Volpe

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by Volpe 13y ago
> With China I think maybe you have to keep in mind what a scarring catastrophe Maoism was. Middle class people and values were systematically purged. Maoism was a resounding success, it was the cultural revolution that replaced the midd
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by Volpe 13y ago
Are you saying chinese are predominantly inbred?
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by Volpe 13y ago
I thought the german government immediately asked for the US government to "clarify" it's intelligence gathering in germany. That's about as 'outraged' as they can get isn't it? Personal phone calls make s
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by Volpe 13y ago
The Great Firewall does a lot more than that. It blocks new IPs by default (some are later re-enabled after being 'assessed' in some way). It does some kind of automated crawling and blocking. It has manual (as in human) blocke
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by Volpe 13y ago
Sorry there seems to only have been one directed at the Chancellory [1] Would you really equate unconfirmed word document files (which were denied by the government) with explicit phone tapping (which was all but admitted to by the governme
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by Volpe 13y ago
Which incident was that?
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by Volpe 13y ago
This is an odd argument. Guns are technology too, are rifleman just murders roo? Any weapon is technology, so swordsman too? Martial arts could right be considered 'technology', so the only people who are warriors are untrained p
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by Volpe 13y ago
Not to get too involved in this. But "stealth edit" just means you edited without mentioning it. The general etiquette seems to be to put an "EDIT: " with either an addendum or an explanation of edits you made within yo
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by Volpe 13y ago
I'm not sure you can class it as "We are this good at it"... when it's being discussed publicly around the world, and the president is fielding calls from world leaders asking why they are being spied on. Will all these
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by Volpe 13y ago
There is this crazy concept in version control and open source in general called: Forking. In github, you can fork, and then turn on issues! (I know, we live in the future right!?)
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by Volpe 13y ago
I doubt that, with Accurate gps and a mindstorm kit, I could build a "car" that follows any road. I don't see why it would need to be 'prepared'. With sonar, infrared, sign reading, gps, rain sensor, traffic manage
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by Volpe 13y ago
That was sarcasm (btw). And I was pointing out the article was pointing out the programmer was Russian for absolutely no reason. Why was it important for us to know his nationality?
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by Volpe 13y ago
Love the racial inclusion for no reason.
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by Volpe 13y ago
> What is really happening is risks are socialised, profits (if any) are privatised. Well not quite, given companies pay tax too. Not only that, but large industries like Aerospace spend money on other stuff. I agree it's clumsy,
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by Volpe 13y ago
I hadn't seen that. What a horrible response from Rhinehart. His whole tone is of "I know better than you, and am more rational than you"... It made me wonder if he didn't know who Tim Ferriss was nor what experience h
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by Volpe 13y ago
I see your point. I agree.
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by Volpe 13y ago
People are concerned about the hype? Not the product? So does it concern you that in McDonalds ads there are always attractive slim people, when in fact at most stores you see average looking obese people? Are we arguing truth in advertisin
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by Volpe 13y ago
Only if Time, Gas, and Electricity are free.
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by Volpe 13y ago
Do you ask for the same level of rigorousness when McDonalds release a new item on their menu? I'd hazard a guess that more people consume that new item than anyone will ever consume in Soylent. Remember supersize me, that guy started
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by Volpe 13y ago
Wi-fi networks aren't private, you can stop a "broadcast" of the SSID, otherwise you "broadcast" it (publicly). It's the equivelant of the the Streetview car capturing 'public property', if you want &
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by Volpe 13y ago
But once you are 100 miles out, everyone speaks mandarin in a similar way. (i.e. the problem is Beijinghua != Putonghua ;-)
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by Volpe 13y ago
By that definition, tagging an (original) poem is art?
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by Volpe 13y ago
How? You mean you intuitively understood, or you can prove it your solution without calculus?
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by Volpe 13y ago
Also note: Space is pretty black, why do things have to look like nature?
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by Volpe 13y ago
Wait, but 'install' means 'download' ? So if chrome was a single .py file, which I downloaded, and ran with python. Thats fine. But because it's a .exe, i need root... ? I fail to see the difference. Sorry.
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by Volpe 13y ago
I realised I perhaps didn't provide much in the way of citation: Hiroshima/Nagasaki: Upto 250,000 deaths [1] Vietnam+Cambodia: 100,000 + 400,000 maimed or killed by agent orange + 500,000 children born with birth defects (also fro
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by Volpe 13y ago
> That's what gets me the most about this; how very apathetic the American public and American politicians have been about the mass slaughter of Iraqis (including thousands of civilians), torture, indefinite detention without trial
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by Volpe 13y ago
An interactive shell (like bash/python/irb) is untrusted code (i.e the user can type whatever the hell they like). But I don't/shouldn't need root to run it.
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by Volpe 13y ago
Yes you can. The United states are my go to example for this as well. There are a number of White Supremacist groups in the US, which (mostly due to rule of law) are contained from ruining multiculturalism as whole (they probably have sig
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by Volpe 13y ago
And that good reason is? EDIT: If I want to run/update something (Chrome) in Userland, why should an OS security model stop me? My guess is, Microsoft have successfully confused a common business requirement with a security one.

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