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by gloob 17y ago
Forgive my ignorance on the matter, as I'm not a web programmer and don't keep up with the relevant technologies, but what is the difference between cloud computing and the Internet, if this is the case? I mean, the finger protocol is argu
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by gloob 17y ago
So "small" has to include sockets.
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by gloob 17y ago
Not true. For instance, if a report is originally typed in a closed-source, commercial text editor, that has no impact on the repeatability of the science. Similarly, Mathematica is (to my knowledge) a closed-source program, but calculati
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by gloob 17y ago
If you give Facebook your ssh password, there are much bigger problems than "Facebook shouldn't do such-and-such with the information it gets" - and those problems are not with Facebook. Same goes for any other password that you want to ac
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by gloob 17y ago
I would be astounded if 10% of users had ever heard of DNS, much less knew what it was and how to change which one they were using.
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by gloob 17y ago
I think who they end up driving away is mostly determined by the kind of community and the kind of trolls. Most of the places on the Internet where I hang out, the trolls like the community they are a part of and are rather uninterested in
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by gloob 17y ago
A not-very-good-but-still-fun argument: Trolls are the predators of internet communities. They prey on the sick, the weak, and the perennially outraged (mostly this last group) and, if they are successful, drive them away from the communit
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by gloob 17y ago
By way of comparison: About 60 000 American soldiers died in the Vietnam War, out of a total population of roughly 200 million Americans. That works out to one American life lost for every 3333 (ish) Americans. Even if we ignore the fact th
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by gloob 17y ago
But it might be good FUD, because it might reopen intelligent discussion on a topic where debate has consisted of name-calling for just as long. My suspicion is that it will renew name-calling in a discussion that has consisted of name-ca
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by gloob 17y ago
Well, here's a potentially-relevant quote from the North Korean constitution: Comrade Kim Il Sung elucidated the fundamental principles of nation building and State activities, established the best State and social system, the best mode of
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by gloob 17y ago
Seoul, definitely. I would be mildly surprised if it actually managed to hit Shanghai or Tokyo. North Korean military hardware is not known for it's quality. On the upside, North Korea isn't suicidal, and it's not like China was going to
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by gloob 17y ago
These days it is generally accepted worldwide that the only legal source of power for a government is the one that originates from the people. Citation? Perhaps sociologists or philosophers accept that, but governments certainly don't.
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by gloob 17y ago
Of course there are lots of exceptions to that, like protracted and pointless wars in the Middle East, but those are not fundamental artifacts of the conception of America; they are side-effects of bad culture today. This is fundamentally
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by gloob 17y ago
While I (think I) understand the heart of this sentiment, if you're going to be non-patriotic, you should still be pro-human rights to some degree. If a corporation exploits workers (either at home or abroad), you shouldn't be happy about
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by gloob 17y ago
But companies are owned and run by individuals, so you're interfering with an individual's ability to run his company as he sees fit. But governments are run by individuals, so saying that they aren't allowed to pass such-and-such a regul
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by gloob 17y ago
But it's also important to realize that even if Climate Change isn't man made pollution still is and we need to do our best to reduce it. Global Warming has been the specter hanging over our heads for the last decade telling us to clean up
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by gloob 17y ago
Ahem. http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/lib/strict.html
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by gloob 17y ago
most of the WSJ stuff on climate change is partisan garbage, but i would point out here that this author is actually someone with credentials. As the leaked emails have demonstrated, merely having credentials does not prevent your work fr
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by gloob 17y ago
The question was: Why do Python/Ruby/X people get such a kick out of language wars? Your response was: Python people value doing complicated things with simple code. Perl people value doing simple things with obscure language features, t
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by gloob 17y ago
And Turkish is confusing for someone who doesn't know Turkish. If you want to use a language, learn it.
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by gloob 17y ago
I think you mean global warming.
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by gloob 17y ago
It seems to me like top-down centralized education has historically done a somewhat poor job of teaching, and extra top-down education funding probably wouldn't make us more educated. Whereas top-down military seems to be the best way to d
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by gloob 17y ago
The reply button. Learn it. Love it.
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by gloob 17y ago
If you think the purpose of this is to be "enlightening", I suspect you may have missed the point. It's funny, in much the same way as the Principia Discordia is funny, and that's about it. It does rather a good job at it, too, imho.
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by gloob 17y ago
How many examples of failed socialist policies does it take to find a pattern? How many examples of failed capitalist policies does it take to find a pattern? On the assumption that we're defining socialism as "everything Stalin, Kim Jon
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by gloob 17y ago
My observation is: when people talk about "Capitalism" they tend to talk about the more extreme aspect of it. When they talk about "Socialism", I've observed they tend to be talking about "our current form of government and onwards." The
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by gloob 17y ago
Or having it require continual Herculean effort to keep it limping along for years? Perhaps "Sisyphean" would be a more evocative adjective, in that particular situation.
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by gloob 17y ago
I think you're being a bit dramatic here. Whats the difference between this and Playstation paying for Grand Theft Auto's exclusivity, or Bing and Google paying for access to Twitter's content while small engines like DuckDuckGo go without
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by gloob 17y ago
Might it be pointed out, I never said he "sucked." I was paraphrasing. I believe it was a fair enough summary of your point. To make sure we're on the same page, I'm mostly looking at this part: Let me see, according to you, designers
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by gloob 17y ago
Ah.. That may be true, but all we have to go on are little letters in cyberspace. We may as well make sure that we're on shaky footing, then, so long as we're rushing to judgements about people we've never met. Seems like a constructive

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