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by scandox 6y ago
I am text and audio. Dislike photos and video. Someone probably needs to start classifying these preferences into some kind of shorthand. People can declare them with their pronouns and orientation.
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by scandox 6y ago
> Compliance is a byproduct of security engineering. Good security engineering has little to do with compliance. And SOC2 is not particularly good. So keep the concepts separate. It appears to be impossible to make people grasp this conc
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by scandox 6y ago
RICHARD SCOTT, DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH & QUEENSBERRY owns 280,000 acres of the UK. A country 40 times smaller in area than the US.
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by scandox 6y ago
Jesus was carbon based ... As far as we know.
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by scandox 6y ago
I enjoyed Coming Up For Air. I didn't find the description in the article matched the book. The nostalgia in the book is that of the character not of the author. There is a reasonable ironic distance between the two. The narrator is an
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by scandox 6y ago
Complements it
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by scandox 6y ago
Well I just meant that the roll call of names that signed the petition is fairly extraordinary: Louis Aragon, Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Gua
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by scandox 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_... More or less the entire French Intellectual establishment argued at that time for "the decriminalization of all consensual relations between adults a
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by scandox 6y ago
I agree. One of my favourites for a long time. It's rather oddly structured and structure is critical in terms of general readership. I think the basic Faustian story does have a strange structure. It's all buildup and denouement
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by scandox 6y ago
I was taught classical Hebrew by a Catholic Nun. I didn't know she was a Nun initially. She just wore rather conservative clothes and had very close cropped hair. Generally she was very serious about education, but once she was explain
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by scandox 6y ago
Almost certainly a super fan of some kind. The Literary business world is all about insider info, gossip, worthless prestige of one kind or another. If I had to guess they sat down to write their novel and this is the ultimate act of procra
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by scandox 6y ago
I heard it was Sydney Morgenbesser
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by scandox 6y ago
What about double positives? Anecdote: An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double nega
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by scandox 6y ago
The most important thing about this story is the fact that there is in this world a man called Jacques Vroom.
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by scandox 6y ago
I agree. I find Wikipedia's marketing communications very annoying and I've explained why in response to some of their emails in I think a constructive and polite manner. For the type of organization they are, the way they commun
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by scandox 6y ago
> This does require some design taste, but most frontend engineers I know have developed that over the years of building user interfaces. Nope. Never really happened for me. Admittedly I don't solely work on frontend. But 22 years o
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by scandox 6y ago
Even in the 1980s: https://www.irishpost.com/news/the-story-of-the-dublin-boys-...
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by scandox 6y ago
You are all individuals
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by scandox 6y ago
Old World--------------------| New World--------------------| Me------------------------------- -----------------------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------------- Work to make a living | Work to make a d
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by scandox 6y ago
Can we change headline to prefix "In milestone test...' I nearly dropped my coffee.
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by scandox 6y ago
I think most people know he doesn't literally mean it, but many people fear that he uses language like this to create a world in which he could actually mean it. That I think is why violent language upsets people: he's floating a
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by scandox 6y ago
I am surprised that you think what's important is whether he meant them literally. Isn't it a very bad thing to write down in black and white about another human being even as a figure of speech or whatever it qualifies as? I thin
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by scandox 6y ago
As opposed to basing them on...some system you came up with?
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by scandox 6y ago
Most people's political beliefs and ideas are simply something they wear, like a piece of clothing. If you asked them to change into different clothes for a specific purpose they will usually gladly do so without a moment's hesita
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by scandox 6y ago
I'm totally open to Gray's arguments. Wide open. But I do find a some of his writing quite mediocre. I'm surprised by how highly he is regarded. I read Soul of The Marionette recently.and I thought it was a somewhat aimless a
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by scandox 6y ago
> The performant is often not talked about in the same sentences as its usual companion species, the irrelevant. What I find is that programmers I've worked with who have been the most preoccupied with performance always seems to ha
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by scandox 6y ago
As far as I knew we were talking not about Crypto but about the need for financial privacy.
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by scandox 6y ago
I think the issue we all dance around is that ultimately financial privacy provides the only reasonable means of funding anti state violence. Of course this is always immediately labelled terrorism, but at many times in history has been the
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by scandox 6y ago
Well looking out my window that's because they're having a whale of a time and I I haven't the heart to blame them really. They're roaming the streets here like a herd of frisky wildebeest.
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by scandox 6y ago
Arthur C Clarke wrote a story which contains the same core conceit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade_(short_story) Edit: I see the wikipedia page does a poor job of describing the story. The essence is that a si

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