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by bradbeattie 7y ago
It's not just for compromised passwords. Some systems require regular password changes.
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by bradbeattie 7y ago
What about things like root@localhost?
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by bradbeattie 7y ago
While the user did ask why it's legal, I think it's clear that the question is "why is it /ethical/ to discriminate in this case and not that?". Saying that Law X exists answers the literal question, but not th
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by bradbeattie 7y ago
Okay, so not death. But other health issues? Can you point me to a relevant meta-analysis on PubMed or something? Because all I'm seeing from national dietetic organizations is support for the diet. > A healthy vegan diet can meet a
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by bradbeattie 7y ago
How long do you suppose vegans could go before they die from lack of protein? A month? A year? 10 years?
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by bradbeattie 7y ago
Gerrymandering, preference distortion through no proportional voting systems, Duverger's Law. I mean, I'm glad people are working on the problem-space of democracy, but I'd guess that other issues more greatly effect voter di
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by bradbeattie 7y ago
Hey, I'm from Toronto and I also hate the ROM's redesign. For one, it looks like sci-fi fungal growth, whereas the the Notre Dame glass design works in concert with the original. Second, the ROM's redesign somehow failed to t
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by bradbeattie 8y ago
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/FizzBuzz
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by bradbeattie 8y ago
I think the implication is that unnecessarily killing sentient creatures is immoral. The link is between potentially discovered sentience and abstinence from an industry that inflicts upon them suffering and death.
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by bradbeattie 8y ago
I get that a single-winner voting system can't satisfy all criteria, but the contortions Range/Approval voting advocates go through to rationalize its failure of the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_cr
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by bradbeattie 8y ago
GTmetrix (Gossamer Threads, Inc.) | Intermediate Web Application Developer | $65-75k | ONSITE Downtown Vancouver, Canada | http://www.gossamer-threads.com/careers/job-postings/ GTmetrix is the world's largest
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by bradbeattie 8y ago
In so much as Google added to "the burden of refinement", in some ways it didn't go far enough. If someone I know posts cat videos and boardgames reviews, and adds me to both Google+ circles, how am I to subscribe to one and
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by bradbeattie 8y ago
The problem might be made notably more difficult when accounting for non-monospaced fonts and rivers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
I think how convincing a piece of media may be is at the crux of this issue. Photoshopped heads of celebrities on porn actors' bodies have been around for some time now and isn't, to my knowledge, illegal. The key difference here
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
I'm on the fence on this one. If I draw a stick figure and put your name above it, is that unethical? What if I add a speech bubble saying something risqué? What if I'm a talented artist and I draw something pretty life-like? I do
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
And Spaces: https://get.google.com/spaces/ Oh, that one's already gone. Why on earth would anyone jump on board a new Google product when they have the lifespan of fruit flies?
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
Given that Casablanca was filmed in 1942, one might argue that the actors' emotions in that scene are more timely than one might first guess.
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
I'm with you on Condorcet methods producing more equitable results between tactical and non-tactical voters, and I'd love it to be used for the election of singular positions (e.g. a mayor, a president, etc). But all single winner
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
Why give a 6 when you could give a 0 or a 10 depending on advance polling data? Score voting devolves into approval voting for sufficiently informed and tactical voters, and provides less impactful ballots to the tactically naive. No, a new
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
An easy enough solution might be to take a cut when money is moved in to or out of Flattr, but to take nothing when moved between Flattr accounts.
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
The vast majority of the crops we grow end up feeding livestock. If you're concerned by suffering caused by agriculture, we can counterintuitively eat more plants to reduce our total plant needs. See biomass transfer efficiency.
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
Is the implication here that meat-reduced diets are less ecologically sustainable in your opinion? Considering that biomass transfer efficiency typically sits around 10%, it's likely still better to eat the majority of our crops direc
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
Hey, long-time vegan here and pro-GMO. Not looking for "purity", however that might be defined. Happy to answer any questions you might have.
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
I think this article is missing the next step: collaborative filtering. I only care about the ratings it received from people that rate thing like I do.
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
Not so. Assuming by "ranked choice voting" you mean IRV (the term ranked ballots doesn't say which algorithm is used to aggregate those ballots into a group decision), Johnson would be eliminated at the first step as he has t
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
There are many multi-winner electoral systems worth considering and a significant body of work studying them (STV and List PR are two examples). But I'd be very careful with off-the-cuff systems like the one you've proposed. Votin
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
Yeah, I don't recall where I saw something that suggested fair use. https://lop.parl.ca/ImportantNotices-e.html#Copyrights doesn't speak directly to that issue, but it's probably easier to just cite my source
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
I'm working on collating as many sources of Canadian federal data into a single relational database, and exposing that data via a public API. https://api.iscanadafair.ca/ Given the sources of this data, I'm pretty
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
It takes way more plants to raise animals for our consumption than to just eat the plants directly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level#Biomass_transfer...
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by bradbeattie 9y ago
That, and economy of scale. Were omnivores less that 5% of the population, no doubt we'd see higher prices there too.

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