PavlovsCat

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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> I don't like how the grandparent used the quote so flippantly. Without the supporting context, it's a baseless statement that encourages low-quality discussion. The context was someone saying they have no problem with users f
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. -- John Stuart Mill
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> Do you honestly think removing URLs from search results is an "egregious abuse of power?" Yes, it very obviously is. Google the search engine, and therefore Google, would never have gotten off the ground if it had hidden URL
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> Indeed, I’m sure it would be impossible to find 20 hours of footage of Members of the Left or the Greens saying racist things That's a whole other category than people hoarding weapons for some "day X", or members of the
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> I think the EU would have a problem with the US demanding free speech That's because you reduce it to the word "freedom of speech", and then expand it again, to all sorts of other things. Call it freedom to criticize gov
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dpn9oy/man_gets_p... I for one don't weigh issues like this by the number of people who are on side X, I weigh individual people by the positions they take
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
I have no clue how it works, but I know how I'd do it: 1. render the animation a bunch of blobs falling and coming to rest, once 2. save a mask for the pixels each blob occupies on each particular frame 3. note the position of each blo
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Not all animated pixel art was for lack of video, just like not all ascii art was and is for lack of images. Recording a video is a wholly different process to animating a 16x16 smiley. If anything, at least by now, I think more people reco
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
The animated gifs that were everwhere generally were pixel animations rather than video.
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
I think you can use a IMAP client like Thunderbird to clean it up. (I say "think" because while I use a gmail account in my email client, I only use it to receive notifications from Google, so no wild folder/tags setup, and I
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Can you elaborate what page you mean? I see nothing in the source of https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=blah or about:addons
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21296167
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> It sounds like you're saying that you're so right, self-doubt would be an unnecessary encumbrance. What sentence gives you that idea?
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> Brute force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilisation. The danger is prof
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
And as a rough idea how SV's role in this will age: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/542499/marshall-curr... What seems snazzy and modern today, what is presented with smug sophistry and self-righ
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Godwin is alright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law But the people refer to his quip are often wrong -- certainly in context of a bona fide totalitarian regime that has been murdering dissidents for 7 de
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> There's plenty of good arguments against Activision Blizzard's actions without having to resort to Nazis; doing so only weakens the position. No, it doesn't. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21289611
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Indeed. Murder is not government: https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/storage/301/d5d23e36-3c35-11e8...
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life, - chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better. The rush to California,
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
A credible commitment to freedom of speech absolutely entails acknowledging and responding to serious criticism.
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
an article without paywall: http://healthmedicinentral.com/health-news/google-gets-five-...
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
I find myself doing the opposite, since I write stuff once (at most, since there is auto-complete and copy & paste), but read it a lot more often. I find reading long variable names takes exactly as long as reading short words, but with
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
For Sublime Text, you can add "trim_trailing_white_space_on_save" to the user settings and set it to true :)
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
If 100 things are each responsible 1% of the total "pollution", how significant would you rate each of them? Also don't overlook that just one byte more can double the amount of packets that need to be sent for something, jus
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Or use something like Inkscape, but then remove all the extra stuff manually. You can even color SVG with CSS, making it easy to integrate single color icons into color schemes: https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
And when we talk about that, someone asks "but what about China", rinse, repeat. A million evils are worse than several ten thousand. And last time I checked, companies aren't folding to pressure by the US govt left and right
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
The southern bit doesn't strike me as efficient at all. to go to a neighbouring blob, you'd have to go all the way to the central one, and then back down again.
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
But society doesn't have a "morality module" "in place" that people can just outsource their moral judgement to.
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
I agree, it's not like we need computers to make it worse.. but they sure can help. Humans can be pretty callous as is, and we are awesome at rationalizations where we can't muster the required callousness; but in the long run,
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Did he decline invitations though? Even if he might decline them, not getting them in the first place would still be saying something.

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