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by checktheorder 7y ago
>What is this article about, anyway? It's about 12000 words long.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>This reminds me of Superman and General Zod in the "Man of Steel" film. In that Zack Snyder was fundamentally incapable of focusing on one thing at a time, and decided to metaphorically barf up every half-baked idea simultaneo
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Heck, it's still a problem with direct connections. Take the average Windows PC. Take the average Android phone. Take a USB cable. Plug them in together. Now copy a few thousand MP3s from the PC to the phone using nothing but stock Exp
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>Surprised nobody has yet mentioned Douglas Adams' "Wonko the Sane," who built an asylum turned inside out to house the whole world. Many comedians would qualify as this as well. I'm also thinking of the Terry Pratche
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>You're missing the point: There's basically a point sometime in the 2020s when an electric vehicle becomes cheaper than a gas car. We just don't know that date yet. I think a case could be made for us already being at tha
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>“It’s just fun,” he said of Tumblr. “We’re not going to change any of that.” English translation: "We are hell-bent on making sure not to steal bdsmlr's thunder and maintain tumblr's death-spiral."
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>And now Psychedlic Warlord of the Cult of Dead Cow is running for President Me, two minutes ago: "Oh, I bet he's some oddball fringe candidate who'll never get any press attention." Me, after a quick google search: &
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>they retired by machine-gunning the BRIT Award audience (with blanks) I thought you were joking. Holy cow. (And holy chao.) https://youtu.be/h_I0b05zpJ4?t=160
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>I own a rare collector car with a three-digit VIN. This has caused endless hassles at the DMV as well as the insurance office. I have a similar problem with my own identity. I was born in Canada's smallest province, PEI, and now li
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by checktheorder 7y ago
One of my favourite episodes of Deep Space Nine, "Little Green Men", involved Quark, Nog, and Rom accidentally traveling back in time to 1947 Earth, crash-landing in Roswell, and being captured by the US military. There's a w
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by checktheorder 7y ago
A hundred thousand years from now, when the Terran Empire's Dyson Swarms are ubiquitous throughout the Orion Arm, the relativistic generation-ships of the Andromeda Colonization Fleet have set out on their multi-million-year journey ac
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>It's not. I'm just not going to accept authoritative arguments on security, sorry. Wrong, you already do. You either don't realize it, or you're being disingenuous about it. Did you write 100% of the code of the web
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by checktheorder 7y ago
This is incoherent FUD.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I'm glad you picked up on that, because yes, I DO trust Signal more than Telegram. I trust Signal and distrust Telegram for many solid technical reasons. If you want to misinterpret that as "appeal to authority", then go nuts
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Oh, please. If Mossad really wants my messages, they're not going to give up at the "Oh no, he uses Signal!" step. They're going to go full knee-wrench if they have to. And considering they have a habit of forging my c
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>Signal will also lose all your messaging history and kick you out of all your group conversations if your phone breaks or you lose it. It also has no usable automated backup solution or sync. Depending on one's threat model, this c
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I would bet that it's easier to design an orbital or moon-based structure (depending on whether production benefits from or suffers from microgravity) that's heavily shielded with lead, than it would be to create a deep-space-clas
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>Why is it important that the FBI can access that person’s phone? To establish legal precedent.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
It may not be the microgravity that's the major help, but the hard vacuum. Deep space is the biggest, best clean room there could ever be.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I was thinking it might be a domestic Canadian flight. The high average price and high variability fit the standard pattern for our domestic flights as well.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Now there's a subject line that I'm very happy to see didn't link to a Simone Giertz video.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>A) Linus won't stablize kernel ABI Yes, but this is for very good reasons. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>Or are you saying you aren’t going to use anything new by them? That is probably the case and I misunderstood. Basically, yes. I don't even make the effort to log in to use any of their services, except for the Google account on my
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I've basically given up on Google and their corporate ADHD. I use Android because it's the only phone OS that allows for easy permanent sideloading while also having a healthy native app ecosystem, and I'll use search and map
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>Without sustained support from NSF, DOE, and NIH, there is no way that fundamental research could move forward the way it has in the post-war United States. One of my favourite scientists of all-time is Harrison Brown. He was most known
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I thought Google was developing Fuschia because some of their ambitious junior project managers need to appear to be working on Something Big And New to get a promotion, leaving their project to turn into Something Half-Assed And Cancelled
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by checktheorder 7y ago
You could have cut that sentence down to the first three words and I still would have wholeheartedly agreed with you. There is no justification for that design choice, in any circumstance.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
It's much the same for us Canadian accounting grads. Law classes are standard in any reputable accounting undergrad program, and mandatory for CPA accreditation (as it was in the CGA, CA, and CMA before the CPA merger). It's not s
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by checktheorder 7y ago
The three prairie provinces have almost 20% of the seats in the HoC, and rural ridings in those provinces have disproportionately more MPs than in urban ridings. Western farming communities are not an insignificant voting bloc on the federa
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by checktheorder 7y ago
In 2014, the federal governing party in Canada was the Conservative Party, renowned for both their extreme hostility to science-based environmental policy, and their friendliness to large businesses in the prairie provinces. No-one with any

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