brockers

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by brockers 9y ago
Anyone else have a good super beginner online tutorial for bash and the Linux command line? I'm always looking for other solutions for my students.
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by brockers 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand the issue. I'm betting that the amount of energy used to power online games for Play Station Online is orders of magnitude worse than for bitcoin with arguably less benifit to society. What am I missing?
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by brockers 9y ago
Oh it most certainly can... it SHOULDN'T but it absolutely can.
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by brockers 9y ago
This seems to be the argument that Richard Stallman has been making for years.
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by brockers 9y ago
Great point! This comment provided more incite that the whole of the article.
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by brockers 9y ago
The forum support is simply awful. At one point the top 3 feature requests (in the pinned feature request forum) were all the ability to bookmark classes. Not a single response in any of the threads in years... nothing... it is just amaz
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by brockers 9y ago
If it didn't then you are probably doing one or the other wrong.
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by brockers 10y ago
It cannot. The Google implementation must effectively be done on a blob as the result would not be usable in a structure specific document. What is more, things that require a block chain (like git) are NOT covered with this current attac
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by brockers 10y ago
Your argument is exceedingly well reasoned. I would love to hear a countervailing opinion to compare it to. Can someone please post a thoughtful reply to PKop main point?
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by brockers 10y ago
Excellent excellent link! Thanks for posting it. Seriously... thank you.
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by brockers 10y ago
tl;dr The rough estimates of the number of habitable planets in the universe just went from 20 trillion to 100 trillion based on the fact that it looks like almost all stars have planets.
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by brockers 10y ago
GPG, of course, allows you to use asymmetric crypto and currently supports RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, and DSA algorithms for that purpose. But for bulk data encrypting good symmetric (AES, CAST5, etc.) is both more secure and significantly f
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by brockers 10y ago
I am getting concerned about this juvenile concept of peoples emotions being fragile eggs that could be destroyed at any given moment. Why is it the HOSTING services job to decided community guidelines?
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by brockers 10y ago
I don't know. Escapism before the advent of technology generally meant writing letters, reading books, walking, drinking, and visiting friends. All these activities seem to promote mental health and productive behavior compared to di
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by brockers 10y ago
Every bank that existed before 1960 starting with ancient Greek temple depositories all the way through the first "official" banks of 12th century Venice.
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by brockers 10y ago
No the article uses ATMs as an example but the general accounting principals apply regardless. Consider paper checks or IOUs. Humanity literally has thousands of years doing eventual financial consistency while ACID compliance has only exi
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by brockers 10y ago
Nobody "deserves" or should "expect" a lifestyle. Life is simply a series of choices. If you choose to have a $40,000 car on 100K income, then you choose to take money from your stocks because you choose a lifestyle ov
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by brockers 10y ago
no kidding... $40,000 is a nice'ish car?
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by brockers 10y ago
My home is 2-3 years of my annual salary. So is most of my co-workers. Yes, that is probably not true for a teachers salary (although my first home was definitely within 4 years of a teachers salary.) Are you living in the Bay Area? Is th
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by brockers 10y ago
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. The author points to the fallacy himself in the second paragraph when he mentioned that job growth used to be going towards the suburbs when population growth was moving into them. People create jobs, not places,
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by brockers 10y ago
But DNS is the keys to the kingdom. After beginning most of what we now call "the internet" hanging on to one last key doesn't seem like to much to ask. Can someone imagine France giving up the right determine if certain wi
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by brockers 10y ago
I assume your comment was intended to prove his point. Attack the person instead of discuss and debate the issue??!?
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13 year old KDE bug fixed(bugs.kde.org)
9 points by brockers 10y ago|2 comments
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by brockers 10y ago
What is the difference between Hate Speech and Newspeak? When do we cross over the line from good intentions to thoughtcrime? Is the best way to end racial, religious, or sexual discrimination to hide it or to lambaste those who would pro
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by brockers 10y ago
I think it would be foolish to NOT assume facebook AND Gawker do this.
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by brockers 11y ago
Thank god we have this article from the New York Times to tell the rest of the country how we should be organizing ourselves.
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by brockers 11y ago
The Chrome integration is what is new right? I have been using Google Docs via phone using voice typing for a LONG time now. In fact, when I wanted to use voice typing at my desk I would just open the phone, open the document on both the p
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by brockers 11y ago
That was the general wisdom back in the late 70's but the reality now is we have found WAY WAY more carbon based fuel sources than we ever thought could be captured. Updated global estimates for oil are somewhere between 50 and 250 ye
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by brockers 11y ago
This is true, but subsidies for for renewable sources is significantly higher on a cost/kw amount (the number consumers care about.) What is more, renewable are not taxed ANYWHERE NEAR the same rate as fossil fuels which in the United
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by brockers 11y ago
Under this same logic the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) would have lead to the impeachment of the President and most of the Democrats in Congress. It was HUGELY unpopular and has only recently become so-so... 5

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