Nadya

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by Nadya 8y ago
>I am refuting the misconception that shedding light on bad ideas makes them go away. It doesn't make them go away. It allows them to be refuted - which hopefully stems at least some of the indoctrination that would otherwise occu
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A common argument in philosophy is that bad ideas should occur in the open - where everyone may ridicule them. When they are cast to the shadows they can grow, under everyone's noses, in private where only there are they allowed to exi
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by Nadya 8y ago
If people repeat a lie enough it becomes the truth. That's the goal when misinformation like this is spread. Even better when ignorant people with only secondhand knowledge begin to spread the message. Voat had existed for just over a
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by Nadya 8y ago
That great quality of life comes largely from a monoculture focused on group harmony and letting those who don't jive with the culture falling through the cracks. Maybe a bit controversial, but I don't think mass importing foreign
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by Nadya 8y ago
There are many grey areas when not using a 'formal' rating system (eg: college degree). But the formal system is rigged in that it isn't available to everyone - and is heavily biased towards those with the right pedigree or l
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by Nadya 8y ago
Sometime in 2014 a Reddit post became popular using the gnome child from Runescape [0]. This was likely the first dank meme and a catalyst for what was to come. Using Google Trends [1] you can even identify that late 2013 a few people were
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by Nadya 8y ago
I'm an ancient meme historian. I specialize in memes before memes became dank. The definition transitioned from "viral internet jokes" to "image intended to be funny". Some memes are just edited screenshots of Twitt
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by Nadya 8y ago
I also play guitar, I know my music theory, I can play chords on a piano, but if anyone asked me to play a song - outside of doing an improv. chord progression - I'd be able to do so. I still fumble trying to find the right notes quick
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by Nadya 8y ago
My issue is that since all hobbies are time-killing activities that time ceases to be a useful measure. The majority of people who spend 10,000 hours doing something eventually become skilled or knowledgeable at that thing - but not always.
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by Nadya 8y ago
>despite her spending 10-20 hours/week gaming Pardon the wall of text here... I typically spend 40+ hours/week gaming. Literally a 2nd job. However, I don't even consider the time spent gaming in my definition of "h
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Thanks for the correction. I converted everything to .flac to maintain consistency with my personal library, so I must have forgotten which other lossless format I had converted from.
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A very large lossless (.ogg) collection of doujin [0] Touhou [1] music. Googling the name should have taken you to the website [2] which might provide a bit more information. It's split into three torrents: One for just the music (1.65
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by Nadya 8y ago
Please tell me this is a joke and not just the golden number's version of an Onion article. Actually - you don't even need to. I've seen marketing material that's very similar to this kind of psuedointellectual garbage.
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Users being ignorant (not dumb, just ignorant) doesn't make it less secure. The user ignoring the security benefits or not knowing where/how to check things or being complacent and simply not checking things doesn't make it
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That wasn't quite what they were talking about. They were talking about IDN Phishing [0] and not http-->https redirection (which is what HSTS is directed towards). But since we're talking about DNS redirection the http:/&
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by Nadya 8y ago
I'm aware of that attack. I'm not sure if you're aware; but the only modern browser it still works against is Firefox. Chrome patched in in Version 58, Opera patched it not long after. Safari and Edge quickly followed suite (
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by Nadya 8y ago
I refuse to argue against pedantry. You knew exactly what I meant by saying "all of humanity". 0 humans alive after mass extinction on Earth = humans are extinct, humanity has ended vs 100 humans living in a space colony after mas
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The chances are arguably smaller though - which is the point of having more than 1 basket to store your eggs in.
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To which browsers will warn the user that the certificate is invalid. Something that, if it was an HTTP site, the user would never be made aware of. The user would then need to ignore the certificate warnings at which point you've do
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A sufficiently sized meteor could wipe out all life on Earth as we know it - or play "Pick your end of days scenario" between WW3, superviruses, or whatever. Having a few backup humans on the Moon or Mars is more beneficial to the
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by Nadya 8y ago
Even on a completely static site one could introduce links if they can manipulate content. Create a fake blog post linking to Reddit asking for support, make up a story that a family member fell ill and please donate to your Go Fund Me. Add
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You're thinking too narrow. Attackers cast wide nets then narrow down the attack to what they've caught in the net. They don't blindly bait individual traps targeting individual users and hope they get a catch. I'm a hac
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>Nothing to steal, nothing to phish, nothing. Pure text, maybe a few images and videos to elaborate on specific points. So I was reading this site and am particularly concerned about the crypto miner present on the page. Care to explai
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A bug fix is not always a breaking change but a breaking change is always a breaking change . SemVer doesn't care if it is a bug fix or not. The only single relevant detail is if it broke the behavior of the API for any reason. The re
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>Using that logic, every single bug fix that even remotely changes how the API operates would be considered a major version. What would be the point of semver? Yes. That's exactly how SemVer works. It signals to people that there
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Irrelevant. If fixing a bug is a breaking change then it is a breaking change. This is the importance of pre-releases/"nightly" branches so that you don't have a mistake of addNumbers(5,5) returning 25 instead of 10 and
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Gah, I hate posting such low-info, high-noise comments but... I can't wait for the day where I can finally claim to walk around "an anime world" with a AR/VR headset. They told me anime isn't real - and someone out
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Depending how the advertising is done - yes. Many campaigns that advertise for what are sometimes great causes rely heavily on emotional manipulation in their advertisements. Try watching just 10 seconds of this ad and tell me it isn't
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I bought a small compass in Akihabara for this reason - my phone was old and unreliable (it would often send me in the completely wrong direction - claiming "north' was really "southeast") and it was a lifesaver. I could
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>Because the "a.b" is not a key, but a table "a" that contains an entry with key "b". If you write "a.b = 1" then that integer is not a table, and can't have an entry called "c". Y

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