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by tal8d 6y ago
How 'bout a little bit of both? Imagine the past year of US corporate simpering in regard to Chinese interests - but across the entire .com domain. Everyone better make sure they're using the CCP approved South China Sea maps, yes
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by tal8d 6y ago
I don't doubt it. Like I said, troll-shielding. The more interesting consequences of that don't happen in game chats though. The censorship apologists come out in force in the wake of a competitive player being banned for publicly
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by tal8d 6y ago
The Chinese firewall is looking less like a method of tyrannical control, and more like a ridiculous attempt at troll-shielding an easily manipulated populace. https://youtu.be/xN0vUlljX0I?t=120
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by tal8d 7y ago
So the text of the article doesn't factor into your diagnosis of my projection? "Alison’s balcony offers her a small degree of distance from her partner..." "For the estimated 1.6 million women who experienced domestic a
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by tal8d 7y ago
> That wasn't the start of the hoax... The only perpetrator that would provide an excuse for baselessly accusing the US military would have to be the US government. So when did they fabricate that hoax? Was it when the FBI started c
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by tal8d 7y ago
> ...reply to the "US accusation" that the virus was unleashed intentionally by the Chinese. Oh that is an easy one. That US accusation was actually open speculation by Indian and German researchers examining the only data that
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by tal8d 7y ago
> Though it does not excuse many of China's initial actions... This qualifier, "initial", makes me think you are arguing that their subsequent actions are excusable. I'd argue they aren't excusable, even from a c
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by tal8d 7y ago
While also providing proof that those statements predate China's antics. When China was accusing everyone of fear-mongering, and hints of travel restrictions were met with speeches about the holocaust and hypocritical appeals to the WH
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by tal8d 7y ago
It was happening long before the WH uttered a word, so if you really want to blame Trump for Chinese propaganda - you are going to have to argue for the concept of preemptive retaliation.
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by tal8d 7y ago
Which market will bring costs down and feed into the next cycle of development, a market that potentially includes everyone - or a market restricted to desperate legally blind people? I'm not a fan of consumerism, but it goes a lot fur
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by tal8d 7y ago
I attacked it from both directions: an arguably supervised dataset of urls (hundreds of GB from various internet survey projects), and unit testing the insane markov gibberish the parser makes when you cram random data where it doesn't
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by tal8d 7y ago
I wrote 90% of a strict URI parser over a year ago, I know that RFC way better than I'd like to. I stopped at 90% after discovering the reason why my fuzzer was generating test failures: the ABNF is wrong. I believe it was around the q
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by tal8d 7y ago
For an individual, yes - the barrier to entry is high. But I don't really see any way to change that, due to the very nature of mainframes: systems of complex and highly tuned special purpose submodules. This is the first thing you&#x2
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by tal8d 7y ago
Yes, I understand that logical correctness is different from universal truth. But using the exact same formula to argue two mutually exclusive points in the same breath is a very good way of demonstrating why emotionally driven arguments yi
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by tal8d 7y ago
> ... and make having a democracy much more difficult. Are you unaware of the fact that this is exact argument made by those who argue for the 2nd amendment? While you could argue that they are fear-mongers, with the tree of liberty talk
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by tal8d 7y ago
This is one of those "It depends..." questions, where it really does - on so many variables that it would be a major chore just to list them all. So an easier way to go about just establishing an idea of where to put the first bit
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by tal8d 7y ago
Nope, just advanced planning and VoIP. You'd be amazed how much you save in both service fees and distraction. Friends and family quickly adapt as well, knowing to call in the evening - which leads to better conversations in my experie
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by tal8d 7y ago
I've been living without a mobile phone for about 5 years. The only time it has ever registered as slightly inconvenient for me is while travelling - specifically the airport pickup coordination. I simply don't use services that r
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by tal8d 7y ago
For those who haven't been paying attention to the comedic effects of intellectual property taken to the extreme (or logical conclusion, I'd argue): just punch "tractor dmca" into your favorite search engine. We often ta
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by tal8d 7y ago
That is a distinction without a difference, even in the most charitable light. Do I think they're meeting in smoke filled back rooms to plot their dark deeds? No. They are actually very open about it, sending company officers and emplo
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by tal8d 7y ago
sdf.org is interesting because it is one of the few services running a multi-user capable OS - and using it that way. I donated to them years ago, primarily for the complementary email address, and in setting that up I was poking around in
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by tal8d 7y ago
I don't think Facebook wants anything, as it is simply an abstract legal concept. Employees and shareholders of Facebook are the ones to watch. They were the first movers on the totally not coordinated Alex Jones shunning. Youtube had
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by tal8d 7y ago
The AFF back to back breaches were interesting because there were faults to found at every level. * The breach included PII from a property they had already sold, but held onto for some reason. * SHA1. A good choice if you want to slightly
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by tal8d 7y ago
After learning that there are people walking around with no inner monologue, I am no longer surprised by these debunked universalities. People share a lot less in common than what popular culture would have use think, again no surprise when
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by tal8d 7y ago
Oh I blamed everyone, from USPS and the county level politicians - to the astrologists screwing around with the tz database... Also, and I hope this doesn't offend any surviving perl monks, having only perl at my disposal made it that
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by tal8d 7y ago
You just triggered a deeply repressed memory. I had to write some software that integrated a properly designed logistics database with an improperly designed USPS mail piece tracking feed. What constitutes a proper design? UTC timestamps. U
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by tal8d 7y ago
And snap goes the bear trap. I was a little concerned that the parallels between their political maneuvering with Mugabe and Jinping would be too obvious, but you've clearly missed it. They have a history of this sort of behavior. >
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by tal8d 7y ago
Unlike the WHO, this friendly internet commentator hasn't appointed Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador. So you'd be better served appealing to my authority, not theirs.
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by tal8d 7y ago
The propensity for lying, in order to protect the power structure, results in a major constraint on future options - requiring more lies. It is a vicious cycle that completely obliterates any potential strong-arm advantage a single party sy
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by tal8d 7y ago
Having worked in loss prevention for more than one company, I've only seen cuts to that budget occur in one of two ways: departments working themselves out of a job by solving the root cause, or vendors absorbing enough counter-party r

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