kimdcmason

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by kimdcmason 9y ago
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Wat? You just stated that it's inappropriate to smile at a co-worker of the opposite sex. That's sufficiently bizarre that I assume you misread the original post... (I'm applying Occam's razor).
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"Or britain - you know the place that 1984 was about. Or germany, spain, canada, russia, saudi arabia, etc." What rubbish. The assertion that nations like Canada are comparable in terms of freedom to nations like Russia and Saudi
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by kimdcmason 9y ago
Citation needed.
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Why is it a dangerous notion? For the sake of argument, if everyone went completely over the top and deleted all their social media accounts, the world would go back to looking like it did around 2006. A few corporations would go broke. A f
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This times a million. Delete the FB account now, install uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger, and the data about you that's out there will become increasingly stale.
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by kimdcmason 9y ago
I never liked the reciprocal friend model of Facebook, and I liked even less that it was exposed publicly by default, allowing anyone to crawl the social graph. Even if you lock down your friend list, it doesn't matter because your fri
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by kimdcmason 9y ago
It's libertarian extremism. It's simply the reverse of communism, where the taxation level is 100%, and the state provides everything. Under this model, the taxation level is 0, and the government provides nothing. Neither of thes
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by kimdcmason 9y ago
Sounds sensible, but how does one ensure that the "lots of consumer options" part holds? There seem to be quite a few sectors with winner-take-all dynamics (e.g. social networking), and quite a few other sectors that under many co
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by kimdcmason 9y ago
"Atheist are on that front the same, and believe 100% there is no god." This is a false statement. The rest of your post is supposition and anecdote.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0012902/ tldr; speed traps save lives and reduce injury.
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It didn't strike me as snarky at all, and it's also not obvious considering that many people want the police warnings so that they can break the law. Apparently complying with laws is seen as optional by a lot of folks, and the re
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by kimdcmason 9y ago
Anecdotes are not data.
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"Offshore developed code is not usually the same quality." American exceptionalism and absolutely wrong.
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by kimdcmason 9y ago
All of these seem sensible except "Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that." "Your mission" is simply a placeholder for what you believe will make you happy. It's very subject to
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by kimdcmason 9y ago
The vast majority of clothes are made in low wage countries because economics. Putting others down because they dared buy inexpensive clothing is sanctimonious claptrap.
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by kimdcmason 9y ago
The blue jeans I'm wearing made in Lesotho disagree with you.
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Doesn't sound arrogant at all. People are pressed for time, and the costs of spending time on clothing outweigh the benefits for many.
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The suit is dead except explicitly formal occasions. The global financial crisis killed it. Basically every person commuting securities fraud in the oughts did so while wearing a suit. Think about who you now see wearing suits - bankers, sa
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"the Fed reacted with big interest rate hikes that sent the stock market plummeting." Wat? We're still in of one of the longest bull runs in history. The S&P 500 jumped 80% in the last 5 years. Even incorporating the mino
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by kimdcmason 9y ago
I’m not convinced. It does that for a high percentage of the population. However, after a period, the smaller percentage of the population that don’t reduce their birth rate will become increasingly dominant. Current examples are the rapid
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Microsoft ditches Windows 10 S in favor of new ‘S Mode’(theverge.com)
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Being bitten by a snake is in no way comparable to drunk driving.
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I prefer to deal with the world as it is, rather than as I wish it to be. The US government has never worked the way you describe. Unfortunately, when it comes to legislation and budget considerations (including education), lobbying works.
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My understanding isn't especially deep, but I believe AMD prevents access to unloaded pages that the code doesn't have permission to access, even for speculative access. Their specific quote is: "AMD processors are not subjec
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What it does is create a branch in code that is never actually followed, but is executed speculatively by the CPU, which then discards the result. The problem is that even though the result is discarded, computation of the result causes a m