saraid216

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by saraid216 12y ago
I no longer expect the EFF to represent anything faithfully, really. They seem incapable of genuine honesty and mostly go for the shock-and-scare routine they've seen their adversaries perfect. Consequently, I've bucketed them i
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by saraid216 12y ago
"What you want."
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by saraid216 12y ago
> what do I do now ? The basic response to this question is "What should you do?" Western civilization is founded on a particular justification for answering this question.
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by saraid216 12y ago
It depends on what you find fun. I get a lot of enjoyment out of simply solving problems that I find in the wild. (I spent some time proving that my particular walking pattern was, in fact, more efficient than an alternative because the act
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by saraid216 12y ago
What you say would apply if I were talking about people who aren't on HN. We are talking about a person who is using his personal preferences to dictate the life patterns of everyone in the world and characterizes it as a "trade
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by saraid216 12y ago
Inflammation is itself a countermeasure. It's the same principle as boiling water before you drink it or cooking meat before you eat it. How many countermeasures do you provide for the countermeasures?
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by saraid216 12y ago
Loudly sneezing, blurring your vision, and ruining your sense of smell are really not conducive to surviving an encounter with a big cat. I mean, you might piss it off if you sneeze on it, I guess. Yay?
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by saraid216 12y ago
...come into work earlier, leave work earlier. It's just an hour.
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by saraid216 12y ago
"Run-on sentence" is a technical term denoting a specific grammatical error and not a synonym for a sentence with more words than you'd prefer. A sentence is either a run-on or it is not. You may as well say that a polygon is
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by saraid216 12y ago
> In particular, in many other VCSs, you just simply commit without having to create a branch in the first place. Labeling them (via whichever mechanisms your VCS provides) is typically optional with modern version control systems. Since
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by saraid216 12y ago
> For eg FYI, "e.g." stands for "exempli gratia" which is Latin for "For the sake of example". So "for eg" is actually "for for the sake of example". [1] http://en.wiktionary.o
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by saraid216 12y ago
IMO, a lot of content creators had already been providing one-shot opportunities by selling merchandise. The problem for me is that I frequently don't care for merch, so Patreon basically filled a niche for me: creators I was happy to
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by saraid216 12y ago
Indeed. This is an excellent explanation of exactly how fundamentalism works: everything must reduce and cohere down to a particular set of principles, rather than reacting and adapting to reality with an understanding that the present unde
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by saraid216 12y ago
I always appreciate it when you guys are honest about your willingness to let people get hurt for the sake of principle.
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by saraid216 12y ago
Delicious pastries are saddened by this comment thread.
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by saraid216 12y ago
He better not. His comment history pretty much guarantees he's worthless.
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by saraid216 12y ago
> Maybe if you're a Java programmer. Fixed that for you.
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by saraid216 12y ago
You do, actually. To give two examples, markets and machine learning.
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by saraid216 12y ago
When we stopped using typewriters.
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by saraid216 12y ago
Okay. I'm throwing up my hands. I'm interested in having this discussion, but you keep changing your position completely with every post. Now I'm at the point where I'm imagining we actually agree with each other, but ne
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by saraid216 12y ago
> I disagree; if the oppression is ephemeral, then it's nowhere as bad as when it is (semi)permanent. (Maybe an example would help - all the oppressions that come to my mind from history, that were formalized in law, are attempts to
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by saraid216 12y ago
> (I really hate the phrase "tyranny of the majority", by the way, because it simply isn't a good way to describe democratic voting, where the majority is emergent and not determined ex ante.) Nothing about the phrase actu
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by saraid216 12y ago
I really don't understand why people like you insist on this completely useless semantic argument. It's almost as pointless as debating the merits of parliamentarianism versus presidentalism.
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by saraid216 12y ago
Huh. I was briefly exposed to CSCW in college, but somehow I never made the leap to its relevance to modern democratic procedure. Very neat. Thank you for the list.
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by saraid216 12y ago
Well, this has the fun distinction of actually being functioning code in active use. I'm pretty happy to see some "open source governance" that isn't just talk. I'm only aware of one another project that has crossed
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by saraid216 12y ago
America is an extremely bad example of how a democracy should work. Its main claim to fame is that it's old , not that it's exemplary.
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by saraid216 12y ago
Ironically, the solution to tyranny of the majority is a strong executive.
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by saraid216 12y ago
> Her team’s vision is to make DemocracyOS the “operating system of a more open and participatory government.” From: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/07/des...
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by saraid216 12y ago
I don't know, but my guess is hackability. I think pilots still have a ton of direct information that wouldn't be significantly vulnerable to hacking, and a lot of direct control that wouldn't be available to drone operators.
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by saraid216 12y ago
So leave. Flag the articles. If you comment on a shitty article with a shitty headline, the algorithm very probably gives it more weight and makes it more likely to show up on the front page. Leaving comments like this is painfully lazy wri

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