brenden2

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by brenden2 6y ago
Encouraging people to walk and bike, while also reducing pollution, is a great way to reduce the effect of future health problems. Wish they'd do this in NYC. You could close 30-50% of the streets, convert them into parks, and the only
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by brenden2 6y ago
Perhaps Wyoming wasn't the best example, but I was looking for something very sparsely populated and WY fits that bill.
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by brenden2 6y ago
I always lived near work, mostly with roommates. It's definitely possible to do, you just need to be willing to figure out a way. I would rather have a short commute than anything else, plus I prefer living with other people.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Sure, but that's likely only temporary. And if it's not, then we probably have much worse things to worry about than which cities are hip.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Desirable areas will always be (relatively) more expensive. Even if we see significant deflation (which is unlikely given the scale of money printing), these areas (NYC, SF) will probably remain expensive so long as they remain significant
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by brenden2 6y ago
There's a big difference between what's possible in theory and the reality of current practices. I think many people in this thread are missing that point.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Yes it could certainly change. I for one am not interested in their services products, I stick to the hardware.
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by brenden2 6y ago
There's a big different between the data being available vs. being put to use. ISPs have no incentive to put a bunch of effort into collecting data from the 1% or less of their customers which don't use their DNS servers. Thus, it
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by brenden2 6y ago
I think you may be overestimating the technical proficiency of the government. When they talk about browsing history, they're probably quite literally referring to looking at your web browser history. Yes, they might also subpoena your
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by brenden2 6y ago
The path and query string are only transmitted over TLS, so it should be fine so long as you never use HTTP without TLS.
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by brenden2 6y ago
This is true, but it requires deep packet inspection, and that's something which usually isn't on by default. They might enable it for specific clients under some circumstances, but I haven't heard of ISPs logging that level
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by brenden2 6y ago
This doesn't work so well when you a) disallow tracking cookies and b) don't use your ISP's DNS servers. I used to work directly with these big ISPs, and I can assure you they aren't very sophisticated. Even if they log
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by brenden2 6y ago
Just looks like trash with too much photo editing to me. It's kind of funny because I did a trash photo exhibit a few years back where I literally took photos of trash with good lighting and such. The photos were aesthetically pleasing
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by brenden2 6y ago
I do most of my browsing in private mode anyway. I'm usually pretty careful to never put things onto websites that I don't want people to find publicly as well. The US has no strong privacy protections, so you should just assume t
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by brenden2 6y ago
A lot of people aren't in a position where they can quit their job and spend a few months looking for a new one. And in the US there's no safety net.
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by brenden2 6y ago
So this is just code completion? What exactly makes it qualify as "artificial intelligence"? Did they throw some PyTorch or TensorFlow into the mix?
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by brenden2 6y ago
Strictly speaking it's the compiler that generates faster code.
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by brenden2 6y ago
This is just fear mongering. Life will return to normal. Lots of people swore they'd never fly after 9/11 and yet things did recover.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Scroll through /r/coronavirus if you want to see what how scared many people are.
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by brenden2 6y ago
I guess I'm conflating Waffen-SS with the SS itself (which is a superset). Waffen-SS is the military branch, and it says this on Wikipedia: > Originally, it was under the control of the SS Führungshauptamt (SS operational command of
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by brenden2 6y ago
You could ask someone who was living in Japan in 1945.
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by brenden2 6y ago
I don't think the distinction matters. The SS was an armed military force, with 900,000 soldiers.
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by brenden2 6y ago
I do every day.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Maybe so, but the evidence is weak at best. Some wars (like Iraq, Korea, Vietnam) were a sham. I'd feel more comfortable knowing nobody had nuclear weapons.
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by brenden2 6y ago
My point is simple: be skeptical and suspicious of humans with lots of power over other people.
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by brenden2 6y ago
It bums me out that people who need the most help in life receive the least
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by brenden2 6y ago
You could think about it that way, but you should also know that Himmler created the SS which swore allegiance to Hitler. The SS also existed before Hitler became the chancellor of Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by brenden2 6y ago
Meh, the military engages in far more life terminating than life saving.
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by brenden2 6y ago
You're making a joke, but I find it strange that people in the US aren't more skeptical of the government, especially the military and militarized police forces. To think the US is somehow unable to become a totalitarian state is
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by brenden2 6y ago
In effect it did. From Wikipedia: > the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party (NSDAP) controlled the country which they transformed into a dictatorship. Under Hitler's rule, Germany became a totali

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