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by sd8f9iu 8y ago
>On the one side some 'bad other' could be using an undefined device to attack only American people, only in foreign lands, and for uncertain reasons. If someone were trying to sour US-Cuban relations, then it would make sense
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by sd8f9iu 10y ago
He made some assertions. I argued against them. He accused me of misunderstanding him. I defended myself and asked him to clarify. I think I'm entitled to argue and defend my claims. Nothing about that is turning this into a battle. &g
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by sd8f9iu 10y ago
If you're not saying, "it's not worth solving," then what exactly are you saying? What other problems pose "similar if not more immediate, or greater risks to humanity" than climate change? It'd be nice if
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by sd8f9iu 10y ago
1. Is there a viable technology to do this right now? Is there bound to be one within a decade? 2. That's why I said "predicted." Relocating hundreds of millions of poor people to Russia is not a solution to climate change. L
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by sd8f9iu 10y ago
1. The big fear with climate change is that it's irreversible. That is not the case with the other problems you mention. 2. Climate change is predicted to cause food supply problems for hundreds of millions of people, trillions of doll
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by sd8f9iu 10y ago
Looks great! The interface picture, halfway down, should be the top one – it's too hard to tell what the app does from the first one. Might give it a try.
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by sd8f9iu 10y ago
Honestly, how are they obnoxious? They're asking you to pay for a service. I wish there were more paywalls in online journalism. Low-quality ad-funded journalism is how we get clickbait and crap like the Huffington Post.
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by sd8f9iu 11y ago
And using reconstructions, the data appears to go back even further: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2000_Year_Temperature_Com...
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by sd8f9iu 11y ago
I often see on this site the notion that the media should give us accurate, objective takes on the news, without playing to the public's fears and superficial desires. And yet here you say you'd rather not have to see something th
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by sd8f9iu 11y ago
I thought only apps signed by "identified developers" are run by default on Macs with Gatekeeper now. Shouldn't code-signing have prevented this? Unless they inserted the malware before the signing process.
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by sd8f9iu 11y ago
Interesting, thanks. I find that very surprising, as YouTube now behaves differently across browsers. I'm surprised Google would make this the policy for Chrome, and not make the change in YouTube too; it's much better.
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by sd8f9iu 11y ago
Is this not the new behavior? My YT videos only play when I go to the tab now.
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by sd8f9iu 11y ago
But that is not what the problem is. In any scientific discipline, we never know anything for certain. Climate deniers are not saying, "we still don't know some things about climate change." They are denying the basic facts o
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by sd8f9iu 11y ago
It worked with SOPA, didn't it? Seems like the people have a bit of say.
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by sd8f9iu 11y ago
That's true, I forgot about that. Thankfully, most of the sites I use that have FB login are just for entertainment, not communication or anything serious. But that's true.
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by sd8f9iu 11y ago
What's the big deal if Facebook goes down? If it's important, I email (Gmail going down would be more dire, I think). Or I can text people if I have their number. Or send a Hangout. Or Whatsapp. Or Skype. Or call them. Facebook ha
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by sd8f9iu 11y ago
> All public spending involves some sort of "corruption" [1] because it's always other people's money being spent, and there's always someone in charge of spending it. In an ideal democratic system, opposing part
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by sd8f9iu 11y ago
This seems highly unlikely (without further evidence) to have a global effect anywhere on the level of climate change, and if it's part of the solution to that problem, I'll take it.
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by sd8f9iu 12y ago
Honestly, why do people think that a terrorist attack like this requires any dramatic changes to society? The fact is that some guys got guns and shot up a building, in the name of a currently popular, violent ideology. When will we ever be
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by sd8f9iu 12y ago
> I'm just pointing out that using measures like the Gini coefficient can inadvertently reward bad behavior Great, duly noted. When you make grand assertions about the inequality movement in the future, I suggest you do some backgro
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by sd8f9iu 12y ago
You make inequality out as the result of purely economic factors, when it is as much the result of political decisions. If congress passes a tax cut for the top 1%, that increases inequality, not because some group has suddenly "found
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by sd8f9iu 12y ago
For the presidency, under which the power to enact or prosecute torture lies, there's been no chance for a third-party candidate in my lifetime (and I've seen one election, 2000, thrown in the wrong direction because too many peop
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by sd8f9iu 12y ago
So I should support a third party that will get no representation in the government and have no impact? We live in a two-party system whether you like it or not, and it's not changing anytime soon. I quickly grow weary of the constant
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by sd8f9iu 12y ago
I hope so too, and I doubt the US government's response will be cyber-warfare related. There's not much they can do in the first place, and it would be a petty tit-for-tat reprimand.
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by sd8f9iu 12y ago
If they are wrong, then they take a hit to their credibility. The Republican Party would pounce on this and never let up. It would not look good in the public eye if the government's cybersecurity apparatus – which the president just s
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by sd8f9iu 12y ago
I agree. Had he simply said we should record languages and try to understand them before they die out, I would have agreed with him too, but trying to get people to keep speaking them just for the sake of it seems like a waste (and an exerc
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by sd8f9iu 12y ago
This is an article reporting on government officials' claims that the attack comes from NK. The credentials of the reporters (especially their "tech journalist" credentials) hardly matter. The NYTimes isn't endorsing thi
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by sd8f9iu 12y ago
Since when does it take more than a month to find the origin of an attack? We've seen the capabilities of the NSA, and I'd bet they've already made grounds infiltrating NK computer networks in the past. If the perpetrator was
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by sd8f9iu 12y ago
Haha yeah I forgot about that. Also, if you write the programs on your computer, you can use lowercase a-z and get 26 more. And there's theta and a couple other weird ones too.
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by sd8f9iu 12y ago
I also first learned to program in TI-BASIC, on a TI-83+ in 6th grade, and I did it prolifically for the next four years. Learning programming at that age was a huge advantage when I "officially" learned later: even though TI-BASI

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