derleth

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by derleth 13y ago
The helicopter in Pakistan was hardly stealthy. Someone tweeted about it as it was flying overhead.
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by derleth 13y ago
You're being dishonest. That isn't what 'conspiracy theory' means and you know it. Noun phrases aren't defined by taking their words one by one; they have to be understood as a unit.
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by derleth 13y ago
As an experienced Internet denizen who has seen dozens of conspiracy theories play out, the person I'm responding to is playing a fool's game and will be shouted down and ignored by everyone who wants a neat little conspiratorial
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by derleth 13y ago
Unions are corporations, too. If unions protect workers from management, who protects workers from unions?
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by derleth 13y ago
> An analogy would be breaking down the tasks performed by a doctor into chunks that could be done in isolation by minimum wage workers. Which would be amazingly hard for all the same reasons writing a program to replace a doctor would b
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by derleth 13y ago
But for the majority without an SSD, Chrome is a lot slower.
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by derleth 13y ago
Elsewhere it is posted when people begin school in the US. The rest is arithmetic.
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by derleth 13y ago
Well, that and Usenet. And TOR. And I2P. And Freenet. And GNUnet. And eDonkey. And so on...
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by derleth 13y ago
'Separate but equal' is never actually equal.
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by derleth 13y ago
Or they never went to school in the first place. Similarly, the average high schooler was better back then because the average person stopped their education at the eighth grade, if not sooner. (Note to non-Americans: In the US, high scho
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by derleth 13y ago
If you're threatened by people being able to make free websites, you need to re-evaluate your life.
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by derleth 13y ago
Reminds me more of Dutch Schultz: http://www.feastofhateandfear.com/archives/dutch.html
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by derleth 13y ago
It's Bed, Bath, and Beyond conspiring to become the biggest economy on Earth.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Not enough people know this, but when you say "etc" out loud in reference to the directory, it is supposed to sound like "etsy". Says you. I say 'ek' and my pronunciation is just as valid. > You can ign
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by derleth 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass-and-straightedge_constr... Things you can't do with this tool: > Squaring the circle: Drawing a square the same area as a given circle. > Doubling the cube: Drawing a cub
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by derleth 13y ago
> The brass tax Or the brass tacks, even: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/get-down-to-brass-tacks.h... Sadly, English isn't as logical as Lua.
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by derleth 13y ago
My old account: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=chbarts
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by derleth 13y ago
Just for fun, what is 0/0? Mathematicians often assign definitions to things that are undefined in other contexts to make things more self-consistent. The fact there is a good case to be made that c/0 is undefined for all c doesn&
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by derleth 13y ago
The biggest thing I'd like to see more often are usable example applications. Not just snippets of example code, but working applications which show off some aspect of what your library or tool is intended to do in a complete form. And
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by derleth 13y ago
> Wikileaks is not new. We used to have a little thing called 'investigative journalism', We still do. And, historically, it never got us anything as important as cablegate. > Technology does not motivate moral growth. Techn
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by derleth 13y ago
> Now shut up and believe what you're told. Nobody is saying this. What they're saying is "apply the same level of skepticism to your pet theories as you do to consensus reality", which is something conspiracy theoris
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by derleth 13y ago
It's "reduce, reuse, recycle" because they're in descending order of importance. That is, reducing is better than reusing, which is better than recycling.
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by derleth 13y ago
Implying we should 'fix' Eternal September is pretty close to implying we should keep important technology out of the hands of those the current users deem unworthy. That prevents both spam and the Arab Spring, both 4chan and Wiki
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by derleth 13y ago
Why? It's minimalism, isn't it?
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by derleth 13y ago
You know your philosophy has made it when it's being misunderstood on the Internet.
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by derleth 13y ago
> perhaps I'll automate mailing randomly chosen chunks of 1984 and Brave New World to randomly chosen public keys/emails from public keyservers Repurpose Sircam to do this, perhaps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by derleth 13y ago
> a ticking timebomb that presents an existential threat to modern society. If it gets bad enough, outpatient antibiotics use will be a thing of the past. Need antibiotics? You're staying in a facility where someone will monitor you
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by derleth 13y ago
> At least part of the answer is to use antibiotics less, and to do more to ensure that when they are used, the full course is used. If it gets bad enough, outpatient antibiotics use will be a thing of the past. Need antibiotics? You&#x2
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by derleth 13y ago
How many of those languages contain words you understand?
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by derleth 13y ago
Yes, the abstract is a horrible tool, isn't it?

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