cowardlydragon

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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Yes they are hard at work: - destroy the housing market... check - ruin higher education... check - destroy democracy ... check - bankrupt social security and medicare... in progress, but basically a foregone conclusion - destroy all jobs f
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Are these the CRISPR based ones or a different flavor of TCell engineering?
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
No charging network for long distance. It's currently Tesla's big differentiator over GM and any other electric company.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
HOLY SHIT. So the spaniards were slaving people into plantations, where they'd die at a 90% rate from European disease, and then just round up more people for direct exposure? That is worse than a concentration camp.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
The ads are getting ridiculous. The worst is when I go to watch a youtube for an ad (a movie trailer) and get ads for that.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
It magically gets the free hydrogen from a bearded white man in the sky... Then you add platinum which you get from the contract with the devil.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
The Internet of Things is really an Internet of Surveillance Devices....
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
I have parents in Bloomington, Indiana. It's a surprisingly vibrant town with restaurants and culture, arguably on equal footing with the more populous Indianapolis, and much much greater than surrounding communitites. Oh, right, and i
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
In Minnesota, the Somali immigrants allegedly never saw autism until they came here, and they get a lot of it now. They call it the "Minnesota Disease". I also once read that Cable television penetration rates were correlated with
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Only 30% cheaper? I once heard a dollar a caret from one of the startups a decade ago...
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
I could argue almost all widespread application if technology in human history has been fairly irresponsible
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
"A four hour commute each way"?
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Read the CAP theorem, or stick to your single node.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
What does it matter anyway? Trump is coming to town. That was one of the first things he was going to nuke anyway..
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
But but but it's FUNCTIONAL, and turing-complete!!! // yes I understand the use cases of functional code
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
XPath is fantastic, although not everything is relevant to non-XML docs. But in general, JSON, XML, S-expressions, yaml, HTML, and many data interchange programs are all 95% the same hierarchical data structure. I wanted to make a cross-dat
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
... yes ...
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
John Oliver gave them a shoutout on the last show of the year. They will be sorely needed...
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
There was a study of addicted vietnam vets where they compared the addiction rate after returning home (a major environmental change) And I believe the vast majority stopped using, so environment has some reinforcing aspect to addiction.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
#1 rule when talking to gamblers: They only talk about when they win.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
That benchmark stinks of in-memory vs persisted | IO starvation. What workload in cassandra has no scaling with more nodes?
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
A biotech arms race with the US? That's laughable after this election.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Oh, they gave them up because they were too effective on subs in training? This is a ludicrous article. NATO must have these ready and waiting.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
What is the big-O of rolling back bullshit viral posts? The viral posts get to spread organically, at a rate through the social graph equal to the appeal chance. However, to refute it, you must first research the response with sufficient ve
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Women aren't the demographic with a suicide problem in that age range... But my compassion is gone after the election.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
The media normalized mainstream expressions of hate, giving them hourly implicit approval and mainstream normalcy, because it was giving them ratings and ads. Every historian I know sees frightening parallels between Trump and various fasci
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
So many legal lawyers here. If the numerical representation of content can be arbitrarily shifted via encoding, encryption, or masking, how can anything be copyrightable? DRM itself encrypts and morphs the numerical representation, thus obs
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
What happens when the world stops buying our debt
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
That is PC thinking. Macbook PROs are for PROfessionals. Multiple VMs. Big fast SSDs. Many cores. Better displays.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Monitors: just buy a quad HD TV for 40-55" for five hundred bucks.

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