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by bm3719 6y ago
Here's a suggestion I haven't seen mentioned anywhere: In situations where two camps ostensibly agree on mission but disagree on execution, why don't we just have two organizations? In this case the "show me the code&qu
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by bm3719 6y ago
Are the populations of humans that don't have this problem (e.g. the Amish)? Seems like it would be a good clue if we're poisoning ourselves.
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by bm3719 6y ago
In Leviathan , Hobbes speaks of sovereign nations being in a "state of nature", defined as an absence of civil society where notions of justice and injustice don't exist: Yet in all times, Kings, and persons of Soveraigne a
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by bm3719 6y ago
“The honest truth is that I am not really politically oriented. I would have really rather just be living out in the woods. If nobody had started cutting roads through there and cutting the trees down and come buzzing around in helicopters
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by bm3719 6y ago
Just tried, and it's true. Two REST calls to improving.duckduckgo.com are made. Can't tell if my OS and location is encoded in the query params, but there's at least a dozen or so populated fields.
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by bm3719 6y ago
I remember reading a few amusing stories about a certain category of the public offended by the FreeBSD logo, as far back as the late 90s at least. Here's one of them: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-c
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by bm3719 6y ago
(setq sentence-end-double-space t)
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by bm3719 7y ago
A better measure might be whether those institutions are functional to a degree that their current form of existence is a net benefit to us vs. their cost, not whether they return any value at all. While I could probably quibble about certa
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by bm3719 7y ago
When is it time to ask some fundamental questions about the end state of the political philosophy that produces such aggregate outcomes?
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by bm3719 8y ago
> I would think it would be quite the opposite: the likelihood of being censored creates inhibition. I suspect that it's due to general interest social media sites being unhappy places. For example, I was definitely exposed to a co
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by bm3719 8y ago
Because I don't equate moderation with "actively working against a culture of free speech". If HN was an enemy of it as a cultural norm, then I could not in good conscious support it with my traffic/content/etc.
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by bm3719 8y ago
For the past few years, whenever a company demonstrates that it is actively working against a culture of free speech, I block its URL in /etc/hosts. In this case, I already added Twitter long ago, so no change necessary. Not only
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by bm3719 8y ago
I don't think anyone argues that it's impossible for the government to do something people want. A better question is if they do manage to produce a desired result, is it worth the cost?
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by bm3719 8y ago
Sometimes I think we'd be better off just doing away with patents altogether and letting corporations be responsible for guarding their own secrets. There's lots of downsides to that approach, of course, but the amount of harm th
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by bm3719 8y ago
In order to reduce the likelihood my child is victimized online by questionable corporate behavior, I've redirected facebook.com to infowars.com in /etc/hosts.
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by bm3719 8y ago
In an unrelated story, worker productivity suddenly increased.
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by bm3719 8y ago
I regret having wasted my time trying to work through this about 2 years ago: - There's a lot of sloppy content, i.e. misspellings that a spell checker should catch. - Some code is syntactically incorrect. Some hasn't been ported
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by bm3719 8y ago
No, Mr. President, we are still not tired of winning!
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by bm3719 10y ago
And other people's money too.
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by bm3719 10y ago
After getting my refund, I've been watching the SC narrative unfold from the sidelines with interest. There's enough things that've gone awry in this project to write a book about (and I guess if you were to collect all of D
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by bm3719 14y ago
Some people just don't have anything they want to achieve. Others may have that, but due to mortgages, child college funds, or other reasons, just have to make due with having their value extracted from them in an employee role. The most
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by bm3719 14y ago
If slavery is defined as involuntary servitude, then I don't see how conscription isn't slavery. Condemning one's children to that may be necessary in some situations, but in my ethical framework, I certainly wouldn't exchange 2 years of s
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by bm3719 14y ago
That was my thought reading this. This guy's child will get to pay for his father's expanded comfort zone.
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by bm3719 14y ago
It's just a suspicion, as stated. The reason for this though is that Firefox has (or had) the exact same behavior in older versions I've used prior to switching to Conkeror.
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by bm3719 14y ago
And the ability to block ads, which is possible in Conkeror. I'd also prefer an Emacs-style keybinding set (or at least the ability to map one), so I don't have to switch muscle-memory mode when jumping from my editor to graphical browser.