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by aric 13y ago
I wish it were strange reasoning. It's utterly normal. It's the common reasoning of a vast body of people who are completely divorced from conscience; and/or who have ulterior motives; and/or who are apathetic or ignoran
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by aric 13y ago
> "They'll just blacklist every single one of these sites..." That's the point: pressure. Outside sites willing to expose themselves to an 'iron curtain' is a true form of solidarity in this era where a wo
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by aric 13y ago
That's a smart, strategic idea. Mainstream sites -- outside of Russia but that Russians still use often -- that are willing to stand in solidarity and risk being blocked would be dramatically important. Without outside support, the ove
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by aric 13y ago
The difference is that one isn't forced to unwillingly pay those unaccountable companies (the scourge of a government's corporate subsidies notwithstanding).
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by aric 13y ago
How much control do you want? No one can answer for you whether you want more control and your own site. If I can assume based on your comment history that you're focused on Win/C#, perhaps creating one with a C# blogging engine w
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by aric 13y ago
The distinction of precedence has (or should have) no profound difference to a person's opinion of what constitutes validity or corruption, regardless of a status quo. That is my point. There is only "profound difference" t
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by aric 13y ago
I don't think it was. Above the person writes... > "PG is off the mark here. Companies like Uber explicitly ignore the existing laws and regulations. In the case of Tesla, the ruling just passed." This indicates to me th
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by aric 13y ago
> These laws are imperfect, but also necessary. Please excuse the tangent here. I respect your ability to have an opinion on the positions you personally feel are worth backing by violence (i.e. the nature of law). However, in turn,
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by aric 13y ago
No. You missed the point entirely. There is no profound difference. No one is stating that the laws are perfectly paralleled. Nothing of this nature is perfectly paralleled. You're failing to appreciate that law is entirely arbitrary a
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by aric 13y ago
Corruption is subjective. Graham is exactly on the mark. The distinction between a law [previously existing for a long time, just recently existing, or about to exist] is laughably trivial. It is a worthless distinction to a person's
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by aric 13y ago
Good addition. Dina is thinner but very similar in proportions to DejaVu at size 8. But at 8 or above, it doesn't cut it, having less lines and lacking enough weight to focus. (Note: I use a white background, which obviously affects
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by aric 13y ago
Good call. I should've remembered it. At a size of 8 or 9, I much prefer DejaVu Sans Mono where it's more readable but packs in more lines. However, I'd say anything 10+ I start to prefer Ubuntu Mono much more 'cause the
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by aric 13y ago
Thanks. That's quite the collection. I just tried all of those Latin Modern Mono size variations but they don't sit well with me for code. With and without anti-aliasing, it's very heavy/blotchy in parts of most of the l
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by aric 13y ago
Thanks, checking it out. Just A/B'd them. Envy Code R is good. However, it falls short for me. DejaVu is more readable, filling more of the space, and DejaVu packs more lines in with a smaller default line height. Envy's curl
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by aric 13y ago
Here's an incomplete list I tested awhile ago: Andale Mono Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Consolas Courier Courier New DejaVu Sans Mono Droid Sans Mono Inconsolata Liberation Mono Lucida Console Monaco Source Code P
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by aric 13y ago
> There's morals and ethics, but that's what you should do rather than what you can do. Ethics is also in the realm of what one can do. Civil disobedience is critical in rejecting tyranny. First comes mental freedom. The
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by aric 13y ago
Only completely ignorant people[1] would have called you paranoid. Any device left to the mercy of such vulnerable software cannot be trusted. Even if societies pushed back against this surveillance machine and there were someday open, tran
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by aric 13y ago
One could say it's an opportune time for them. New investors are more than just bag holders. They become promoters who are sympathetic to King's crusade.
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by aric 13y ago
~ I got 2nd place in a C++ programming competition for "designing" a storefront. I'm in a state of sorrow and bewilderment because the winner used [Visual Studio / Eclipse / Sublime / Fancy Pants Keyboard &#x2
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by aric 13y ago
Yes, of course. One should assume nothing. However, an even dumber idea is to advocate for a system to have more control, actively or by remaining silent, and then later stew in fatalism to the point of thinking that using a smartphone in a
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by aric 13y ago
Information, organization, and gathering evidence are fundamental to human rights, let alone to a revolution. Authoritarians naturally wish to ensure it becomes a "dumb idea."
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by aric 13y ago
The trajectory of most parts of US policing and civil freedom is one-thousand steps backward and one step forward. Thankfully, he had evidence. The phone wasn't stolen and its data wasn't deleted by the officer, later or on the sp
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by aric 13y ago
> "Live a little." Safety is personal and often a luxury. Living is exactly what people are trying to do thanks to such services. You may have next to zero exposure to violence surrounding you and others near and far. If you&
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by aric 13y ago
I share deep concerns about anything seemingly scammy. Modeling ways in which societies can prevent more people from being exploited is one of my 'hobbies.' There are many paths that can help. The path that's most wise and et
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by aric 13y ago
Regulation for this exists. It's called free speech and the internet. Reputation online is practically everything to the credibility of workshops or services like this. It's a real wonder that people can still use their own mind
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by aric 13y ago
I appreciate the reply. > There are different systems and, as opposed to you, I think there are more ethical rules to be found in each of them. That's not opposed to me. There are different systems, indeed. :) There are positive e
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by aric 13y ago
Informants often face trumped-up charges. Often without basic legal guidance, many of them become fully intimidated by authority (police, FBI...). Become an informant or face an exorbitant amount of your life trapped in our cage. OK? Good.
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by aric 13y ago
This is frighteningly normal . $500,000 won't make prosecutors suddenly interested in veering away from extinguishing people to win. I doubt $500 billion-with-a-B would scratch beyond the surface of flawed architecture. The United Sta
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by aric 13y ago
"Microsoft Managers And Employees Protest, Bash Computer of Linux User" Eventually, some of these hardworking taxi drivers will have an epiphany. They're fighting the wrong entity. Fighting against decentralized comm
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by aric 13y ago
Bitcoin doesn't control you. Bitcoin isn't absolute. Everything can coexist. Blabbering on about bitcoin's "deflationary" model is as purposeless as writing incessantly about gold, coffee, national currencies, tiddl

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