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by tangent128 10y ago
Daesh profits from the fracture, since it feeds their radicalization efforts.
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by tangent128 10y ago
To prevent coercion, it's not sufficient to allow anonymity; you have to disallow means by which a person can prove how they voted.
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by tangent128 10y ago
IPFS is, more or less, an implementation of Named Data Networking.
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by tangent128 10y ago
There's no reason we can't try to reform both at once.
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by tangent128 10y ago
As I read it, for "physical correctness" gamma is the most important consideration. When selecting your initial color palette, though, it is true hue and saturation do have nonlinear perception. There are (somewhat complicated) co
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by tangent128 10y ago
Elections, especially under First-Past-The-Post voting, are coordination games- not opinion polls. If you can assemble a coalition of ~70 million voters for a third party within the next two months, sure, do that. Otherwise, you are absta
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by tangent128 10y ago
What should happen when that wins?
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by tangent128 10y ago
Point, though binary normalization is easier to define in a manner everybody will consistently implement as opposed to, say, SMTP headers. ...I guess it's abominations like SMTP that I mainly think of when I hear "text-based proto
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by tangent128 10y ago
Text-based protocols are simple for humans to read, but anything requiring parsing is a security smell. Even if you are sure your buffer handling is free of bugs (reasonable in new languages, but the known-size of binary fields has been a s
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by tangent128 10y ago
I mean, "expecting the rest of the world to change in order to meet their arbitrary demands" is pretty much the definition of a standards body. And the majority of SJ-related requests I've seen are in effect just that; declar
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by tangent128 10y ago
Alternatively, is it possible that "normal" people have problems that are generally not encountered in the experience of "aspie nerds"? The necessity of Unicode is a great example of how a seemingly-straightforward techn
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by tangent128 10y ago
If the proposed rewordings are just as good from a technical perspective, does it hurt anybody to just accept the commit?
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by tangent128 10y ago
Whether "Meritocracy" is an egalitarian or hegemonic value depends heavily on who is allowed to define the Merit function.
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by tangent128 10y ago
Generally, populism implies oppression of the unpopular.
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by tangent128 10y ago
Exposure therapy can be effective, but under controlled circumstances as supervised by a professional and prepared for by the patient. Uncontrolled exposure is more likely to worsen the anxiety than extinguish it.
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by tangent128 10y ago
It appears that kdbus is being reworked into BUS1[0]; the new API looks a lot less warty. [0] http://www.bus1.org/bus1.html
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by tangent128 10y ago
Mine works the same way, though the months don't always "fit together" right; my visualized locations for July-November tend to overlap each other, while the 10-o'clock segment of the dial is a void between May and June.
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by tangent128 10y ago
When you are dealing with pointers (which is a requirement to implement the API of C's stdlib), you are in unsafe territory. Fortunately, any user of the C stdlib (including other languages) already expects it to be unsafe.
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by tangent128 10y ago
Or surplus luxury apartments simply go unoccupied, being used as stores of value.
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by tangent128 10y ago
I don't think you can enumerate them these days, but you can test for them by trying to use them in CSS (which font is used would affect the width of a span of text, use a wildly different fallback font and you can guess which is insta
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by tangent128 10y ago
Compulsory voting's advantage is giving people an excuse to vote. If you are legally obligated to show up at the voting booth, even if you elect to spoil your ballot at that point, your employer can't fire you for taking off work
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by tangent128 11y ago
So voice SIMs can't be used as throwaway cell numbers, I'd guess.
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by tangent128 11y ago
In theory employers are supposed to make up the difference if tips don't meet minimum wage. But it's infamous for being poorly enforced.
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by tangent128 11y ago
Congratulations, you get to be productive by raising society's next generation. Sincerely. Many people don't desire large families, if any, or are physically incapable of reproduction. So why pressure them to when others are perfe
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by tangent128 11y ago
Why would you <em>want</em> to have as many babies as you can?
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by tangent128 11y ago
What value exists in bringing that capital back "in" to the USA if it provides no benefit to US citizens in doing so?
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by tangent128 11y ago
"Destroyed" may be the wrong term, but the purpose of money is to facilitate transactions. One dollar that changes hands ten times in a year has contributed more to the economy, and created more effective wealth, than ten dollars
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by tangent128 11y ago
If competition works, companies won't be able to hike the price of necessities. If competition doesn't work, the entire premise of capitalism is unsound.
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by tangent128 11y ago
C is still the lingua franca; it's the only toolchain you can rely on a target system having, and the only real usable interface for calling between code in different languages. So my theory is that it's not so much that people ar
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by tangent128 11y ago
"kill" as a term for the forcible cessation of life carries no baggage tying it to historical atrocities. It can and is used to refer to deaths of stars, bacteria, plants, abstract concepts, and humans, without any connotation tha

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