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by frabbit 9y ago
Let's turn it into some folk wisdom: "It's a rule: if you're a rapey kinda fool, stay out of the pool."
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by frabbit 9y ago
I wondered about exactly that point. Reading on, it seemed like one of his suggestions for cost-reduction was to drive down wages for workers. I would have thought he would have seen Musk as a kindred spirit there: "There appears to b
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by frabbit 9y ago
Why is the name of the official who spearheaded this initiative REDACTED? Is this undercover, spy-type work as opposed to public, legal actions carried out by a legitimate government agency?
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by frabbit 9y ago
Does anyone besides partisan Democrats really care about Trump possibly having ties to Russians? The real news has already been broken by WikiLeaks (they are all spying on us) and TheIntercept. That last site, produces more in-depth investi
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by frabbit 9y ago
That's what stood out for me about all the StationX except for the Spitfire: they have nVidia GPUs. Having dicked around with nouveau and nvidia/dkms with various nVidia chips I will never buy anything with closed-source/bi
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by frabbit 9y ago
> I keep my calendar, email, etc., on > another desktop in OS X, which is hidden > while I'm in Emacs, Meh. To use his bicycle analogy, this is like someone putting Campagnolo components on a Trek CF frame.
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by frabbit 9y ago
The filter bubble[1] will keep us safe from the Russians. Hopefully this means that the Democrats will win the next time when we are freed from the distractions of election hacking by foreigners. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by frabbit 9y ago
> the CIA has placed a big bet on adopting > commercial cloud technology Can't they get the NSA to rent them some of their spare capacity from the CNCI? Or is this because they trust Amazon to have actually solved the hard pro
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by frabbit 9y ago
Probably not. Slavery was only stopped by "extremists" that caused a civil war. "Nice" people kept on keeping on for the most part.
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by frabbit 9y ago
Good clarification. But, do we know that is what everyone does? It's obviously a cultural, rather than a technical limitation. I suspect there are significant bodies of code kept inside corporate forks of upstream (and regularly reb
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by frabbit 9y ago
That's detailed, but not excruciating. Thank you.
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by frabbit 9y ago
The typical Github workflow is to treat the Github repo as a preferred upstream Is it typical? What metrics do you have to support that? Speaking for myself I have only ever used triangular workflows: fork upstream; set local rem
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by frabbit 9y ago
Or phrased another way: Tim Berners-Lee calls for censorship of "political" ads as a follow up to his support for DRM[1]. 1. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170712/10262037770/eff-o...
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by frabbit 9y ago
In place of the "tabview" command (which is a non-standard, pip-installed program) a simple "column -t" would be less trouble for most users.
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by frabbit 9y ago
This should be good for the TalosII workstation orders: https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/TL2WK2/purchase.html
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by frabbit 9y ago
Blind faith in any paternalist system which makes judgements for us about which information is appropriate for us results in western democracy, whose death throes due to information poverty we are now seeing.
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by frabbit 9y ago
You've mixed up two related topics: the right of a private entity to decide their ToS, and the right of the state to restrict information. Disgusting as it may be, none of that content should be banned by the state. It places too much
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by frabbit 9y ago
Sure. But the idea that it's happening in Toronto because Canadians are somehow more into the idea of AI than other places is a bit silly. Hence, my argument that this is a more information rich article.
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by frabbit 9y ago
This is the real meat of the story: City of Toronto is willing to give cheap land and subsidies as a lure in the hope that some tech money will dribble back into CAN economy. This is a much better article: http://www.slate.com&
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by frabbit 9y ago
Nobody wants a 'smart city'. It'll just be another data mining project except now they will literally be optimizing your entire life for their profits. Exactly. And this will stifle any chance of innovation a
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by frabbit 9y ago
How are we supposed to verify keys.asc? (To be a bit more explicit: searching for either the pub (57F6FB06) or sub(0E46390F) keys on hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net returns no result)
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by frabbit 9y ago
And in addition Israeli hackers keep on finding malware in locations they've hacked into..... hmmmmm
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by frabbit 9y ago
Good historical perspective: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/09/catalonia-independence-re...
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by frabbit 9y ago
As the article makes clear, this another technology that might be useful in the future, but is currently unusable thanks to the problem of the waste generated from it. There are no safe options for storing nuclear waste right now. It reall
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by frabbit 9y ago
For a directly relevant example of the irrational behaviors observed around lowering the prices of commodities: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/upshot/when-gas-becomes-c...
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by frabbit 9y ago
http://www.realclimate.org/images//THE-EPA-A-TEAM.jpg
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by frabbit 9y ago
I am making the claim that while these vehicles may be useful for hauling stuff around farms they should not be abused (see Hummer, Jeep, SUV, pickup trucks, massive mommy waggons). While electric motors allow us to reduce the CO2 emission
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by frabbit 9y ago
Hopefully these will be restricted to use on farmland instead of being inappropriately paraded in suburban areas. Electric vehicles are not "clean", they're merely cleaner.
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by frabbit 9y ago
Preparing the datasets for this sort of work is an interesting problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IghlCQpJl80
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by frabbit 9y ago
I don't actually use Chrome/Chromium.

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