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by __jal 10y ago
> but that was a well known (and very frustrating) problem, which was a stated position of the companies in question. And I'm pretty sure it became well known due to discussions just like this, over time. There was a ton of confusio
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by __jal 10y ago
> Or Lenovo and MS have a vast conspiracy to use disk drivers to block linux install.. That's not a vast conspiracy. That would be a pretty quotidian conspiracy. In fact, it would look a lot like the "Winmodems[1]" that we
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by __jal 10y ago
> If you're comparing like with like, that shouldn't make a difference (unless you claim widespread small-scale soap production is somehow actively hurt by more people doing it). No. As best I can tell, the GP post was claiming
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by __jal 10y ago
> With fancy hand-made soaps you're paying for the image, and usually also scents and colorings that add nothing to the cleaning power I'm confused; with industrial soap, are the scents and colorings free? I'm pretty sure
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by __jal 10y ago
Well, when a Lenovo rep says: "This system has a Signature Edition of Windows 10 Home installed. It is locked per our agreement with Microsoft," it doesn't exactly require a bomb-throwing partisan to reach the conclusion.
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by __jal 10y ago
Which works in nations where citizens take responsibility for their politics. In the U.S., we simply don't do that. ("Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.") To paint with a hugely broad brush, political problem-solving her
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by __jal 10y ago
I'm more of a pessimist. If you can't get C programmers to handle memory buffers correctly, how are you going to get them to use actual formal methods or annotations that rely on understanding substantially more math than the aver
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by __jal 10y ago
WiReD was located just off of South Park back then.
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by __jal 10y ago
Tim May wrote a (very long) "FAQ" for the Cypherpunks that may be of interest to folks who are interested in this sort of thing: http://www.cypherpunks.to/faq/cyphernomicron/cyphernomicon.h... The Cypher
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by __jal 10y ago
> Net neutrality IS a government assisted monopoly but in the favor of consumer instead of provider Can you explain how that works? Who, exactly, is the monopoly referenced in that sentence? It sounds like you mean that whatever is being
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by __jal 10y ago
A certain personality type sees failure as the only sin.
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by __jal 10y ago
Ah, thanks for the info. I had no idea. My first year of college was the first year my school shifted most departments' document recommendations to MS Word from TeX, so I never really used it for authoring. Spending a day playing tryin
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by __jal 10y ago
No. Metafont (at least for format, not the interpreter) is more akin to TrueType or Postscript font definitions. This is more akin to the old Adobe MultiMaster fonts, where the user installed one font that could then be dynamically tuned in
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by __jal 10y ago
> I would also say he did not go through internal channels. I have no opinion on the "district heads" thing. I've never worked in the non-private intel world. Most of what I know on the topic is here: https://ne
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by __jal 10y ago
My goodness, this reads like Stewart Baker is sock-puppeting. If you'd like to convince someone, perhaps sticking to the truth when stating "facts" would be a start. For instance, > - Snowden did not attempt to go through
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by __jal 10y ago
Laundry is actually one chore that doesn't bother me, and I don't even have in-home machines. My laundromat is two blocks away, serves food, beer and (if I fail time management and don't finish before it begins) truly, really
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by __jal 10y ago
Fine. In which case every nation on earth is authoritarian, and the word has no more useful meaning when discussing governments than the observation that governments attempt to maintain a monopoly on use of force. Both are universal. Doesn&
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by __jal 10y ago
Where do you fill your hourglass? (The GP's point can be true in the absence of explicit statements from the USG that it doesn't want Germans.)
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by __jal 10y ago
Now that's what I call continuous deployment!
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by __jal 10y ago
Just like nearly any moral line, morals here are contingent. I think it is hardly necessary to point out the arbitrariness of which recreational drugs are illegal, with one of the most dangerous being legal and considered moral in moderatio
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by __jal 10y ago
> It hasn't. Pinboard.in used this model for years.
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by __jal 10y ago
So read the article blanking out the word "Israel". It doesn't matter what country it is. Or put another way, if you support this, you also (whether you realize it or not) support China, Iran, the UAE, North Korea, etc. etc.
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by __jal 10y ago
I mostly agree. With my iPhone, I disable wifi and bluetooth when I leave the house (We don't allow cell phone wifi at work, I don't drive very often, and if I'm sticking around somewhere with wifi for a while, I may choose t
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by __jal 10y ago
Sounds like you might have an unusual sensitivity to exaggeration. It is a symptom which affects a small percentage of the population, and is treatable. Talk to your comedian or an entertainment specialist about treatment options. (In fair
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by __jal 10y ago
Assuming one believes that only those professionally engaged in a given pursuit should be allowed into that pursuit at all, I suppose one can be OK with it. (Although that model still leaves citizen-units unable to review work contractors d
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by __jal 10y ago
> and people get along perfectly fine and with less inconvenience shoved in their face running programs without permissions systems aside from a simple admin rights/no admin rights [...] ...For values of "perfectly fine" t
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by __jal 10y ago
Absolutely. I dropped Dropbox some time back, when it became obvious that they didn't respect the user's wishes at all. This has been a long-standing thing with them - some years back there was some stink about the forced Dropbox
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by __jal 10y ago
Any time I'm seeing really strange results involving the terminal, I try to look for terminal-related weirdness. There is a lot of stuff going on that people generally ignore or simply don't know about, because it generally just
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by __jal 10y ago
> Quantum computer researchers that receive government funding are no longer allowed to publish results over 9 qbits. Do you have a reference for that? I'm not doubting you, I just want to be able to cite controlling authority.
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by __jal 10y ago
I've been pondering a similar idea. It is more about optimization and failure tolerance. Highly optimized systems are great, until they aren't. F1 race cars are notoriously touchy and require a team of specialists to keep running,

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