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by effie 4y ago
> the most pretentious sounding name in all of physics Also, "the free will theorem" and "the god particle".
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by effie 5y ago
> I've become more and more uncomfortable with the word "entropy" as used in cryptography. I don't like the word either. On the other hand, the meaning in the kernel seems clear: with a threat model of the attacker,
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by effie 5y ago
The main goal of the free software movement was to have more free software available and replace proprietary software where possible. This isn't won completely but neither is it failing entirely. Much of mainstream software is kind of
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by effie 5y ago
* Turn off all notifications. Leave Twitter/Facebook etc. * Switch to a basic mobile browser with Javascript turned off by default, like Privacy Browser. Web without JavaScript is probably less addictive. * Decrease color saturation on
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by effie 5y ago
But are they going against the common good? Maybe they are helping the common good, by choosing different health strategy and different politics from the rest. There are other ways to stay healthy than getting the vaccine, and it is good fo
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by effie 5y ago
Getting the vaccine has health risks and it would mean a "kiss the ring" submission to untrusted power to many people. Bioethics is clearly on their side - forcing a human to undergo any medical procedure against their will suppos
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by effie 5y ago
> "the army should deal with peaceful protestors. I'm normal" -- poignant summary of the thread by one of its participants
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by effie 5y ago
U.S. don't want to look weak and make concessions to Russia. If that persists, it will continue to increase the probability that Putin will act and invade, to prevent Ukraine in NATO once and for all, for moderate/low price of san
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by effie 5y ago
> The planes allow American intelligence operatives to listen to Russian ground commanders’ communications. This is hard to believe, one would expect Russian commanders use encrypted communications.
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by effie 5y ago
Germany, France, Italy do not seem to "have concerns" much. This whole game of chicken is U.S. and Ukraine vs. Russia and separatists. I would rephrase your statement - it's time U.S. stopped meddling and stirring up trouble
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by effie 5y ago
Are they really advocating "taking away human rights"? For comparison, is an activist ad promoting quitting smoking advocating for taking away human rights?
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by effie 5y ago
> Centralization exists because there is a need to manage spam, griefing, and sockpuppet/sybil attacks. Previous decentralized systems largely stopped working due to spam. If it were more costly to grief on the internet using decent
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by effie 5y ago
Indeed, most refutations of superdeterminism seem to be mere "that's ridiculous, my worldview would break down". But lots of accepted science was first ridiculous too. Let the idea float, and let the people try to experimenta
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by effie 5y ago
In one small EU country with socialist public healthcare that was already in disarray years before COVID, we see largely successful introduction of totalitarian government methods, similar to those used by the Nazi and Bolshevik regimes fro
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by effie 5y ago
That is rather a 2-week plan, most people can't take it in isolation for much longer. I agree some mass events/mass transport should be rationalized, either greatly decrease density of people and maintain distances, or cancel them
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by effie 5y ago
But COVID isn't really an external threat. It is very much internal, it is now almost endemic virus, a very different problem from a foreign organization invading country. You can't fight it the same way a military fights a foreig
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by effie 5y ago
> Trying to pretend that we're going to vaccinate our way out of this is nuts, it's just whak-a-mole. I had to explain this recently, people still believe "Vaccine is freedom" and "Vaccine is the solution",
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by effie 5y ago
What is problematic with "their history"?
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by effie 5y ago
How so? You can instead run multiple isolated instances of Firefox, at least on unixes.
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by effie 5y ago
Their goal is to find the deeper explanation behind wave functions, so obviously going back to wave function, even that of the Universe, is not very appealing to them.
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by effie 5y ago
It does not matter whether the curve is exponential or not. What matters is whether sick people get adequate care and whether hospital personnel gets adequate rest and pay. With more covid specialized hospitals, both restrictions could be w
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by effie 5y ago
Two cases that pissed me off recently: 1) dropping support of some Adaptec RAID cards in RHEL/Centos 8 with Linux 4.18. Like <= 5xxx series. Yeah, Adaptec 5x series is old and weak performance, but perfectly fine and widespread SATA
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by effie 5y ago
Re. corporatey, windowsey, see my answer above. The problem with old HW support is that the hardware is fine, the drivers are available and fine, but the kernel people decided to throw them out and replace by newer drivers which can run onl
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by effie 5y ago
Centos cancelled for the benefit of Redhat and detriment of many of its users. Kernel changes that exclude users of 10year+ older hardware. Corporate-backed campaign to discredit ethos leaders and defenders of user rights and veteran contri
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by effie 5y ago
It is easy and correct to critize that Lunduke's video. But the main point behind is that Linux project is becoming more corporatey, more windowsey and less user friendly and less small business friendly. New Linux drivers can't r
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by effie 5y ago
It has something to do with reproduction, but people don't agree which aspect exactly.
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by effie 5y ago
It's obviously another unkillable deterrent weapon, similar to submarine ICMBs, Perimeter, etc.
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by effie 5y ago
> Today the rule is "The needs of the many, outweigh any rights of the individual" Yes, many people think this nowadays. I think because they did not experience the downsides of this or it is not relevant now. I think most peop
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by effie 5y ago
Government effective authority does not come from accepting its role as arbiter of morality, but it comes from people belief in the system of laws and government, beliefs about who is or should be given superior powers, like tools of mind c
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by effie 5y ago
Wait a second, isn't Ryzen 5xxx much faster in single thread than Sandy Bridge ever was? Isn't the available number of cores greater as well?

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