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by philh 12y ago
> Maybe because I don't do things that people don't like, like send rape threats to an academic because she's going "hey, games are kinda shitty about women, can we talk about this?". Or like being an academic wh
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by philh 12y ago
But that attack works just as well if feross.org uses SSL, doesn't it? I'm not sure what MITM+fullscreen gets an attacker that they don't get from either by itself. Which isn't to say there's no reason to only allow
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by philh 12y ago
Although I find it interesting that in a future that probably won't happen, campaigns like this may become necessary. We're predicting our future moral failings, and using them as satire.
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I don't like the attitude that if there's a problem, you aren't allowed to say anything along the lines of "here's something that makes it less of a problem than it might be".
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by philh 12y ago
> I left a completely benign post that didn't go with the pro-Microsoft/anti-Google narrative This is simply not true, that comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9076549 ) included "HN has seen a HU
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by philh 12y ago
fst/rst, although having the difference in the middle also seems aesthetically appealing to me.
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by philh 12y ago
They're faster to type, and I suspect I find them more pleasant to read (this is hard to test). AIUI, IIRC and similar are good disclaimers to make, but they're basically boilerplate, and don't need to take up lots of space.
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by philh 12y ago
I vaguely recall a reddit comment recommending against that. It was along the lines of: The commenter knew someone whose father had done it, and the commenter thought that it made it a lot harder for that person to move on. Every year, on t
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by philh 12y ago
More or less. That sounds like it's giving me too much credit. I wouldn't say I have two estimates so much as one intuition - but that's what my intuition corresponds to, yes. If I made those estimates, I would expect to have
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by philh 12y ago
No one knows for certain, but... suppose you have two projects and can fund one of them. Project A wants to investigate in as much depth as possible (given their budget) the effects of nail-biting on arthritis. Project B wants to investigat
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by philh 12y ago
That page is almost as much fun as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Cultu... .
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by philh 12y ago
> compared to a randomly sampled population consuming the nutritional equivalent in natural products. Define "nutritional equivalent" and "natural products"? Do you just want the same levels of carbs/fat/pro
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by philh 12y ago
No, you'd written this: > They're not part of the metric system, simply based on it. The 1:sqrt(2) ratio used is extremely convenient as it scales up and down nicely TM thought those two sentences were related. Ve thought you w
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by philh 12y ago
You shouldn't have said "You appear not to understand the actual utility behind the page width/height ratio used in ISO/DIN page sizes." Turing_Machine wasn't talking about utility at that point. Ve had misunde
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by philh 12y ago
Yes. talideon wrote two unrelated sentences next to each other, Turing_Machine thought they were related, and the two of them started talking about different things. (This is my impression, at least. I can't seem to bring myself to pro
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by philh 12y ago
ESR disagrees with RMS on many issues. I don't think he dislikes him. "Ours has always been a more complex relationship than most people understand." http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5211 (ESR is well known for many
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by philh 12y ago
Between which dates? If I'm reading this correctly, Jan 08 to Jan 14 is 212 to 234, which is about 10%. (This also matches the statistic that I happen to have memorized of 8% inflation between 2010 and 2014.)
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That seems like a difficult mistake to not notice while working on a "let me win" feature. For that matter, in general the code for "the computer should win every time" and the code for "the computer should lose eve
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by philh 12y ago
> It's partially true, absolutely, no denying that US hegemony keeps others from employing military opportunism. But that has more to do with US interests in keeping geopolitical control for its own benefit than US sacrifice out of
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by philh 12y ago
It's not the prisoner's dilemma. In PD, both players are better off defecting, regardless of their opponent's move. In FD, if one defects, then the other gets a better result by cooperating.
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by philh 12y ago
If Europe comes out ahead partly by defecting in a farmer's dilemma[1], it hardly seems fair to hold it up as an example of what the US should aspire to. (You might argue that the US doesn't need to spend that much on military.
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by philh 12y ago
I may be projecting, but I don't interpret Kurtz as saying it's sad that people want an invisible boyfriend. More that it's sad that people feel pressured to have some sort of boyfriend, and get an invisible one to reliev
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> You have obviously never been to an actual city. Your post would have been just fine without this.
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Alternatively, http://www.givewell.org and in particular http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities . Though neither your advice nor mine is gonna do much for animal conservation, if that happens to be
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by philh 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger#Reproduction says usually 2-3 cubs per birth, mortality rate 50% in two years. They separate after two years. If the tigress only has one litter on the go at a time, that puts a limi
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A half-baked idea for keeping code and docs in sync(reasonableapproximation.net)
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by philh 12y ago
I think that rm --preserve-root -rf /* doesn't save you.
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> you cannot use this timescale-based differentiation to make a good argument to counter a feature-based differentiation. I don't know what you mean by this. I don't know what feature-based differentiation I'm supposedly c
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by philh 12y ago
> If you would call a 250,000 year-old animal a homo sapiens, you'd probably call its grandparents one too. Sure, and conditional on that I'd probably call their grandparents H. sapiens too, and conditional on that, probably al

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