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by chroma 11y ago
> maybe the OP is asking "for a friend" That's what I initially thought, but it's a throwaway account. There's no risk that the post will be traced back to a real-world person. And a first-person accounting would
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by chroma 11y ago
> …so I don't have to begin the regime of psychoactive drugs that don't guarantee any less liver damage than the alcohol. I can't think of any antidepressant or antipsychotic medication that is as bad for your body as the
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by chroma 11y ago
I'm very confused by this story. > …when he is drinking, he can code things that no one else on staff can do quickly. > I and the others stand and watch in awe as he types so fast we can barely follow. Impressive, but why are you
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by chroma 11y ago
I agree with DiabloD3. Tobold's recommendation is not a good viewing order. These works aren't set in the same continuity, so it doesn't make sense to order them in a way that feels chronological. Here's my preferred ord
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by chroma 11y ago
For such a controversial topic, you're being very cavalier. If you just butt-in with overconfident assertions and fail to cite any sources, you can expect to get downvoted for racism. More importantly: Even if you're right, it c
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by chroma 11y ago
That report was simply not true. If anything, it showed there was no bias based on sex. In addition to MollyR's links, see Slate Star Codex's Before You Get Too Excited About that GitHub Study .[1] 1. http://slatestarc
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by chroma 11y ago
> In the UK, attacks appear to be on the rise. Five hundred people have been injured or threatened with acid since 2012. Talk about burying the lede! That sentence is 80% of the way through the article! I was curious how much of an incre
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by chroma 11y ago
Your Cook quote is DH3 on the disagreement hierarchy.[1] I agree with it, but it doesn't engage with any arguments for or against the court order. > Bill Gates still owns some 13 billions in Microsoft stocks. Do you really think Gat
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by chroma 11y ago
I doubt Gates has any hidden motive behind his statements. He's just saying something he believes to be true, while trying to make sure others understand him. Why would he care about getting sympathy from laymen? He's the richest
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by chroma 11y ago
I thought it was quite clear that Gates was making an analogy for non-technical readers. He doesn't really think of encrypted devices that way. Unfortunately, there's no way Gates can win here. If he uses technical language, journ
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by chroma 11y ago
In the paragraphs I quoted, the point was basically: If Microsoft had tried what Apple actually did, it would have been a disaster for Microsoft. I think that's accurate regardless of whether they were a monopoly or not. > Also malw
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by chroma 11y ago
> For instance, picture Microsoft in 2001, after it got sued for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Imagine what would have happened if they sold Windows XP with an exclusive application store. Imagine that every program must be ap
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by chroma 11y ago
Hmm... odd. Despite a decent number of upvotes, my earlier submission of this link[1] never made it to the front page. I thought it was flagged down by users, but maybe not? Edit (after downvotes): Jeez, I was just curious, not accusing. 1.
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by chroma 11y ago
Considering the submission's score and age, it's far lower than it should be.[1] But I bet that's due to user flags, not moderator action. The moderators here are fine with controversial subjects being discussed. And if they
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Before You Get Too Excited About That GitHub Study…(slatestarcodex.com)
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by chroma 11y ago
> Their illegal behavior weakened the rights all of us depend on. I disagree. It's good to be wary of this sort of thing, but Australia (where this happened) doesn't seem to have a police brutality problem. Had the police done
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by chroma 11y ago
OK, what is the implication here? That a cabal of government officials would deliberately start a war under false pretenses, costing trillions of dollars and thousands of their own countrymen's lives... for what? Profit? They could rak
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by chroma 11y ago
I didn't downvote them, but I find both comments lacking in substance. We live in a police state? There's an Empircal(sic?) Oligarchy? Americans are indoctrinated from birth? These statements seem completely disconnected from real
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by chroma 11y ago
I haven't seen the movie and I don't know what's depicted in it, but I'm pretty sure torture can be morally justified in some cases. Consider a real-life example of torture described in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philo
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by chroma 11y ago
I have some issues with Schiit's accounting. First, that much DC is simply unacceptable, even when removing power from an amp. Amps don't just lose power because they're deliberately turned off. Sometimes people trip over a c
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by chroma 11y ago
Again, consider displays: Similar to music, movies are mastered on high-end gear. Staff use properly-calibrated displays. They often view scenes in dark rooms. Similar to music, movies are mastered so that they won't look terrible on t
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by chroma 11y ago
I was mostly talking about DACs and amplifiers, not headphones. Headphones have to deal with more trade-offs: comfort, size, isolation, and the fact that it's really hard to get them to accurately reproduce sound. Still, so what if cur
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by chroma 11y ago
NwAvGuy has some not-very-nice things to say about Schiit. Basically, that they don't know how to design audio gear. He discovered that one of their amps could damage your headphones. For this warning, he was banned from the Head-Fi fo
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by chroma 11y ago
I think his viewpoint is spot-on. The goal of most audio systems should be to accurately reproduce the original waveform. If you want to add "warmth" or "color" or whatever to the sound, it's better to quantify what
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by chroma 11y ago
Well, yummyfajitas did say, "close to $0", not free. And I think you are forgetting about libraries. They offer Internet access and they are far cheaper than colleges. Edit: In 2011, the cost for all libraries in the US was $11.5
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by chroma 11y ago
The Thiel quote you're referencing is from an interview with the author of this blog post, Tyler Cowen. Thiel was answering an audience member's question about the desirability of life extension[1]: > We accept that we’re all g
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by chroma 11y ago
If you're against involuntary death, shouldn't your top priority be curing aging? The vast majority of deaths on this planet are due to age-related illnesses. Not accidents, not violence, and certainly not environmental catastroph
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by chroma 11y ago
I use this silly example to help people read the 2nd amendment: "The gestation period of some species of opossum being seven months, the right of the people to speak freely shall not be infringed." Even if there isn't a speci
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by chroma 11y ago
> Imagine if they had oil and how fast we'd invade before they even had their first scientist write the first formulas for nuclear power. > Imagine if they were next to Israel, how fast we'd sell them the jets and bombs to t
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by chroma 11y ago
> Posting a comment not aligned with the majority opinion carries a risk of at most -4 points. I assert that downvotes more often correlate with disagreement than failure to abide by the standards of discourse. Since the penalty is limit

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