smutticus

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by smutticus 12y ago
None of these reiews answer the one question I always want answered; will this cause my MBP to crash more often than 10.8.5? I have all the features I need, I want fewer GPU panics. I know these reviewers cannot answer this question, I just
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by smutticus 12y ago
One of my favorite Churchill quotes is, "The best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with the average voter." You're position isn't all that strange, and it does cut right to the heart of the issue. Do
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by smutticus 12y ago
It was 15% upfront, then typical mutual fund charges of 1-2% per year. Still terrible compared to Vanguard.
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by smutticus 12y ago
Why were you downvoted?
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by smutticus 12y ago
If he had what Dutch people call a pension, it's still his, and he can still collect it. We're not talking about money given out by the Dutch government at retirement. By pension, we're talking about investments made during t
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by smutticus 12y ago
What a puff piece. I am the proud owner of both a Dutch pension and an American 401k. I much prefer the American 401k. If only because I don't have to pay 15% front loaded commissions everytime money gets put into a fund. I had to claw
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by smutticus 12y ago
Just because some members of the American Communist party were working for the Soviets, does not mean that every member was. Guilt by association is generally not a crime under common law. I don't know what 'unamerican' means
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by smutticus 12y ago
Amazon has recorded a net loss 4 out of the last 6 quarters. Read into that what you will, but I don't think they're in any position to 'get bored making money'. http://services.corporate-ir.net/SEC/
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by smutticus 12y ago
The claim that Red Hat is infiltrating Debian's governance structures is completely new to me. Does anyone have more information on this before I chalk this up to random angry rant? Where is the backstory confirming this accusation? So
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by smutticus 12y ago
Twitter wants to be able to say how many NSLs they've received with more preciseness. The government says they can only be vague, they want to be more precise. I think it would be a 'big deal' if Twitter and other companies s
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by smutticus 12y ago
That is a really good question, and a question that people agonize over constantly. When Zen was associated with swordsmanship and Bushido in Japanese culture they simply used to wait until the battle was over. Who ever was left standing wa
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by smutticus 12y ago
It depends on who you ask. The common historical narrative is that Chan Buddhism developed out of a mixture of Nepalese Buddhism and Chinese Taoism. The idea being that the Buddhist monks visiting China from India were interpreted through a
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by smutticus 12y ago
Alan Watts is regularly given as the prototypical example of 'beat zen' which is recognized as a debased form of Zen. This is discussed in the book I reference above by Wong Kiew Kit. This is not my opinion per se. It is the opini
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by smutticus 12y ago
Exactly. Practitioners of Zen Buddhism believe that enlightenment is transmitted from one who is enlightened to one who is not. With only very rare exceptions, it requires an authority to transmit. People who think they're practicing Z
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by smutticus 12y ago
It needs to be stated that most practitioners of Zen Buddhism, in both the east and the west, consider Alan Watts to be misinformed about Zen. Some might even call him a charlatan. I studied religious history as an undergrad and one convers
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by smutticus 12y ago
Indeed. Here is a short piece on T-Mobile's IPv6 rollout. http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/case-stud...
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by smutticus 12y ago
Not only that. But if you're going to make a web interface available externally you're kinda asking for it. Whether it's Shellshock or not, you shouldn't let anyone but admins see admin interfaces. Restrict SSH and web a
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by smutticus 12y ago
This article doesn't actually tell us anything. It's just a mini-bio of Wheeler. Still it's good that the NYT is net neutrality in the news. We've got to keep the pressure on these people. If you have had a terrible expe
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by smutticus 12y ago
That's what I was thinking. If you let random machines on your network hand out DHCP addresses you've got bigger problems.
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by smutticus 12y ago
The point of CT is just to keep a log of every certificate issued. It's about transparency and little else.
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by smutticus 12y ago
Only in Hollywood would a person like this become successful. I was certain at first that wiki page had to be a joke, but the video is even worse. This guy is completely full of it.
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by smutticus 12y ago
You must not live in the EU. Nationalism is alive and growing in EU countries, and it's not just aimed at non-EU nationals.
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by smutticus 12y ago
I completely agree with you.
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by smutticus 12y ago
It's this kind of crap that scares me away from systemd. I have no problems working with current init structures, so I gain nothing from systemd. It basically just removes options from me, and gives me nothing in return that I actually
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by smutticus 12y ago
> I don't see where morality comes into play when talking about weighing the interests of different for profit corporations. I think you just summarized in one sentence why many people hate lawyers. It's not just that lawyers a
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by smutticus 12y ago
That's a good question. Ultimately the FCC only has jurisdiction over American operators. However, net neutrality as a concept is also being debated in other countries. When someone like TBL is commenting on net neutrality I'm nev
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by smutticus 12y ago
I went to a Neal Stephenson talk where he argued that the main reason we see so many dystopian themed TV shows and movies is because they're cheap. He argued that it's cheaper to depict a dytopian future than a utopian one.
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by smutticus 12y ago
Here is a bit more info on Ciavarella. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/books/review/kids-for-cash... If I read the parent comment you seem to be saying that legal lobbying is the problem. However,
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by smutticus 12y ago
You can't compare the NL to anywhere in the USA WRT bicycles. Completely different environment.
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by smutticus 12y ago
IMO we need better road design, not additional legislation. We need dedicated cycling lanes, or at the very least designs that place parked cars between cyclists and drivers. You can't just draw a line on the road and call it a bicycle

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