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by manicdee 7y ago
The phrase reflects on “illegal” being an act for which you are punished by a court or regulatory authority. There is never any question that laws or regulations are actually being broken. View the phrase as exercising poetic licence and us
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by manicdee 7y ago
“Tarpitting” is a specific type of network-layer defence which is not related to degradation of service. A tarpit will typically stretch out response time to network-layer and some application-layer communications in order to waste wallcloc
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by manicdee 7y ago
I, too, find my life is much less stressful when I bury my head in the sand and pay no attention to the corruption of government and progress of society towards capitalist fascism. Limit your social media feed to only people posting positiv
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by manicdee 7y ago
Would you say this researchers efforts were counterproductive to his career goals?
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by manicdee 7y ago
That is whataboutism. The US routinely massacres innocents in foreign countries then retroactively declares all the victims “terrorists”. China — to my knowledge — doesn’t engage in anywhere near the level of military aggression that the US
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by manicdee 7y ago
This is the same USA which performs extraordinary renditions (ie: kidnapping a citizen of a foreign nation from within that nation’s borders), political assassinations, and abandoning erstwhile allies because their new friends with oil don’
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by manicdee 7y ago
There is a clear disparity in the understanding of the phrase “good enough.” The “good enough” from an engineering perspective is, “meets the customer’s specifications and is the best we can do given the constraints of time and money.” It’s
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by manicdee 7y ago
As coveted in the comment: UBI provides a safety net so you can take risks with new ventures. It’s not a hand out it’s a hand up.
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by manicdee 7y ago
The best lies are based on the truth. In this case the lie was misrepresenting the position by leaving the reader to assume that Autopilot was intended to be active on the vehicle a Tesla sold.
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by manicdee 7y ago
The biggest telescopes in the world are built on land that is special or sacred to various indigenous people, or where the land was “leased” with no intention of paying the rent.
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by manicdee 7y ago
If destroying terrestrial astronomy is what it takes to get astronomers to recognise indigenous rights, then I will be pouring my money into StarLink.
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by manicdee 7y ago
Hyperloop was an idea he came up with at an interview and immediately pointed out that it wasn’t his intention to pursue it any further. As fo the Earth-to-Earth Rocket plan, that’s based on Starship which is in development, and you can fol
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by manicdee 7y ago
Or to stress test various nations’ biological controls with a “safe” virus that shouldn’t backfire and destroy the creator.
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by manicdee 7y ago
Every year we learn more about how suit-wearers do business: nepotism, bribery, kickbacks, back scratching, quid pro quo … but we continue to believe the myth of the “self made man,” who raised themselves to success by hard work and thoroug
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by manicdee 7y ago
Sometimes a poorly communicated idea turns into an anti-vax movement. Other times a poorly communicated idea is used as cover for malfeasance, such as “war on drugs” which is actually about oppressing an underclass.
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by manicdee 7y ago
The problem is that anti-vaxxers will use the headline as their entire justification for their opinion which is not supported by the content under the headline.
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by manicdee 7y ago
“X is better than coal” is damning with faint praise. “At least I am not a mass murderer.”
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by manicdee 7y ago
We’ve had to handle Holocaust Denial since WW2, we’ve had to handle anti-vaxxers since Andrew Wakefield, and conspiracy theorists since the first apes developed complex language. This is not a “fight every five years” episodic battle,mthis
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by manicdee 7y ago
It summarises the informational value of the linked article, which adds value by saving me the time it would take to read the low-value article.
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by manicdee 7y ago
Honestly I doubt we’d find 500 people who thought nuclear power was important enough a hill to die on that they’d move to Nevada to ensure its future (and I sometimes wonder whether the majority of pro-nuclear experts can be bothered to get
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by manicdee 7y ago
I don’t want ideology imposing perverse incentives either.
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by manicdee 7y ago
Voting margins are around 3%. Population around 3M. Thus Nevada only needs an influx of about 90,000 nuclear-friendly gentry to make a huge change to the future of nuclear power in the world.
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by manicdee 7y ago
You aren’t helping your case by labelling people who disagree with you as “uneducated idiots.” In my local environment the most visible people championing nuclear power are the same ones who turn up in Parliament House wearing their sponsor
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by manicdee 7y ago
The claim was that anti-nuclear sentiment was the sole reason for the current climate crisis. The fact of the matter is that cheap oil and extensive lobbying by the fossil fuel industry is by far the major cause of the current climate crisi
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by manicdee 7y ago
Which legislation in particular is preventing the development of a “commercial off-the-shelf” nuclear power solution at prices comparable to wind and solar on an available capacity basis?
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by manicdee 7y ago
> Every time local backups get brought up people say, "but not everyone has a computer" which reenforces the focus on cloud backups. Which is why I would like to see the focus on migrating this functionality to their non-“compu
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by manicdee 7y ago
Now go through them and weed out the plots that were actually sting operations where all the motivation, allies, funding and training came from three letter agencies in a million dollar operation to trick an angry young Muslim man into buil
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by manicdee 7y ago
For the non-US folks like me, iCloud was a non-option from the start due to data sovereignty. I am already skating on thin ice by sharing calendars between devices using iCloud. The way Apple can best address the privacy issue while still p
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by manicdee 7y ago
In some cases (helping a favoured enterprise grow) the inevitable outcome of the effort is the desired result (Tesla increases revenue, remains solvent). In other cases the inevitable outcome is not desired (cddb sold to private interest, r
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by manicdee 7y ago
Noting that the orders of magnitude increase in cost are directly caused by infrequent launches by launch systems with tight mass and volume constraints, and the need to build a space telescope on the ground, have the equipment survive laun

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