Potando

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by Potando 12y ago
Isn't it a good thing to spread awareness of what can be a misleading topic? Public arguments help to enlighten people who might be misled by the confusingly overloaded word "freedom". I appreciate the concept of GPL raising
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by Potando 12y ago
Great part: "They should not call the elements in the number field F scalars. These elements already have names: they are called numbers. And we physicists and engineers need the word scalar to name some other objects. Mathematician
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by Potando 12y ago
Hold on. The only scumbag that got the guy fired was his employer. Will your boss fire you if you get harassed on Twitter?
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by Potando 12y ago
It's sad that discrimination is fully acceptable and even encouraged by most workplaces, as long as it doesn't touch on any of the hot reasons - sex, race, religion = not OK. Nationality, personality, friends with boss = OK. I&#x2
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by Potando 12y ago
Isn't this just office politics? It happens everywhere. It's not always "because you're a woman" but there are always people who dislike others and make it hard to do their job, don't invite them to work dinner
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by Potando 12y ago
Subscripts are how it's used in the more down to earth engineering applications like anisotropic thermal conductivity and elasticity. I can see why some authors might want to put the right-hand-side-only variables somewhere else for cl
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by Potando 12y ago
Curious what advantage that gives. Isn't quickly loading big programs what SSDs are for? That's why I got one. A program shouldn't be writing to its program files folder if you're worried about large amounts of data buil
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by Potando 12y ago
Price fixing is a good thing? "“Five or six years ago, a bunch of women on the site who did erotic massage got together and were like, ‘What if we all raise our rates by $20?’ And it totally worked. That can't happen now.”"
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by Potando 12y ago
Further investigation would show it's OK. The main losers would be the investors who believed the false information. So that's not a problem.
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by Potando 12y ago
A possible measure of good is "does it harm people" but that ends up excluding everything, so add details like "does it harm people who are powerless to avoid that harm". You can decide right and wrong by yourself instea
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by Potando 12y ago
> If they are all for equality and against "arbitrary lines", they can start by paying those immigrant workers the same... I agree, but it would have to come with granting an H1B to every applicant or having an open door immigr
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by Potando 12y ago
tldr: Pumas that are scared off their food by humans are still hungry and go and kill another deer, which might not be so good for the pumas and might help scavengers. Isn't this somewhat obvious?
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by Potando 12y ago
> Perhaps because of this thing called patriotism, a.k.a. "do not piss where you live"... Serious question - why patriotism for their country in preference to their state, country, city, continent, or planet? I've heard th
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by Potando 12y ago
That's what having guts means. You're probably going to lose out to stand up for something you believe in.
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by Potando 12y ago
It's strange how action which has apparently helped to lift tens of thousands of poor Indian workers out of poverty is portrayed as a "scandal". There's clearly a big labor pool willing to work for lower pay than America
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by Potando 12y ago
It does say 98% of private key transfers are not between the SIM supplier (Gemalto) and the carrier. It explicitly says those could be hacked more easily but are out of their hands. I have little doubt that many governments already monitor
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by Potando 12y ago
I don't think it counts as a disease if the majority of people, including most successful people "suffer" from it without any negative consequences for themselves. For example religion.
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by Potando 12y ago
Pumping fluid wouldn't give long term motion to the planet (can't travel further than it's own length). That would violate momentum conservation no matter how it's powered. You need to give it momentum to make it move, a
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by Potando 12y ago
This is kind of what some sites use to eliminate signing up and logging in - give each user a unique URL that itself is enough to authenticate them. Not great for security, but OK for a game or something that doesn't matter too much.
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by Potando 12y ago
A popular feeling is that inventors deserve most of the rewards from their inventions. This is actually quite strange. Inventing is easy - you just find an idea, sit down in your spare time and work out the details for fun, and that's
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by Potando 12y ago
A lot of "it really is that simple" replies. Most big problems are simple to solve - if you only have one problem. Do we stop global warming, stop terrorism, stop government spying, stop poverty, stop high taxes, stop war, stop de
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by Potando 12y ago
It's sad they're going to "fix" this. From the comments, it seems the only reason to support navigating to 0.0.0.0 is because some people got used to using that and they're getting confused or don't want to cha
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by Potando 12y ago
Yes. Though perhaps you can look at the data differently to get that popular conclusion. For example people with drug convictions being re-arrested for breaking parole conditions, violence related to gangs funded by drugs, etc.
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by Potando 12y ago
While it might be true, there's a potential for bias in that it's based on reports by inspectors, most of whom would expect to lose their jobs if this program is expanded.
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by Potando 12y ago
If people can anonymously get money from refunds, doesn't that mean they're also using a fake ID to open their bank account, meaning the bank is being negligent and now "knowing its customer"? Or does the IRS pay people
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by Potando 12y ago
Mitch and Webb sketch on identity theft not being a thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
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by Potando 12y ago
"nothing could be done over the phone, though I was welcome to walk into a branch and try my luck there" - This is sadly common with UK banks. They want you to go to the branch for all sorts of things that really don't need i