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by derleth 13y ago
> When you buy a personal Google Fiber plan, you're not paying for an unmetered 1Gbps upstream/downstream fiber connection. You're paying for an unmetered 1Gbps upstream/downstream connection for personal use. "W
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by derleth 13y ago
Blink's removal makes the Web less likely to make people sick. Epileptics have a terrible time with flashing things.
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by derleth 13y ago
Do you really not like epileptics?
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by derleth 13y ago
> The fact it's possible at all means it's not worth it. So having a feature which is widely agreed to be impossible to use tastefully is worth possible headaches and seizures in some people?
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by derleth 13y ago
Blink can cause epileptic seizures.
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by derleth 13y ago
The fact it's possible at all means it's not worth it.
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by derleth 13y ago
Epileptics don't need to use the Web anyway. /s
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by derleth 13y ago
> In order for that to work you would need nearly 99% of the population or more to agree to that punishment and to actively participate. Which is a lot more than required in a democracy or pretty much any system. But it has happened in t
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by derleth 13y ago
> Windows has just as many "any WM," No. It doesn't. Windows has one GUI and various themes for it; Ubuntu has multiple GUIs. That's what a WM is in Linux terms: A whole new GUI that sits on top of very basic graphica
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by derleth 13y ago
slashdot.org is for profit
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by derleth 13y ago
You can run any WM Linux has on Ubuntu. I've heard good things about evilwm and have personally used ratpoison. They're both in the repository I'm sure.
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by derleth 13y ago
First, boycotts are a use of force. Everyone ganging up on someone to boycott them (shunning, as it used to be called, or making them an outlaw) is one of the oldest, cruelest forms of punishment, and we're well shut of it now. Putting
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by derleth 13y ago
But without a state, governments are worthless. They can't do anything, as we've seen time and again.
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by derleth 13y ago
Religion (by way of magical thinking) is one of the things that defines humanity. We have evidence of it even in Neanderthal sites, given that we find them in caves, with their feet pointed east more often than not, with flower pollen on th
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by derleth 13y ago
> Anything a government could do, could in theory be done by a voluntary system if enough people agreed it was a good idea or it was a benefit to them to do so. And we call that system a government. Seriously. Every time an anarchist ser
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by derleth 13y ago
> emergency care was available during all of the strikes. Interesting. Have there been strikes which made emergency care unavailable?
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by derleth 13y ago
If it's so wonderful, why hasn't it happened yet?
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by derleth 13y ago
> If we allowed complete freedom of contract, law could be privatized, to our common benefit. This Anarcho-Capitalist ideal has never come to pass in any scenario where it could have happened: That is, there have been multiple scenarios
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by derleth 13y ago
Common Lisp is always fully typed, in that every object knows its type and the implementation won't allow actions which violate the type signatures involved. C, with casts, is a lot closer to being optionally typed.
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by derleth 13y ago
Except we have no evidence to cast doubt on them, so Occam's Razor says we shouldn't.
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by derleth 13y ago
"We don't know, therefore aliens" is, perhaps, not the most solid of logical chains.
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by derleth 13y ago
The Bomb Squid is one member of the Suicide Squid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squiddy_Awards http://knowyourmeme.com/forums/meme-research/topics/9343-sui... http://everythin
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by derleth 13y ago
> We have only found out few years ago, that the official doctrine of the Soviets was to nuke my country(Poland) to hell to make it impossible for any forces from the West to move using the shortest path to Russia. Which is the 'buf
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by derleth 13y ago
Extended ASCII is not ASCII. There is ASCII, which has no accented characters, and there are other character encodings based on ASCII, which often do. Those other character encodings are not ASCII.
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by derleth 13y ago
You're proving his point, you know.
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by derleth 13y ago
> cathereres(not sure the word in english) 'Catheters' is the word in English.
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by derleth 13y ago
Congratulations. You're smart enough to abuse a position of some minor trust. That's never been done before. The fact your draw a nonsensical conclusion from it just makes the moment that much more special.
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by derleth 13y ago
> They just never free memory and deliberately leak it until they exit Which is a great way to kill that process, or arbitrary processes, when a previously well-behaved program is run on a system that's a bit strapped for RAM at t
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by derleth 13y ago
And yet the Internet keeps going. Well, it kind of puts this 'hijacking' into perspective.
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by derleth 13y ago
AS 7007 all over again? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1997-04/msg00444.ht... http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb&

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