syrrim

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by syrrim 7y ago
That's smart. Just like how /pol/ does it.
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I think maybe the principle is that we want to be able to transfer as many bits/second of data as possible. We have the computer->human interface down, because screens can already emit more information than humans can process. But h
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by syrrim 7y ago
"it's based on greed" All systems reward greed. The more detached they are from how people naturally behave, the more they reward people who chase the system at the expense of thise who what comes naturally. Capitalism reward
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by syrrim 7y ago
Banks normally don't actually transfer any money. There's a funny story from the 1920s of the Bank of England pushing money across the vault floor to indicate a transfer to France, who held an account with them. The money doesn&#x
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by syrrim 7y ago
He disagreed with the wording "assault" which he felt was ambiguous. He would almost certainly have been fine with the wording "had sex with a 17 year old girl on a billionaire's private island". I'm sure a num
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by syrrim 7y ago
Email chain is here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420...
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by syrrim 7y ago
>I want to use the tools I like >I want to call a script that does that. A script which I can look at and see what it does
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by syrrim 7y ago
Words are used for communication. The definition of a word derives from the mutually understood definition of the word between the author and the reader. >The world does not revolve around you. The GP was quite careful to speak from the
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by syrrim 7y ago
Fingerprinting requires sending information back to the mothership. If we got javascript that was sandboxed from making web requests, then it could have access to whatever private data it wanted without entailing a privacy risk.
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by syrrim 7y ago
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
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by syrrim 7y ago
Returning from a canoeing trip a few years ago, there were tens of canoes paddling in the bay of the rental store. Apparently, the particular lake we were on had received a "Michelin Star", and therefore been placed on the bucket
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by syrrim 7y ago
including every single 1e100 server domain? good luck
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by syrrim 7y ago
There are good boards on 8ch too. Probably more, considering anyone can make a board.
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by syrrim 7y ago
>abortions are not "universally understood to be reprehensible". Some abortions. Late term, say.
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by syrrim 7y ago
Visited one of these vegan restaurants. Took me a little while to realize everything on the menu was misspelled. They didn't have cheese they had "cheeze", they had "porc" instead of pork, etc. Immediately it felt q
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by syrrim 7y ago
You can also disable/spoof referer in about:config
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Android?
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by syrrim 7y ago
Cable costs ~$60 per month. If the majority of people switch from cable to streaming, we can expect it to reach a similar price (because people have demonstrated that they are willing to pay that much and because existing hierarchies are se
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by syrrim 7y ago
You mean "assuming a corrupted"?
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Both are proxies for TDTPT: https://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/113360634364/the-stan...
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by syrrim 7y ago
Could be corrected for by having couples enter the lottery as a unit, or halving the odds for each person entering as part of a couple.
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by syrrim 7y ago
An individual parent doesn't figure this out on their own. The market, composed of all parents, determines it. The market has access to more information than any phd will ever be privy, because it knows the individual feelings of every
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by syrrim 7y ago
Google "best restaurants" and you'll find a list of decent restaurants. They may not be the best restaurants, but they also won't suck. That brings us par with the status quo, from 15 minutes of work.
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by syrrim 7y ago
The principle of skin in the game doesn't merely improve the situation for picky people, it brings up the average improving the situation for everyone. If picky people at large boycott a particular school, everyone who is friends with
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by syrrim 7y ago
opendistro has this: https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/security which has feature parity with the free version elastic just released afaict.
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by syrrim 7y ago
Radium water has a tendency to infect the water supply, so that even people who don't buy it are affected by it. The principle of intolerance applies the other way for schools: people who are picky about schools will do lots of researc
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consumers have skin in the game
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Stewart defines calculus as the study of limits, which include infinite series.
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by syrrim 7y ago
You think he was taking the pug to rallies?
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by syrrim 8y ago
There was a recent post here regarding someone who was recorded as dead by the credit agencies after the death of their father. In that case it couldn't be corrected in any meaningful sense. Gossip can be corrected, in a meaningful sen

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