bruiseralmighty

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by bruiseralmighty 3y ago
Wasn't the 'protest' of overpriced or non-existent public APIs for popular websites really the additional server cost due to endless web scraping? The whole concept of a general strike of subreddits seems like an antiquated w
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by bruiseralmighty 3y ago
> All we need are the right people to vote. None of the wrong people. And then we can bribe [20th century respelling of educate] the right people to vote the right way. Then democracy will work. ̶/̶s̶a̶r̶c̶a̶s̶m̶ Rousseau agrees. I
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by bruiseralmighty 3y ago
This is true, but the tradeoff is that now your central DB is a bottleneck that is difficult to scale. Having the applications keep a cached version of the db means that when one of them runs a complex or resource intensive query, it's
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by bruiseralmighty 3y ago
My current driver is a pre-2010 vehicle. I really don't want to buy any of these newer cars. Maybe I can import one from Cuba.
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
> Yellen has just broadcast that FDIC insurance is essentially unlimited Although I agree with the Treasury's actions here so far, this is a potential issue. They should instantiate more stringent rules for banks that who cater to b
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
Its not so much a problem for the government to be metering out private keys on proof of heartbeat, but rather that it will always want to tie them to an actual identity. Nobody wants to or has enough trust in telecommunications to present
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
Play is important to a child's development. Try to refocus and retain that the context of the conversation is about medical interventions not playground games. It is self-evident that reversing a decision to play freeze tag is orders o
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
> Declaring the body to be correct and the mind wrong seems arbitrary... Hardly, our understanding of the human body is more experimentally valid and much more aesthetically developed than our understanding of the human mind. If there is
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
There will never be a clear cut definition of health, but most people can innately tell what a well regulated body looks like for their culture. For instance, most Americans know they're fat or obese and that this is not good for their
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
It's not really the conflict directly so much as the sanctions campaigns that followed. Russia and Belarus are the number one and two suppliers of a basic fertilizer component, but now Western aligned nation cannot import from them and
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
I agree for one-offs and for simple mappings. If I had to do this problem as part of some personal workflow used only by myself, then I would just use `pandas` or some equivalent for the entire thing and have it live in a jupyter notebook.
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
> Globalization will live on, but only for countries who align themselves with the West. I think your treating 'globalization' as equivalent to 'American-style liberal democracy' in your last sentence there. If only a
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
> attempted assassination That "Where's Nancy?" line comes from the report of a single police officer on scene, none of the others heard it. We don't have the cam footage or sound from the PD or the Pelosi residence y
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
Poster didn't even talk about giving additional time, just faithfully fulfilling their end of the employment contract. It's bare minimum respect to your coworkers and clients/users to care about your work and make it as polis
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
So proposing a hypothetical. If the only issue here is obligation to the U.S. financial system what if the only on-off ramps to e-coins were cash only? So as an individual, I convert my cash to e-coins through some e-coin dedicated ATM-like
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
History did not start in 1913. Income is not an asset, they have been two different things for longer than the United States has existed as a country. Most governments in recorded history have managed to exist without taxing income. It woul
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
This is hyperopic viewpoint. Because it would only remove the violence in our neighborhood and not the violence 1000s of miles away. This plan is not worth pursuing. We can grant everything you said that the Silk Road may have only reduced
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
I guess we differ on what rights are. I am arguing that a right to privacy including financial privacy could be a natural right and its recognition or lack thereof alone by the _current_ tax scheme cannot inform of of its existence or not.
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
Hasn't precedent already been set for privacy protocols? I know the government tried to stop encryption by listing it as a munition, but they eventually lost that fight on first amendment grounds. It is hard to argue that code is not a
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by bruiseralmighty 4y ago
Privacy exists even if the government violates it due to their tax schemes. A _right_ to privacy may even exist as a natural human right. If a country decides collectively that this is the case, then what ought to change is the tax policy,
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
This is not how public health messaging works, or how media narratives in general function today. The CDC, being a public health agency, had a definition of vaccine that was intended for the public's consumption. Scientists generally d
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
Not to accuse any one person specifically of anything nefarious, but I do find the historical timing of these articles bemoaning self-hosting of email rather odd. Currently, there are only a handful of large technology companies in control
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
I guess it is always just sort of gross to view such blatant discrimination head-on regardless of where its happening. I suppose in the U.S. we just sort of brush this under the rug by allowing a hiring board to say it behind closed doors r
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
> NBC News and The Washington Post both accessed an internal chart from Facebook that showed the top three derogatory terms its automated systems removed in the month of June were “white trash,” “cracker” and a gay slur. Meanwhile, hate
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
I use only virtualenv and have never really had any issues with it for separating out my project environments. Perhaps this is more of an issue with larger projects, but I also noticed that 'no need to use virtualenv' as a positiv
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
Such a cowardly defense of the pro-privacy position coming from the Guardian, I wonder if they had trouble sourcing anyone at their offices who were authentic advocates for this position. The author rightly points out that there was no conn
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
Good point, but in a war, the goal is to disarm your enemies in order to pacify them. I'm not sure how you disarm a hacker in this century. State sponsored or not, everyone will have access to a computer.
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
So we have a situation where keeping the content is reinforcing the beliefs and where blocking the content is also reinforcing the beliefs, because "legitimate" content telling "the truth" is blocked "without reaso
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
Doesn't 4chan kind of disprove this though? I mean sure /pol/ can be a bit of a cesspool, but that's not all of 4chan. It was designed as a toxic waste storage facility and it has done that job fairly well. You can hold
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
> ...false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches changed the outcome of select past national elections, after final election results are officially certified. This currently applies to: > * Any past U.S. Presidential ele

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