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by leppr 11y ago
Like you need 10% of the population to be marginalized to carry out a couple of gun attacks. Smugling a dozen people and then arming them isn't exactly rocket science. Any exotic terror group could have done this even if 99% of the Fre
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by leppr 11y ago
There's also a comparatively low-tech piece of engineering we law abiding Europeans don't have access to that may help individual citizens in cases like these.
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by leppr 11y ago
Yes, discovering new areas of life you are inexperienced at (and maybe, like it seems to be the the case for this man, spent your life evolving away from), can make you feel powerless. Unfortunately this blog post doesn't even try to t
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by leppr 11y ago
That was at the same time an opinion about your idea being bad and the argument as to why.
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by leppr 11y ago
Heh, before my comment gets downvoted to oblivion: the apparently too subtle point was that for the foreseeable future machines will be unable to detect this kind of passive-aggressive comments, and that trolls aren't dumb, they will j
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by leppr 11y ago
Wow, that's a genius idea, you must be a very smart person. Last week I heard on BBC Click that Google has open-sourced their deep learning algorithm, so now even people like me can code AI apps. It's actually such a good idea tha
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by leppr 11y ago
I hope you realize a huge multi-billion dollar company such as Microsoft isn't one unified entity. Chances are the PR/politics guys never even talked to the team responsible for that telemetry update and have very different agenda
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by leppr 11y ago
How about a political revolution, where legislative power would rest on every citizen in the country thus making the aforementioned tactic impossible (if such system ever came to exist I think we should call it a "Democracy").
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by leppr 11y ago
TL;DR: invest in fatty foods.
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by leppr 11y ago
https://archive.is/BsKoF
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by leppr 11y ago
My mistake, I must have set the bar for "damage" a bit too high, only considering the shot policeman and the two dead terrorists. Controversy is obviously quite damaging to everyone involved. I can't even begin to imagine
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by leppr 11y ago
The implied meaning being that the single sociopath in question would not have been able to cause much damage if not for the dormant power of religion within other sociopaths.
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by leppr 11y ago
Religion is a powerful thing.
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by leppr 11y ago
Did you even ever set foot in a natural, dense, wild forest? This isn't like in a timber plantation or the park near your home, trees are fighting for light and overlap vertically, and satellite images happen to be two dimensional. Sho
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by leppr 11y ago
>I always thought this would be very interesting way to have player generated content, where they would have to build defences to protect their player/gold while offline. Other players could launch raids to try to steal it. Not an M
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by leppr 11y ago
Pretty sure big animals being fewer in number can be better explained by their need for larger and more specific territories than by their intellect.
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by leppr 11y ago
Not only governments do excessive excesses. In some places the government's caring hand might not be very present, in which case criminals being the only dispensers of firearms has some interesting (and predictable) consequences.
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by leppr 11y ago
For those using uMatrix/NoScript: https://archive.is/wPJa9
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by leppr 11y ago
But with more and more mobile web browsers hiding the address bar, how is that person reading over your shoulder going to know what's the name of that awesome site you are viewing?
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by leppr 11y ago
It's a feature, so you don't TL;DR to the conclusion.
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by leppr 11y ago
Well, he is an active detractor of Democracy, it's possible he could try to spread his agenda through technology (take a look at the colonialist imagery in Urbit). His view on gender 'roles' is also dangerously close to hate
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by leppr 11y ago
I think you meant: >It's also the case they don't care about skin shades OR accents, on the other hand .
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by leppr 11y ago
Thank you for the gold kind stranger.
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by leppr 11y ago
It takes a programmer to click on a "Ok" button now? I seem to recall the process on Windows being at least as involved.
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by leppr 11y ago
>I remember back in the day pre-Microsoft when Skype was unable to do that because it had point to point encryption. What about this piece of news from 2008? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/technology
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by leppr 11y ago
They are using the connections of unsuspecting users as a literal botnet, and sell access to this botnet to people that use it to carry out DDoS attacks.
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by leppr 11y ago
Agreed, I'm not sure why Google is assuming everyone browsing their site will do so on mobile devices. Overriding the right/middle-click is hardly ever good UX design, and I'm wondering how they even managed to make it so inc
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by leppr 11y ago
That's the traditional way to do it afaik, just tile a gif over the whole viewport.
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by leppr 11y ago
lmafo
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by leppr 11y ago
If you consider yourself a visual designer and can't begin to understand how to make a design "pop", "edgy" or "less liney" I think the problem is with you. Just call yourself a developer and be done wit

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