Torgo

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by Torgo 12y ago
>Nexus 4 is clearly the red-headed stepchild in the Nexus family now. I'm on Verizon Galaxy Nexus. If Nexus 4 is the red-headed stepchild, Verizon Galaxy Nexus is the kid chained in the basement nobody talks about :-/
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by Torgo 12y ago
Muni had uptake mainly in the areas that commercial didn't service, and after that everything just kind of froze. They never, ever seem to try to compete on price, and I assume that upgrading equipment is expensive for either ISP. Wwhe
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by Torgo 12y ago
Ten years ago my hometown built a municipal ISP. It since then has done the bare minimum to keep the network going, and is total crap. There is one other cable ISP, but they effectively have to compete with the terrible speeds and service o
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by Torgo 12y ago
Speaking as a male, I would prefer we use the terms male and female. Because they don't carry all the anglo cultural connotations that come along with "man" and "woman".
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by Torgo 12y ago
In the USA this is called "hipster racism" where you re-use racist slurs or caricatures to make a point about racism. But some feel that this is still unacceptable because the propagation of the racist imagery still hurts. I am no
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by Torgo 12y ago
gun owners place a high value on agency. I have wondered if one reason they tend to not see suicides as legitimate in gun death stats is because they tend to see suicide as a willful act that a person also has a right to. Just a speculation
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by Torgo 12y ago
There was a law in New Jersey that basically said as soon as smart gun technology was for retail sale in any part of the country, a general ban on non-smart guns would go into effect: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechcon
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by Torgo 12y ago
It makes sense, they became political when guns came under political threat. As a side note, it's funny to see that parts of the media still mechanically repeat LaPierre calling the ATF "jack booted government thugs" in 1995
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by Torgo 12y ago
I can guarantee you that's not what she means, or if so, it would be wildly inconsistent with the definition of victim blaming re. rape victims which she supports. You would never, ever, catch her saying "it was a completely expec
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by Torgo 12y ago
Sally Kohn of CNN: "It is not inconsistent to believe in free speech AND be against insulting other people’s faith traditions. #CharlieHedbo" Totally disregarding that machine-gunning to death 11 people because you're offende
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by Torgo 12y ago
This is a an unworkable viewpoint because it has no limiting principle. What if a person comes in for a job interview and is wearing a turban because they're a sikh? Should you put up a screen between you and the interviewer? Give them
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by Torgo 12y ago
She didn't draw the other inmates as infants, only herself.
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by Torgo 12y ago
Yeah, how is the guy who made Infiniminer doing?
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by Torgo 12y ago
Criticize TED, cite "the 20 all-time worst TED talks" by a Buzzfeed editor who also wrote "39 Things That Look Like Boobs."
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by Torgo 12y ago
Police in the United States are not philosophically derived from the Peelian Principles. Police are civilians and not military, but they are government agents of the state you live in, with powers above those of citizens.
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by Torgo 12y ago
Supposedly the Galaxy Nexus has the baseband separate and communicates over a serial connection. An anonymous person passed this info to the Replicant project. I wish there was a way to verify this.
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by Torgo 12y ago
That is a different definition of privilege.
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by Torgo 12y ago
Fix the obvious, rampant fraud first, otherwise you're dumping water into a bucket with a giant hole in the bottom. If you can't stop fraud then you can't stop more fraud when the numbers are increased.
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by Torgo 12y ago
I mostly quit contributing because of the deletionists, but I have some recollection about one of the "alienated" communities the article mentions. For a while there was a concerted attempt by multiple webcomic authors to insert r
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by Torgo 12y ago
I don't think it was ever meant to be that. "stuff that matters" was always a tongue-in-cheek way of saying that other sites' content, being not-for-nerds, didn't matter. There is an obvious problem with posting gen
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by Torgo 12y ago
It's unfortunate that you were downvoted when you're right, at least for the console space. You couldn't use many of the advanced features of C++ on the consoles of 1995 (rtti, exceptions, STL was garbage in 1995); C++ compil
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by Torgo 12y ago
>During the past year or two, most public servers has started to care. By general consensus, the XMPP community set May 19, 2014 as a deadline for mandatory encryption: https://lwn.net/Articles/599647/
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by Torgo 12y ago
That is analogous to someone having the key to your house, but you don't know it until they've stolen your gold. I don't think it's substantially different. On the other hand, if you have a brain wallet and have never ev
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by Torgo 12y ago
What I recall is when you used the IRC bots you were queued, sometimes behind hundreds of people. And then while downloading your or their connection would hiccup, and you would get re-queued.
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by Torgo 12y ago
There seems to be a paucity of good drop-in themes, paid or not, for Octopress/Jekyll. There just is no theming community like for Wordpress :-(
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by Torgo 12y ago
To support his claim here's a video of a law firm advising companies on exactly how to craft employment ads to hire only foreign workers and not hire Americans even if they are qualified. In fact he even says it explicitly, the goal is
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by Torgo 12y ago
Some game systems did this too. For instance the Gameboy Advance had DMA, and it was used all the time because if you were eating up your cycles on copying memory, you would run out of time to process your game logic before your vertical bl
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by Torgo 12y ago
>It's really a shame that standardized tests haven't yet evolved beyond multiple choice answers for human-written questions and scored by machines with optical scanners. They have somewhat, it's called adaptive, or "b
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by Torgo 12y ago
The headline says it's incredibly rare, then the second paragraph says that while it's incredibly rare for civilians to not be indicted, it's normal for COPS to not get indicted. So in other words, business as usual, question
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by Torgo 12y ago
I uploaded a downloadable PDF copy here: https://pdf.yt/d/iJ8ykm6h4Q6jRfHc source: http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2014/november/stateme...

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