duncan_bayne

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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> Many don't trust Intel processors and Cisco routers anymore In fairness, my lack of trust for Cisco products pre-dated the Snowden revelations, and were based on the products themselves. Nothing I've seen since has caused me
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
The EU situation sounds much better. To be super clear, we ignored the legal advice, because we considered that it was much fairer to provide the best feedback possible to clients who asked.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Wow, okay, never experienced that myself. OTOH, sounds like you made the right call on hiring :)
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> How can you identify brain trauma with ultrasound? Well, put enough energy through the ultrasound transducer and you can guarantee there's brain trauma present. Not sure that's how you meant it, though ;)
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Not just Asian! I live in Melbourne, Victoria. Until we had three children and sent them to a private school, rent and later mortgage was our largest cost by a long margin.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
I strongly disagree. My experience with that has been positive, _especially_ when candidates request detailed feedback and I provide it. Caveats: this is in Australia, and I believe we've had legal advice a few times encouraging us to
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> at least insofar as they do not work on the kinds of things that I dislike Facebook for. Why do you draw that distinction? Do you believe it's possible to work for Facebook without at least indirectly benefiting the company as a
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
And the early colonies had their problems too. IIRC at least one colony enacted capital punishment for anyone caught abandoning the colony to join the native American tribes.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
It's no crazier than an online bookstore doing it :)
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
I think both are an example of an aversion to deep learning.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Perhaps to put the question a different way. What is the difference to me, as an individual, what happens to the wealth once it's been taken from me? Since I'm not spending it to further my own goals (e.g. by charitable donation t
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Can you elaborate, for the non-linguists? His prescription seems sensible: i. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
I assume so, and it's a lot less hilarious if you have a large family. I'm not from the Middle East but my nuclear family is brushing up against the limit, and I have relatives whose families exceed it. It just seems so ridiculous
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Trying to add more than 5 family members to Google family(support.google.com)
13 points by duncan_bayne 6y ago|5 comments
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
That is pirate morality, codified.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
That is the most refreshingly honest description of progressive taxation I've seen in a while. In other words: progressive taxation destroys wealth creation.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
... what a surprise. People seem to think that Google didn't anticipate data hoarders, but in fact, this just seems like a standard hook to get people using a service. (Or a bait and switch, if you're less charitable). If anyone
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Nit pick - the best science at the moment suggests that radiation from Chernobyl killed just two hundred people, and Fukushima zero. Your point is a good one but the specific example turns out to be untrue.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
It's almost like it's a bad idea to run hardware and software that prevents you from running software they don't approve. As we keep on seeing time, and time, and time again.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
You know, there's only one thing that bothers me more than political organisers spreading fear and misinformation through social networks. And that's social networks becoming "Ministries of Truth", deciding for themselve
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
You do know how much tracking goes on right? It's far from just a matter of paying for ad free content. Hence I'm trying to migrate to PinePhone and get the hell off Android.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Some of the best motor racing I've personally seen was open class motorcycle racing. It was the 90s, so you had road legal GSXR1100s with the lights taped up, mixing it with 125cc Grand Prix bikes. I don't get why you couldn'
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> Then if someone is acting up, it's only a matter of figuring out which unrelated laws they are already breaking. Rand was writing about this in 1957: "Did you really think we want those laws observed? ... We want them to be b
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> Why folks are so willing to carry water for corporations, by making unsubstantiated excuses for them, mystifies me. Because if you don't keep making excuses for them, you're left with the alternative: doing a bunch more work
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
A reasonable person might also ask whether the source of the funding has any bearing on whether or not the Chinese government is attempting genocide.
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Sortition Foundation(sortitionfoundation.org)
1 points by duncan_bayne 6y ago|0 comments
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Their position isn't Libertarian. I'm a Rand quoting free market extremist, and I'm A-OK with this guy going to jail for fraud. Fraud is, after all, morally equivalent to physical coercion. On a related note, most people who
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Leaving aside the specific politics, this is one of many reasons I advocate for replacing voting with sortition (picking representatives from the electoral roll, in much the same way as juries are picked).
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Sudden loud static noise on Bluetooth headset(discussions.apple.com)
2 points by duncan_bayne 6y ago|0 comments
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
I have used many Git front-ends over the years, on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Magit is the only one that I've found preferable to just using the CLI tools.

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