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by pyre 9y ago
The percentage of colonies that don't survive the winter.
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by pyre 9y ago
You're right about this: > that's not a behaviour that we should condone, or support but you're extrapolating from limited data to form this opinion: > That's all I need to know to see that this is not him just
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by pyre 9y ago
> I mean, funding projects is nice, but doing so while requiring the projects you fund to do what you request (see Freenode/Snoonet and other VPNs) Do you have proof of PIA "required the projects [they] fund to what [they]
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by pyre 9y ago
I'm sorry, but "taking over snoonet and freenode" is a lot more than "I donated some money with strings attached." It's like being afraid of (any) people investing in your company because they might try to ex
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by pyre 9y ago
I think that the parent post could be better written as: > Python (which I suppose includes Django), and Vue.js it's too easy to read it as: > Python (which I suppose includes Django, and Vue.js)
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by pyre 9y ago
If you collapse all of the animated GIFs that does significantly reduce resource usage, even when the app isn't in the foreground.
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by pyre 9y ago
Fossil SCM
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by pyre 9y ago
Negotiating with the record labels from the get-go before even having a popular site sounds like it would have never resulted in a profitable company. The record labels don't give two shits about whether their licensing deals are equit
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by pyre 9y ago
Creating a new account called "uselsswhre" and making a comment like this is like running up and down the street screaming "I'm a troll! Look at me!"
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by pyre 9y ago
How do you redeem your goods and services without somehow tying it to yourself? For example, physical goods need to be shipped somewhere. There seems to be a limited number of things that you can spend your cypto-currency on that would not
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by pyre 9y ago
The issue that you're missing is that "sexual assault fraud" can be claimed in cases where there is actual sexual assault, but it is a he-said/she-said situation. That is where the "chilling-effect" comes in.
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by pyre 9y ago
Right, but the transaction that turns Bitcoin into another currency is traceable because someone needs to claim that currency, either via ETF into a bank account or physically going to pick it up.
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by pyre 9y ago
Is comparing fingerprints really "no better than reading a chicken's entrails?" I could understand things like trying to guess based on similarities with a partial print, but comparing two full prints seems like it would be
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by pyre 9y ago
> You're spinning an enormous segment of the population as irrational actors, but they are not. From their frame of reference, maybe. On the other hand, if the only industry supporting your town is a dying industry, then you have
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by pyre 9y ago
I don't necessarily agree with it being Schedule I, but at the same time it's not "one weird trick" that the establishment doesn't want you to know about either. It's not something that's only waiting to b
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by pyre 9y ago
There's a couple of ways to translate that. There's the way you did: > "I know about some security flaws (or behind-the-scenes issues with the dev teams) in other products, but I can't reveal them publicly because of
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by pyre 9y ago
(Focusing just on Appalachia is going off on a bit of a tangent, but in any case...) This is the issue. There are no good solutions for Appalachia, but they don't want to hear that because the reality isn't as good as the fantasy
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by pyre 9y ago
> You can only fight ideas with better ideas. The problem with this is that human beings will reject ideas that don't agree with what they want to hear, like the populations of coal towns in Appalachia that want to blame "Lib
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by pyre 9y ago
> Ibogaine causes long QT syndrome at therapeutic doses, apparently by blocking hERG potassium channels in the heart. Yea. That doesn't necessarily sound good: > Clinical studies of ibogaine to treat drug addiction began in th
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by pyre 9y ago
Investment (in blockchain tech) by major players does not (in and of itself) prove that they feel threatened by Bitcoin. Blockchain tech can have utility to those players outside of Bitcoin.
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by pyre 9y ago
> If the Supreme Court had not granted cert it would have meant that this lower court opinion would have in effect (but not technically) stood as a nationwide precedent modifying existing Supreme Court decisions. I think this is the pa
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by pyre 9y ago
Not only that, but many of those local ISPs monopolies have been going on for decades, so even opening the market up to competition gives them an unfair advantage since they have had decades to invest monopoly revenue in their infrastructur
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by pyre 9y ago
Do rich people pay more to get priority access to water and electricity during high usage periods? I'm not talking about just paying higher rates (i.e. poorer people will ration their usage while rich people will just pay more and no c
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by pyre 9y ago
> Isn't prevention better than cure? I can easily think of opposition rebuttals to this: 1. It's a solution in search of a problem. 2. It's a premature optimization. 3. The cure could be worse than the disease. etc...
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by pyre 9y ago
I remember reading a statistic that if all people in the US lived at the population density of Manhattan, then the entire US population would fit within the state of Rhode Island. Think about what kind of impact that would have on reducing
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by pyre 9y ago
> I doubt our consumptive habits will be maintainable. Found the commie-pinko bleeding-heart liberal! Economic theory says that nothing bad can ever happen so long as demand increases, and the economy grows! /s
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by pyre 9y ago
Treat this like: > I was able to hack/gain control over the majority of the servers that serve up authoritative information about who owns what records on the .IO ccTLD. A "poisoning" if DNS is serving up untrue informat
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by pyre 9y ago
But is it the fault of the "corrupt media" that bad publicity hit this company? Or is it the fault of Caldbeck? Lashing out and claiming that it's the media's fault seems like it's trying to just redirect blame.
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by pyre 9y ago
> This could be because she is an unpleasant person, or because they are > unpleasant people, or it could be an honest misunderstanding or personality > conflict, but in every case it detracts from the productivity of ever
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by pyre 9y ago
I guess the other issue is why was the review happening 4 months after the period ended, especially if they had started working on improvements in the meantime. What was the point of all that work / those improvements, if they were j

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