beowulf_cluster

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by beowulf_cluster 10y ago
Because that's a nonsensical strawman; those things aren't even related. Personally, I see any employer advertising for a position with stricter requirements than what they'll hire as advertising their own dishonesty. It just
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by beowulf_cluster 10y ago
Somewhere in Scandinavia. I don't know much about the area other than they score among the highest on self-reported happiness indicies[0]. I'm curious about what cultural differences are responsible for that result, and I suppose
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by beowulf_cluster 10y ago
To be fair, he called Trump the "lessor" of two evils. Though, that seems like a low-ball figure.
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by beowulf_cluster 10y ago
Sure, there's never going to be unanimous agreement. Put it to a vote. I'm mainly just talking about letting the public choose which issues the leaders should focus on, and holding them accountable if they don't.
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by beowulf_cluster 10y ago
> It should be a goal, eventually. Warning: Completely tangential musing/rant... That "eventually" word is killing me. When we leave these sorts of issues up to the forces in power, they never seem to get done. What we get
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by beowulf_cluster 10y ago
In and of itself, the attempt to colonize Mars probably won't do much for the species. The value is in actually going through the paces: developing primary technologies, techniques, protocols, and doing research, especially observing h
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by beowulf_cluster 10y ago
Regarding 3: The encryption scheme we put into place probably isn't going to slow down a motivated actor. We have master decryption passphrases that are regularly disseminated among the admins and could foreseeably end up in the wild (
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by beowulf_cluster 10y ago
Whatever racism you think you're seeing is only in your head. Top level commenter didn't call 1914 a "golden age"; they were merely lamenting some of the freedoms we lost a century ago.
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by beowulf_cluster 10y ago
> If it makes people uncomfortable to be told their [sic] racist for calling 100 years ago a golden age... maybe they should be uncomfortable? Glossing over the faulty logic, is your entire motive for posting here is to distress the top-
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by beowulf_cluster 10y ago
And the contention here is that it's inappropriate (unless you mean to suggest that diseases are sentient or otherwise capable of intention to foment terror) and overplayed, and it ultimately corrodes the meaning of and devalues the wo