fsckboy

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by fsckboy 8mo ago
Mooney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooney_International_Corporati... (Moonie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church_of_the_Unit... )
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> The US economy depends on the country's position of world hegemon no it doesn't. it's much closer to "you need the best economy to be a hegemon"
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
how is there a prisoner's dilemma pattern of payoffs here?
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
what is/are the thread synchronization protocol called which is the equivalent to ethernet's CSMA? there's no "carrier sensing", but instead "who won or mistakes were made" sensing. or is that just conside
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
if a man's career and income depends on the science coming out a certain way, you can be sure that's how the science will come out. "scientific method" is not a magic shield
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
I think that is what he is doing, I think it's an accurate expression of his thinking. I was informing the community what the word means after putting in the effort to look it up. If you are not curious, if you can't handle differ
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
according to urban dictionary, wolfenstein as a verb means To kill or utterly destroy a large group of enemies with an extreme overabundance of weapons and items, including throwing knives to the head, poison, stabs to the neck or back, ki
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
so you're saying archeology and anthropology advance one uncovered ancient gravesite at a time?
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> the thief would have to invite them in it wasn't your mistake calling them, but be thankful you escaped: those police were apparently vampires.
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
the Europeans have only ever purchased American products because they were cheaper by the feature, and there wasn't a political constituency to placate (see the [wine lake|wikipedia]). and the US in return. as it was, so shall it alway
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
everything you are saying rings perfectly true to me but there's an additional problem I encounter. (i'm going to make up my example because i'm lazy to check but you'll get the idea) say you want to look up "Alexan
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
these days i find myself yearning to type "Beatles abbey rd" and find only "Beatles abbey rd"
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> What I miss the most about the XML ecosystem is the tooling. yes, me too! when using XML it rendered all the flexability and power of the unix tools pretty useless, and I missed them.
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
to be fair > XML shall be straightforwardly usable over the Internet. is machine to machine communication to me, XML is an example of worse is better, or rather, better is worse. it would never have come out of Bell Labs in the early 70
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> - You're not going to take an electric bike mountain biking this sounds like a direct quote from Femke Van Den Driessche, who actually took an electric bike mountain biking: big mistake. Did it not perform well? no, actually it p
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
pulling yourself down by your chinstrap
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
(i pick mackerel at random) A female Atlantic mackerel typically lays between 200,000 and 450,000 eggs during a spawning season. However, larger, healthier individuals can sometimes produce up to a million eggs, often in multiple batches ov
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
you keep trying to change the subject. Here's how the to understand the difference in our positions: if security researchers find vulns in network software, should they be fixed, or should a hypothetical researcher PaulDavidThe2ndSmart
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
what you are actually saying is that a certain class of people "know better" than what another class thinks they want. If you look at financial markets and finance theory, there is no validity to the idea that people are long term
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
those are not questions I have, nor answers I feel that I am lacking, and it fits a familiar online debate technique of bogging down discussions when you don't like the direction they are going in, wasting the time of your interlocutor
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
you don't need to have "compelling evidence" to show that something is "open to abuse", you simply need to point out the threat vectors as we know from all over the internet and from various financial frauds, rug pu
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> We can't "move back", it's where we are. vote by mail (and similar ballot harvesting, bulk ballot dropoffs with hazy chain-of-custody as from a nursing homes and immigrant communities) are new, based on paper, and
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> No, you cannot necessarily to choose whether to transact or not. I didn't say you could, pay closer attention or you will not be able to understand arguments or learn anything. What I said was, "as long as people engaged in
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> This idea of market participants' choices being entirely free rests on the efficient market fallacy in an inefficient market, you can still choose to transact or not, and you will only do so if you feel you will benefit. in an ef
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> some people look at business as making money for the sake of making money. However other people look at making money as a means to better society. if the two sides you describe agree on those definitions as mutually exclusive but in u
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
(I'm personally more on your side of the argument than not, but need to point out literal details of the "standard" that is under dispute) the article says if we transported back to the early 80's people would have said
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
people who do not understand orthogonality also take poor measurements.
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
your (and many others') argument is basically a "there are no atheists in foxholes" "I know, better than you, what you think" argument. to me, no idea what you are talking about, i find the iphone/Apple experie
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> In 2017 I predicted that most programmers would lose their employer <-> employee bargaining power in the next 15-25 years. This was a pretty controversial take at the time, and I never wrote about it publicly, so it’s hard to cla
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> The other day I was browsing my one-and-only social network — which is not a social network, but I’m tired of arguing with people online about it — HackerNews dude, hate to break it to you but the fact that it's your "one an

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