Perdition

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by Perdition 12y ago
You can be proud of whatever you like. The problem was you declaring that your ethical system was universal. Most of our ancestors had no problems personally killing and consuming animals. Your abhorrence of the practice is not universal.
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by Perdition 12y ago
> I had a hunch that the problem was related to the thermal paste: When I disassembled it the first time, I had to scrape some thermal pads from under the Thunderbolt controller and the system hub. This left a large gap between the heat
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by Perdition 12y ago
>It's the only way that a person can look themselves in the mirror and be truly proud of what they see. Other people have different value systems to you.
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by Perdition 12y ago
> It's a bit unfortunate, but getting a substantially cleaner, safer SF would require a cultural shift away from egalitarian principles that are deeply ingrained in the city's DNA. No it wouldn't. It would just require spe
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by Perdition 12y ago
Look-up Patreon.com. It works by people opting to either donate money for a specific project, a certain amount of money a month, or a certain amount of money per article/comic/video etc. There are no paywalls, it is like a wealthy
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by Perdition 12y ago
Yeah, if Snowden had of betrayed the ~~KGB~~ FSS/FIS he would have fallen down some stairs onto some bullets a long time ago.
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by Perdition 12y ago
Possibly, as soccer isn't exactly a premier sport in the US. If it was American football, baseball, or basketball (with which the average American male is more familiar) I think the authors point would be stronger. I could make an argu
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by Perdition 12y ago
>Not using a different challenge Like what? Even something like maths can be claimed to be "viewed generally as a male domain". And once you start accounting for ethnicity and social background I think you would find it incredi
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by Perdition 12y ago
The main security threat these days isn't viruses or worms so a monoculture makes no real difference. In fact running multiple operating systems is more likely to lead to a misconfiguration issue which allows an attacker into your netw
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by Perdition 12y ago
It was only more performant because it did less back then. And Notch had to incorporate fan mods to the lighting and chunk rendering code to even achieve that. There have been recent issues but lets not pretend they aren't the sort of
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by Perdition 12y ago
But affirmative action doesn't recognize merit, it rewards luck (at being the minority given the job) and is designed to even out ethnic/sex ratios without regard for productivity. Also, a meritocratic system only requires the &qu
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by Perdition 12y ago
So? Expecting industry to solve such a huge societal problem is ridiculous. The only thing tech businesses can be expected to do is not discriminate. Restructuring society to address systemic injustice that start well before kids even go to
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by Perdition 12y ago
I only reach Stack Overflow from Google so its value to me in regulating answer quality is limited. The main thing it did for me was remove bad answer aggregators (expertsexchange and friends) from the front page of Google results.
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by Perdition 12y ago
I get useful timely help from forums all the time. I find voting systems tend to squelch most of the idiots on technically focused forums.
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by Perdition 12y ago
It reminds me of the Wikipedia "notability" fight from early last decade. The cost of adding an extra page to Stackoverflow/Wikipedia is beyond trivial, there is no reason to restrict additions except to please these mods who
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by Perdition 12y ago
I was talking about iOS. I've never heard anyone "shriek" about this issue in regards to OSX.
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by Perdition 12y ago
> As for ios, if you don't believe that users would click "yes" to whatever dialogue was required to make an app run, you simply don't interact with users. Allowing users to opt-out defeats the purpose. It does not re
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by Perdition 12y ago
People shriek because Apple isn't giving the device owner any option to get around the security if they want to. Apple aren't using that model just for security, but also so they can tightly control the platform and restrict what
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by Perdition 12y ago
Knowing a defense has weaknesses doesn't make it worthless when it takes extra effort for an attacker to exploit that weakness. There is no proven secure consumer OS (I'm including common userland apps in that) so things like ASLR
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by Perdition 12y ago
That is just how they dispose of the bodies.
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by Perdition 12y ago
Got a link to this consumer OS whose implementation is mathematically proven secure?
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by Perdition 12y ago
I've refused to get into any Google product beyond GMail, YouTube, and search. I'm trying to ween myself off Google search and I block YouTube cookies (though I doubt that throws Googles behavioural monitoring off).
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by Perdition 12y ago
Success isn't the same as reverence. Making money makes you a success, becoming revered requires building something that lasts.
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by Perdition 12y ago
America is one of very few developed countries in which checks are not an anachronism for precisely this reason.
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by Perdition 12y ago
Yeah that irked me as well. "1.5 minutes" "One and a half minutes" "one minute and thirty seconds" The use of the colon to separate hours/minutes and minutes/seconds means that you need to supply unit
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by Perdition 12y ago
The training is to teach them to hide it so they can stay employed. It doesn't matter if somebody is a racist/sexist/homophobe as long as they don't act it out.
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by Perdition 12y ago
That doesn't mean some Federal agents haven't paid him a visit and told him to log IPs or else they might start "investigating" the site. If they want to the Feds could easily come up with grounds for seizing the sites h
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by Perdition 12y ago
>When I served in the military, it was common understanding that Hague convention required use of "ball ammunition" was desirable because you want to inflict casualties on your opposition, not necessarily to kill them. It was a
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by Perdition 12y ago
I don't see how it is better than Amazon reviews. Reader reviews are okay for the best sellers if you read a lot of reviews (but I find it tends to heavily skew towards those who loved the book, with a handful of haters), but I find it
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by Perdition 12y ago
The problem is that nobody has come up with a good way to filter through the self-published dross to find the gold. Without the publishers filtering you can't just pick a book at random and be ensured it probably won't make you wa

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