darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
If everybody I send messages to have decided to install the facebook app on their phones, then the decision is taken out of my hands. Facebook will receive and store messages that I wrote, even though Facebook and I do not have a consensua
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It does work. Not on you I suppose, but plenty of people have stopped using facebook because other people persuaded them to stop. In fact, I wager telling people about facebook being crap works a lot more than telling people to stop compl
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Amusingly, Morskoi Boy/Sea Battle was one of the games in the arcade aboard Typhoon class SSBNs. A submarine game, on a submarine.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
We'll soon find out. China is reportedly spending quite a lot of money trying out LFTR reactors.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "The weird thing with propaganda is that it can often be completely true in each part but represent a lie in totality." Propaganda can also straight up tell the truth. Propaganda, contrary to the impression given to many
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> California's wiretapping law is a "two-party consent" law. California makes it a crime to record or eavesdrop on any confidential communication, including a private conversation or telephone call, without the consent of
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Do you think it is?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Do you have a link to anything he's written about this? It sounds interesting.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Maybe he would have, maybe he wouldn't have. We'll never know. We'll certainly never know if Jefferson would have thought the wholesale slaughter of jews to be an appropriate topic to broach when discussing the relative me
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Of course there is. What else would you call a company store in a remote logging camp? When the market is small, a monopoly can be small.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That's what I figured. Not all of us are American sycophants, so yes, more than the word and reputation of the American military is needed.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
English is fluid like the tides are fluid. The chance that somebody can dictate the direction of that tide is very slim.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Depends on the state. In Washington(state) riding a bike while drunk is legal. The police can stop you an offer you a ride to your destination. If the drunk cyclist declines the offer, they're free to go unless the officer believe
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Yeah, 26 minute turnaround for coffee is pretty damn shit, even by starbucks standards, but I expect the novelty of getting coffee delivered is sufficient to keep something this ridiculous on the market.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
One man trying to dictate the direction of a language used by a billion people... that's just not going to happen. Not that I don't sympathize. I think that "it's" should be the possessive form of 'it',
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Is there evidence that you are aware of?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I mean, a media stunt can be done for charity rather than personal gain, but I'll trust your judge of their character.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Media stunt to promote the album? Is there any third party confirmation of this extortion plot?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "VR helmets," AR, not VR, right? Pretty sure they were doing that in helicopters years ago. Doesn't the Apache have a 30mm autocannon slaved to the pilot's helmet display, such that it shoots where the pilot l
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by darkpuma 7y ago
There are two conflicting claims floating around in this thread: > "And just moves the costs elsewhere" / "the good old 'bus them out of town, let them be someone else's problem' non-solution."
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In my social circle the idea that we're already living in a cyberpunk dystopia is becoming increasingly popular.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Would the Yemeni rather fight Saudis armed with American weapons, or Saudis armed with Russian weapons?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "The existence of shadow profiles are pure speculation" Zuckerberg admitted to congress that Facebook collects data on people who are not signed up for facebook (but implausibly denied being familiar with the term 'sha
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Happ ier is relative; living next to a tent city is still awful, even if there aren't any associated burglaries.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I don't think it should be assumed that the homelessness is caused by the addiction, rather than both being comorbid to some third condition. Certainly some homelessness is caused by addiction, but for some a mental illness could be t
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by darkpuma 7y ago
My calculus is predicated on the assumption of a materialistic mind and no afterlife (e.g. there is no experience of being dead, only experiences of dying.) If those assumptions are wrong, then I think there is no firm ground on which to
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Yeah, when it comes to cross platform stuff I'm pretty forgiving with this sort of thing. Finder botching it sends me up a wall though. It's probably only a few lines of code at most to fix it, but Finder is closed source so I
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I think there are three factors: 1) How much damage a brain can take before it's incapable of experiencing. 2) How fast a brain can have an experience. 3) How long it would take for a supersonic shotgun slug to reach point 1. I'm
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Symlinks in general suck on OSX. Try symlinking a file from an NFS mount onto your desktop and see if you get a thumbnail for it in Finder. In Finder, you won't. Now you might think, "well that's NFS, it's probably
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Gallows are higher impact than a guillotine (the body is accelerated by gravity, then rapidly decelerated by the rope.) So I don't think it's totally inconceivable that gallows might render somebody unconscious faster than a gui

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