sophacles

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by sophacles 5mo ago
You're going to burn down his house no matter what?
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by sophacles 5mo ago
> Well you can't really separate China out from the initial comment I responded to. How is American power the weakest it has ever been but then it's also not changed at all with respect to China? These kinds of statements just
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by sophacles 5mo ago
This isn't an accurate summary, even at a 50Kft view. Are you a serious commentator?
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by sophacles 5mo ago
Its not that warm in Chicago.
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by sophacles 5mo ago
There are plenty of python bugs from mis-indented code. Particularly given multiple parts of a flow that "else" can apply to.... for/else, while/else, if/else, try/else and so on. It happens quite often in pyth
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by sophacles 5mo ago
When I was working on large python code bases, a full 50% of my time was spent dealing with tests failing because: * someone assumed duck typing where it wasn't or the inverse. Or changed the assumed interface of a duck. * somewhere do
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by sophacles 5mo ago
Cloudflare didn't say "give us money or we'll cause you harm"... so no extortion. Cloudflare infrastructure wasn't used for the attack, so no DoS attack. They sold services to two customers, one of whom did a crime
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by sophacles 5mo ago
And what do those 10% of lawyers do? Every other industry also got reduced by 10+%, its not like they have a job elsewhere. So.... they just starve in the streets? Even if some other, arguably better job comes along, would they retrain for
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by sophacles 5mo ago
Obviously we need to go after supermarkets and corner stores since criminals eat, so somewhere past that.
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by sophacles 5mo ago
No you wouldn't. Unless you failed to comply with subpoenas/warrants/etc for it. That assumes of course that like Cloudflare you were hosting a web page and not the actual illegal activity, and were following the laws around
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by sophacles 5mo ago
Yeah, I demand all my hosting providers be 100% vulnerable to DDoS for this reason.
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by sophacles 5mo ago
And outside of Europe, a huge number of capitalist democracies didn't join in or pick a side until late 1941 (6 months after the invasion of the USSR), at the same(ish) time as the US joined. Just i know there were preferred trading pa
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by sophacles 5mo ago
Most ideologies are terrible in those regards. The various forms of democratic capitalism have been pretty big on genocide and oppression too. Most of them were were pretty unconcerned with Hitler until after the marxist-leninists were alre
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by sophacles 5mo ago
I don't think anyone else with the name Obama has been president of anything that confers a library (let alone a presidential library), your answer seems a bit needlessly derisive. I suspect you're just insecure about your persona
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by sophacles 5mo ago
The thing you imagine has never really been true. Rivers, seas and canals and later railroads and highways have always brought food to the city from as far as it could be transported before it spoiled. Rome got its wheat from Egypt and its
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by sophacles 5mo ago
Because it trades most of the benefits of cities for the hassle of suburban life and less efficient food production.
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by sophacles 5mo ago
And conversely you can't grow enough food local to a large population center to feed everyone.
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by sophacles 5mo ago
Nonsense. Don't you know how bubbles work? Everyone does massive rushes for all the low hanging and medium hanging fruit. The the bubble pops and the randomized carnage of companies big and small being destroyed is sifted through by th
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by sophacles 5mo ago
Tens of millions of people have outdoor hobbies that puts them in direct or incidental contact with water. Hundreds of millions live in places where rain happens. Billions live in situations where a spill of drinking water (or water based l
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by sophacles 5mo ago
Biodegradable is only one type of degradation. Some of those compounds break down over time, or with exposure to uv or random stuff in the ground, into nasty compounds that you certainly don't want entering the water cycle or food cycl
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by sophacles 5mo ago
You can find data centers by looking for hvac units in satellite photos.
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by sophacles 5mo ago
Nonsense the kernel owns huge swaths of the IO path. For example: It is responsible for all ethernet and IP layer operations, and handles TCP, etc. (By default, there's ways to move these things into userland, but in 99% of cases, prog
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by sophacles 5mo ago
It's a simple tale, one as old as time - the religious scammers started believing their lies and drank the kool-aid.
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by sophacles 5mo ago
Also worth noting - the company may not mind you doing that work today but without anything in writing the company may come after you in the future. This is particularly relevant when you're on salary and work for a company that may
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by sophacles 5mo ago
> In the idealized world, the legal system is meant to provide an accessible alternative to violence for reconciling disputes, but it's increasingly wielded as an impossibly kafkaesque system meant to maintain corporate power over i
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by sophacles 6mo ago
So, incoming ban on ads for AI, cars, fast food and shoes?
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by sophacles 6mo ago
You're right. I should have said discouraging him rather than making sure. However the notion that Jones has learned something is so utterly preposterous that not even his fans are stupid enough to believe it
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by sophacles 6mo ago
Alex Jones knowing lied about the parents. This destroyed their reputation. Alex Jones made a lot of money from his lies. The parents made no money from those lies. The parents' reputation was sold for dollars, and they got no dollars.
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by sophacles 6mo ago
It is personal. He intentionally lied about the parents of dead children. Thats as personal of an attack as it gets. Of course those parents are going to take it personally and go after the sick pile of shit who lied about them.
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by sophacles 6mo ago
No, it doesn't seem rather large. The man made a fortune destroying the reputations of some people, and he did so by (provably) intentionally lying about them, without their consent and with nothing paid to them. They deserve every pen

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