arca_vorago

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by arca_vorago 8y ago
>I'm sick of people trashing facebook when they can only wish for the data collection ability of the NSA. Oh, and there's no opt out there. So because facebook isn't at NSA's level people should'nt trash fb? What
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
I wasn't saying the CIA was it's discoverer, but rather it is the one that pushed LSD as part of the counter-culture movement of the 60's, which included experimentation on people (often without them knowing) in mkultra/
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
>The same for other crimes where people do not hurt or threaten to hurt other people. Isn't that the thing though? Don't these bankers actually hurt more people, and hurt them worse, than any violent criminal could? So the pers
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
ctrl+f ego... no hits? I've never done a psychedelic other than a very spiritual moment with salvia divinorum, but I have read up on them extensively, (they are often touted to help with ptsd), and the one major common factor is their
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
I second blockdiag and it's variants. One of my half done side projects is an automatic network scanner and mapper that is versions so you can walk back in time on the network with netdiag. The only downside to me is the non gpl licens
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
Yeah quite a lot of people don't understand the power of holding or just "financial services" companies in todays economy. They are quiet giants in most respects. For example, in the "147-corporations who rule the world
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
>These huge banks have simply become way too big, and it serves no one's interest but their own. They have zero incentive to provide actual customer service anymore. There needs to be a massive restructuring of our system to allow s
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
Very much this. The real problem is getting the message to the masses when the message platforms that they use are controlled and censored.
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
Their job is national security... within the confines of the constitution. I don't get how an entity egregiously violating the supreme law of the land can ever be dismissed with an "I don't care" by anyone who claims to
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
You must taste this stew. You want steak instead? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuMMa1-VhQg Learn some fire safety while you're at it.
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
I would say they are just as likely. I'd like to take a moment and point out that I see this response type way too often around here. Someone criticizes something and is almost always asked about why they aren't criticizing this
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
I assure you MS is still not to be trusted. I find this recent uptick in naivety about them dangerous. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me, can't get fooled again.
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
"I mean really, when was the last time you cooked a perfect omelette or steak over a campfire on the lam?" About a month ago. I was raised in the forest cooking trout we had caught the same day. Sometimes wed even do dutch oven co
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
Yes and No. Look, I think that decentralization has a lot to offer and has many applications where it makes sense, but lately I've heard a bit too much decentralization-for-decentralizations-sake talk going on. The internet still goe
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
I'd love to see room for competition in media that took a different path if it wasn't already all monopolies and bribes cough lobbying and the innefectuality of the FCC in it's mandate. A strong fourth estate is essential t
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
Wow, thanks for these links, I had no idea about plastic number theory in geometry. So cool.
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by arca_vorago 8y ago
There are quite a few things that can be done. 1. Get management in on the importance of ergonomics in modern work-life. Like needs to be a large portion of budget and discussed with the board important. 2. Culturally teach the importance o
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by arca_vorago 9y ago
I have chosen the emacs org mode system over Jupyter, but I still like Jupyter regardless. The real tragedy is how dependent people have become on proprietary stacks like Mathematica.
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by arca_vorago 9y ago
If you like youtube-dl you should check out mps-youtube ( https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube ) which has the ability to use youtuble-dl as the backend I'm pretty sure (i prefer to use the native one personal
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by arca_vorago 9y ago
"How do you deal with ignorance? I don’t mean how do you shut ignorance out. Rather, how do you deal with an awareness of what you don’t know, and you don’t know how to know, in dealing with a particular problem?" I don't rea
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by arca_vorago 9y ago
What I don't think many people get is that these types of people and structures and institutions they exist in largely exist in order to perpetuate inequality in many ways. It's not just google though, this is fairly widespread in
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by arca_vorago 9y ago
I did a little testing about ~4 years ago and found most of the speed increases were in the netstack, but I didn't do any computational testing either. As for your last question, I think largely due to the fact that it's just not
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by arca_vorago 9y ago
FCC doesnt seem like it's protecting consumers. I think if I were POTUS I'd be using this section of its mandate. "Communications during emergencies and crisis must be available for public safety, health, defense, and emergen
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by arca_vorago 9y ago
Are you targetting a specific coin you like for the featureset or are you diversifying and just spreading it out and focusing on the volatile liquidity at play?
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by arca_vorago 9y ago
Are you doing the writing or are you aggregating or something else?
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by arca_vorago 9y ago
The publishers are an enemy of a free Web, and we mus not let them encroach upon our territory without repercussions, or else the next thing we know the Web will look like cable TV.
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by arca_vorago 9y ago
You think states are bad, you should check some of the city level pension issues, which I think are much larger in aggregate per state than the state pension funds. A really good intro to the city level issues would be the Dallas police a
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by arca_vorago 9y ago
It is also worth noting that the original speech called it the military industrial congressional complex. Indeed very relevant.
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by arca_vorago 9y ago
Nothing wrong with that at all. Has that all been on LoL? You guys did a lot right with it from the start. Unfortunately I burnt myself out on mobas due to HoN.
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by arca_vorago 9y ago
This seems far too focused on dev tech debt, which has a very narrow scope. I like the article, so I'm not knocking it, just offering a little perspective. As a senior sysadmin in the past my primary issues have been technical debt acr

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