derleth

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by derleth 13y ago
> The phone home to provide statistics What are they doing with those statistics? What could they do with them in the future? What could they be forced to do with them? If it's so harmless, why isn't it opt-in? > Every singl
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by derleth 13y ago
So that's the standard we want to hold them to? Just a little better than Google? Why isn't it opt-in?
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by derleth 13y ago
If that's the best way you have to promote your site, it must not be very useful.
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by derleth 13y ago
CM phones home by default. There's a word for software like that: Malware. The Play Store shouldn't have malware.
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by derleth 13y ago
And, of course, CM still phones home by default, which is malware behavior, and not something we need to condone.
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by derleth 13y ago
There is no inconsistency here. Everyone thinks plagiarism is wrong.
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by derleth 13y ago
Try as you may, there's no inconsistency here. Everyone thinks plagiarism is wrong.
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by derleth 13y ago
Everyone thinks plagiarism is wrong.
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by derleth 13y ago
OK, you can stop spamming now.
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by derleth 13y ago
I think the idea was that the presence of ads indicates the advertisers had influence on content, which isn't true for a lot of websites which run ads.
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by derleth 13y ago
Except these are all well outside the ambit of what programmers usually think of as text processing, so they won't try to solve them using the same tools. More to the point, they sound hard , so people won't be so quick to claim
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by derleth 13y ago
AS/400 isn't mainframe. It's midrange; smaller than a mainframe, and not as flexible.
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by derleth 13y ago
> So the new System/360 mainframe line would run the also brand-new OS/360. Bad example. Really bad example: Not even IBM could standardize on a single OS for the System/360. The System/360 went through a few OS ite
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by derleth 13y ago
I like them because they don't guide thought: They're abstract names for abstract concepts. They don't impose any interpretation on the ideas, they simply present them for what they are. Having to break down a less-useful c
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by derleth 13y ago
> Wasn't that the exact same argument given to the expertise of priests and medieval scholars? This is the "Experts were wrong before" dodge, which conveniently ignores how often individuals are wrong. http://ra
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by derleth 13y ago
> read from various sources. Exactly. So, which other sources have you read from which confirm what Lustig said? > phrenology was once accepted by "experts", as were electro-shocks for gay people. And don't get me start
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by derleth 13y ago
> Can't you make up your mind on your own based on information The problem with this is multi-fold: Do you know what good information looks like, or are you going to be fed crap from a circle-jerk of sources which all repeat the sam
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by derleth 13y ago
As long as the themes I use keep working, great. One of the best parts of Firefox (which Chrome seems incapable of picking up) is that themes work : You can change the whole look and feel to what you want, as opposed to it being what som
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by derleth 13y ago
A little bit facetious and entirely wrong, sure.
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by derleth 13y ago
> shell scripts aren't technically a programming language Of course they are.
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by derleth 13y ago
> only the secret service guy seemed to be very cautious; he never said the word bitcoin and mostly spent his time saying the secret service was awesome. To make it clearer for anyone who doesn't know: The Secret Service is the prim
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by derleth 13y ago
> the eventual victory of the federalists in the Civil War was, in effect, the creation of a new nation organized around industrial capitalism. Which is why the war was started by plantation slave-holders: They knew that the only way to
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by derleth 13y ago
Does any other expert agree with Lustig, or is it just him and a bunch of people who've watched videos by him?
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by derleth 13y ago
> Death does not give life meaning. Life gives life meaning. I never disagreed with this. > You can choose to live each day to the fullest without embracing deathism. I almost disagreed with this. My point is that procrastination has
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by derleth 13y ago
> synthonol Synthehol. Synthetic alcohol. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Synthehol (Not nearly as interesting to engineers as the real stuff, which is apparently at its best when it's green.) http:/&#x2F
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by derleth 13y ago
It's been said before, but the most dangerous date rape drug is alcohol. GHB is new and unfamiliar, so it gets the worse rap, but alcohol has pretty much everything an date rape drug would have: It induces a loss of inhibition, a loss
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by derleth 13y ago
> I don't plan on it. Think about it game-theoretically: If you live as if you'll die, and you don't, you'll have a much more interesting life, because you took advantage of it thinking you're living under the Sw
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by derleth 13y ago
> It's a pneumonic for "previous" I'm guessing this is autocorrect, but an autocorrect that knows 'pneumonic' (the Firefox spell-checker doesn't!) but not 'mnemonic' seems even less likely tha
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by derleth 13y ago
> The law is very cognizant of intent and willfulness. Not in strict liability offenses, such as statutory rape. Which isn't entirely relevant to playing a game, until the legislature makes 'possession of child pornography&#x27
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by derleth 13y ago
> I don't want to risk inheriting their debts You can't. Once the estate's gone, the creditors can pound sand because the person they contracted with is gone and all their assets are gone, too. They can't come after a

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