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by cbd1984 11y ago
And their webpage is broken
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Because it's bad practice to demand people use it when it's not required.
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So if this becomes a thing, there are people who will be left out, simply because either the community arbitrarily says "No" just like it arbitrarily said "Yes" in the past, or because there's no more room in the sp
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by cbd1984 11y ago
One way around the implied slippery slope is to impose a time limit: If anyone still wants this in after twenty years, it goes in, but not before. Yes, it's arbitrary. These are color names . They're inherently arbitrary. If ther
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Age polishes the fun history. Whatever this means, it sounds like "The grass was always greener in the pastures of my memory" or some such, which is true but not relevant to, you know, actual history. That, and it seems axi
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by cbd1984 11y ago
If you ever want to get some perspective, look at the songs which were actually popular, not the ones preserved in the playlists of oldies stations. https://www.billboard.com/archive/charts/1958/hot-100
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Comparing something like Elvis Presley playing "Hound Dog" to Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" would make me think that modern pop is more intelligent. And that would be the wrong answer because... ?
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/29/the_simpsons_... "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace", 1998.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
So they don't actually need analytics at all, it's just marketing people trying to preserve their jobs.
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> How can you enforce property rights and private contracts without a state? By having a state you refuse to acknowledge is a state. > the man with the largest army / aka the local warlord See? This is a state. A local warlord ca
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"Less government" is a bit of "optimizing for what you can measure": It's easy to see that fewer people work for the government, so the people left must not be as involved in invading privacy, right? Except that doe
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> Mozilla is one of the good, independent orgs So they say, but their actions, here, put them in with Google. > If they remove third-party analytics from their web properties, Mozilla instantly loses valuable actionable insights that
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> Naturally, many try to attack it to claw back more unearned white privilege for themselves. Since when do Asians have white privilege?
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The reason is to make it seem like they care about privacy more than they actually do. Obviously, people care how much they care, hence a reason to lie.
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I suppose I should have seen it coming, but I never imagined using git as a method to fling theses. Good work!
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Or so they claim. Is there any way for anyone else to verify that?
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You're missing the point so comprehensively I have to conclude it's deliberate.
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> Aren't Indians Asians? Depends on what variety of English you speak whether the term Asian normally includes Indians or not. For Brits, Asian primarily means "From the Indian Subcontinent" which includes Pakistan for the
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Naturally, many try to attack it to claw back more unearned white privilege for themselves. Asians have white privilege now? We can certainly see what your Officially Not Racist biases are.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Kathy is almost as tight of a peak: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... My point is, the tightness of the peak might have nothing to do with Ms Spears.
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> The truth is, you can make a perfectly untraceable, very reliable, simple gun with out 3D printers. ... if you invest a lot in the proper materials, tooling, and skill set.
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They used to be called "zip guns" or "Saturday night specials": Cheap, sometimes home-made firearms with mostly coincidental accuracy (You hit what you were aiming at? Pure coincidence!) and a penchant for exploding in t
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Well, when you hear enough people saying "The government is always the problem" like it's a religious dogma, and claiming that a free market can solve every problem, for ever and ever amen, it gets a bit tiresome.
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> Social repercussions with neighbors ...and? If this amounts to dirty looks in the shared hallway or similar, it's pointless. In fact, it's worse than pointless: The caring, socially-responsible people who don't want to h
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By calling them "fees" or "voluntary contributions" or similar. Taxes are only bad if a government extracts them at gunpoint. If a non-governmental force extracts them at... well, the gun is still there, I suppose, but h
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Says who? Says most of the people who care, and who therefore use the term the most.
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And how do you know the same isn't true here?
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Arial, I think.
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Javascript is not HTML. Both can usefully exist without the other.
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> there are things that are Turing complete that I would not consider to be programming languages. Like what?

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