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by woodman 10y ago
I disagree, pointing to risk management as the root cause makes it circular. I certainly don't expect private enterprise to right the state's wrongs, but I don't think it hurts the conversation to point out the true root cau
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by woodman 10y ago
And the federal laws are a result of the morally driven prohibition movement. They aren't founded on well reasoned logic, just the desire to control others.
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by woodman 10y ago
A HUD is AR, some HUDs are just more impressive than others. When you are talking about the difference between printers and monitors, the function of either is so different that it doesn't make sense to describe SVGA and XGA monitors
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by woodman 10y ago
They can when the mistake is too obvious to be overlooked. Pretend for a moment that this article is your introduction to the poorly named HaloLens. The distinction between AR and VR is incredibly important to a story about the thing&#x27
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by woodman 10y ago
Like describing a semi-automatic weapon as "automatic", frequently misusing "assault rifle", or calling a magazine a "clip"? No, the press is full of people who barely understand what they're writing abou
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by woodman 10y ago
There is a large body of science behind author identification, with lots of academic papers, talks at hacker conventions, etc. I'm surprised you missed it. If the NSA did use authorship identification software, would it be unreasonab
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by woodman 10y ago
People are surprisingly bad at asking questions, which is why the help desk should always first ask "What are you trying to do?" So why does "bureaucracy" have such a negative connotation? Like a lot of powerful tools,
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by woodman 10y ago
When you say obligation, do you actually mean that? An obligation is enforced by some sort of penalty, either legal (ultimately a threat of violence) or social (public shaming). There is no incentive for meeting an obligation outside of a
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by woodman 10y ago
I've been eagerly awaiting the conversion, but I was expecting it to be around the issue of biological immortality. This will be more entertaining though, because it is open to more than the religious types - anybody can try to guide
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by woodman 10y ago
> ... "feelings" as "not real" or of lesser value ... Well without getting into value judgement, you seem to be on board with the idea that emotions are a much higher level of abstraction above the cold logic of genet
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by woodman 10y ago
Calculated actions that take emotions into consideration seem pretty "hyper-rational" - you acknowledged as much with examples. > ... but that can change if the other person is you daughter ... old age ... It isn't as comp
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by woodman 10y ago
> ... inhabitants are free from want. Do you mean chemical lobotomies or a post scarcity economy? Because there are some wants that are impossible to fulfill, for example: there are a bunch of murderers in Syria motivated by the desire
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by woodman 10y ago
The term "back door" is so justifiably radioactive that the FBI and their congressional supporters were quick to invent new terms: "Front door" and "Golden key". While I'm not a fan of spin and the tortur
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by woodman 10y ago
Are you of the opinion that all beliefs are above ridicule, or just this one? Because in my opinion the idea of a government controlled key escrow is the most stupid thing I've heard suggested and its proponents are either willfully i
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by woodman 10y ago
> ... instead of trying to change it at its roots? Because eugenics went out of fashion a long time ago. The "roots" is free will, so you can't really change that without horrific consequences. Using birth control (volun
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by woodman 10y ago
> You're implying the Old Boy network effect doesn't exist. Kind of, but not really. One is monolithic and the other is stratified in such a way that loyalty does not transfer to the superstructure. Consider the relationship
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by woodman 10y ago
The system is designed in such a way that such a scenario doesn't happen, because once you indicate an unwillingness to open that door - you aren't expected to ever open that door (and you're unlikely to be offered the opport
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...includes anything humans do as natural which is a completely useless definition of natural. Useless for your purposes, where you are comparing things of the same kind - you use behavior for that, not nature. Nature is used for comp
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by woodman 10y ago
Imagine a long hallway segmented with closed doors, where each door represents a decision made during a mission. As you continue walking down the hallway, opening doors, the morality of each decision becomes more difficult to square with y
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by woodman 10y ago
> It's pretty well established that they're legally allowed to prevent me from conveying a certain state -- ie, that I have received an NSL. By compelling you to lie? When and where was that "pretty well established"
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by woodman 10y ago
Yeah we definitely aren't going to see eye to eye on this, because we don't even agree on what it is to be human. Whereas I include the direct consequences for biological imperatives in the definition, "Advanced mathmatics&q
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by woodman 10y ago
Are you confusing the spirit of the law with the letter of the law? Or do you really think that banks aren't selling your transaction data? http://www.cardlytics.com/technology/ Despite the "firewall" be
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by woodman 10y ago
I understand your position, but I guess I've failed to communicate mine effectively - because you don't seem to understand me when I've said in two different ways that your nature argument is tautological.
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by woodman 10y ago
Keep in mind the amount of monetization that occurs around purchase data in the present system. The ease with which you can associate transactions to real identities isn't even comparable.
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by woodman 10y ago
I don't use a DE, but I've used the tiling WM i3 for years: https://i3wm.org
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by woodman 10y ago
> 1. I don't have GBs of free memory for ZFS Others have already addressed the memory hog myth, so I'll just say that you aren't required to run ZFS - UFS still works just fine. I just sshed into my freebsd AWS instance (
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by woodman 10y ago
> Slavery is still very much alive, it's just no longer publicly supported. That misses the point, but I can pin the example down if that helps: ... publicly supporting slavery, until relatively recently, was the natural order of th
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by woodman 10y ago
I've never seen someone accused of racism for expressing a negative opinion about the DPRK - or the behavior of its inhabitants, but I can't say the same about the rest of Asia or North Africa. There is a chilling effect, and it
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...we fight, it's in our nature. Do we perform any action that is not "in our nature"? Do you feel the same way about slavery which, until relatively recently, was the natural order of things?
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by woodman 10y ago
I would be extremely surprised if they were actually doing that, because a lot of effort has already been put into doing it a better (and more interesting) way: cloud detection and mosaicing. Landsat captures several spectral bands, and du

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