pathseeker

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by pathseeker 9y ago
"Muslim ban" was a term of the left. It was a country-based ban that didn't target most of the majority-Muslim countries. It was treating people as members of a group, but it was grouping by citizen.
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by pathseeker 9y ago
If you have a car that pulls to the right, do you keep chopping parts off of the right side to make up for it?
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by pathseeker 9y ago
You seem to be making a lot of objective claims about things being wrong because they can't be objectively measured. Why can't you use that same reasoning to claim things like homeopathy actually work but we just can't object
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by pathseeker 9y ago
Yet the dolphin dies whenever it encounters something it's body can't heal on it's own. The whole "whoever lives the simpler life is smarter" doesn't really hold up when science/medicine/engineering s
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by pathseeker 9y ago
Where does the implication that other animals are moral come from? Is a wolf that eats pigs moral? If so, then why is a human eating pigs immoral or even 'disgusting' as you put it?
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by pathseeker 9y ago
>Really it smells like a smear campaign to make a bunch of immigrants driving cars 12 hours a day the bad guys and to make the 60 billion dollar corporate titan the underdog. The taxi industry has been running its own smear campaign for
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by pathseeker 9y ago
There is that mechanism but you have to trigger it yourself via the USPS website or by going to the local post office.
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by pathseeker 9y ago
>Even if that's the case then that's not a privacy violation, no human ever can see how that's associated with a specific identity How can no human see the data that Google has? Google is not a magical place where machines
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by pathseeker 9y ago
Why did they fire that consulting company that was doing work? Was it purely for political reasons?
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by pathseeker 9y ago
That statement really only applies in the consumer space. Businesses pay for software all of the time and a decent sales team is critical to any B2B software.
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by pathseeker 9y ago
>The abstinence of pure black doesn't irritate me, but taking design advice from IBM does :) It sounds vaguely like an appeal to authority suggesting that IBM is not in a position to give advice. Can you expand on that?
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by pathseeker 9y ago
Design != writing CSS.
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by pathseeker 9y ago
>Either googles solution is better or its not. No, it's better for users who read the auto-filled boxes to make sure they are sane (which is what I do). It's not good for users that don't understand what auto-fill is (i.e.
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by pathseeker 9y ago
autocomplete is completely behavior inside the user's browser. You do not own the user's browser. Would you also like to block zooming or other accessibility features because you don't like the way it looks?
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by pathseeker 9y ago
Goes to show you how incredible slow this attack has made the Internet!
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by pathseeker 9y ago
>1. by random selection, every social category is represented equally No, every social category would be represented similar to their ratio in the rest of society. This wouldn't line up well with many groups that want much stronger
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by pathseeker 9y ago
>Here in America we've made our decision - profit rules above all else. It is more profitable to lobby congress than it is to upgrade a refinery, it's more profitable to auto-deny every health insurance claim than it is to prov
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by pathseeker 9y ago
1000 miles in a vacuum is 5.36 ms. Don't forget that it's up and back two times so you're looking at just over 21 ms waiting on light. The packet actually needs to go onto the Internet at that point too.
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by pathseeker 9y ago
>No one owns anything. If someone claims to, ask them again in one hundred years. That's a pretty useless definition of ownership. Nobody I know of requires permanence in the definition of ownership.
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by pathseeker 9y ago
No, they don't serve the same purpose. Try running a Microsoft Exchange in a Docker container on a Linux server. Then try running it in a Windows VM on a Linux server.
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by pathseeker 9y ago
> You never know X and Y and there's no known physical process which you can use to determine Y (and, often, X) before you start torture. This isn't true for all cases. It can be pretty cut and dry if a single person knows the
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by pathseeker 9y ago
>Is there perhaps another factor, such as an existing ecosystem or that it’s widely used in the academic field? Yes, it's widely used in science in general. Don't underestimate the learning curves of other languages when your a
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by pathseeker 9y ago
>virtual and physical pop-ups asking "your landlord wants access to your phone number to place a call to you, will you allow it?" I would grant the landlord access to contact me while I still have a business relationship with h
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by pathseeker 9y ago
Sure, but that's not a subsidy anymore. They've just found a way to provide a service for cheaper.
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by pathseeker 9y ago
Naturalistic fallacy at work. There is no evidence that cross breeding is any safer than transgenics.
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by pathseeker 9y ago
Good, a company that cares about open source to dethrone Github.
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by pathseeker 9y ago
>but only by massively subsidizing its rides through investment capital This is not true for many cities. Most of the subsidizing only happens in new markets to get people interested. Uber/Lyft are still better than cabs when unsubs
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by pathseeker 9y ago
>This racism is again mirrored in the huge salary difference. Are those Indian workers really worth so much less? Nobody anywhere in the world is paid what they are "worth". They are paid whatever is necessary to keep them at t
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by pathseeker 9y ago
>nor every individual BGP4 update. @tptacek, can you explain that? Without signing AS path changes with BGPSEC you get path-lengthening and path-shortening attacks which work just as well as subprefix hijacks. BGP hijacking is still a ma