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by nzp 11y ago
Two issues with the article. It is my understanding that the lost tapes are raw data feed S-band recordings. That signal contained both the TV signal and the telemetry which was normally sent via S-band. Upon reception the TV signal was
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by nzp 11y ago
Oh, I agree that it would be naive to think that the force behind IS is merely some form or interpretation of Salafism, and I'm aware that there is a strong voice against IS among Salafis around the world (not just in Saudi Arabia).
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by nzp 11y ago
ISIS is not doing anything the Saudi regime isn't doing in terms of oppression. They are rivals, thus the declaration. If ISIS claim of caliphate is legitimate under Islamic law, then the Saudi regime isn't (or any other Muslim
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by nzp 11y ago
I think you summarize well, and that's one of the main problems with this essay. The author clearly works from the perspective of Marxist theory of capitalism, and manages to miss one of the big points of the theory – that increased p
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by nzp 11y ago
I'm not sure I would agree with a lot of what you say here, but nevertheless you bring a very important point that I think is chronically misunderstood, or overlooked, about Marx's analysis. Free market is a crucial assumption in
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by nzp 11y ago
Yet OTOH the number of people in Eastern Europe who are fervent and actually have any clue about Orthodoxy is vanishingly small. Most people hold beliefs which are some sort of their own private Christianity which only pays lip service to
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by nzp 11y ago
I'm not sure about that. Orthodox Christianity is pretty strict about that kind of stuff. I strongly doubt any Orthodox priest or monk with authority would say that there's any allegory in the creation story. There are some con
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by nzp 11y ago
Pretty much. Here in Serbia, the official number is IIRC > 90 % Orthodox Christian, but out of that number, hardly anyone actually believes in god in all seriousness and in line with the Church doctrine. Also hardly anyone goes to chur
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by nzp 11y ago
Heh, I actually wanted to placate that post with disclaimers along the lines of "or any other animal, regardless of 'legal' status and 'ownership', and I do not condone hunting and/or eating said animals by oth
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by nzp 11y ago
I don't want to hunt and eat your cat either. :)
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by nzp 11y ago
A lion is well edible. So is a cat, a dog, and just about any other creature people in various cultures regard as "pets". As far as suffering goes, milk cows in particular suffer their whole lives being literally raped, having su
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by nzp 11y ago
> My outcry stems from the fact that a wild lion is a rare, beautiful creature and we should be extra careful with them because I think we all would like to live in a world where out children, grandchildren, and people far into the futu
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by nzp 11y ago
True. His motivations seem to be a mix of simplifying his life and lowering the environmental impact. The first one is easy to evaluate (he does feel that he accomplished that, therefore he did), but whether the second is consistent with
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by nzp 11y ago
His point I think is that collective cooking/eating is more efficient. I don't have the numbers, but it makes sense.
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by nzp 11y ago
At the existing rate of consumption, you most certainly have to. At around 9 billion chicken, and 10 billion land animals in total raised and killed annually in the USA alone, the happy grazing cow, etc. is just a fantasy of an infinitesim
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by nzp 11y ago
Do you think meat appears out of thin air? What do you think a farm animal (which at that point is a horribly inefficient energy converter) eats? Concern for field mice is a very good reason to go vegan.
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by nzp 11y ago
For starters you can do what others suggested: don't buy products produced by this kind of labour. Then, you might take the time to ponder the causes of such things happening in the first place. I'll give a hint: it's capital
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by nzp 11y ago
> Please do not downvote just because you disagree - it is against the rules. It's not. I can see how this myth took root on HN, but it's funny how persistent it is given that it was clarified quite a few times even by PG.
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by nzp 11y ago
Technically Reddit doesn't owe anyone anything. However, if an outlet is significant enough, their private right to censor becomes, for all practical purposes, political censorship of public space. If you have no practical means of e
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by nzp 11y ago
You could ask for an exemption from OWS for the App Store (and others) distribution. I don't know if OWS contributors retain individual copyright or just transfer it to OWS (ala GNU contributors to FSF). If former, it could be compli
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by nzp 11y ago
Yet somehow, Open Whisper Systems apps are doing just fine being GPL.
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by nzp 11y ago
It was always kind of a ha-ha-only-serious joke. I'm amazed to read some people here take the "wars" seriously enough to make it an argument to not use either. Like some weird cultural misunderstanding. Hipster kids these
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by nzp 11y ago
> But if you want to develop cross platform native looking software... Qt is absolutely it. Only option. If you want to develop cross platform native looking software, Qt most certainly is not the only option, wxWidgets is. In fact, as
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by nzp 11y ago
Offering and Responding to feedback sections are so bad. Do people working at GitHub really need to basically be told to not be rude to each other, to give useful information and to be professional or at least fake politeness? Are they em
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by nzp 11y ago
That's a weird text. At the beginning the author lists reasons why it's clearly Newton's third law, and then just basically says: "But then an 'authority' on aerodynamics waved hands around telling me it'
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by nzp 11y ago
I don't think Ive is a genius, and I'm not crazy for everything they do, but decline? The state they're in ATM is anything but decline.
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by nzp 11y ago
StartSSL is able to do it because they cut out the nickle and dimeing BS. They state it clearly on their page, it costs them practically nothing to issue their class 1 certificates because the process is automated, so they simply don'
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by nzp 11y ago
At least some of the info there is stale or incorrect (just judging by metrics for only one country I'm familiar with).
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by nzp 12y ago
Funny how the globalization stick has two ends, isn't it? Who'd a thunk it!
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by nzp 12y ago
You're sweeping under the rug the question of what is the optimization problem for such a machine in the first place. There is a huge difference between an agent capable of solving a set of optimization problems when told to, and an a

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