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by javajosh 2y ago
>smells like a class action suit You (and others like you) need to meticulously record and assess the financial damage the lockout does to you.
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by javajosh 2y ago
For those interested in finding new music, let me strongly recommend some good radio station youtube channels. KEXP and KCRW both come time mind. In that vein, sometimes you can find good new music through labels. For example, 4AD. I'm
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by javajosh 2y ago
>Downside is that config is a lot of work. Consider sharing the work as open source. I think that too often people think of "mere configs" as something less than programming, not valuable and not worth sharing, when they are
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by javajosh 2y ago
Another option is to pony up for youtube premium, which eliminates most ads.
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by javajosh 2y ago
I would suggest approaching the impulsive kid as a trainer might approach a dog. Determine what the motivation is, and then use that as leverage to get the behavior that you want (and which is better for the child). So, if you want them to
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by javajosh 2y ago
The word "lawsuit" is saddled with a lot of baggage. If you remove the baggage, and leave only the essence of "making an accusation with evidence to be decided by a disinterested 3rd party", I fail to see how you can obj
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by javajosh 2y ago
THE major difference between nations is their concept and practice of "justice". Capitalism is a side-effect. Feudalism seems to be every society's first pass at justice, and then capitalism arises by erasing hard class disti
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by javajosh 2y ago
Turing used a metaphor that was appropriate to his time: a tape, an alphabet, and a machine that reads (and writes to) the tape. It is a simplified expression of real machines - but it does not capture the essence of the connection between
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by javajosh 2y ago
I've often felt that neither Church nor Turing really captured the essence of computation. All you need is a set of distinguishable states, and the ability for them to affect each other a la a nand gate. Neither binary nor electrons ar
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by javajosh 2y ago
I propose a new flat electron theory. They do in fact orbit the nuclei in a simple orbit. It's just that Maxwell's equations don't apply at those length scales. Electron tunneling is a conspiracy designed to hide the truth. T
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by javajosh 2y ago
The real question is whether Mr. Beast can make compelling content about saving the Future of Humanity Institute. If so, they're good.
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by javajosh 2y ago
>Cogs are in motion, learning is happening. They know what power is, and have demonstrated that clearly. If there is a silver lining, it's that they've revealed their knowledge and desire for asymmetry of power.
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by javajosh 2y ago
I'd go further and say the more power you have the less privacy you should have.
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by javajosh 2y ago
> to create enough propaganda to destabilize a democracy Better explained by "Internet Fuckwad Theory" https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/greater-internet-fuckwad-theo... . It turns out anonymity isn't e
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by javajosh 2y ago
Sorry to hear that, but can you quantify it? Like, do you get verbal abuse at work 5x a day, sneers at the grocery store every time you go, or what? Or are you talking about online talk about your identity ? (I hate to break it to you, but
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by javajosh 2y ago
>It’s really disheartening to hear so many objections to “race” or “class” stories on NPR as these are the pieces that speak of experiences like my own They could reasonably apply to me, too (I'm Jewish, raised in a Christian town
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by javajosh 3y ago
There is a discontent that is fundamental to creation. After all, if what exists was enough, then why create anything? The wide variety of human personalities (on a long timescale) and moods (short timescale) is nothing less than Nature per
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by javajosh 3y ago
As an aside, funny that "broad daylight" is seemingly only mentioned when someone gets away with doing something nefarious.
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by javajosh 3y ago
They are moral-hazard-for-hire firms. Without their reputation they cannot function. Since govt uses them as much as biz govt has a disincentive to tarnish reputation.
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by javajosh 3y ago
~90% of the comments here are "motivated anecdotes" and are quite valuable. Perhaps this is not the dis you think it is.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Yes, this article is somewhere between misleading and FUD. He even states that FF on Ubuntu LTE worked fine, the only issues were with the nightly build - a distribution that few people use, and those that do should know better than to writ
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by javajosh 3y ago
One wonders what fascism could have done had it not alienated intellectuals. But one also wonders if that alienation is core to fascism, even definitive. Fascism is notoriously hard to define, but "alienates the best thinkers" see
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by javajosh 3y ago
'Compute' connotes hardware, 'computation' does not.
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by javajosh 3y ago
>I am turned off whenever there is a handy new tool for us to use and then some people come up with reasons why using the new tool is a harmful thing to do. Same, but it turns out its complicated. There is something materially differen
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by javajosh 3y ago
Habits have momentum, and people aren't paying close attention to prices. They may not actually realize that the cost of fast food (FF) is now the cost of a sit down meal (SDM) at a full-service restaurant. So for a while FF feels ch
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by javajosh 3y ago
I've often felt that there is something inherently unwholesome about PhDs and the modern academic effort. As if we could create research factories, and that the quality and quantity of discoveries would scale with input (money). I&#x27
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by javajosh 3y ago
In which case the defense will claim, correctly, that this malware was never distributed. It was caught. "Attempted malware distribution" may not actually be a crime (but IANAL so I don't know).
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by javajosh 3y ago
What a truly lovely piece of work. I'm so glad that Wolfram adores math and science, and history, so much and has the tools to craft an excellent precis like this. It's always good to go to original sources, and connect with the d
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by javajosh 3y ago
It's okay to make a distinction between transient and steady-state communications. If the steady-state is p2p then that's good enough for me. BTW I've never built one but I've read that WebRTC can connect browsers on
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by javajosh 3y ago
>Ironic considering security is often advertised as a feature of rolling release distros. Security is a feature of rolling release. But supply-chain attacks like this are the exception to the rule.

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