Torgo

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by Torgo 12y ago
This goes both ways. If I think someone has misinterpreted me, I usually apologize for being unclear and clarify my statement. I would rather clear it up than start a flamewar, even if someone else might be itching for one.
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by Torgo 12y ago
Here's another paper by the same author arguing that people who believe wrong things should be covertly manipulated by government agents to induce them to not believe wrong things. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/paper
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by Torgo 12y ago
I've gone through three, had one of them actually burn and melt through.
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by Torgo 12y ago
They are lost causes, and you're generally not personally compelled to use them (except the ACA, now.) >People think gays are icky and weird http://research.vtc.vt.edu/news/2014/oct/29/liberal-or-
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by Torgo 12y ago
There's no email in your profile...
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by Torgo 12y ago
No, it's just an extremely generic name and the employee looked up John Doe on the computer and it was already in there because of someone else who didn't want to give up their name. I'm going to start registering that everyw
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by Torgo 12y ago
Funnily enough, I saw many comment trolls defending Toyota during the "rapid acceleration" fiasco. I believe this is a very commonplace thing for both governments and businesses with image problems.
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by Torgo 12y ago
I don't have a strong opinion on the situation (I'm pretty ignorant of the history and politics between Russia and Ukraine) but I definitely saw anti-Russia trolls on the first CNN article about this. I have definitely seen both p
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by Torgo 12y ago
I think the difference is, they decide "OK that story was happening in Earth-52" and then incorporate it into the canon, have crossovers, "this was a fever-dream", etc. It still lets fans obsess about correctness.
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by Torgo 12y ago
I appreciate how Japanese works can defy a canon. I am thinking of Tenchi Muyou, or the Evangelion reboots, or the endless doujinshi made of every story. Redo all the characters, if it's interesting. In contrast it almost feels like We
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by Torgo 12y ago
It's interesting how a term like "hacker" can both be considered too exclusionary and too inclusionary, depending on who you ask and what their expectations are.
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by Torgo 12y ago
I was also using opencv, but I had a ton of trouble getting clean video from a couple different cellphones and a tablet (lot of blurring from movement) and was putting off buying a gopro to try. This is great info, thank you. Some commercia
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by Torgo 12y ago
If you want to foil them, you would put clear, IR-reflective decals next to your license plate with additional letters and numbers so that your license plate no longer scans as a license plate. You might even try to SQL-inject their ALPR ;-
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by Torgo 12y ago
>Alice installs app on smartphone. Alice puts smartphone in cradle on dashboard. I tried this, but camera phones are (currently) too terrible. I would be curious if anybody more skilled than me (I'm just tinkering) could make it wor
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by Torgo 12y ago
There's this too: https://www.stallman.org/articles/911-new-investigation.html But I don't care for the comparison of Stallman to Lyndon LaRouche. That's just trolling.
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The Changing Face of the Heartland(brookings.edu)
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by Torgo 12y ago
There is a corollary to "don't talk to cops" which is "if you do talk to cops, minimize the encounter" closely followed by "always obey direct order from cop to leave" and concluding with "if you are
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by Torgo 12y ago
limited IE testing VMs that work in Virtualbox that don't require a license or constant upgrades. I know there are VMs but last time I messed with them they lasted for a while and then stopped working.
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by Torgo 12y ago
Minoan script and Mormon Deseret are in there because somebody stepped up.
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by Torgo 12y ago
Yet some people here think it would be feasible to skip completely over one working parent all the way to no working parent, via guaranteed income. I personally think it's not, but I can see how it's appealing since it sidesteps t
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by Torgo 12y ago
Her reply indicated she knew it was a bot. She "suggested" to it that she didn't have to prefix Linux with "GNU/" because she was talking specifically about the kernel.
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by Torgo 12y ago
Well, shit. But I guess that proves my point. These things aren't actually treated as professional events.
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by Torgo 12y ago
I was wrong about PyCon, but I stand by my position that these events aren't actually treated as purely "professional" even if there are minimum standards of behavior. People wouldn't go if they were. But she wasn't
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by Torgo 12y ago
I know people disagree with me frequently on this, but most conferences aren't professional settings either. You register and you go, that's the criteria. And people do a lot of "unprofessional" things at and around them
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by Torgo 12y ago
Ronson did an interview with Alex Jones where they both talked about what they saw when they infiltrated Bohemian Grove. It was fascinating to see a complete conspiracy denialist debate with a complete conspiracy true-believer. It was a ser
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by Torgo 12y ago
That is exactly why tweetshaming is so bad. Because you're basically throwing chum in the ocean and disclaiming that you're responsible for the shark frenzy.
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by Torgo 12y ago
The benefit of nations is that there is not a universally agreed-upon set of values.
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by Torgo 12y ago
The demographic information collected for the test is a proxy for culture, since we really don't have any idea. We just detected if individual test items were gotten wrong substantially more often for any individual demographic categor
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by Torgo 12y ago
Can you explain what "Buyan" replaces? It looks like it's a local webapp using webrtc and peerjs to simulate a twitter-like service?
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by Torgo 12y ago
I personally have seen interest wane because of several high-profile scams and hacks. I originally knew quite a few people really interested, and I'm pretty much the only one left.

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