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by mrexcess 6mo ago
Atlas Shrugged, more charitably perhaps despite its manifest flaws, seemed to me to be about the dangers of putting “the needs of the many” over individual rights, and how it can ultimately be self defeating for the whole.
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by mrexcess 6mo ago
Wasn’t 1984 a bit more about control through surveillance and silencing, than about pain? Everything was a lie, and every refusal to accept the lie was a signal to Big Brother. Cast as such it seems rather more prophetic than Soma, IMO.
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by mrexcess 6mo ago
Hard times don’t create hard people, they create scarred people. I’ll take the robot farmers, undoing of wage slavery, and time to maintain participatory democracy over my favorite author’s romanticized suffering.
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by mrexcess 6mo ago
Rebinding C-b to C-a is a necessity for those of us whose muscle memory formed on GNU screen, been doing this for years. I like to set status-right to include host load average, with something akin to: set -g status-right '#[fg=colour3
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by mrexcess 6mo ago
Any tool that is that good at vulnerability research is bound to have some killer capabilities in attack surface mapping and exploitation… Which is not to disagree with the thrust of your point, I think: it’s even more about the fundamental
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by mrexcess 6mo ago
>Like, does this guy think this single woman is responsible for the kafka-esque trap they're both in? If there's any class of individual in whom I'm willing to place greater than average trust in their ability to read voca
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by mrexcess 6mo ago
>NED is not a CIA front sweatie Curious: can you show the research steps you took to reach this conclusion? Really curious how we can all easily determine which companies are and aren't CIA fronts!
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by mrexcess 6mo ago
>As the article states, this war was not unprovoked either Using the same extraordinarily broad definition of "provocation" required here, can you name a single war in history that was unprovoked? And if not, haven't we ju
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by mrexcess 6mo ago
After being restarted, the red (opposing) force general resigned due to the restarted game having what amounted to a scripted end, with little to no latitude for the red force to exercise creativity in strategy or tactics. Among the highlig
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
>Vulnerabilities have nothing to do with country of manufacture. That depends on how you define "Vulnerability", doesn't it? For instance, from some standpoints, the absence rather than presence of a backdoor in consum
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
You're making great software and I'm sorry this happened to you. Don't get discouraged, keep bringing the open source disruption!
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
>Idk, while system architecture diagrams look cool and feel informative, I generally don't feel like they actually help you get started working somewhere on a project. Can't speak to that, but they're enormously helpful in
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
Given the Greenland stuff, isn't it within EU and UK's interests to keep the US occupied in Iran?
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
Disagree only in the sense that I think the drama escalated a bit in the interregnum, as the BBS scene merged into one large if fragmentary collective on the internet. Empirical evidence for that extreme level of drama and complexity here:
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
GETOLD /index.html "2026-03-11T10:30:45Z" would be such cool functionality...
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
So your analysis is that the US hit a few meters away with a missile, then another missile hit a few meters the other direction within minutes, but we can't know who did that?
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
So your claim is that no missile hit the school at all…?
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
>Absolute numbers such as 92k do not give full picture A full picture of what? The metric gives us a full picture on how many jobs were added or lost in the month of February.
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
Thanks for taking the time to share your views! I don't know that we'll be able to reach much more consensus, but I appreciate hearing your perspective. Cheers!
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
Telegraph is paywalled, got a source I can read without forking out? Beyond that, what you're presenting appears to be much more generalized than the original claim that I asked for examples of. For example, the Reuters story is about
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
It's apples and oranges to compare an externally-imposed nickname like "The Great Satan" with an ethnic designation that was the group's primary identity within the lifetimes of still-living people. There were no Israeli
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
Anecdotally, in the trenches, I'm seeing a proliferation of Casio F-91w and AE-1200s. Maybe a counter response, lol.
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
>I'm not saying it was entirely intentional or there was an agenda, it's just unprofessionalism over and over and over again. A few things here: 1) I'm not seeing the "over and over again" part at all, can you he
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
>"jihad against the Jews" with "fighting and resisting Israeli forces" But isn't this a fair editorial change? "Jihad" just means "fighting for a noble cause", and most Palestinians don't
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
>They published straight up misinformation as fact first Can you add some specifics to this claim? I'm unaware of the BBC having reported "Hamas-sourced" substantial misinformation as fact. I'm sure some errors and re
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
>I refuse to because they have very consistently relayed communication from Hamas as news without attributing the source is Hamas. I'm a US-ian and have no particular dog in this hunt, but could you relate any instances where this l
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
These statistics would be a lot better if they were compared directly to the same measurements taken from dedicated cloud SWGs/SSEs like Zscaler. My somewhat subjective sense is that the whole industry is in a bit of a rough patch, the
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
>We're talking about an app that's controlled by the CCP, I do expect them to take a principled stance In the area of large scale internet service providers, who do you expect to take a principled stance, and why do you expect
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
>I think it's fine to say "You don't really have privacy on this app" Disagree. To analogize why: privacy isn't heated seats, *its seat belts*. Comfort features and preferences are fine to tailor to your customer
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
There seem to be two sides to politics: 1) Deciding the really important issues. This occurs with minimal public involvement, and that always to the overt reticence of the ruling class. "Expert" voices are projected downward to th

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