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by mmirate 8y ago
Then - since you aren't claiming to be Mike Cardwell - how do you know that your unencrypted LUKS drivers and EFI modules haven't been tampered-with?
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by mmirate 8y ago
Each addiction clearly and openly differs in the object of addiction. Whereas, with autisms, we don't yet know how to analyze symptoms well enough for there to be a bijection between set-of-symptoms and underlying-autism-variant; indee
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by mmirate 8y ago
> Being passionate about anything is a thing of the past. Everyone works a corporate job at 1 of 5 companies in the world (people stopped innovating and a few large tech companies took over everything). Dumb question here: why is not hav
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by mmirate 8y ago
Your words ring true at face value.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Thank you, Captain Obvious. I was using "overrun by zombies" as both a hyperbole and as a shorthand for "beset by insert the worst disaster that doesn't need geography to occur (e.g. tsunamis and typhoons) ".
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by mmirate 8y ago
Well, iff the reader accounts for the headline's question implicit qualifier: "could it strike us again" where we probably aren't in China or Kazakhstan ... ... then Betteridge's Law applies as always. (But seriou
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by mmirate 8y ago
Unchecked presidential power can do literally anything to you, without recourse. Unchecked power of an ISP can do literally anything to your internet service , and only as long as you stay with that ISP. Unchecked and abused power of an IS
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by mmirate 8y ago
Right, that's why our ancestors didn't all evolve that mutation anyway. But our ancestral environment isn't the same as our current environment: just engineer more genes to paper over each successive disadvantage, recursively
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by mmirate 8y ago
And we have not started genetically engineering this mutation into humans, why exactly?
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by mmirate 8y ago
Good done for some community/charity/etc. in the name of religion, almost certainly. And I don't doubt the reported psychological benefits for addicts, impoverished, and other such downtrodden types. Yet, religion in general
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by mmirate 8y ago
Then the challenge, as the grandparent stated, is to engineer a belief-target such that religious-like belief in it produces optimal consequences for society, and where the previous clause includes not impairing technical personnel with an
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by mmirate 8y ago
> social disaster At worst, such disaster will end with police - in accordance with doing their damn jobs - forcefully putting down some dangerously violent below-average rioters ... no?
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The TV Contract – Michael Huemer(spot.colorado.edu)
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by mmirate 8y ago
Those systems have a nasty habit of running out of other people's money.
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by mmirate 8y ago
It's not just about privacy and the Fourth Amendment; I'll admit that my examples were limited, but there aren't many unambiguous non-localized monopolists outside the tech industry. It's more generally the problem that
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by mmirate 8y ago
How about "none"? The state is, by definition, a monopoly, with all the usual ill effects upon the "customers". We see these ill effects all the time, from the big corporations that the state helps to prop-up against the
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by mmirate 8y ago
Layman's hopefully-dumb question here: if a theory has no observable consequences, then what is it even saying? (or doing, or etc)
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by mmirate 8y ago
Sorry for the pedantry, but ... this isn't a lie per se , rather usage of deceptively-meaningless terminology. Specifically, "centrism" of the American Left-Right dichotomy, is poorly defined. There are multiple ways to arri
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by mmirate 8y ago
Unit conversions and arithmetic are computers' work.
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by mmirate 8y ago
How very nice for those other capitalists and their sentimentalism. I look forward to having an employer whom I can help to outperform their overly-sentimental competitors.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> equity AFAICT equity is a lottery-ticket at best, and is usually bubkes. What novel information do you have about equity?
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by mmirate 8y ago
> Clearly it was cheaper to pay settlements on the deaths. That merely shows that tort settlements at that time didn't have an accurate price on human life. $200,000 is about $1.13 million in today's money, which is only about
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by mmirate 8y ago
> What economic interest does Ford have to disclose the problem if the deaths are cheaper than fixing it? If people read the news, some nonzero amount equal to the amount of lost Pinto sales. If the competition has been crash-tested and
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by mmirate 8y ago
Well, in these modern times, we call any mechanism which allocates scarce (ergo valuable) resources, an "economy". Thus, the "economic" in "economic value" is actually redundant. And if something has no value,
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by mmirate 8y ago
I don't see how that comment was indicating how optimal action is ruinous; but more importantly its words ring true at face value.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Because then you grab yourself another swarm of the same cheap drones and program them to shoot their zipguns at the enemy drones.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> except at thread boundaries Also at FFI boundaries. (i.e. a panicky Rust function, supplied to foreign code as a callback)
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by mmirate 8y ago
That's religious quackery (pardon the redundancy).
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by mmirate 8y ago
I don't live on forever to witness my immortal impact, either. Once I'm dead, literally nothing matters to me.
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by mmirate 8y ago
The interaction between demand and prices is an important part of the intrinsic signaling mechanism that a free market provides. If there are two alternate (competing) goods, and one is cheaper but the other is "Produced Ethically in A

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