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by gbrown 6y ago
I don't doubt that, but it definitely seems "fringe", while OP was presenting this as the general zeitgeist.
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by gbrown 6y ago
No offense, but your take on social attitudes about porn is really strange and pretty misogynistic. > “ Some feel like porn gives unearned satisfaction to young men, a virtual substitute they don't have to work for.” What? Maybe ext
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by gbrown 6y ago
The idea is that security is hard and expensive, so we serfs surrender ourselves to feudal overlords (Google, Microsoft, Facebook) in exchange for protection.
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by gbrown 6y ago
I’m usually the last person to defend our intelligence agencies. In aggregate, it seems like they’re more interested in undermining digital security than supporting it. With that being said, this sort of information would definitely risk co
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by gbrown 6y ago
Also, the rest of us use products they’ve designed to be basically unsecurable against them. The feudal model of security only works if the overlords are trustworthy and competent. We’ve known they aren’t trustworthy for a long time, but th
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by gbrown 6y ago
“The best way to get an answer in the internet is not to ask a question, but to post something incorrect.” - Thomas Jefferson
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by gbrown 6y ago
This is fantastic
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by gbrown 6y ago
I think for these purposes, “else” is different from the “or else” construction. As in: “Read thee the article, else thou shall suffer great ridicule in the comments.”
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by gbrown 6y ago
He also wrote that he despised allegory in all it’s forms though, so ::shrug::
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by gbrown 6y ago
I was talking with my brother about this, and he called it “intellectual hedonism”. Never really thought about it that way, but it’s not entirely incorrect.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Red is the one of the most common and easily accessible pigments, and as others have pointed out what we see is durable. As far as the “same motifs” goes, is that really so unexpected? It’s not a particularly precise claim, but I’d certainl
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by gbrown 6y ago
Yeah, over the life of my Volt I’ve averaged almost 100mpg since charging covers my whole commute. That includes a number of long road trips on gas, so one car fills both the electric commuting niche and my occasional long distance ICE need
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by gbrown 6y ago
I think the infrastructure has rusted a bit. A while back I wanted to spin up a forum, and I wasn't super impressed. There's a mix of new projects that don't really get the forum thing (they're often very focused on bu
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by gbrown 6y ago
It wasn't an appeal to authority - you can look up the facts in any source you like. It also isn't a political point, but a question of fact.
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by gbrown 6y ago
No, you can't. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/health/pfizer-covid-19-va...
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by gbrown 6y ago
The idea is that you can tune/simplify the motor to run at one or a few RPMs, and also simplify the drive train.
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by gbrown 6y ago
I don’t think that’s true, but ranching would need to get more labor intensive or technology intensive. This is just another externality the industry isn’t currently paying for.
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by gbrown 6y ago
That's rather the point of a market economy, and this is a small example of the problems with one: it's difficult to face up to powerful industries to force them to price in externalities.
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by gbrown 6y ago
I live in a rural area with lots of coyotes, and I'd welcome a return of wolves to deal with the over-abundance of deer.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Yeah, I get the practical argument, but as you say the big picture looks very different.
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by gbrown 6y ago
That argument presupposes the right of the farmer to do whatever they want to protect their cattle, which was what I was objecting too.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Why should we even pay? There's no constitutional right to be able to leave your livestock basically unprotected on vast tracts of land where they're vulnerable to predators. I mean, if it makes it more palatable it's probabl
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by gbrown 6y ago
That's my least favorite thing about R - it just looooves to save state unless you configure it otherwise. This is also why I've had trouble adopting Julia in the past - I've adopted the habit of constantly resetting my works
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by gbrown 6y ago
Well yeah, that just about sums it up for me. There’s a subtle myth in absolutist free speech circles (to which I used to belong, and which I still think envision a society worth working towards) - that people are rational. In a world of ra
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by gbrown 6y ago
Given the size of the damn drivers you’d think this was already the case.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Control over your device and the data it generates/transmits is fundamental to both. You can choose to care about one or the other, but they’re practically and ideologically closely related.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Get a microphone with a physical mute button, or see if you can configure “push to talk”.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Definitely! Also, not just young students. If you can get over code-phobia, doing random experiments in a class can be really illustrative. When I teach hypothesis testing, I always teach it both from a simulation perspective and from a tra
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by gbrown 6y ago
I'd honestly start with cloud options if learning is the only reason you're building the computer. You don't want to dump a bunch of money into depreciating GPUs if you're not going to end up using them. GPUs are only re
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by gbrown 6y ago
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