palmer_eldritch

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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
They're probably not the ones who made that change though...
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Well, it's clearly superior to blackmail people rather than bribe them. With bribing, the power balance is in favor of the person being bribed. With blackmail, the one in charge is the one doing the blackmail.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
They probably don't want to have to deal with customer reviews. For most drivers, user's experience is pretty low on their priority list.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
The part where he digs needles from his body and put them in a jar to show his wife who can't see anything in a jar reminded me of "A scanner darkly". Where a character is convinced he has lices and spends a whole day finding
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
The worst too...
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
I guess with enough trial and error, you can find solutions to many problems, no matter how flawed your understanding of the problem is.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Hey, maybe we'd find that not seeing enough genitalia during childhood leads to psychological damage and that people damaged by it tend to reproduce the same abuse on their own progeny.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
This word, meritocracy... sometimes to me, it feels like it is to capitalism what utopia is to socialism.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Anarcho-capitalists maybe. The anarchist movement branched out from socialism and tends to be much more humanist than that.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
If you set the 'showcmd' option, the command you're currently typing is displayed on the last line of the screen (same as command line) on the right. Of course, saving one keypress on this isn't a big deal but it's
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
The article say they spent a fair amount of time playing counter-strike. So you could say that a sizable portion of their time was dedicated to killing each other.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Only the small part of humanity which has the most money would be allowed to survive though.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Probably because neither him nor his wife is getting paid to do it...
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Well, it's something that's been done for the Lascaux cave and more recently with the Chauvet cave in France, because allowing the public in the real caves would damage the paintings on the wall. So if the integrity of the work is
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
I would love the irony of a poor national socialist militant being a victim of discrimination in a foreign country.
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
No, I don't think I'll be able to read anything in 1000 years, not given my life expectancy. More seriously, on one hand, we have pretty good redundancy, since it's so easy to copy things. On the other hand, the durability of
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
> but today they might let the protest get a bit wild if they want to allow the protesters a bit of leeway, and then those untrained, poorly equipped policemen will be screwed. I'd say most often than not, when a government lets a
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
Just a quick note about that name "Ivan Gotyaovich": Got ya! -ovitch. It sounds much more like a prank than a real name.
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
Yes but see, it's more and more common for people of our generation to live far away from their parents or any family.
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
Let's not forget about human resources: filled with people whose only job is to think how to make more money for the company by spending less on employees.
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
Conspiracy theories are not "questioning popular opinion". You can question popular opinion without coming up with crazy theories, or at least, you should take them as what they are: wild guesses at what might explain some discrep
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
Given the amount of signal vs noise, I think it's pretty reasonable to ignore the crazies until they can back up their claims with hard evidence. If they can't do that, their "theory" isn't worth my time. Now if one
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
I don't see how that's opposite. Not believing in conspiracy theories doesn't imply not thinking critically. In fact, critical thinking is pretty harmful to most conspiracy theories.
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
> version numbers aren't a product name, they should be scientific That's your opinion. It seems there's a lot of people in the software industry with a different opinion. I'm not saying it isn't a good thing whe
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
> It feels like I'm reading opinions by creationists. > the most widely accepted explanation is that the symbol is the result of evolution Well, maybe you are...
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
With paper and ballot box, you need to trust the people doing the counting. And since you usually need a lot of them when it's done manually, it's very probable that there's always some amount of fraud. Now, it's probabl
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
I bet those who have to maintain it aren't laughing. And you don't need to be a junior or an intern to come up with an insanely bad design.
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
Reminds me of: http://xkcd.com/1217
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
I disagree with you when you say that activism only exists within the bounds of the electoral system. This system is rigged and doesn't provide the tools for the societal changes wished by many. There are other ways to fight the system
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by palmer_eldritch 12y ago
When in doubt, blame Microsoft, it's always a safe bet.

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