cbd1984

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by cbd1984 12y ago
Right. Feminism shouldn't be about "We had to go through this, so now you have to." It should be about " Nobody should have to go through this."
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by cbd1984 12y ago
We can't have a discussion if you assume that everyone who disagrees is only disagreeing because they don't have your precise life experiences, or the life experiences you assume someone else has had.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> In point fact, there's almost certainly debate to be had within a community about which items have broader import and which might just be personal issues to the individual who composed the list. Which cannot be had as long as peop
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by cbd1984 12y ago
If everyone is sexist, than nobody can call anyone else sexist, because nobody is in a position to do so unhypocritically. Ditto racism. > you can "silence" them by making them feel uncomfortable for having spoken at all. I&#x2
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> So, what, you think that C can handle writing the language you write your web app and similar in but somehow it suddenly falls apart when transferring text back and forth across a network socket? Well, if you care about buffer overflow
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> This is great! No, it's sexism.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
So... this isn't sexist? A non-sexist world would have 1:1, or no preference based on gender, declared or perceived.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> Test post, please ignore. If, on the Internet, there is a forum with two posts, one titled "WARNING: READ THIS IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE, PROPERTY, AND THE CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF YOUR SPECIES. ALSO, IMPORTANT TAX INFORMATION."
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> in sync with the stupid content tracker In his own words, he keeps naming things after himself. (Although that's not entirely accurate. Linux was named by the guy who uploaded it to the ftp site; Linus' original name for it w
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Right: The author is saying things so you'll buy his book.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> Why is that interesting? Because I found it interesting.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Interesting that they would allow such an odd domain to be registered in the first place. It seems like a big security hole.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
The listicles are the man source of clicks, both for BuzzFeed itself and the people writing articles like "You won't BELIEVE these TWENTY TERRIBLE ARTICLES BuzzFeed is running RIGHT NOW!" Add a little bit of "Internet: T
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> How would you find (n-1)! given n!? If you want to think a little more: You are given a value v, which you are told is n! for some n, which you are not told. Find a general algorithm to produce (n-1)!. I have an algorithm which, I fear
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> If anyone is a threat to the Establishment, it is Rand Paul. He's not a threat to the part of the Establishment which wants government regulation rolled back so they can pollute and play games with energy prices.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Last link is a PDF.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
"Correctness" is determined by usage, and in this case usage has decided that "Factoid" means small fact. If you use it in any other way, people will misunderstand you, which is an impediment to comprehension. Explaining
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by cbd1984 12y ago
It's been a viable technology ever since IBM started doing it in the 1960s, with VM. Oh, wait. This isn't VM. This is something less-featureful than VM which will, possibly, eventually evolve into VM after a lot of hair-pulling. M
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> but you wouldn't know it from his speech patterns. He was truly a man of his err-ahh, err-ahh.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
How do we know the Coase theorem applies in this case?
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Are you really comparing blocking ads and remix culture to rape? OK, that's it. You're done. You've passed the point of no return in this discussion, and are no longer participating honestly. You're just going for shock
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Pot is usually smoked, so it has an area effect. Alcohol doesn't. This would be less of an issue if smokers were more concerned with secondhand smoke, and if marijuana users in particular weren't so convinced that their drug of ch
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by cbd1984 12y ago
How do these compare to graphviz?
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Pot is usually smoked, so it has an area effect. Alcohol doesn't. This would be less of an issue if smokers were more concerned with secondhand smoke, and if marijuana users in particular weren't so convinced that their drug of ch
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by cbd1984 12y ago
But that doesn't fix the problem that pot usually entails smoking, and smokers are notoriously unaware of secondhand smoke.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
The continuing downvotes with no replies just prove my point.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Good luck with that. We can't even give the creat() system call an 'e' at the end. (Not that it should be used much these days; the 'creat() then open()' idiom is a race condition waiting to happen, so 'open()&
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by cbd1984 12y ago
The original plan, as I recall, was to move everyone to the Parrot VM, such that there would be a Perl 5 compiler, a Perl 6 compiler, a your-language-here compiler, and everyone would be able to share code in an environment that was similar
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by cbd1984 12y ago
The downvotes to this comment seem like they're coming from people who don't want their substance of choice being questioned, which is a classic behavior of someone with a substance abuse problem.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/19970415054031/www.apache.org/inf... > The Apache group was formed around a number of people who provided patch files that had been written for NCSA httpd 1.3. The result after c

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