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by mykull 9y ago
Previously its been possible to do contained fusion but the energy cost of containment was as high or higher than what could be gleaned from the reaction. Youre right to assume there can't be any new energy out of nowhere, it comes fro
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by mykull 9y ago
Advertising is the art of manipulating people into spending money. When they are made to spend in a way that is harmful to themselves or society, you could argue that it's evil, and I would. I'd go farther and say the economic sys
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by mykull 9y ago
Talking to VCs will do this to a person. I dont know why they can't just speak normal English, but spewing marketese seems to be a rite of passage.
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by mykull 9y ago
Or the glitch that makes your input disappear if you try to use the site in desktop mode on a mobile phone. Malicious bugs are at this point an obvious FB tactic for plausible deniability in bad UX directed at users with certain behavior.
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by mykull 9y ago
The point of modern society would seem to be to enable the existence of people so wealthy they are practically gods and never have to work, except on what they want to.
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by mykull 9y ago
How naive to think we aren't just being farmed like cattle. Of course, there is always a pressure on workers to be money makers. When the means don't matter to investors, neither do workers.
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by mykull 9y ago
I don't see what's bad about signal UX honestly. I have a few private 1on1 conversations in it and it feels like any other text messaging client. However, the only place I use it is on my Android phone, and there may be features o
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by mykull 9y ago
You mean everyone assumes he doesn't abuse the data. That's different than knowing. It's just the lazy and thoughtless stance to take. "Why would they be allowed to have the cameras if they were up to no good"? Busi
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by mykull 9y ago
Wow, let's just put people in bubble suits so they don't hurt themselves. It's ridiculous to say people shouldn't drive cars because it's possible to hurt themselves or others. We might as well outlaw pregnancy for
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by mykull 9y ago
Good (and improving steadily) compiler feedback, centralized package manager, thoughtful approach to language versioning, a syntax that I like (very subjective), and the flexibility to write unsafe code blocks if for some reason you need t
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by mykull 9y ago
We already know this. They have a mandate for total information awareness. Collect everything. They just claim they haven't collected the data until someone views it in their database for a specific purpose, but that's misusing th
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by mykull 9y ago
Tell that to credit agencies
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by mykull 9y ago
Facebook, being huge and hugely invasive, is among those doing the most damage to EU citizen privacy with their collection, so it makes plenty of sense to focus on them.
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by mykull 9y ago
Getting people to buy something doesn't always mean you provided them value. Some methods of making a buck are exploitative, like if they rely on deception, for example. There are scenarios where "middlemen" exist to take par
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by mykull 9y ago
in my case, it makes me feel double-plus un-good. which is why I go to the trouble of killing the ME on any system I can, despite the at-best trivial impact of doing so.
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by mykull 9y ago
I do the same thing for a "virtual gaming pc" on proxmox with qemu/kvm. it was a pain to get working right with my specific hardware and with proxmox as a base, but is pretty nice now that it works. Many people use Arch linux
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by mykull 9y ago
Who wants this digital Bluetooth garbage for playing music? I'll stick to my analog crap that doesn't know one source from another, and isn't overpriced, thanks.
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by mykull 9y ago
I think we agree. For living that way to not be massively depressing, as you say, it would have to be a different world. Social media would need to be different. Sociological lessons would have to be learned that prevent the internet and so
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by mykull 9y ago
Consumers don't as a group "choose" anything independently in the sense that their biases and psychological faults and the structure of incentives in our society are all used to make consumers act against their own interests
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by mykull 9y ago
I don't think that's hard to imagine. I'm imagining it right now. I don't think we're going to get there without some strange forces acting on us, and idk if that's a society I want, but we are more malleable t
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by mykull 9y ago
No, nihilism is the denial of any intrinsic value, we are still all free to make up and agree on our own values if we want, but it would be because we decided to, as untethered things in a meaningless expanse.
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by mykull 9y ago
Of course "people of faith" are going to chime in and say nihilism is evil... Also, you have to give yourselves up to Jesus to do good or be happy.
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by mykull 9y ago
This is pretty broad criticism, but you are at least right that there is no sound principle on which to protect a website from "automated" interaction.
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by mykull 9y ago
it's an entirely pointless arms race, where the scraper always wins, because web browsers are just a piece of software saying the right things at the right time over TCP. The only deterrent to scraping is the cost of running a web brow
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by mykull 9y ago
You hit me right in the feels, bud.
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by mykull 9y ago
Data science is one of the most imposter-filled "professions". It's a recently-established category of worker that falls across multiple disciplines and is very effected by technological progress. I have met "data scient
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by mykull 9y ago
We'd need a better binary representation of uncompiled code, then. Moving around lots of code as ascii is kind of suboptimal... I wouldn't want that. By all means, show it as text to the user, but don't store it that way.
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by mykull 9y ago
The author is way off base in saying software engineering is about assembly rather than discovery. That's only true of the lowest-skill non-innovating software shops, and even then, developers are constantly having to discover how to u
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by mykull 9y ago
My ~2011 motherboards BIOS lets you reflash it from INSIDE the BIOS, from a connected readable storage device, i.e. a flash drive. It eliminates any need for OS-specific update tools. I am surprised this isn't more common.
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by mykull 9y ago
Removing ME [almost] entirely by editing the official bios image with me_cleaner.py and then updating the bios the normal way sounds like it is simpler, if you don't need the extra network-connected ME features there. I'll admit I

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