manicdee

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by manicdee 8y ago
Is it a humourous address to the issue with some real options for resolution such as introspection, or a humourous pisstakecwhich does nothing more than reinforce that people can be pigeonholed and you can deal with them without understandi
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by manicdee 8y ago
Scale linearly to 5% of gross income before deductions, minus minimum wage/poverty line. Then someone on minimum wage of $30k will just get demerit points while someone on gross income over $200k will pay $8,500. Given that their “taxa
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by manicdee 8y ago
Yeah nah. We don’t describe code as “awful” because we truly want to rewrite from scratch. Code can be quite awful simply because a company has a high developer turnover due to hiring practices (you can code? Good, write our payroll system)
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by manicdee 8y ago
Yet we have photos and video of US “customs” intercepting Cisco shipments and loading backdoored firmware or tampering with the hardware. They boast about it. If it came to a war, the US and China are both going to shut down whatever commun
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by manicdee 8y ago
Eugenics is basically applying selective breeding or even genetic engineering to humans in order to grow towards a “better” human population. This uses scientific concepts such as genetics to implement a political or ideological goal. Eugen
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by manicdee 8y ago
You can compare the weight of the heat shield required for atmospheric reentry braking to the weight of the fuel you need for propulsive reentry braking: if the fuel weighs more, use the heat shield instead. This could be the difference, fo
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by manicdee 8y ago
You have to take the slowing-down fuel with you on the speeding-up part of the trip though, which means it takes much more energy to speed up in the first place.
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by manicdee 8y ago
There's no scientific case supporting eugenics. Eugenics is not a scientific idea.
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by manicdee 8y ago
In my view the question of whether the law is unbiased and “fair” is more important to resolve than whether accidentally erasing a phone seized by law enforcement counts as spoiling evidence. There’s no point arguing that storing a vat of m
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by manicdee 8y ago
How long until we find out that attempting to use a Greybox will trigger the self destruct feature built into iOS by Apple as part of that patch where they disable USB data when the phone is locked?
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by manicdee 8y ago
Removing a phone that was previously associated with your Apple ID will remotely erase the device. You will get an email confirming the erasure the next time the device is turned on.
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by manicdee 8y ago
How does a lack of pilots sound like a surplus?
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by manicdee 8y ago
As long as this data release honours requests to keep names and addresses silent, I see no problem with it. You already register to vote, that information is publicly available. The assumption that it’s inconvenient to uncover is false: tha
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by manicdee 8y ago
Hare-Clarke or bust. Also: multi-member electorates, otherwise the system trends towards two parties exclusively.
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by manicdee 8y ago
TL;DR: a twenty minute discussion of the permissive vs copyleft dichotomy and why it puts a division between activist- and business-developers. Food for thought rather than answers or questions. From the article: Ask people affiliated with
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by manicdee 8y ago
StarLink will end up pricing out that kind of demand in populated areas. It will be useful for traffic that needs low latency, and the people who need that will price others in the area out of StarLink services. So the surgeon conducting te
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by manicdee 8y ago
Is it Blizzard's fault that people are downvoting and posting abusive comments on the Diablo Immortal gameplay trailer? Or is that campaign of harassment perhaps the fault of the players who felt betrayed that a much loved hack & s
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by manicdee 8y ago
Perhaps you need to research the topic yourself.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Go read the comments on the Diablo Immortal gameplay trailer on YouTube. Tell me that's not molten vitriol.
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by manicdee 8y ago
You’ll need to back this up with numbers. Not anecdotal evidence from a therapist whose clients are likely to be people who have made questionable choices which is why they are seeing a therapist in the first place … I know plenty of succes
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by manicdee 8y ago
My carry-on and camera bags have a pouch for this size laptop, originally the 11” MBA. The bags only cost a hundred each so I am not putting a large dollar value on a laptop that fits. The smaller laptop is lighter, and when we have airline
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by manicdee 8y ago
2 has been addressed by adding membrane under key caps and texturing bottom of key caps to push dust out.
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by manicdee 8y ago
I understand your desire to draw a better analogy, but imagine for a moment that the point of talking in a theatre is not so much to express an opinion but to cause other people discomfort or harm. These are people who think it’s okay so sh
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by manicdee 8y ago
Gab was founded by people who think that “freedom of speech” means they’re allowed to say what they want without consequence. They view being ushered out of the theatre for talking during a movie as censorship.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Gab was specifically founded because Reddit didn’t let them say the things they like saying.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Yes, usually because a friend or contact has suggested that now is a good time to publish that article they were working on.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Protecting endangered species isn’t just about protecting a specific set of DNA, as per the article about reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Well we can predict that adding insecticides to our crops will cause insects to die. Which doesn’t explain why people are acting surprised that genetically modifying crops to produce insecticides will kill insects.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Here is one famous case study: https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wolf-reintroduc... The thing is that an ecosystem is a complex biological machine. When we go pulling out tiny sprockets from the machine, thi
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by manicdee 8y ago
One option is to change our cities to be less hostile to the creatures that used to live there.

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