darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
So in your system, if I pay an employee to climb an unsafe ladder, OSHA has no right to slap me for that because the employee consented? That sounds awful. There would be many preventable deaths and injuries under a system that neuters OS
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> " Young gamers are getting so used to it " Young consumers of all sorts are participants in a war many of them don't even realize exists. A war in which their opposition are marketing professionals, trained in psycho
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If a three year old came into your hardware store waving his mother's credit card and assured the staff that he had parental permission to buy a chainsaw, would you fire the employee that sold him that chainsaw? Or would you, like the
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It's immoral to exploit children under any circumstances, even (especially!) when the child has neglectful or careless parents.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It's astonishing that the developers of games like this can sleep at night. Do they lie to themselves and pretend all the kids spending thousands of dollars are the children of Saudi royals or something? They must know that they&#x
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by darkpuma 7y ago
You seem entirely too gleeful about users' privacy getting violated. Very far from "a win for everybody" .
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I wish this sense of German/European sensibleness w.r.t. things digital could be transplanted into America. I'm really quite jealous of it.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I don't think that article is giving you a balanced overview of the situation in Philadelphia. Specifically it says nothing of Major Nutter at all and the work he and the Philadelphia police did to clean up the city and make it safer
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by darkpuma 7y ago
You're not alone. From my perspective, the value of google search results has been dropping for years. And the quality of their search results seems to be dropping in a way I suspect is profitable for google. Most of the results I
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> " Original sin implies a failure" Consider that term in it's original context, and the size of the human population. It's clear that "original sin" does not imply failure to thrive.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I remember CRT touchscreens being used as cash registers in the late 90s. It's true, touch was nothing new. What was new was the combination of capacitive touch and a slick responsive UI. Previous systems had unresponsive GUIs o
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Nitpicks aside, if Blackberry preceded the iphone only in America, it still preceded the iphone. Note that I never claimed that predecessors to the iphone, with more functionality than the iphone, were also more commercially successful in
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I had that happen to me when I was a student living in west philly, also once in Kensington and once in Camden. The later two are/were particularly notorious, though my neighborhood in west philly wasn't very nice either. I&#x27
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Refined yes, featureful no.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
No doubt, I was amazed when I first got my hands on one. The iphone got things right that had never been gotten before. But the fact remains that on the day it launched, there were other smartphones on the market that had more features.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In an age before android or iphones, blackberry ruled the world. The iphone as it was released was a functional regression for blackberry power users. And it didn't catch on with that demographic until Apple iterated on the ipho
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That's revisionist. People tend to forget that when the iphone was released it had no appstore and Apple was telling people to develop webapps. This was less functional than existing offerings on the market, but it sure looked and
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Unicode filenames becomes a true bundle of joy when you're dealing with ideologically mixed systems like a unix client and unix server, but with samba in the middle. Boy oh boy do I love that.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
How are you going to "remove the tipping option"? Are you going to chase me down the sidewalk to return the cash I leave on the table for your employee? You'll look awfully foolish doing that, and I don't think your
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I think the hangup people have is when they see apparent orchestration, groups of people making moves that seem coordinated, they assume that conspiracy must be the explanation. But we know from nature that this needn't be the case.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I'm not sure, it could be true. I'm two degrees away from gun violence although I never met the victim (friend of a friend was accidentally shot in the ankle by a cop during a broad daylight robbery of a store he was in. The
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Do you have data to that effect? What you're saying runs contrary to the data I've seen (e.g. https://news.gallup.com/poll/234863/estimate-lgbt-population... ) and it doesn't matter how elegant a t
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Mir, the Soyuz fleet and the Salyut stations were operating at sea level pressure too. I'm not sure how influential that was in the Shuttle's design, but it certainly simplified docking the Shuttle to Mir. The pressure differen
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Maybe you won't, but other people do. Dropbox and similar services have eaten away at the practice, but a lot of people still walk around with flash drives, partition table untouched since they bought it, with all their personal and
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by darkpuma 7y ago
exFAT is also case insensitive, at least in some implementations.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Some MacOS installations are case sensitive, others are not. Sometimes you find software that was written and tested on the case insensitive version that fails on case-sensitive filesystems. Case insensitive filesystems made more sense de
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Case-insensitive filesystems cause so much trouble, one could almost mistakenly conclude that causing trouble is their raison d'être.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If all the world is six degrees or less from everybody else, then we could perhaps say people have an average of 45 or so first degree connections to other people (45^6 == population of the world, approximately .) So at two degrees, ther
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Maybe it reflects poorly on my character, but when I was a kid I and several other "gifted" kids turned receiving undue praise into a sport. We'd compete to find the laziest way (without lying) to receive praise specificall
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Soyuz 11. It wasn't an explosive decompression per se , merely a rapid decompression, but no less lethal to a crew without oxygen masks. Decompression can be explosive, but in space you'd only be dropping from 1 atmosphere to 0

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