacks, might as well save the space
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> nothing ever prevented someone using cert/key based auth, It's a pain to set up and use. Which is why nobody did.
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Whose analysts?
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Yes, but: Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistiguishable from malice
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What's the broken window fallacy?
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This. Productivity is harder to measure than the cost of the offices, the accountants will win it hands down.
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Go
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Or just carry on working from home.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Ah yes, one of those lay offs where you lose the people who can get a job at the drop of a hat and keep the ones that cannot. But of course, it would be initiated by somebody who wants to work from an office so, yeah, it all fits.
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I'm not the exception, I'm the rule.
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"being in the office will be how you get noticed and advance in your career. " In every job I had working from the office I didn't have to get noticed before quitting for a better job and advancing my career.
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Lobbyists dislike new competing lobbyists, news at eleven.
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Would it surprise you to find that Turkish police detain lots and lots of other Turkic people?
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> Do you think that the NBER, London School of Economics, and MIT harbour idiots that have not heard of exchanges? Not idiots, just people who want to publish something that will turn into a juicy headline, and don't care much about
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by MrPatan 4y ago
We're being conned. Yes, Webb telescope is Science, and it's great, and it's lovely, and there should be more of it and it should get more respect and resources. But. Other people take the same word "Science" and
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Yeah, if anything, this study proves people's ability to see through the experimenter's bullshit. Faith in humanity: restored

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