big_chungus

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by big_chungus 7y ago
Basically, yeah. It's just a web app. Unless that was supposed to be taken as Socratic and you think it does something more?
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Okay, but if I'm producing widgets, every widget I produce is transported over roads and uses public resources. So you can make the argument that because each transaction uses those, a sales tax is justifiable. On the other hand, if
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by big_chungus 7y ago
I do think we should "get government out of the tax code" to a serious extent in that it shouldn't be in the business of taxing income, payroll, capital gains, etc. Calculate expenses / adult population and send each ad
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NHS staff can refuse to treat racist or sexist patients under new rules(news.sky.com)
2 points by big_chungus 7y ago|0 comments
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by big_chungus 7y ago
It's a pain-and-a-half. I'm not sure any system ever recovers fully, but you basically run chmod -R's on most of the important directories and then fix the many services that will surely fail once you can get a shell. More s
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by big_chungus 7y ago
> Weirdly, this kind of "freedom" is often freedom that's of zero or negative value to me. As you said, _to you_. > Take the "freedom" lost by switching to single payer healthcare or similar: oh, no, I don&#x2
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by big_chungus 7y ago
I'm not making an emotional appeal, I'm making a logical one. Choice means I get to pick what I want to do and choose what's best for me. For instance, many unions give money to the Republican party, the Democratic party, or
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Why thankfully? Don't workers' rights mean they ought to make their own choices about joining a union or not?
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Maybe run `sudo chmod -R 000 /` instead. Can't get charged with destroying any data, but it's a huge pain to get a system working again from that. Only done it twice; hope never to do so again.
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Hmm, GDPR thought experiment: I make a database of public IPv4s by running a couple for-loops and subtracting private spaces. Can an EU guy who owns an IPv4 request to have it removed?
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The Boy Scouts Are Bankrupt(bsarestructuring.org)
1 points by big_chungus 7y ago|0 comments
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Swift is an interesting language choice for something like this. As far as I am aware, support is non-existent outside of Ubuntu and OSX, so it seems limiting compared to, say, C.
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Another issue caused by hyperthreading. It's starting to look more and more like the OpenBSD guys made the right choice by turning it off. At this point, I think the only other option is for OS guys to implement some kind of security
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by big_chungus 7y ago
There are physical reasons for that; reproductive organs have tons of extra nerves to make it so. That's not true of mouths; the reaction would have to be psychological. Tongues are there to taste food.
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Emotet Evolves with New Wi-Fi Spreader(binarydefense.com)
1 points by big_chungus 7y ago|0 comments
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Well yeah, no kidding. I was raised American but still never got the appeal of the "spit-swapping" variety; It always struck me as disgusting, though I don't mind normal "on-the-lips" type. For some reason, people
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by big_chungus 7y ago
WSJ isn't biased overall: https://www.allsides.com/news-source/wall-street-journal-med... The editorials are sometimes right-leaning, but mostly fiscally so.
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by big_chungus 7y ago
That's because it comes with stuff pre-installed and an easy interface. Apparently, this is enough for people to ignore that it uses root as the default user, is not at all stable, etc. It shows up on all the crummy "Top 10 Hack
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Wow. I honestly can't tell; is this satire? The sad thing is that this remains many people's view of computers. The first thing this person is missing is the ingenuity of people who want to get around stuff; some crummy filter
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Kali's response is pretty funny: > Have to admit it’s sort of nice they give kids a roadmap on where to get started. We all know the easiest way to get a kid to do something is to tell them they can’t or should not, then they list s
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by big_chungus 7y ago
It's not, though there are a surprising number of servers that sell stuff like hacked accounts, shady coupon codes, etc. Very little actual hacking; I don't think I know anyone who uses it for anything serious. Also creepy as al
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by big_chungus 7y ago
I can't believe any respectable school would let in a CS grad student without calculus. Linear algebra is really important, too, but you have to know calculus to do much of the math behind circuits. Good for you for doing it even tho
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by big_chungus 7y ago
r = 1 - sin(θ)
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Not that much faster. Most benchmarks find that GCC is a little ahead, but not much: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc9-cla... https://medium.com/@alitech_2017/gcc-vs-clang-ll
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Hah that's pretty good. Thanks for making me laugh.
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Yeah but tons of people are still using versions named Bro. Most people I know, me included, still refer to it as Bro (or, more formally, Bro/Zeek.) Tons of documentation and tutorial are the same. It's only been a year and cha
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by big_chungus 7y ago
I know naming is hard, but I heard this and figured it might be using bro under the hood. It's more confusing because it's a network-related application.
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by big_chungus 7y ago
I've never been on one; to some one who has, how do you avoid going nuts or getting depressed after a few days?
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by big_chungus 7y ago
The line for me is United's "basic economy". I'm pretty sure I'd have difficulty fitting in the seat because they're so small; I'm skinny enough, but have long legs. There's a line between "nic
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by big_chungus 7y ago
It's to the consumer's advantage to tell his buddy about how terrible such-and-such-an-airline's new cuts to foot room are and how he wouldn't fly and neither should anyone else. That could possibly lead to better polic

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