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by derleth 14y ago
People online, in my experience.
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> the only people who worry that they're going to look like kids for enjoying it are kids Exactly. Well, adolescents, really: People who are insulted by being considered childish because they still think they are and they don't want t
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by derleth 14y ago
> My gut is that two parallel economies is an unstable situation Parallel economies are not only inevitable, they can be long-term stable whenever you can't deal in some (desirable) goods in the legitimate economy. Black markets are ver
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by derleth 14y ago
How disenfranchised are convicts in Australia after their time has been served? Can they find a job? Can they live wherever they want? Can they find a good job? Can they vote? It isn't always about the time in prison; the time after pri
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Besides, if it wasn't violating privacy, the numbers are worthless because they have no way of knowing that each number represents a user; someone could be spamming them with false numbers and, without being able to weed the random ones fro
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by derleth 14y ago
Yes, and that's because it's opt-in, the way respectful software is. Malware is opt-out for a reason. Don't be malware.
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Really, all this needs to be opt-in only. That's the only way to proceed that's respectful of users and not redolent of the stench of malware.
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Demanding opt-out for something like this is a broken way of looking at it and is, fundamentally, sleazy. Opt-in is the only justifiable strategy.
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by derleth 14y ago
> needing to counter homeopathy every single time You're misunderstanding me: I'm not countering homeopathy, I'm countering your complete misunderstanding of the fancy French phrase you insist on throwing around.
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> And what print with any meaning at all would not "be a thought" in ordinary parlance? Exactly my point.
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> You’ll need to convince me that “e^ipi = -1” is actually a “thought" Then what is it?
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So? If Comcast does it, what are they going to do?
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> It seems to me that the 'Jobsian' management style has some inherent boundaries in how large such an organisation can get. I'm waiting for the new CEO to make a Secret Speech denouncing the Cult of Personality and ushering in a new po
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by derleth 14y ago
> Usenet also didn't have a good way to deal with spam Nobody really does. The only way you can keep a channel spam-free is to have humans spend time monitoring it to keep the spam out, which is a huge cost asymmetry in favor of the spa
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Ham radio could be shut down by FCC fiat tomorrow and hams everywhere in the country would go silent. They're incapable of operating without broadcasting their positions. That is government control. Ham radio is many things, but an anarch
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by derleth 14y ago
A correct observation, one supported by evidence, is that using the dialect correlates with being poor. Making the jump from that to "illegal commerce" was all you, and that was bigoted, especially since AAVE is strongly associated with A
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by derleth 14y ago
> idées reçues [snip] anti-homeopathy No, this doesn't fit: Being opposed to homeopathy isn't an "automatic thought or platitude" and it certainly isn't "self-contradictory". It's an acknowledgement of basic science. Grouping it in with
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by derleth 14y ago
> I think that it isn't well regarded as a language because at root it is simply an adaption of another language (English). As Italian is simply an adaption of Latin. So, was Dante writing bad Latin or good Florentine? > I certainly
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by derleth 14y ago
> Yes, the double-negative construct exists in other languages. It doesn't exist in English. Are you insisting Shakespeare didn't speak English? > I never was nor never will be. -- Richard III http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2
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by derleth 14y ago
> I don't think there are any rules to "AAVE" either Well, then you're wrong on a simple, factual level. It's like you not thinking the atomic number of oxygen is eight: It is, and it will be, regardless of what the ignorant think.
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by derleth 14y ago
> this article does not advocate AAVE speakers should not be taught SAE If he actually understood this, his righteous indignation would be gone and then where would he be?
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by derleth 14y ago
> Eh, unless you absolutely need the addressable memory, there's no real reason to move a legacy codebase to native 64-bit unless the software absolutely needs the RAM. Unless it can take advantage of the extra opcodes that are only ava
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by derleth 14y ago
> A browser's Javascript VM typically doesn't run in ring 0, unless you've got it badly wrong. MSIE is an integral part of Windows. Microsoft has always said so.
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by derleth 14y ago
Initially, I thought it was the transition to 32-bit-clean code in the 68k line, but that was more of a 24-to-32 transition, and it only affected pointers: http://lowendmac.com/trouble/32bit.shtml
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> This is why fonts are considered system components - they are code, not data, executing on a VM. Like Javascript in a web page?
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It reminds me of how people used to think all filesystems needed to be explicitly defragmented because of design flaws in FAT, which was designed for floppies (and wasn't especially well-designed even at that). http://geekblog.oneandoneis2
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by derleth 14y ago
> does anyone know if you can just ask them if they are a cop; with them having to respond truthfully? Of course police can lie about being police officers. Another person kind-of answered already, but this apparently needs to be stated
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> It's more disheartening that this is what the police are spending their time doing. There seriously isn't anything more important they could be working on? You can use the same argument when you see a police officer working burglary i
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Site is: Being hosted on aforementioned TI-99/4A
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> I once tried to sell charity on the street for a single day. This sentence intrigues me. Were you working for a specific charitable organization or were you out there trying to sell one of the cardinal virtues as an abstract concept?

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