madaxe

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by madaxe 13y ago
Yup. Uptight preppy hole near Chicago.
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by madaxe 13y ago
I had the benefit of attending the British, German, and American school systems. Schooling in America has little to do with education, and much to do with indoctrination. Pretty much the only thing I learned was the pledge of allegiance - o
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by madaxe 13y ago
School, typically. Had to do them at 9, 12, 17. I got dumber with each successive one.
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by madaxe 13y ago
IQ is just another meaningless metric. I'm supposedly 183, but I'm still a moronic cracked-out buffoon who struggles to remember what he ate for lunch.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Espionage is not exploration, no matter what your congressman tells you. The plutonium is for RTGs on benthic listening buoys, which are moored deep in the water column, or anchored directly to the sea floor. They have very sensitive hydrop
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by madaxe 13y ago
> Note: The US is a good country overall I'm not so sure that that's correct. You're talking about the world's largest sponsor of terrorism and war. The American people may be good, if uninformed and controlled by p
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by madaxe 13y ago
They have been for years, and the list of what I can't browse on 3G only ever grows.
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by madaxe 13y ago
No, but it's the same filtering setup as they're planning on applying to all the networks, so there's little difference in the grand scheme of things. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUhIcj8CAAAfQEX.jpg:large
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by madaxe 13y ago
O2. They censor a really odd selection of stuff.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Hm, site is censored in the UK for being "violent pornographic and/or political material" :|
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by madaxe 13y ago
I'm somewhat bemused by the entire thing - as effectively they're just going "look, memetic drift imitates genetic drift!" - which isn't really all that surprising. If you want to propagate a gene through a populati
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by madaxe 13y ago
You can't simulate being broke. Actually being broke is only part of it. The larger part is not knowing when, if ever, it'll end, and therefore having to plan your life around being perennially skint.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Cops have been picking locks for as long as both have existed.
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by madaxe 13y ago
You can also extract enough pure nicotine from a pack of cigarettes to kill a man, if you know how. It's not hard. Nasty things. Time for a cigarette break.
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by madaxe 13y ago
On a tangent - NP really need to obfuscate those ID's better. Pixellating is pretty readily reversible - you just need the base card image (find it or shop it), and you can then brute-force by iterating through numbers/letters a
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by madaxe 13y ago
I would wager that they're opening it in order to generate a thumb or preview, or maybe for search indexing, and libreoffice is a good way to achieve this on linux - particularly if they're only opening it once, as they probably u
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by madaxe 13y ago
I think that what they actually have is probably access to the same systems (i.e. PRISM, Xkeyscore, etc.) as the NSA, with the same level of access.
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by madaxe 13y ago
No, no, they do. Everybody is the enemy. We have always been at war with everybody. See the defence budget. They're on the shitlist for cyberattack, along with Iran, China, and friends. In fact, see the article, which cites this too.
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by madaxe 13y ago
That's a fair point, and I agree that in the circumstance due to the framing of the situation it could be more harmful - but it doesn't change the fact that the root cause is bullying. We as a species have a remarkable proclivity
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by madaxe 13y ago
All bullying is based on traits that set you apart. People don't bully "one of the crowd". They bully the outliers, the different ones, the ones who are female, or fat, or thin, or clever, or stupid, or black, or white, or ol
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by madaxe 13y ago
Oh, pot, kettle! C'mon already. You're right that by abstracting things away you can just create a philosophical point with no path to resolution, but you can also actively inflict harm by tackling an issue in isolation without ev
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by madaxe 13y ago
Either you have serious reading comprehension issues, or you make a habit of deliberately misconstruing others statements - or you're a troll, and I'm stupidly feeding you. I am saying that it IS an issue, but that the issue is
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by madaxe 13y ago
Ta. Been a while since I did my masters (astrophysics & cosmology), and ideas tend to drift into things which aren't quite right without steering and practice. That said - re: the measurement of a volume within a gravity well - how
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by madaxe 13y ago
... hello wilful misinterpreter? You don't fix a gas leak by buying a new sofa. I'm just saying that the thing being posed as an issue isn't the actual issue.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Child gets bullied (shock horror), mother assumes it's sexism (it ain't, it's bullying. I'm a dude. Got bullied at high school. Does that make my tormentors homosexual autosexists?), rants. I'm so bored of this sort
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by madaxe 13y ago
But of course. We reside in one of them. Space ("bigger") and time are interrelated concepts (same damn thing/Minkowski vector) - if you have less time in an area (i.e. due to a gravity well, like Earth's) you can equall
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by madaxe 13y ago
The majority are always right, for a subjective and wide definition of right.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Used to work on several trading desks. Bribing your risk desk wasn't just common - it was expected. I doubt anything has changed.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Afraid you've missed the point in the same way as Justin did... Those people (me included) are perfectly aware of that. The argument is that your mother isn't, and while it's reasonable to expect her to be, you can't jus
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by madaxe 13y ago
They'll join this thread in a while and call us all novices for not understanding that this is deliberate, well tested, and our fault. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6166886

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