smokeyj

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by smokeyj 11y ago
> Most people aren't bankers, and don't really understand how it works as a system, beyond their own account, so it's weird to ask them to make key decisions here. That's a strange principle to hold, especially if it
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by smokeyj 11y ago
I thought the config error was debunked by his attorney. I think the question many people have is if parallel construction was at play and if TOR is compromised.
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by smokeyj 11y ago
Have you ever spoken to a journalist? It's their job to sell clicks with charged headlines and over-blown quotes. If they followed you for a day I promise they'd generate some equally stupid quotes.
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by smokeyj 11y ago
> That's why they order soldiers not to and why it is officially against the law of the United States That's what's so beautiful about language. We can simply redefine anyone in a war zone as an enemy combatant. Want to bo
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by smokeyj 11y ago
Check out node-inspector
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Websites can already link to illegal content without user consent. Is this really a new threat?
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I think their job is to be entertaining and sell advertisements.
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Not that they're very distinguishable but that sounds more like a government than a religion.
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If Budhism is simply a pragmatic and empirical guide to happiness, is it really a religion?
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by smokeyj 11y ago
Are you kidding me? Prisons are filled with poor black drug offenders. If you're wealthy you can literally be a convicted paedophile sex offender and not do time. The fact you attribute clean water as a sign of a functioning justice s
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by smokeyj 11y ago
It's like tradition. You don't say it's tradition to eat dinner - because there's a clear and logical reason why. Meditation has empirical benefits. Meditation is good. If you believe you have to meditate to not go to fl
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It'd be interesting to experiment with a model where the roles of student and teacher are interchangeable. Some form of peer learning mesh network.
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by smokeyj 11y ago
> if people start to get sick, who has the liability The sick people, clearly. Just like the dead people who went to Jack in the Box. Exactly what kind of restitution are you proposing here? A pimped out grave?
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by smokeyj 11y ago
In-N-Out burgers aren't owned but rather licensed. Contingent on not being door-dash. Read the EULA.
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by smokeyj 11y ago
It has nothing to do with everyone else. If you impressed your boss while sticking to a 40hr week, they'll only be impressed so long before it becomes your norm. In which case you bump up your hours to maintain your prestige. I don&#x2
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> And now you have to achieve 50 hours of work in 30 hours. Could this argument not be made about the 40hr week?
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by smokeyj 11y ago
> I have a right to free speech, and sometimes your name is on my lips. Except most people don't understand how cookies or like buttons track their behavior. To assume otherwise is disingenuous. The result is the equivalent of buggi
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Linux and open source in general
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"Child installs eBay app to purchase dildos - news at 9." I understand PR is an influencing factor in corporate decision making - but if Apple is choosing to cater to the Dateline crowd rather than satisfy their core audience, Tim
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by smokeyj 11y ago
Explain to simpletons like myself how pornography distribution is like measuring weight. I'd love to draw the connection but I'm afraid logic prevails. Furthermore, if Dateline is an influencing force in Apple product decisions -
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Then why allow safari? There's so many scary things online, why would they endorse such things?
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by smokeyj 11y ago
> One of my piano teachers was forced to practice through tears as a kid She was traumatized by figures of authority to learn piano, and she became a piano teacher. I'm not seeing the inspiration aspect of this story.
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by smokeyj 11y ago
As hands off as the war is it still costs more than it's worth. The benefit is not only zero, at the end of the day we have more enemies than we started with - along with all the human collateral. Obama could literally have taken that
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by smokeyj 11y ago
> there are other actors with geopolitical interests of their own who would cheerfully move in to fill the resulting vacuum So the argument for perpetual and unwinnable warfare is - if we don't someone else will? You think that&#x27
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by smokeyj 11y ago
> When money holds value, it is hoarded. When it is hoarded, it is unproductive. Except it's not hoarded, it's reinvested. The consumption of created value is deferred while accruing interest at a market rate. This interest rat
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> both definitions are valid and commonly used In my experience there's one definition used by the general public, and another used by social justice warrior academic types to prove they have a more mindful world view than you. But
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What about software contractors that are handed work equipment, required to work a minimum of 40 hrs (full time) and have to show up to an office. How are they not considered employees?
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by smokeyj 11y ago
> Feeding ISIS actual people is material support in the clearest, truest sense. To be honest, I have no idea what "material support" means. Google defines it as "In American law, providing material support for terrorism is
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by smokeyj 11y ago
Diamonds maintain their value thru strict control of the supply enabling them to serve as a symbol of status. Processes that threaten the control of artificial scarcity represent an existential threat to the value of the diamond industry an
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Miners would have to mine valid blocks secretly, risking never receiving a payout unless x-consecutive blocks have been mined. I mean it's technically possible, just economically infeasible.

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