darkpuma

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by darkpuma 8y ago
It's only a matter of time before flat earth becomes illegal too. Flat earth has been around for as long as the internet, but in the past year or so the amount of unbridled anger it causes has been increasing disturbing. The &qu
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "decided to move the engines forward making the aircraft dynamically unstable," I don't believe that's true. Per Mentour Pilot, the 737 MAX and the 737 NG are both very stable aircraft that are not prone to stal
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by darkpuma 8y ago
It seems a bit unlikely to me that an airline like South West, that only flies 737s, would sooner buy Airbus planes than non-737 Boeing planes. I mean, stranger things have certainly happened, but it doesn't seem like the kind of exi
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by darkpuma 8y ago
That's still greedy assholes at work. rdiddly didn't specify that the greedy assholes involved are all Boeing executives; that airline executives have clean hands. And to VBprogrammer's point, airliners making pilots pay
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I think you probaby struck a raw nerve with that dog issue in particular. Some people have family and dogs, but other people have no family (or not the one they want) and use dogs as surrogates. Pointing out the difference between family
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "What's different is that at low speed, high thrust, and high angle of attack, the elevator of the MAX does not always have enough pitch moment to reduce the angle of attack." It's my understanding that for the 73
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "A stick pusher, or a pilot pushing forward on the stick is not enough for the aerodynamics of the 737 MAX in certain circumstances. The position of the engines means the thrust tends to push the nose up, and at low speed, the el
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by darkpuma 8y ago
As I understand it, lambda calculus is strictly functional. I also think the relationship between s-expressions and lambda calculus is tenuous at best. If anything, it's s-expressions and lambda calculus that are orthogonal. You
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "Lisps are unreasonably effective because they have lambda calculus behind them." I don't really buy that. CL remains unreasonably effective even when used by somebody using it in an imperative manner. And I think t
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I think switching once you're an established swimmer is going to be virtually impossible, at least if you want to be competitive. I think it's something that should be trained as early as possible. If any established Olympic sw
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "in a 500+ race, there are big debates about whether to breathe every 2 or 3 strokes." It seems to me that debate is less about lung capacity and more about breathing on one side or two (e.g. bilateral breathing.) For me i
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by darkpuma 8y ago
It's not at all clear to me how implicit joins could have the same expressive power as explicit joins. How could the system infer if you wanted a LEFT JOIN, INNER JOIN, etc?
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Is DeCSS not illegal under the DMCA? Those DRM'd DVDs were no less physical than DRM-less audio CDs.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> Isn't it technically a crime though? Ten years ago, so was smoking dope.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "DRM-stripping is inherently unreliable, by definition." Which definition is that? I've owned an old model 'Kindle Keyboard' for many years. The only thing needed to strip DRM from those ebooks is to type
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by darkpuma 8y ago
The desire to protect birds in America and Canada from being turned into hats is what induced the creation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 , which was a sufficiently bold law to be (unsuccessfully) challenged in the supreme court.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Komodo dragons having filthy saliva that causes deadly infections is a myth. In actual fact they have venomous saliva, which functions as an anti-coagulant (whether it counts as a venom seems to be disputed, but the anti-coagulant proper
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Progress on legislating reform of the advertising industry has stalled. It remains perfectly legal for Coca Cola to suggest to an emotionally vulnerable child that drinking addictive sugar water will improve their social life. That&#x2
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by darkpuma 8y ago
More aggressive whitelisting is warranted in my opinion. I recommend using uMatrix to block all javascript by default, including first party. Built your whitelist over time by enabling only that which is necessary to read the content y
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Even in traditional print magazines you find abusive and emotionally manipulative advertisements from internationally known corporations, with their recognizable brands proudly announced on the ad. For instance ads that gaslight the read
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Fear Of Missing Out. Many people feel compelled to remain on Facebook because they're afraid of missing out on events that get scheduled through Facebook. But here is what I discovered: people who like you will go out of their way to
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "Of course, platforms like Itch don't have cloud saves. But Steam's DRM isn't essential for cloud saves," To this point, GOG supports cloud saves.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Her story is completely nonsensical, she's an awful liar. Or, is pretending to be an awful liar. Perhaps she's clever and is pretending to be a hapless rube, in an effort to diminish her perceived culpability. With spy shit li
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by darkpuma 8y ago
The last US president to take that matter seriously was JFK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel#US_...
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by darkpuma 8y ago
If the user can't play videos from Netflix, then they are left with an uncomfortable subset of 'FANG' .
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> "And modified Chromium browser, e.g. Firefox?" (Firefox is not a chromium derivative.)
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I didn't say that I believe it's being used maliciously. I pointed out that "Second, Mozilla seems to use telemetry data responsibly and well." is an assumption that can't be justified by observing publicized use
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He's also failing to acknowledge that using telemetry in a constructive way does not preclude using that telemetry in a malicious way as well.
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All the more reason to remove barriers to access of real news.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Speaking of "accredited journalist" and Glenn Greenwald, how does Glenn Greenwald demonstrate his accreditation to the Apple Store employees? What sort of documentation would Greenwald be asked to present that demonstrates to the

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