SamUK96

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by SamUK96 8y ago
As a somewhat partial astrophysicist, remembering the increasing scarcity of helium on Earth is always amusing. It's the second most abundant element in the universe, after all. It's just that when you are near a star, light eleme
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by SamUK96 8y ago
Calling Facebook a "private company" is rather odd I find.
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by SamUK96 8y ago
This was probably the most pragmatic transaction i've seen all week.
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by SamUK96 8y ago
That blob is (ironically) extremely ideological/generalising. Doesn't mean I don't disagree with it though, maybe just the approach/tone. I believe you may be grouping strong (and maybe not always right) opinions with fl
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by SamUK96 9y ago
This tier system would be gamed within seconds believe me.
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by SamUK96 9y ago
Little bit vague but here goes: technology: Loopback (based off of ExpressJS, which is based off of NodeJS, which is based off of Javascript, wew....) by organised, if you mean dir structure then the top levels are /helper-scripts (bas
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by SamUK96 9y ago
If anyone wonders why, it is because the UK over here has a little legal loophole where carrying acid in any reasonable (non-truckload) amount is not in any way a criminal or incriminating act, where-as guns, knives, and loads of other thin
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by SamUK96 9y ago
> To those who complain of unfairness, I say "welcome to the world experienced for generations by the very people you now resent because you have to walk in their shoes for a few steps". I've always had a big problem with
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by SamUK96 9y ago
If I was a vegetarian, i'de be asking "if not animal fat, then what?". Synthetic glue? Vegetable glue (milk-based for example)? All these have their own damages on the biosphere, indirectly. The mining for loads of synthetic
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by SamUK96 9y ago
...People will find a new way to game Google. I mean look at how Google blacklisted a bunch of tor exit nodes over the last 1-2 years, making google through tor all but impossible. Then in the past few months. Some people have started doing
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by SamUK96 9y ago
This is instantly what I thought too. Essentially this guy is teaching how to get rich by using SEO, catchy gimmicks/ideas, and the likes. The spam teacher themselves get filtered, how ironic.
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by SamUK96 9y ago
I read the first 2 paragraphs and that is all I needed to read to know this is utter bias garbage. Essentially "mean people called me mean things and cuck is a word born from ultra-right extremists who are mean and arn't smart lik
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by SamUK96 9y ago
I'de say that morally it is righteous, in the most basic sense of the word, but also you should remember that it's always easy to talk words and call for the spending of money that is not yours, to help others. Enacting these thin
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by SamUK96 9y ago
You shifted the burden of proof, although probably not intentionally here. You are making the claim of whether the physical and psychological differences should have much of an effect, so the burden of proof is on you.
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by SamUK96 9y ago
I think about this a lot. I worry that the people of yesteryear had a simpler and probably tougher life, but a more fulfilling one. Like I always said, a cold beer on a hot day feels so much better when you know you've earned it. Today
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by SamUK96 9y ago
I found some of your comments quite insightful, especially about varying stabilising forces for varying income/social classes. I think the old (paraphrased) quote is relavent here: A rich man saves up for a £300 pair of new shoes that
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by SamUK96 9y ago
Unless you're coding in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
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by SamUK96 9y ago
But your language choice means that you do disapprove. Clearly. That's like the classic of saying "no offense" after you realise it was actually a obviously offensive thing to say. It doesn't change anything and is a sem
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by SamUK96 9y ago
History will tell you that AMD and laptops don't play nice together. AMD CPU's have typically very high TDP's. However i am hopeful that AMD will change their ways from a crude brute force "moar power" approach (ver
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by SamUK96 9y ago
Punishment/containment systems like jails, fines, etc., have always worked this way, and history tells you it will never stop. If anything it has gotten better since, way, 1700's, where the rich simply were the law.
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by SamUK96 9y ago
I'm pretty much a total novice with low-level aspects of storage, but if this is essentially writing junk to the windows bootloader or something to preveny booting to OS, couldn't one just plug the HDD as a non-ROOT drive to anoth
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by SamUK96 9y ago
This was just a low quality comment. Google are in the wrong here, and essentially saying that SV's ignorance towards anti-competitive and despotic behaviours is a good thing is just stupid.
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by SamUK96 9y ago
Proprietary code blobs running in everyone's browsers. God what a recipe for absolute carnage...
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by SamUK96 9y ago
Be careful when you buy that book about buildings, criminals live in buildings!! Sounds about the right level of logic for upper echelons of UK police, who also for the most part still live in the 17th century... I wouldn't be surprise
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by SamUK96 9y ago
Although the paper could have provided a more quantative introduction, like with the doomsday part, however the math on these kinds of things have been done and done again over and over in so many papers, approaching from geological (lookin
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by SamUK96 9y ago
It is sometimes hard to tell with these types of very slowly developing changes if there is actually a worsening or not situation happening. It's like watching grass grow in real time and trying to see if it's length is _really_ c
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by SamUK96 9y ago
Used JWT more as an example of increasingly advanced telescopes, not as a specific type of telescope, but maybe it wasn't the best example...
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by SamUK96 9y ago
I think it's a right-of-passage now for every technology-orientated person to realise that Stallman isn't crazy after all this time about Intel, social media and the general degenerating human race he always bangs on about...
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by SamUK96 9y ago
It's my general opinion that if anybody feels the need to write "top" before scientists, it's because they want people to believe it more. And once you know that, then you have to ask why do they want people to believe t
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by SamUK96 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_burden_of_proo...

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