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   by explainplease 9y ago

   "must" might be a good alternative for "%%", as in, "this call must return without an error." or "this call must work." For "%return", perhaps "should" or "handle", as in
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   by explainplease 9y ago

   > In comparison to what? Eachother? Yes, that is the point I tried to make with all those paragraphs. > These are economic systems and are seperate from political systems. I directly addressed this in the penultimate full paragraph. &
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   by explainplease 9y ago

   Thank you for sharing that. I wish more people like yourself, who have first-hand experience, would speak out. As you noted, the rhetorical techniques they use are not in good faith. We need more actual witnesses to testify against it, b
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   by explainplease 9y ago

   By "means" I mean "necessarily results in," not "is defined as." If after my clarifying that you still disagree, please explain, otherwise what's the point of saying so?
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   by explainplease 9y ago

   It sounds really silly, but that might actually be the only way to prevent a few bad actors from taking over the world with killer robots. Of course, enforcement would be a problem.
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   by explainplease 9y ago

   I hate to be dystopic, but what happens when a futuristic Unabomber gets a hold of 3D-printing, self-replicating robots and programs them to kill? Will we all be walking around with our own 3D-printed bodyguard robots, programmed to watch
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   by explainplease 9y ago

   I think it's helpful to look at it in terms of control vs. freedom. Communism means more state control of people, capitalism means less. In these terms, what if capitalism is simply the natural outcome of x amount of freedom? There
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   by explainplease 9y ago

   If you haven't already, I highly recommend playing the Paperclips game that was posted recently. When your enemies are merely numbers on a screen, what does it matter who or what they are? Your machines are tasked to eliminate them,
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   by explainplease 9y ago

   I used to do the same with my DSL connection. I noticed that the connection would drop or degrade when it rained sometimes. I started scraping the modem's status page with curl (the status page didn't require logging in), and gr
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    by explainplease 9y ago

    For synaesthesia-challenged Emacs users: https://i.imgur.com/ZQkgI3U.png
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    by explainplease 9y ago

    > One advantage is that for millions of small files, batching them together into one monolithic ZIP file allows for faster downloading. As opposed to a round trip to fetch each file. But there could be a happy medium where we batch 1,000
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    by explainplease 9y ago

    Thanks for your detailed answer! > In the case of the Zip file download, we chose the format of zip because both Mac and PC (the most common desktops) natively understand it with no additional software needed. In other words, if you just
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    by explainplease 9y ago

    This is confusing and concerning to me as a potential customer. Having used CrashPlan and other proprietary and FOSS backup software, I don't understand this description of how restoration works with Backblaze. 1. Why is the data bei