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by milcron 9y ago
I think this was more true when America had an open frontier, and anyone unhappy with their lot in life could strike out West and homestead. Today, if I have no modern job, where can I procure food? The land is all spoken for. I can't
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by milcron 9y ago
G. K. Chesterton wrote, “Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad … mathematicians go mad.”
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by milcron 9y ago
Ha, well. That's what they said they were doing. In practice it was much more of a plutocracy.
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by milcron 9y ago
The most well-known socialist economies were central command economies, it is true. But "socialism" isn't synonymous with central command. It's supposed to mean the economy is controlled by the workers, rather than by ca
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by milcron 9y ago
Related link dump Bernie Sanders and the Nordic countries are Social Democrats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy Social democracy is a political, social and economic ideology that supports econo
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by milcron 9y ago
You're right. Unfortunately HN won't let me edit my comment.
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by milcron 9y ago
Know what's even crazier? If the CPU has the "Intel® Anti-Theft Technology", then the Management Engine has 3G built-in.
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by milcron 9y ago
Intel Core 2 Duo P8600? That has the ME. Intel's ME was first available in 2006, and by the end of 2008 it was on every CPU they produce. According to ark.intel.com, the P8600 chip was produced Q3'08 so it's in the right time
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by milcron 9y ago
Thanks, you're right. Although the rebuttal I posted addresses the memo point-by-point, it similarly fails to reach the intended audience. Btw, maybe I'm reading this wrong, but your block quote seems to make the opposite point th
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by milcron 9y ago
I don't believe it's possible to be unbiased - whether as a news site or as a moderation filter. It's better to be aware of your biases than to fool yourself into believing they don't exist.
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by milcron 9y ago
You're right, I was missing this. I followed his hyperlink[0] and immediately started reading section 10.1, but he probably meant section 10.3. In that case I'll have to retract what I said. Thanks for putting me straight. [0] ht
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by milcron 9y ago
> Read the link cited with that sentence and you might understand it better. It is saying that gender issues which affect men are not taken seriously and are discarded. I wonder what gender issue Damore found himself fa
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by milcron 9y ago
He did suggest that the natural percentage of women in tech would be below 50%, and it would take "authoritarian" measures to reach 50% or greater.
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by milcron 9y ago
Also from the memo: > We have extensive government and Google programs, fields of study, and legal and social norms to protect women, but when a man complains about a gender issue issue [sic] affecting men, he’s labelled as a misogynist
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by milcron 9y ago
Is Damore not saying that it would take "authoritarian" measures to get the gender ratio to 50/50? The assumptions are stated bluntly, but I don't find them inaccurate. The rebuttal gets off to a rocky start, but each as
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by milcron 9y ago
https://medium.com/@adljksbvkj/heres-your-point-by-point-ref...
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by milcron 9y ago
It does come up in practice. It's actually a common scam. When only a small fraction of shares are on the market, it's quite easy to manipulate the price higher... buying pressure goes a relatively long way. If you can get 1% of y
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by milcron 9y ago
The Python bindings to Qt don't require compilation. QML is an interpreted gui declaration, and Qt Quick allows programming behavior in Javascript.
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by milcron 9y ago
It's referenced in the OP: Chromium-based browsers are being “infested” by Instart Logic tech which works around blockers and worst, around browser privacy settings (they may start “infecting” Firefox eventually, but that
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by milcron 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instart_Logic
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by milcron 9y ago
Here are a few suggestions https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7798748/find-out-whether...
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by milcron 9y ago
Here is a comparison of POWER8 vs Intel Xeon http://www.anandtech.com/show/10435/assessing-ibms-power8-pa...
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by milcron 9y ago
Most of the "citations" are inline links to Wikipedia. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
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by milcron 9y ago
Given the scope of Google's influence, I'd argue that Google's diversity is far more important than among garbage collectors.
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by milcron 9y ago
They are a lot better since investing in the me_cleaner project. Not all of the management engine can be removed, but it can be neutered (most of the binary deleted, including the network stack). I used to think Purism was a sham, but now t
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by milcron 9y ago
His "references" are mostly Wikipedia links. I wish he had posted the anti-echo-chamber parts on their own, instead of using them to decorate an argument on gender differences.
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by milcron 9y ago
I think that's just the east wing.
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by milcron 9y ago
What date was 'early'? I didn't get the email until 4 days prior to the fork.
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by milcron 9y ago
How much notice is ample? The email wasn't sent until Jul 27. That's not even one week.
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by milcron 9y ago
Apparently I was misremembering and it does continue booting after a few seconds without input. I didn't see any output because I needed to configure TTY settings. Additionally, the manual tells you how to adjust the default boot setti

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