marvin-83

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by marvin-83 7y ago
Typically, "no politics" ends up being enforced as "no politics that contradict the office norm". It is clear how this ends up happening. When people express an opinion generally supported in the office, it is unlikely s
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by marvin-83 7y ago
yes but large organisations find the middle ground difficult to cultivate. It requires that people avoid becoming excessively emotionally invested in the discussion; such that disagreements do not negatively impact their working relationshi
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by marvin-83 7y ago
if 8chan was cut off because they were subject to extensive network attacks and cloudflare did not see any profit or value in serving them then I am ok with that. I just don't think that's the reason. I expect that a different sit
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by marvin-83 7y ago
yes, but these are investigated and prosecuted by police, public prosecution services, and courts; not by couriers discontinuing their services.
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by marvin-83 7y ago
the difference is their position in the stack. Cloudflare blocking people that abuse the network is legitimate (e.g. spam, denial-of-service), just like it is legitimate for forum admins to block people that abuse the forum (trolling, expli
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by marvin-83 7y ago
you're not really engaging with his point. Effectively banning 8chan by removing network protection does not just restrict extremists; it restricts anyone who used that forum. Ultimately, such matters should be prosecuted by courts. It
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by marvin-83 7y ago
Yeah, I think so. Curation-as-a-service could even become a viable market. It's arguably already happening to a certain extent through various platforms, creators, and aggregators; but it's not really split off as its own service
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by marvin-83 7y ago
I think the defensive aspect is underestimated. I know from personal experience that carving out a clear online domain name is a lot harder with the expansion of tlds. Also, I expect phishing sites will have an ever easier time registering
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by marvin-83 7y ago
Probably aws.amazon rather than webservices. They've invested a lot of time branding the acronym AWS, I don't see them rolling that back now. As for whether they make those the new generic addresses... I'm not sure. I think t
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by marvin-83 7y ago
I thought that lapsed domains got their pagerank reset (or significantly reduced). Is that not the case?
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by marvin-83 7y ago
I believe he is referring to compiler optimisation which removes wasteful or extraneous operations. I don't write in Java though, so can't comment more than that.
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by marvin-83 7y ago
by autopsy? Or is there clear external physiology that indicates the age?
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by marvin-83 7y ago
From the study that Marino & Frohoff (2011) cites for orca whale lifespan in the wild: > Using data from between 1973-4 and 1987, females have a mean life expectancy of 50.2 yr How is this possible? I don't understand how a 14 y
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by marvin-83 7y ago
I think that if you spoke with people who voted to leave, rather than relying on the interpretation of media outlets that opposed them, you would find that the decision was much better informed than you believe. Also consider that people on
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by marvin-83 7y ago
I am not aware of any large, let alone national, democratic system that was based-on consensus. It has always been majority decision, with some variation on what constitutes a majority (e.g. simple majority, 2/3 majority, etc). I agree
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by marvin-83 7y ago
I would agree that voting results where the outcome was known ahead-of-time should be considered with caution. Such information undoubtedly influences both how votes are cast and who decides to cast a vote.
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by marvin-83 7y ago
Such speculation of voting intentions is disingenuous. To take your example, only people that oppose the result of the Brexit vote suggest that voters didn't really mean what they voted; it's just a way to apply favourable spin to