OneEyedRobot

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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>(for example one of the spectacle is about the christians persecutions in Rome, where the christians are the good guide, and the romans are the bad guys). A not bad alternative view on the subject. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destr
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
It seems to me that the problem from a programmers standpoint isn't that their job will disappear but that the definition of their job will change quite a lot. I always think of the example of supermarket cashiers. Formerly a fairly sk
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>what GOOD options are still out there? You know, that's a good question given the threat exposure in a browser. Maybe the right answer is a mixture. Use a dedicated Chromebook in guest mode for financial transactions/bill pay
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>Were the great dictators just irrational? Probably not at all, although it's hard to think/talk in a general fashion about such large systems. The Axis Powers strike me as fighting a more reasonable war than (for instance) the
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I'd say there's more to it. . Underestimation of the cost of an early 20th C. war. Some glorious charges, you win, get home in time for dinner. . A game theory problem in that once you start mobilizing you can't stop. Not st
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
In order to maintain privacy, I'd suggest that the Heinz bottle compare a ketchup image to a hash of over-empty bottles. The iHeinz can then send a notification to the manufacturer who then passes it to the Ketchup Police.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I'd say that the pressure for fission becomes higher as the scope of federal government increases. Using spending as an approximation for control: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S WWII being an outl
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>vested interests who prefer the status quo over fact I'd say that the Left is the status quo in the West at this point. We probably need new terms for everybody.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
So how can you tell a troll from a typical twitter user?
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>But the government as a whole hasn't really made up its mind. It's probably better to view the 'government' as a coalition of self-interested groups. It's never really monolithic.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
> These companies aren't a challenge to government power in the US, on the contrary they are a powerful tool for social control. In a sense I'd say that they are now a branch of government.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>The idea that you can't deny service to an individual for their political views is a big shift. I can't remember people being denied service for their political views until just recently. Another odd thing is that a company wo
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I agree, and I think it's probably a good idea for any class that isn't a simple structure with functions. I suppose that a problem with C++ (and the more feature-filled source control systems) is that it's dangerous to mix d
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Both (farming and retail) of course. When I was a kid the only businesses I can remember being non-locally owned were a Safeway and branches of two state-wide banks. This is in a town of 20k or so (at the time). There were small local man
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
On a related note, I think the most errors I've seen in sizable C++ systems has been operator overloading for things like '=' and '=='. Too much hidden magic can occur.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>Intel to completely drop a ton of legacy support Like the 80386SX? 80376?
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>According to my parents that used to be standard practice in the United States. You're making me feel old. I used to sort bottles as a kid. Soft drinks are just another example of gigantism in corporate life, economy of scale uber
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I've always wondered that and would probably do it for free, but my guess is that you run into the problem that all those gigs are reserved for grad students. I do remember seeing a website that attempted to connect SW engineers willin
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>The government has won. Also consider that now the system has perfect memory. Moving to another county or state, waiting a few years, it doesn't matter.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>How can a cop request information in fashion that isn't forceful? The softest, most polite question is backed by the threat of both violence and arrest. I agree, but also they are pretty well trained in scripts for extracting confe
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
What ticks me off no end is the folks who (often successfully) fight against physician assisted suicide. Dementia is the interesting test case, but I think should still be allowed. With all the talk about 'controlling our bodies'
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
If I were forced to choose between Netflix and BBC's back catalog and current programming for the same price, I'd say that BBC comes out far ahead.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>Companies should start hiring based on aptitude rather than degrees. Most roles don’t need a degree. Students can learn the ability to think and reason without an insane amount of money and time spent at these indoctrination factories.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
ALERT: Man with a POV writes an op-ed piece. Story at eleven.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>I think the only option is to emigrate. In spite of the tendency for part of the US electorate to wish to federalize all government functions, there's still a lot of difference between US states. That seems to work out pretty well.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Watch out for Antarctica Man.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
What if an AI is unbiased but makes decisions people don't like?
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I'd suggest hooking it up to the archive.org 'unscoped' radio station files.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I've seen exactly the opposite although you certainly can't ignore memory speed.

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