mikec3010

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by mikec3010 8y ago
Hypothetically, if you needed python couldn't you either compile it to binary or just install the runtime ? I don't see how a language would be coupled to the version of Linux.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
That is better, actually. If it's proven for that many years why mess with it? Why assume that older is unilaterally worse?
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Doctors did fine prescribing opioids in the 70s and 80s. They're not the cause of this epidemic.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
> before I learned how fucked-up our immigration system is. Fucked up because they give higher-educated people preference, or fucked up because corporations lobby for more H1B workers to depress engineering wages industry wide?
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by mikec3010 8y ago
So if someone takes any medication and strokes out, has an MI, or stops breathing, we can't blame the drug because maybe that was going to happen anyway?
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by mikec3010 8y ago
The hypocrisy will be hilarious when people start ripping yt vids and putting them on pt, given how yt was born off pirated content and hid behind "safe harbor" laws to build a browsable catalog. The first clip that came from yt w
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Yet they have no trouble raising tuition every year.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
I wonder why ambulances don't have mobile x-ray systems? I realize the radiation would have to be managed, but it seems like a great application of technology to perform the imaging and send it digitally while eh route.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Is there a reason they can't smelt it from fresh ore and carbon?
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by mikec3010 8y ago
I was still much too naive about online orders back then. But you reminded me of the "rebates" fiasco. Remember those days? I once got my rebate rejected because I sent the original receipt and not a photocopy.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
The moral arguments extend beyond "brick and mortar" vs online. I think the bigger issue is how they treat their employees. One company uses "third party contractors " to skirt labor laws and has their employees pissing
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by mikec3010 8y ago
We're the same age and this was exactly how I felt going to CompUSA in the late 90s. My first big purchase was spending $85 on a 32mb SIMM module for my Pentium 1 system (maybe it was 2 16mb, I can't remember if they needed to be
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by mikec3010 8y ago
I'm not saying they're money hungry, but it's extremely uncouth to show up every Sunday and not contribute. I was pointing out that these free services aren't actually free.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
If merely getting someplace is a great effort, they are in need of medication from a psychiatrist. They aren't candidates for therapy if that's the extent of their participation.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
>Americans love spending money on things >our priest, our deacon, and our deacon's wife How much do you tithe per week? Don't kid us by implying they'd give you that support if you weren't a paying customer.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
>Most therapists can't help you, Who made you the expert to make this determination? The people it doesn't help are the people who put no effort into the process.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Or if they were sufficiently advanced, they could entomb their bodies deep in a planet and observe the universe through VR and small undetectable probes. Or maybe the drake equation doesn't factor in drugs: that once a civilisation bec
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by mikec3010 8y ago
It's done all the time in the entertainment industry so it wouldn't be surprising to see it leveraged here. And even if its not being employed overtly, another way of interpreting my message is that these companies receive a net p
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by mikec3010 8y ago
So you're not disputing that dark patterns are useful and effective, just that you don't like hearing them pointed out?
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by mikec3010 8y ago
I'm not suggesting they tolerate it completely. Just that they make the game slightly "cheatable" then counteract it enough for there to be a known controversy.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Yeah the downvote has become the "disagree" button sadly. I remember playing GTA-V on PS3 and early on people figured out some sort of (seemingly) underflow attack where they got billions of in-game cash, traded and gave it away,
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by mikec3010 8y ago
I wonder if there's an optimization to be made about tolerating a minimum amount of cheating while being vociferous about the countermeasures? Along the same lines as "no such thing as bad publicity", having just enough cheat
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by mikec3010 8y ago
> in investments of some sort But he's got most of his investments in one sort , stock in AMZN. It's not a secret that there isn't $150bn of liquidity at the B/A price. If he tried to unload those shares he wouldn&#
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by mikec3010 8y ago
So it's similar to the $CURRENT_FAD coin valuations in that if Bezos were to try to liquidate all of his position it certainly wouldn't net him that publicised amount because there's not that much liquidity.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
I'm giving up privacy but I'm not agreeing to my likeness being used for profit. If someone uses my likeness for profit - say an artistic photograph - without my consent I can sue for damages. Mass facial recognition is similar be
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by mikec3010 8y ago
I'm sure there are pathological liars that scam corporations for petty gains, but I figure they must be dwarfed financially by insurance scammers that do intentional slip-and-fall accidents or have their car "stolen" from the
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Who determines who is a scammer? Why wouldn't they add someone who left a scathing yelp review to such a list?
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Unlike alcohol, food is generally perishable. Plus a (responsible) alcohol connoisseur's consumption is more strictly throttled by his body.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Check Costco. I bought an XPS 15 with 32gb ram for 1800 last winter.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
> upgrades requiring random restarts completely interrupting my workflow You'll never see that time again.

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