dogorman

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by dogorman 5y ago
The word is used in the context of PTSD. e.g. "hearing fireworks triggered flashbacks from the war" More generally, a "trigger warning" is a "content advisory warning" by another name.
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by dogorman 5y ago
Israel's malware industry is nothing new. Besides selling hacking tools to totalitarian regimes (another notorious example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group ), they also peddle malware direct to the victims
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by dogorman 5y ago
Good thing Windows lets you ""sideload"" a real copy of VLC instead of forcing you to use the neutered crap from their appstore. For now.
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by dogorman 5y ago
For me, it's Dracula.
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by dogorman 5y ago
I think most American politicians wouldn't care, if not for many Cuban Americans still caring a great deal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban-American_lobby#Political...
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by dogorman 5y ago
1.6 million people is certainly significant, so you're not wrong. But leaving it at that without more information is likely to mislead people. > The CIA World Factbook (which is based on 2013 statistics) gives the following number
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by dogorman 5y ago
> That would explain why he doesn’t appear in the abbey records or in Tudor surveys." Perhaps this figure was simply considered too rude to write about.
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by dogorman 5y ago
Progress in the long run may seem inevitable, but certainty of victory can be dangerous in the short to medium term. Whig history ignores the possibility of setbacks. Progressive democracies have fallen to authoritarian dictatorships in
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by dogorman 5y ago
"When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard." -Sun Tzu You should allow your opposition to at least believe they have an alternative to digging in and fighting you to the bitter end.
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by dogorman 5y ago
Not unless you enjoy being saddened and disturbed.
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by dogorman 5y ago
> but I'll be surprised if the backup software properly handles the potential errors well. YMMV but I've found rsync to handle this kind of fuckery well.
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by dogorman 5y ago
> Sugar isn't "objectively bad" in moderation Can't the same be said of heroin, which in the UK is prescribed as a medication under the name diamorphine? Both of these substances can be safe in limited quantitie
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by dogorman 5y ago
> By the time they reach high school: Every kid should know [statistics] Maybe things have changed. But when I was in highschool in America in the early 00s, statistics was an optional math class offered to juniors. Nobody had taken
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by dogorman 5y ago
Dead sats in LEO fall.
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by dogorman 5y ago
Presumptuous poems are insufferable.
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by dogorman 5y ago
That CNN article is a crappy rewrite of this NASA press release: https://sealevel.nasa.gov/news/222/study-projects-a-surge-in...
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by dogorman 5y ago
Because everybody knows what 'kidnapping' means, and everybody knows that it's a crime. Not everybody knows what extraordinary rendition means, or that it's a crime. The general public not knowing or caring what &quo
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by dogorman 5y ago
That was in 1988, quite a lot has happened since then. In the aftermath of it, Gaddafi was cowed and sanctioned. Libya became less far provocative and accepted blame for the incident. By the mid-00s, it seemed like the demise or reform
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by dogorman 5y ago
Desperate? That's a positive spin to put on this. I'd say they're getting bold. They've always done stuff like this, but now they seem to care less about hiding it.
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by dogorman 5y ago
> Really? Doesn't something being explosive mean it's highly unstable and reactive? Not particularly, no. Some certainly are, but others require a great deal of activation energy to detonate. Nitroglycerine (another explos
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by dogorman 5y ago
New's bogus insinuation that Non had ads or spyware makes me disinclined to buy this innocent justification.
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by dogorman 5y ago
If there is such a thing as a non-trivial commercial software project without office drama, I have never seen nor heard of it. I think drama occurs whenever and wherever there are a non-trivial number of people working together. It has n
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by dogorman 5y ago
The nature of what different people consider insulting seems to vary greatly. I'd like to judge these supposed insults for myself. Have they been archived?
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by dogorman 5y ago
The angular size of Clint Eastwood is or can be made the same, by adjusting your distance from the screen. The difference is everything else about the experience, everything except the apparent size of Clint Eastwood. https:/&#x2F
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by dogorman 5y ago
> In every one of these theaters I am always shocked to see how few people a classic pulls in. Went to see Blade Runner “Final Cut” at AFI on a huge screen and there were like 40 people. 2001 in a 70mm print was about half full. Incepti