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by jack9 10y ago
What are you talking about? Did you even read the OP? I was SUMMARIZING the talk (as per the request). > The mention of Margaret Hamilton in this passage is one of maybe three instances in the entire book in which a woman appears who is
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by jack9 10y ago
The hacker ethic was born of tacit misogyny and not subscribed to, by the original hackers (i.e. pre-80s). Most of development is about lossy processes. All of the original hacker ethics should be changed; revised. She posits an example and
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by jack9 10y ago
> Some forms of secrecy are good, in certain contexts I disagree. Because my ethic says that secrecy always benefits those of ill-intent. I must not make exceptions for those of goodwill, because exceptions disprove the rule. I am not wa
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by jack9 10y ago
> Just consider the alternatives; analog media? Now you're offtopic altogether, talking about different possible types of potential loss.... > Every language suffers change as new speakers/writers and new representations ap
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by jack9 10y ago
> This entire article is ridiculous pedantry to me Then you missed the point. Kids grow up reading "real hacker culture" and these ethics are one of the first things I assimilated when incubating. They are not ethics at all, bu
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by jack9 10y ago
I don't think many people understand what computer security means either way and to get a qualitative answer, you need to know about almost every aspect of development AT A PROJECT LEVEL. what is a potential buyer going to ask, "h
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by jack9 10y ago
The answer "it depends" is a cop out. There's no analysis, because even a cursory look gives a logical answer. Moving to a high cost area to gamble for a position that might help your career in the future, given any unemploym
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by jack9 10y ago
Is propaganda or "fake news" or misinformation, "interference"? Isn't that the same tactics the US political parties use every season? China, France, and any other country (not counting strangers like N.Korea) have
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by jack9 10y ago
> Translation is one possible reason mentioned in that very license That can (and usually does) change the content. Sigh.
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by jack9 10y ago
Yeah, that's more like me. tx
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by jack9 10y ago
Am I a stoic? As someone who doesn't experience much emotion (usually none) except for my own hubris or pride, I find I'm happier than most people. I also find I have bouts of negative emotions at times, but very few identifiable
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by jack9 10y ago
JSON Schema validation exists (e.g. the IAB standards).
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by jack9 10y ago
It started lightly, but became appalling during the first Bush administration (into Clinton, second Bush and Obama and soon Trump). It just got called QE when it became a tool to buffer against the inevitable failing industries. The report
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by jack9 10y ago
> I've seen infinite scrolling that implements paging as well Then you're using offsets, which is the crux of the disagreement regarding the utility of offsets.
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by jack9 10y ago
I've been running a postfix for years (since 2008ish) and never once checked or worried about blacklists. My 3 users haven't reported any problems at all.
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by jack9 10y ago
Who cares about a magenetosphere? Dig underground with water tanks lining the top and problem solved 100%. If you can't do that on Mars, you aren't going to survive Titan anyway. SMH scientific american.
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by jack9 10y ago
Comments on any given internet forum are of no specific importance or authority, which is part of the lesson. This "question" is a non-event. Sheesh.
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by jack9 10y ago
> While an abuse of power, I'm not sure I see the outrage. I don't see it either when something happens on reality TV (direct analog). It's fine and dandy that reddit mods post about liberal values, which is purely politic
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by jack9 10y ago
Dunno what happened. http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-freed-child-rapist-lau...
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by jack9 10y ago
When you alter you contradict your own fact checking to include partisan interpretations and equivocation to bolster an agenda, you lose credibility. Snopes is no longer a wholly credible source for fact checking when they don't stick
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by jack9 10y ago
No, not 0 either.
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by jack9 10y ago
I still have a few memories from when I was 2. Nothing from ages 1,3,4. I can actually recall things from every other year.
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by jack9 10y ago
> Did you just invent the perpetuum mobile, That's the implication of the EM Drive. I didn't invent it, it's the very first thing that you think of once you violate the momentum conservation principle. This is why it'
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by jack9 10y ago
> Actually it's not as much useful as an engine as it may seem, It's worth more than any existing or previous theoretical engine. Put this rotating around a center point. Now put 1000s of them. Now we have power generation for
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by jack9 10y ago
This doesn't make much sense, when very rich people (like Steve Jobs) get diseases and die. If there was a cure, at some point one of these ultra rich individuals would receive "the hidden cure" or have an overt relationship
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by jack9 10y ago
http://www.theaidsinstitute.org/node/259 You might have to eradicate a number of species.
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by jack9 10y ago
> Has the NSA ever offered evidence for these allegations? I'm not sure why it would matter. The perception of the world and a relative place in it, affects voting. That's inherent. China warned against electing Trump, early on
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by jack9 10y ago
The Waldo moment would be used to compare any iconoclast in this marketing article. Trump is just the most well-known target of the day.
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by jack9 10y ago
> What you are missing Automation costs are actually administrative costs (platform fees), which have recently increased via unmonetized opportunity cost models (opportunity being a specific technical term in advertising). SO is not full
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by jack9 10y ago
> And we don’t want to use an automated system that selects some ads for us. So they do direct deals mostly, which is antiquated and probably to preserve their branding as a "tech site". > Did you know we have a lot of unpai

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