Torgo

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by Torgo 12y ago
I am not sure if you're referring to this, but I have seen so many instances where an individual joins a community and then systematically tears it apart by calmly and coolly promoting ideas that ~51% kind of like and ~49% absolutely h
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by Torgo 12y ago
>why don't we get tough with laws and sentencing? The utter inevitability of misuse and overuse of it. England has set a great example for why I never want that kind of speech enforcement here.
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by Torgo 12y ago
They've had it since 2009 and this apparently is the first time they've been called out on how they actually got the evidence. Pretty good ROI, illegal or not.
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by Torgo 12y ago
Can you explain this? bridge relays are setup using "PublishServerDescriptor 0" but exit nodes? How does that work?
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by Torgo 12y ago
Democracies don't have memory, they only have momentum.
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by Torgo 12y ago
Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and smartphones are all in full effect by that point. 2007 has got to be Eternal September for the Web.
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by Torgo 12y ago
What constitutes flag abuse? I only do it for stories which I know will only produce flamewars.
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by Torgo 12y ago
Creative Commons license covers copyright, but doesn't cover model release. You may have something actionable there.
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by Torgo 12y ago
This should allow interoperability with Google's Chrome End-to-End GMail PGP extension. I hope this ends up in package managers quick.
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by Torgo 12y ago
The expert in this article is very subtly suggesting that parenting that does not acknowledge a biological difference in behavior between boys and girls is a factor in fewer women in the sciences.
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by Torgo 12y ago
I had some interesting email conversations with GIMP developers in the 1990s. I can't speak for now, but at the time it was a "classical" open source project. AKA, it existed to scratch the developer's itch. It was never
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by Torgo 12y ago
It may be social signaling, but I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with companies publishing demographics.
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by Torgo 12y ago
>What empirically shows diversity is bad? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam#Diversity_and... Lower trust, lower cooperation, lower confidence in government, fewer friends, lower reported happiness.
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by Torgo 12y ago
If you really want to go out on the Internet and troll, concern troll, shame individuals, mob their Twitter, harass them, dox them, stalk celebrities and share their leaked nude pics and sex tapes, all while maintaining a facade of moral su
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by Torgo 12y ago
I am using btsync to handle saving android titanium backup backups off-phone and to easily push podcasts from my personal server to my phone and every other device. It also keeps my keepass synced between devices. It has solved so many prob
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by Torgo 12y ago
Deciding that you can in fact out other people in some circumstances confirms that the enlightened claims of individual ownership of sexual identity are a political fiction. If it's deemed a person is "hypocritical" then you
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by Torgo 12y ago
The wife of the person the article is addressing seems oddly absent from the article. I am guessing a lot of men do not go out for drinks alone with women in a professional context out of respect for their wife's feelings.
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by Torgo 12y ago
>People who wish to be nearly untraceable can use a prepaid credit card for anonymity. Does anyone have experience with this? I tried it once, and found that most places blocked the use of these cards and needed a "real" one.
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by Torgo 12y ago
A while back I went back and watched a bunch of commodore 64 commercials from my childhood on Youtube and was surprised to see that they almost all included girls. If that was an outlier, that's too bad.
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by Torgo 12y ago
Can you run Java with full JIT on Power8? What about nodejs? I know IBM did some talks/slideshares of porting nodejs to power.
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by Torgo 12y ago
I don't play a lot of games, so getting something with an onboard Intel GPU has made my life so much better. It just works.
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by Torgo 12y ago
People used "eh?" when I was in Japan. I had to teach myself to use it rather than "huh?"
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by Torgo 12y ago
I first read about this in Reader's Digest in the 1980's or early 1990's. Yes I am annoyed by the fact that nobody gave a shit until a TV funnyman talked about it decades later, accompanied by a million Facebook posts of &quo
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by Torgo 12y ago
It is some kind of weird social thing. A bunch of people are all trying to rush to the front of the line of people proclaiming "don't panic" so they look like they're smart. Not that the correct course of action is &quot
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by Torgo 12y ago
>Caroline Criado Perez was not complaining about one or two people sending a few dozens of messages that were a bit mean. Yeah she was: https://twitter.com/CCriadoPerez/statuses/375689920742182912 If you dig, y
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by Torgo 12y ago
Actually I think he is right and you are wrong in this case. The section of DeLong's essay that Krugman quotes in his article though is the claim that Bitcoin was designed as a weapon against government central banks and their ability
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by Torgo 12y ago
This reminds me of when Europe used to prosecute animals for killing people and destroying property: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_trial
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by Torgo 12y ago
I read the essay differently. Jessica doesn't have time for that. It's not a priority for her. She is too busy trying to just get by. The computer is supposed to be a tool to improve her life, but for the moderate amount of utilit
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by Torgo 12y ago
Both Facebook and Twitter seem very susceptible to "report" campaigns. Anybody who can drum up the numbers can silence somebody else.
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by Torgo 12y ago
In the article, evidence is presented that boys and girls need to be trained differently, and are being trained the same, to boys' detriment. That is the exact opposite of what you're saying.

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