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by T0T0R0 10y ago
Asian giant hornets (Vespa mandarinia) don't seem to be listed in the Schmidt Pain Index yet... I guess, presume it rates at an automatic 4 simply by the capacity for human lethality? ...or maybe just stay tuned, and wait until it earn
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
The only scenario, in which DRM makes any sense at all, is B2B patronage. Other businesses probably SHOULD license hobbled, encrypted garbage from provider businesses. It's a use case where a collective group of people decide to use
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
It's kind of funny, but when you talk to a lot of fellow worker drones, who lack the kind of free will required to accurately describe their own motivations for holding down a job, most will continuously describe burnout as being at fa
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
There's a massive potential problem, in either idea. Passive aggression and resentment. The implicit loathing of a compulsory task. The article is written by a volunteer. She finds the scenario repulsive, because there is stark contras
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
It's when the people stealing the precious moments of your life, take five or sixty minutes out of their busy schedule of not actually working (see: meetings ), and dunk your head in the baptismal toilet of despair, and force you at k
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
It's funny, the whole complaint about the tactic of bundling. This is something that punk and hard core music has done, pretty much since the beginning. Most punk rock discographies are filled with repetitive overlaps of the same songs
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
People frequently discuss exponential population growth, but rarely mention the terrestial confines of such thinking. Then they say, oh but technology will continue to advance, and yet never mention pioneering space travel. I feel like econ
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
Preferences are just that: preferences. Manner of interaction is subjective, and pandered to, by tendencies reinforced by operant conditioning cues. Just like linguistic creep mutating dialects, so too with tendencies to interact with affor
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
Uhhh... so like, what about that whole thing where, like, someone could simply disguise a deadly device as a big old pile of garbage? Am I the first person to have that idea?
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
The rule (betteridge's law) says more about the journalists who craft headlines, than it does about news articles ending in question marks. 99% of journalists using interrogative headlines are not being scrupulous, when they do so. Thi
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
Given the world we live in, right now, why does mathematics continue to insist on minified expressions? Given the option, most development teams would choose to read and write against verbose source code, rather than scrape obfuscated varia
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
Who are you, and how did you find me??? (...and it's Schrödinger's Cat)
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
There's almost certainly already a micro-economy of exactly that sort of thing happening at companies like Facebook. People sit around in offices, organizing daily stand ups about project planning, and assessing focus group reports for
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
Rationale for disbelief: - Ambient human body temperature is a constant source of noise as infrared photons. - In a dark, cold environment the human body is radiating a constant shower of photons in a limited spect
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
Well, from the consumer perspective, their most visible and obvious source of relevance, they've got barely anything worth talking about, and everything they've bought up, people are holding their breath waiting for corporate iner
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
I dunno, ransomware's probably more flirty in situations like these. hey baby, you stole my heart. give it back or i'll never decrypt your system. <3 <3 <3 <3
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
Meanwhile, why are people placing a harsh light on Mormons? Go ahead and change the word Mormon to something else, and notice how repugnant everything becomes.
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
Regarding the current contrast between apparent states of Apple and Microsoft, I'd say Apple could be reduced to an identical state in a matter of six months by any other company coming out of the woodwork with some new, fully realized
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
Right, but cutting power completely might take weeks to reconcile, exposing your faction to painful, expensive, irrecoverable levels of sabotage, even if you do clip a serious opponent's wings doing so. It might be a move interpreted i
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
I mean, yeah, coulda, woulda, shoulda... but those sorts of alternate histories require some kind of A Priori knowledge that NeXT might become an incredible company, beyond that, augmenting the path of a company like NeXT will contaminate t
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
Cutting power? Hmmm, not so much. Batteries, generators and wi-fi, coupled with low-power operation modes for modern equipment, are going to be a quick answer to that strategy. Cutting power will buy less than a week of opportunity, and pis
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
That gas agent (allegedly aerosolized fentanyl [1]) didn't actually work so great, and wound up killing people anyway, so might've had the same outcome, but with more effort and just as much controversy. [1] https://en.
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
Lee Harvey Oswald is kind of crappy example, considering he was ultimately done in by Jack Ruby, a mobster. Surely , Jack Ruby would never lie about his true motivation for killing Lee Harvey Oswald. I mean, did Jack Ruby strike you as a
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
So, like, the whole article is about the perception of legendary talents as advantages conferred by autism.
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
I really thought this was going to be a rant harping on object-oriented programming.
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by T0T0R0 10y ago
Why? More than two millenia of that sort of thing preceeds the previous five decades of post-nuclear-age politics, no?