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by evunveot 9y ago
>[Talking about the early strategy game Empire :] But the most relevant version for our purposes was created by Walter Bright, a 20-year-old student at the California Institute of Technology, in 1977. Bright himself later ported it to m
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by evunveot 9y ago
It's quite possible that one of the times I listened to Peterson talking about this subject he cited Viktor Frankl but I didn't recognize the name. I looked around and Peterson evidently incorporated Frankl into his course on pers
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by evunveot 9y ago
I'll be the one to bring up Jordan Peterson, I guess. To attempt to synthesize his views: 1. Even if you start from a position of complete nihilism, you can recognize that pain (both physical and psychological) is real and that you don
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by evunveot 9y ago
As a counterpoint, I'm involved with a private foundation that donates a total in the mid-six figures to various organizations each year (foundations like ours and probably Dropbox's have to donate 5% of their assets annually), an
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by evunveot 9y ago
More responsibility, i.e. it's easier to monumentally screw up and get rightfully blamed for it.
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by evunveot 9y ago
Granted.
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by evunveot 9y ago
> shoot and kill thousands of people per year, many of them unarmed Closer to one thousand, 10% of whom were unarmed (that 10% includes all the cases where police believed the victim was armed when they actually weren't; believed th
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by evunveot 9y ago
There's also the pipeline angle, which isn't a mainstream narrative, though I haven't noticed anyone trying to debunk it. Article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: https://www.ecowatch.com/syria-another-pipeline-war-
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by evunveot 9y ago
This is about what the Pentagon/military is doing. The CIA had its own operation. "Reporters have pieced together the Pentagon’s complex supply line to Syria using procurement records, ship-tracking data, official reports, leaked
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by evunveot 9y ago
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-part-3 TL;DR : The Drupal leadership hasn't accused Larry of a code of conduct violation publicly or privately but they're happy to imply that a secret violation exists s
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by evunveot 10y ago
There are quite a few energetic people out there devoted to worker cooperatives and generally developing strategies for the democratization of wealth/capital. The nice part is it doesn't require electoral politicking or lawmaking,
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by evunveot 10y ago
Anyone have experience with DC/OS? It runs on Mesos, not Kubernetes, but in any case it seems very full featured. https://dcos.io/
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by evunveot 10y ago
> Some implementations of bcrypt truncate the input to 72 bytes, which reduces the entropy of the passwords.... By applying [SHA512], we can quickly convert really long passwords into a fixed length 512 bit value, solving [that problem].
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by evunveot 10y ago
On a recent (php) project, I ended up with a setup where all the source code files were owned by user A but the php-fpm pool executing them was running as user B, i.e. web requests had no way of writing or modifying a php file that could th
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by evunveot 10y ago
I think they're holding out hope that they can continue to grow revenue through advances in adtech when their subscriber numbers hit the inevitable plateau. Even offering an ad-free subscription option would eat into their ad platform,
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by evunveot 10y ago
My attempt at the analogy would be: someone offers to come to your house and, using your Legos, build a little Lego castle in your living room for free, so you say "Sure," and when they come over they build the castle, but then th
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by evunveot 10y ago
I've had remarkably similar ideas rolling around in my head for the past couple of years, watching various viral controversies work their way through Twitter, Reddit, and Wikipedia. I disagree with the idea of a "hate counter,&quo
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by evunveot 10y ago
I think he's selling it short. Imagine if all 1 billion+ cars used this fuel instead of diesel/gasoline. Even if all the carbon ultimately ends up as CO2 again eventually, at any given moment there would be a whole lot of it tempo
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by evunveot 10y ago
He might be including the employer's share of FICA tax. If you're single and your AGI is $60,000, your taxable income is $49,700 (or lower, if you itemize deductions). You'll pay $8218.75 in Federal income tax, $3081.40 in so
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by evunveot 10y ago
There are about 4 million births in the US ever year, so that program would inject $4 trillion per year into the economy (assuming everyone currently living is left out). It would be impossible to pull in that much through taxation (today)
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by evunveot 11y ago
Wouldn't it be straightforward for Apple to design future iPhones to accept device-targeted updates in order to comply with law enforcement requests like the one that started all this? Just add a step: 1) Is this update signed by Apple
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by evunveot 11y ago
The lawsuit alleges he did these things. They shouldn't be stated as facts at this point.
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by evunveot 11y ago
I rarely use rem since I only stopped needing to support IE8 recently. Instead, to deal with the pain of em calculations I use these sass mixins (feel free to use; license CC0 https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 )
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by evunveot 11y ago
In Firefox on Linux (44.0.2), Wave 3 don't seem to be working as intended because for the second tower group you've got: div.board__tower-group div.tower-group__tower div.tower-group__tower div.board_
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by evunveot 11y ago
If you're having trouble visualizing what happened (like me), here's the intersection: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3859058,-122.0843836,3a,75y,... Looks like the far right lane has double the normal lane
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by evunveot 11y ago
The Amazon Prime Store Card is an example. You can choose per transaction either 5% cash back or 6/12 (sometimes 24) months interest-free financing, depending on the size of the purchase. (You can only use the card at Amazon, though, a
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by evunveot 11y ago
I don't see a quandary. Yes, that's evil.
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by evunveot 11y ago
> The money has to come from somewhere. More like "An equivalent amount of US dollars has to be taken out of the economy in order to keep the money supply in balance with the amount of real goods and services and thus prevent higher
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by evunveot 11y ago
I've never used it professionally, but dotCMS is a Java- and Elasticsearch-based CMS that has very impressive multisite features [1]. From what I can tell, a lot of its capabilities stem from a design that treats absolutely everything
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by evunveot 11y ago
I assume you pay your bid amount immediately and then get refunded later, because otherwise you could just bid $10 zillion, get the best seats, and only end up paying whatever everybody else pays. How is the price determined at any given mo

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