lopmotr

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by lopmotr 8y ago
That already happens but they're small communities so you don't have much awareness of those that you're not a member of. Anyone can join privately run forums with like-minded people and sensible moderation that they agree wi
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Can you describe what that harm is? If a picture is copied to 100 recipients, does the harm multiply by 100 times also? How is that information communicated to the victim? I can imagine this being the case for defamation. 100 people being t
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by lopmotr 8y ago
"new techniques are evaluated against the state-of-the-art codec, for which the coding tools have been refined from decades of investment. It is then easy to drop the new technology as “not at-par.” This seems to be quite a general tec
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Do the other news sources you use explain the disadvantages of net neutrality or alternatives that could provide better results? If they present it in only positive light, then they're one-sided too, you just don't notice because
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by lopmotr 8y ago
No need for comics. This is literally the documentation for the .PLY mesh format: "The way out of this morass of formats is to create a single file format that is both flexible enough to anticipate future needs and that is simple enoug
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Yes, there's a weird way that when we label people, it changes the legitimacy of their condition. It's broader than just how acceptable it is to complain. Other examples are depression and autism. If you're diagnosed with one
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Yes, it seemed a bit random and confusing to me. I didn't think drugs or gambling obviously made people miserable - aren't they purpose made for pleasure? They don't really annoy other people either which turned out to be wha
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by lopmotr 8y ago
I guess the party the won the election and therefore has legitimate authority from the citizens to do that. It sounds like a much more fair and accountable system than giving the power to people who are neither elected nor appointed by elec
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by lopmotr 8y ago
What if there was a dongle that securely clipped/glued onto the bottom of the computer so it feels like it's part of it? You'd never remove it and it would simply become a bigger computer with all the ports you want. Just lik
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by lopmotr 8y ago
That's just expectations which will adapt quickly enough. I doubt you'll make the same mistake again. It's not just type C either I bought a USB 3.0 thumbdrive once and it turned out to be the same speed as a normal one, so e
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by lopmotr 8y ago
What happened to enforcing trademark rights on the USB logo? Just about every obviously non-compliant 10m long USB extension cable or retractable power-only cable has the USB logo on it. Sometimes it's a bastardized form but it's
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by lopmotr 8y ago
It's grating to hear people calling each other shills. If the only evidence is motive then it's too weak to draw that conclusion. The world is full of politically motivated people on all sides who aren't being paid by anyone.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
If anything, it could be the reverse, it's just too complicated to immediately see. As another counter-obviousness example, living in a cold environment helps you lose weight because your body has to generate more heat all the time. Bu
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by lopmotr 8y ago
It could be that the cooling of the brain is dominated by convection through blood flow rather than conduction through the skull/fat/skin. If that's true, then the effect of water vs air would be on the whole body which still
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Yes. I think this is what people are actually aggravated by. Somebody did extra work, however well-intentioned, that resulted in a worse experience than had they done nothing. On Chrome Android, you can "Request desktop site" whic
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by lopmotr 8y ago
There's probably some class of genuine users who would get banned unfairly. Just look at the complaints of blocking mega links. Imagine if they went full Paypal and started randomly banning accounts just because someone's mother d
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by lopmotr 8y ago
You can't simply call such a complicated thing a "mistake". You're suggesting encouraging people not save too much for retirement. Why discriminate against people who are careful to prepare for their future and give free
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Meanwhile, republicans should do the opposite, reversing the country's democrat-republican split. Since you want to achieve a one-party state, an easier and guaranteed effective way would be to move to Russia or China.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
How is that worse than every single FPS game where you can roleplay murdering someone? Unless you're also concerned about that, or you believe that rape is worse than murder, then you're suffering from miscalibrated worry.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
The previous generation of parents already fought against porn and violence in video games, movies, and music. And they lost. Now their kids are re-fighting the same fight. Why? Didn't we already establish that these things don't
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by lopmotr 8y ago
But to get Patreons to fund them, they'd have to make exciting press releases. That's sort of what they're already doing - make Americans excited about it so they vote for politicians who continue to fund them. I'll bet
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Reminds me of this game company (Campo Santo) using DMCA against PewDiePie [1] because they were offended at something he said while playing an unrelated game. It's another weapon in online fights. [1] https://motherboard.vi
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by lopmotr 8y ago
"Rich history" seems like a strangely positive term for feudalism which was not too different from the American black slavery and existed up until about the same time. They might be nice buildings, but were used for horrible purpo
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by lopmotr 8y ago
I Googled around a bit and it seems like around 1900, a bunch of influential surgeons recommended that nobody should even consider stapes mobilization again, partly because the risk of infection, which could be fatal, was so great. So peopl
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Figured out that you could try an old technique that was already known to have superior results when it works before performing a newer type of operation? Seems quite a weak discovery if it's a discovery a all. Maybe the author didn&#x
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by lopmotr 8y ago
I think it's arrogant to assume that you know better than (other) voters. If you believe a demagogue is bad, what happens if he turns out to be just what was needed (Churchill perhaps?). Some people say Trump is good for poor people by
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by lopmotr 8y ago
What threat did he make? The closest I saw was asking some questions of two people entering the court. He used "alleged" as all media does for people who haven't been convicted. Here are public details of the trials already p
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by lopmotr 8y ago
I gathered all that from the article, but how is "has bone crud on his staples (sic) [...] He breaks the staple free" different from "Early on they used staples mobilization to knock the bone crud off"? Was the new versi
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by lopmotr 8y ago
I don't understand the story. In the 1800s, surgeons corrected the problem by moving the stapes. Then in 1952, Rosen again corrected the problem by moving the stapes, but this time, the effect seemed to be permanent (or not?). What was
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Since when were the masses ever concerned with the moral principles of their religion or ideology? They only care about whatever the contemporary popular interpretation is because they want to fit in with their peers and avoid the burden of

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