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by falcrist 7y ago
They don't have ""reasonable"" concerns with scare quotes. They have legitimately reasonable concerns. Nuclear is prohibitively expensive, inherently dangerous (in terms of being high-stakes), difficult to oversee p
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by falcrist 7y ago
I'm very pro-nuclear, but I still think this is an extremely unfair comparison. If you actually talk to anti-nuclear advocates, they have reasonable concerns about safety, disposal, oversight, and proliferation. Now I don't think
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by falcrist 7y ago
I knew there were secret courts (which are already pretty horrifying in themselves), but the idea that there are secret laws is deeply repugnant to my sense of fairness. How can a system of laws be just when the people ruled by it aren&#x27
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by falcrist 7y ago
Brian Lunduke inadvertently found an exception to this. He wanted to make his site accessible by very old browsers... So he stopped using https. http://lunduke.com/ It's a dumb exception, but you guys might find it mil
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by falcrist 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the property of sidedness comes up when you embed the manifold in euclidian space. The property seems to be related to orientability.
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by falcrist 8y ago
I'm not affiliated with the author, but that is generally part of the definition of open source. Once you've downloaded the code, check the top of any source code file for more details about the specific license the author is usin
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by falcrist 8y ago
If nothing else, his persistence has been fairly impressive. I'm still bitter that he became so thoroughly partisan, though. Especially since his organization has or had the motto: "to publish fact-based stories without fear or fa
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by falcrist 8y ago
Right. Freedom of speech logically cannot be unlimited for everyone at all times. That's why government protections of freedom of speech tend to be limited in scope.
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by falcrist 8y ago
There's a fundamental difference between an ISP and an edge provider. The service provider is like a system of roads whereas the edge providers are destinations. As long as the roads are free, it should be fairly easy to buy a plot of
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by falcrist 8y ago
Exactly. Freedom of speech isn't just freedom from government censorship. Other entities can infringe on it.
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Good old Chomsky. I really like his views on this topic. However the question leads down a rabbithole. Absolute freedom is a contradictory concept. How can you kick an unwanted visitor out of your house because you don't like what he&#
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by falcrist 8y ago
> Here is a link... https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N... That link does not "comprehensively debunk" anything shadowprofile76 was saying. It doesn't address the va
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by falcrist 8y ago
First and foremost. You mentioned "links from the UN itself that comprehensively debunk" what the other commenter was saying. After searching the UN site, I gave you an opportunity to produce them. Where are they? > There is no
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by falcrist 8y ago
> You clearly haven't read the links from the UN itself that comprehensively debunk these kind of uninformed propaganda. I've been all over un.org. I can't find any of these links. I don't think the UN has even invest
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by falcrist 8y ago
> A story that accurately reported a noteworthy incident of Muslim violence, without being inflammatory or misrepresenting material facts, and which had the respectful cooperation of Muslims, would still be caught up under this definitio
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by falcrist 8y ago
Even if it did create some kind of barrier to entry, I would argue that 1) It isn't significant next to the natural barriers inherent to wired telecom. 2) If it protects freedom of speech as the NN regs did, it's 100% worth it.
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by falcrist 8y ago
Yes, but that doesn't apply in this case, since the regulations don't add to the approval process. The regulatory structure is there to provide legal support in case of major infractions by ISPs. Even monitoring is done by 3rd par
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by falcrist 8y ago
Those ancillary rules were mostly exceptions due to forbearance... not additional restrictions. I don't see how forbearance was a hindrance to innovation. Maybe you'd like to explain it to me.
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by falcrist 8y ago
I too would like to live in a magical fairy land where all of my dreams came true. Since I don't believe in magic, I'm forced to think in terms of real world implications. A centralized structure with a dedicated backbone will alw
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by falcrist 8y ago
What? The web isn't distributed. It was built upon major trunks and backbones set up by government projects. All of your data goes through this centralized network of hubs and backbones as it travels around the internet. In the US, the
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by falcrist 8y ago
This depends on what you mean by regulation. If you're talking about net neutrality, then it's wrong to assume regulation will benefit rentseakers. That's a matter of protecting freedom of speech from corporate infringement.
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by falcrist 8y ago
You're talking about a distributed solution that will never happen. A centralized system will tend to behave more efficiently than a distributed system, and the owners of that centralized system will undercut the distributed system at
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by falcrist 8y ago
As I've said before repetedly, in order to use facebook effectively, you need to do everything you can to avoid the algorithm. What I mean by that is that you don't want facebook deciding what you see. Instead, you want to control
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by falcrist 8y ago
As a Windows user (embedded programming and gaming keeps me stuck to Windows) who has dabbled a bit in Linux over the last 10 years, the fact that GNU/Linux "assumes you know what you're doing" is constantly frustrating.
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by falcrist 8y ago
I haven't created much ASCII art in my own code yet, but I've been VERY grateful to others who included it in a few of the legacy projects I've dealt with in the past. One project in particular was troubling. It was an indust
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by falcrist 8y ago
That seems to be true at least to some extent. However, there are some noteworthy parts of the two languages that seem to be intentionally different. For example, F# optimizes tail recursion while C# doesn't.
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by falcrist 8y ago
This change was definitely inspired by F# (or ML ultimately). It's far from the first feature to be brought over. Look at async/await, usable tuples, lambda functions, range syntax, etc.
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by falcrist 8y ago
The coffee maker does indeed come with a booklet that explains what various messages mean, and what actions need to be taken to address these issues. Those steps are maybe two sentences long and generally self evident even without the bookl
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I think the issue might be the number or type of plugins involved. I work mostly with ASM, C, C#, and a bit of VB. Even with 3 separate folders open, intelligence running, a couple larger files (of order 100mb) open, ~20 tabs with source an
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by falcrist 8y ago
Doesn't the screw driver/drill analogy work here too? Drills cost a lot more money than screw drivers or hammers, require that you be working with screws rather than nails, and don't work unless you have electricity. Hence, t

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