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by gboudrias 8y ago
That's very clever but honestly, just removing the magnetic strip seems like a really obvious first step. I know for a fact they flag magnetic strip usage on ATMs for credit cards anyway. (Then again, could be some sort of honeypot.)
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Am I the only one who finds this outrageous? I'm not surprised, but I am angry.
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by gboudrias 8y ago
> This blog post is just a succession of these easily falsiable generalizations that try to use pseudo-linguistic reasoning to demonstrate a blanket sweeping subjective statement (“Americans hate smart people”). Much like psychologists,
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write out your experience, it really makes me think. > so a lot of those non-Microsoft software actually still run on Microsoft As a FLOSS advocate myself, this matters less than you seem to imply. Microsoft
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by gboudrias 8y ago
After some research, I understand that falsification is not seen as a sufficient criteria for demarcation as Popper probably saw it. But do you not agree that the idea of falsification as a bare minimum was revolutionary? That was the main
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Thank you for the description, I was hesitant to download a .rar just to read something... > So any file that we have read access over as a user and that system has the write DACL permission for, we can pivot into full control and over
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by gboudrias 8y ago
I've been told it's physically impossible to make a bigger collider (any physicists around?), which is partly why the LHC was such a big deal, it's the end of a technological path. We can make different types of colliders tho
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Well, yes, fair enough. But the main point is that scientific progress was greatly accelerated thereafter. In that sense there is a before and after him, and anyone who would choose to be anti-Popper (nowadays) is generally an epistemic re
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by gboudrias 8y ago
> Popper is immensely influential in science, well worth a closer study Yep, pretty much invented the falsification principle. Imagine a time when scientists often tried to prove things true. That was science before Popper. This makes hi
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by gboudrias 8y ago
This could be intentional, as it incentivizes developers to support the Proton version, which makes native Linux support a much smaller leap. Excited as I am about a big player pushing Linux, we mustn't forget that the intent is almost
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Dang, I was about to buy a block of salt to lick for dessert :'(
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by gboudrias 8y ago
I don't follow?
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Pascal's wager is mainly faulty because it relies on a complete lack of information, unlike climate change where we have some information. If we had any clues at all that any existing gods are benevolent, it would most definitely be th
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by gboudrias 8y ago
I'm afraid I don't know enough to talk about it, but to me it seems more of a collection of observations than a "theory" in the speculative sense. As far as I'm aware though, we have observed that cities with less g
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Apart from making the game no fun at all, that's just establishing a language before the game to use during. It's still a language (or a form of explicit communication) and as such is as forbidden as ASL.
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Your question is certainly interesting in an epistemological sense, in a way it is the basis of relativism. Having read Larry Laudan recently however, I'm a big fan of his pragmatism which trumps the question a bit: just use whatever w
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Cry me a goddamned river. The evils of GoogleFaceTube are nothing but the logical conclusion of advertising. This is like someone being sad at a faster car than theirs being invented, only both cars annoy the shit out of everyone.
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by gboudrias 8y ago
> question their ethical position Or in Facebook's case, lack thereof.
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by gboudrias 8y ago
I hope the bad PR from ME garbage follows them to their corporate grave. It's absolutely shameless.
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by gboudrias 8y ago
This is so hilariously, specifically wrong, you'd think someone wrote it now and travelled back in time for giggles. Great find! And I'm amazed they still have the article online, the only one by Clifford Stoll, funnily enough. St
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by gboudrias 8y ago
I don't know if you're being sarcastic but this is a very dangerous way of looking at it. You absolutely can burnout and overexhaust yourself doing something you love. People need to learn to take breaks and time off more than the
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Who could've seen it coming except all social sciences and literally mathematics... What I'm saying is, how are they just now "troubled"? This is all but inevitable barring drastic measures to enforce the opposite trend,
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by gboudrias 8y ago
For everyone saying this is a political decision, I don't see why Gitlab would be afraid of being political, especially seeing as a lot of developers were annoyed/angered at the Microsoft buyout. I also can't see on a technic
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by gboudrias 8y ago
I've never managed more people than myself, BUT don't underestimate how difficult it is to find people in IT. It's really, really hard, and even harder to find people willing to stay longer than 2 years. Loyal tech workers ar
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by gboudrias 8y ago
There is a danger to this. While Netflix is producing more and more shows, I find them to be more and more "samey". It's as if their algorithm decided there are only X number of categories for shows and they're trying to
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by gboudrias 8y ago
In a way, you're suggesting a cynical though (arguably) realistic stance. Which is logical, but a hard sell in the very political world of unions. A lot of these people have an emotional attachment to their job, or at least the idea of
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by gboudrias 8y ago
It does have tangible, countable value. Apple may elect not to sell it for now, but they can change their mind at any time in the future. This is not to say that people shouldn't use them over demonstrably worse competitors (privacy-wi
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Wow, TIL. Thanks, did not know about this expression :)
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by gboudrias 8y ago
> One need only glance at a screenshot to be reminded of the old children’s board game cum toy Mouse Trap, a simplistic exercise in roll-and-move whose real appeal is the elaborate Either I'm very tired or someone made a horrible ty
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Not to be too curmudgeonly but you don't have to guess, almost all those CLI interfaces have a manual and a --help function. You can't ask a chatbot what its options are.

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