drinkjuice

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by drinkjuice 10y ago
> Cambridge Analytics and their Facebook questionnaires don't seem to be very effective. So, nothing speaks against nipping that in the bud, right? It's like a tiny person with no tools sneaking around your house to murder your
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
Culture which the people born into have no affect on prior to being born into them, so what would that change about the point? It's not like the US has this super peaceful culture either, so I'm not even sure about what culture ha
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
+1, and I would like to add: https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/change-window-ic... To answer your question, it's probably quicker and takes up less HD space :) And now we can have profiles and
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
> the idea that the latter has absolutely no bearing on the former and that propaganda and rhetoric is universally and completely independent of the actions someone will undertake and that words have no consequences I said it's circ
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
> It is a lesson of human experience whether the issue is playground bullying, Enron or Europe in the 1930s that the worst outcomes occur when good people find reasons to accommodate themselves to what they know is wrong. Hannah Arendt
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
More importantly, with this knowledge one now can write pixel shaders that display 3D scenes :P
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
We don't need to DO anything to achieve Doomsday, we need to fail to do enough, in time to prevent the point of no return. I'd say we're right on track.
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
Well, it's subjective of course, maybe I should have said "the things I liked about Opera". Those "dry" configuration dialogs that always seemed to go that extra mile, for example. I doubt Vivaldi is ever going to r
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
"They" are not even "they" anymore. At this point, Opera is pretty much just a brand name making a mockery of the former program.
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
> The vetting that goes into assessing whether military age males are actually doing bad things is surprisingly high. No. Not just since the Vietnam War, but certainly since then, the US is beyond her eyes in blood. It's so thick y
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
Failed? It worked splendidly to entrench Erdogan and give him even more of a free hand, did it not?
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
push, meet shove. https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/06/tools-for-treason/
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
If it will "just get worse" then there will be no "again". Frankly, elsewhere people get jailed for speaking their mind, and you know what some of them do? Speak their mind. We face pretty much no repercussions other tha
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
> Demand has shifted. Customer perceives a smart TV as more capable. Also see "not accounting for the meddling of the marketing department" - not all things just "happen". And while you make good points about streamin
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
> If there is demand for dumb TVs and dumb cars, this supply will (eventually) be met. I keep hearing that, I just never see it. There are a lot of things nobody wants which corporations push in unison because they want them. And t
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-tipatom2/x-tipat... > 10 April 2007 > As feeds move beyond merely announcing new content on somebody's blog and into organizing data, you can easily find
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
That sounds like one mighty crappy system though, considering the next set of global wars could spell the end of human civilization as we consider it worthwhile, so I came up with one I like better in 3 seconds: every 3 years, a random numb
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
Even just the people flying to conferences to talk about it, even just youtubers doing that destroys a whole lot. And then there's the pollution costs of going to work and heating the work place, running the machines, and so on. Though
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
Assuming this map is somewhat accurate, it seems like even just 1m would make most of the difference for that country: http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
For me the whole "uploading people into computers" and other immortality pipe dreams are really just playing for time. Even if it was possible and desirable, which I have my doubts about, that's not how it will play out. That
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
This is a world humans are building AND sustaining by repeatedly saying yes to it, and it's putting the worst as a cork on the bottle in which the best should asphyxiate. That's just silly; the reasons are silly and the excuses ar
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor/blob/mast...
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
As someone who started out messing around with trackers in like '98 with FastTracker 2, and who hasn't made anything I would call a "real song" to this day, but spend hundreds and thousands of hours on it, I can absolute
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
Does that excuse sociopaths or indict business?
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by drinkjuice 10y ago
> why are there ethical/moral truths? I'd say yes, for me, as long as I will them. Or, put differently, they're decisions more than discoveries. Decisions based on discoveries, but ultimately decisions nonetheless. I consi