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by pryce 8y ago
Consider Chris Hedges' "War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning" (2002), which examines the way that War creates (or perhaps comprises) a culture of its own, and acts as a transformative experience that has little if any civilia
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by pryce 8y ago
Insight and personal experience are not synonyms: as an example, poor coders may possess a great deal of experience, but little insight. This author certainly has thought about this a great deal - I love how he intentionally weaves a kind o
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by pryce 8y ago
I don't enjoy seeing comments dismissing the stigma of mental illness. I have seen friends in industry targeted and pushed out after disclosing mental illnesses, and the simple fact that awareness campaigns exist and you happen to see
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by pryce 8y ago
I think often the amount of 'dirty work' we end up engaging in expands to fill the space allocated to it.
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by pryce 8y ago
This writer circles poignant issues but I don't feel like he has enough insight to shed any real illumination on them. I'm actually pretty alarmed that he seems to think society no longer glamourises war and in almost the same bre
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by pryce 8y ago
> One of the ideas behind Aikido is to not get in a fight in the first place. I have heard many martial-arts instructors voice this same point. -EDIT: I do not know whether this may be emphasised more in Aikido- but it is hard to regard
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by pryce 8y ago
That seems intuitive but is surprisingly misguided; in fact, it depends on your purpose. Consider planned destructive testing in engineering, where perhaps one component is built purposefully weakened and then the whole system stressed in o
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by pryce 8y ago
1. This relies on a mistaken expectation that all sites you use being able to accept SHA256 output - presumably in Base64 or similar- as an acceptable password. You will likely have to compromise this. 2. You have no credential expiry buil
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by pryce 8y ago
Password managers are best practice, but they are a reaction to the failures of passwords, rather than an attempt to replace passwords with a better proposal. * Password Managers are good but inadequate as a solution because, at present, on
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by pryce 8y ago
Would Facebook's dating service conceivably match me with someone who shares my moral objections to Facebook Inc's behaviour? This seems like a joke question, of course. But consider: Ten years or fifteen years from now, supposing
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by pryce 9y ago
Further, it is trivial to picture an attack where through some other channel, the attacker already knows the email address of their target, and has the knowledge that this victim has a netflix account. If I only need these two pieces of inf
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by pryce 9y ago
That's incorrect. The validity of accepting the '+' character as part of an email address is part of the standard (-though it is a standard ignored by many prominent websites, aliexpress is just one example I believe) The acc
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by pryce 9y ago
Absolutely - his proposed solution - disabling the dots-dont-matter feature and retiring them does nothing to stop this exact same attack vector instead employing the '+' feature that he admires and wishes to retain. The attack go
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by pryce 9y ago
Bear in mind, my above comment highlighted that for objectors the issue is far wider than murder, and also involves the presence of accessible weaponry's influence on: accidental deaths, suicides, and drivers of militarization of polic
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by pryce 9y ago
I think it's pretty clear that Moorcock is showing how ambiguity is an important or even necessary part of the human experience. He himself doesn't know for certain whether he was kicked off due to A) Kubrick not knowing for cert
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by pryce 9y ago
> Literally tens of millions of responsible Americans walk around, every day, carrying semi-automatic weapons, and this is not a problem. The idea that 'this is not a problem' is exactly the thing under dispute, so I don't
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by pryce 9y ago
> Islamic laws explicitly allow multiple wives and I know people who have multiple wives. Sure, but how common is it really? Are you talking 3% of Muslim men? (in which case it's peculiar to regard as a particulalry Muslim thing) O
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by pryce 9y ago
In many ways, the display is a more sensible place for it. This could be a good thing long as they make the GPU component replaceable. There is such a high difference between the expected lifespan of an upmarket display and a performant GP
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by pryce 9y ago
I hadn't heard that criticism of tonymacx86 before. Could I ask which site (or sites) you recommend as less biased / more straightforward builds than tonymacx?
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by pryce 9y ago
No it doesn't; that is just a broad principle that is inapplicable in many specific situations. For example, any of us here could offer an opportunity for very low returns at very high risk, it just wouldn't amount to an attractiv
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by pryce 9y ago
There is a reason that countries like South Africa would be substantially less high on that list than they used to be 25 years ago, and increasing economic -and political- isolation is definitely one of the reasons it changed. We see in pol
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by pryce 9y ago
I have found it best to treat Anti-virus products like mal-ware themselves. They only get to live inside a VM for the sole purpose of antivirus scanning. This VM has access to several different antivirus products, and I use a battery of th
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by pryce 9y ago
> Um, how about just reducing immigration a lot and giving it time? It's not that complicated. You have still completely glossed over what specifically you expect ought to to happen to the non-white people who already reside in whic
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by pryce 9y ago
I don't find statements like that particularly helpful. It is fair to say that most organised attempts to advocate for 'White Culture' -such as White Pride events and a staggering proportion of 'European Students Associa
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by pryce 9y ago
It isn't that Thiel thinks 'Capitalism and Democracy are incompatible' that makes him right-wing, it is that given he believes they are incompatible, he concludes Democracy should be discarded to preserve Capitalism, rather
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by pryce 9y ago
Of course not. But Thiel didn't write a book simply expressing a preference against multiculturalism, he wrote a book claiming that multiculturalism exists to destroy white culture. 'White culture is under threat' is a core
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by pryce 9y ago
I refer you Thiel's multiple published articles on multiculturalism during his time at Stanford for the journal 'Academic Questions', such as 'Multiculturalism and the decline of Stanford', followed by the book he c
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by pryce 9y ago
How white supremacist do you have to be, to be acceptably labelled 'malevolent'? * Enough to consistently regard ethnic minorities as threatening? * Enough to consume white supremacist literature? * Enough to endorse white suprema
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by pryce 9y ago
I believe there is already a startup attempting to fill a similar niche called "Dead Mans Switch"[1] [1] https://www.deadmansswitch.net/help/
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by pryce 9y ago
We have somewhat different expectations of Google than malware sites, because we expect it to act as a good net citizen, and a thoughtful custodian of its enormous power to shape the future of our culture. The risk critics are concerned abo

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