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by slang800 9y ago
Yeah, same here. Just don't start posting cat photos or what you ate today.
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by slang800 9y ago
> I am genuinely confused why you think a large portion -- if not a commanding majority -- of women in tech would not self-identify with "geek feminism" According to YouGov, 23% of women identify as feminist, 5% are anti-femini
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by slang800 9y ago
> murder the phone's battery life I don't think that kind of audio processing would be an issue for battery life. They're able to do everything on a coin-sized battery in their system. From their prototype pics, they'
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by slang800 9y ago
Well, the double hulls of these ships are inch-thick steel, but I think the dome is less protected. An attack that blew the dome off could open up a large hole and ignite the escaping gas, but it would still take minutes for all of it to bo
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by slang800 9y ago
> the undersea distance is not actually that far relative to other undersea projects. Undersea HVDC lines are nothing like the undersea fiber optic cables. The problem isn't whether or not we can create a cable like that, it's
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by slang800 9y ago
Transporting electrons is extremely difficult. Even with HVDC lines (usually more efficient than AC lines over long distances) you get around 3.5% loss per 1000km. If you tried to run a submarine cable the distance that LNG tankers travel,
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by slang800 9y ago
Cool concept, but why isn't it an app? Couldn't you use the mic on my phone to listen for volume spikes, or even fine-tuned sound patterns? Surely a modern phone CPU can do audio processing a great deal faster than a common microc
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by slang800 9y ago
"Mini-nuke" isn't a very accurate comparison. In the event of a leak, the liquid fuel would need to flow out of the tank and turn into vapor before it could catch fire and burn. As a liquid or highly concentrated vapor it&#x2
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by slang800 9y ago
> much more than just a book; it’s a movement Wow that's cringy. I would have far more respect for this stuff if it was marketed for its talented writing or effectiveness as propaganda, rather than the "movement" it hopes
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by slang800 9y ago
> Milo wasn't [known] outside those circles until after the controversy got the mainstream consciousness Yeah, I watched Milo get popular too, going from an occasional guest on Sky News to someone that people riot about... He's
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by slang800 9y ago
I think you're conflating causation - GamerGate was an expression of /pol/ culture, not the cause of it. I'm sure that the fact that the event made news spread that culture, but ultimately the ideas didn't change.
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by slang800 9y ago
> The rapid proliferation of encrypted messaging by terrorist networks has prompted... Giving governments the power to perform mass interception and decryption of communication doesn't seem like a sensible way to fight terrorists, e
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by slang800 9y ago
TI can't run R or Python, at least the last time I checked... Maybe someone really clever has ported it.
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by slang800 9y ago
You can probably read all the content of the courses on your phone and even run a basic Python/R interpreter on it, but no. Phone keyboards suck for programming and there are a ton of programs you can't run on a phone (like RStud
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by slang800 9y ago
> The race numbers make a lot more sense when you look at it in context of local base rates. About 50% of engineers in Silicon Valley are white and about 30% are Asian. That's approximately the same as the demographics of San Franci
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by slang800 10y ago
I have a hard time believing that giving someone a "hemopneumothorax" with an "electric pencil sharpener" is a legitimate threat. It sounds like a reference to an inside joke, and wasn't even addressed to anyone in
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by slang800 10y ago
But the FCC rules that were repealed allowed data collection if you "opt-in" too, right? I haven't read the entire text of the legislation, but their news release covers this: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public
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by slang800 10y ago
Has anyone tried building something like this, but doing the analysis locally and just pulling from a documentation repository like Dash? I don't like the idea of uploading my code to their server, or using a proprietary tool, but I re
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by slang800 10y ago
> One problem is that legislators need to make decisions on a wide range of domains. Maybe we should reduce that range of issues by cutting down the amount of regulation that the government is responsible for maintaining.
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by slang800 10y ago
Isn't doing this type of data collection without consent already banned under the [Wiretap Act]( https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511 )? What part of these protections weren't redundant?
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by slang800 10y ago
The regulations that are being repealed were passed on October of 2016, so data-hungry companies already have whatever browsing history you gave them.
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by slang800 10y ago
> More generally, is it OK for an open-source community to ban/ostracize a member purely because their “belief system” — perhaps better described as a complicated fantasy milieu in which they happen to spend their personal time — wa
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by slang800 10y ago
More importantly, that source-code isn't the compiler - it just makes calls to the server that runs the compiler: https://github.com/seraum/nectarjs/blob/master/nectar.js#L52... . We don't even
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by slang800 10y ago
Historians have no problem incorporating reliable documents written by the "other side". You just have to understand the context that it was written in. However, all the "alternative" history I've looked at has ende
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by slang800 10y ago
The argument I gave was distinctly anarcho-capitalist. But, of course, there are plenty of statist arguments for reducing regulation.
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by slang800 10y ago
There's certainly a division between libertarian minarchists and libertarian anarchists, but I'm talking about the most "hard-core" application of the NAP.
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by slang800 10y ago
Grafana & Geckoboard are for displaying charts as a dashboard. Freeter looks more like a mini window manager in an app... Even though you could just open up your project-related applications in a workspace and lay them out on a grid wit
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by slang800 10y ago
That might be true, though I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that. But my point wasn't that regulation is inefficient - it's that libertarians can be quite a bit more extreme than the OP thinks.
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by slang800 10y ago
> Even the most dug-in libertarian can't really argue against these kinds of regulations Oh, I beg to differ. From a hard-core libertarian perspective, the state has no right to exist, let alone impose arbitrary regulations on busin
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by slang800 10y ago
True, but their actions aren't isolated to themselves, so I'd rather see disease rates not increase. Enough exposure can still infect vaccinated people, and we end up needing to pay for unvaccinated people when they get sick. If u

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