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by octopoc 5y ago
No, this is a matter of different strokes for different folks. Many people have chosen to live in low density areas even though there are no sidewalks. They have chosen for themselves what to do with their limited resources. For people who
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by octopoc 5y ago
Is that because the "good" people in your field were just way more obsessive about the topic? I feel like there are some topics that I'm obsessed with that I'm so much more informed on than most people in my field that I
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by octopoc 5y ago
The human would most likely quickly be desensitized and only output feelings of self hatred and suicide. But to be sure we should start a multibillion dollar startup that generates jobs for millions of starving third worlders.
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by octopoc 5y ago
From what I understand her coworkers at the agency were all ideologically motivated to hate her and stonewall everything she did, so it was difficult to make progress. This was her philosophy: > states and local districts should make edu
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by octopoc 5y ago
J&J has a history of giving common people cancer for profit, and you think it's somehow the common people's fault for not trusting J&J? That is some pretty sick victim blaming there.
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by octopoc 5y ago
The sky is blue and so is the ocean
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by octopoc 5y ago
> Looking through the various dystopian fics, films, whatever, they all started as someone's utopia. Exactly! This is always what happens when people have more loyalty to an ideology than to humans.
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by octopoc 5y ago
1. Starting a war with Russia is not the goal here. Deterring Russia is the goal. 2. A war with Russia wouldn't be a proxy war and it wouldn't be anything like Afghanistan or Iraq. It could quickly become nuclear. It's not th
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by octopoc 5y ago
(dreaming big here) You could make this a basis for a generic conversational UI[1] for web data. It wouldn't be a perfect UI for most applications, but it provide a couple of important features: 1. It would be easy to manage data shari
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by octopoc 5y ago
That's because one of the key beliefs of the ruling tribe in the US is that tribalism is bad, ironically.
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by octopoc 5y ago
It's easy to know what's best for yourself. It's not so easy to know what's best for your children. It's much harder to know what's best for another adult in your tribe. It's practically impossible to know
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by octopoc 5y ago
> What does Exxon have to do with the FDA or how medications are authorized? It proves that the FDA shouldn't use a "trust, and don't verify" approach to medical trials performed by megacorporations.
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by octopoc 5y ago
Fun story, my employer once had a contract with a huge pig farm like that and whenever we went on site we had to strip nude and shower off and then dress in clothes they provided, so we didn't contaminate the pigs with anything.
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by octopoc 5y ago
It's better for society than our current banking system, because the government considers our current system "too big to fail," so banks know that the government will bail them out if things get too bad, and the banks engage
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by octopoc 5y ago
From the Scientific American article: > the so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard that the rest of us can be accurately measured against. The time has come to ban the
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by octopoc 5y ago
I have family members who work in a hospital in the US and they said that their hospital is overwhelmed with asymptomatic individuals saying "I think I might have COVID!" and panicking. The correct response to that is to refer the
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by octopoc 5y ago
> The guy who thought maybe you could cure Covid by swallowing bleach? You have been misinformed. You should watch the video. I watched the video back when it happened and it was blatantly obvious he wasn't saying you could cure Cov
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by octopoc 5y ago
This is yet another violation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the treaty between China and the U.K. defining how Hong Kong will be handed over to China[1]: > Hong Kong would maintain its existing governing and economic systems se
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by octopoc 5y ago
Is it possible to write a program that connects to an HTTPS server and archives content, but it keeps track of the session keys and the encrypted data coming from the server, and then records all that session traffic in a file. Replaying th
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by octopoc 5y ago
> be able to apply some real intelligence to SQL definitions. That sounds interesting, could you elaborate on what that looks like? Are you thinking things like generating ORM code off just the SQL, or doing merges of schema changes in G
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by octopoc 5y ago
What do you think about Monero? I agree Bitcoin has big privacy problems but Monero seems to solve them. The other downside to Monero is it's proof of work, which means it needs lots of power to mine. I suppose the ideal crypto would h
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by octopoc 5y ago
Notepad is a decent editor, lacking only a good operating system to run on.
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by octopoc 5y ago
Can you hook Privacy.com up to a budgeting app that uses e.g. Plaid or Finicity to monitor transactions?
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by octopoc 5y ago
Sounds similar to what Semantic Merge[1] does. Of course it would also have to handle syntax errors. For that it could fall back to the current crop of text CRDTs. [1] https://www.semanticmerge.com/
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by octopoc 5y ago
Unlike an M-16, hacks can be conducted remotely, they can be used to plant evidence, conduct blackmail, and lots of other things where most people would never know a hack was involved. Also, there's outrage towards NSO because Israel i
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by octopoc 5y ago
They didn't kill Expression Blend, they just moved it into Visual Studio. It still works in Visual Studio 2022. > who would seamlessly hand-off their visually-designed XAML to the implementation engs for data-binding and whatnot. tr
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by octopoc 5y ago
Syncthing is not as good as Resilio Sync at syncing huge folders quickly. Resilio Sync can sync 10 MB/s on my wired home internet, but Syncthing usually uses only about 1-8 MB/s. Not sure why.
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DBHub: SQLite Storage “In the Cloud”(dbhub.io)
3 points by octopoc 5y ago|1 comments
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Braid: Synchronization for HTTP(braid.org)
5 points by octopoc 5y ago|0 comments
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by octopoc 5y ago
Reminds me of how sometimes my developer workstation running Windows gets into a mode where it won’t type anything except emoji’s.

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