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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Selecting an age choice from a drop down is in no way verification. The original post was low effort flame baiting. There's an argument to be made that it should be ignored, but it's hard to say.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
> We don't have weird propositions that causing run-away housing prices. Most of those are a reaction rather than the cause. People want to move to california, it creates a different set of problems for california vs Massachusetts
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
> The reality is, most government "solutions" cause more problems than they solve The "reality" is that propaganda heavily encourages you to ignore the government successes and only focus on the failures. I'll le
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Why would he need any lines then?
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
That was a long article but the gist seems to be that they have a way to view unencrypted traffic being transmitted on a wireless network so they could e.g. read http traffic but not https.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
I'm not hearing an alternative here.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
It's not great they're the only ones allowed to do it.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Technology advances have inevitably produced unemployment. Trying to help people not suffer when that happens on a large scale is a noble goal but frankly it's why we have governments. Also, the genie is well and truly out of the bottl
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
And the dictionary chooses words based on... how often people use them?
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
> No one is voting for more superfund sites. We can agree on that. Why would you think that? Lots of people vote for that every other year.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Why is disliking racists political. What do words even mean. > These banned industrial processes sum to making almost every physical object The processes are obviously not banned, only an idiot would think that. You just can't do
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
> China has more naval vessels than the US ... what?
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Do you know what "the means of production" actually is?
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
It's weird how the implication of "every government is bad" is that we should stop trying to improve them or worry about the ones that are the worst.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Skull shape. They obviously are predisposed to having the right set of skull bumps.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
So when can I expect your update to the american population?
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
> what is and is not acceptable with the only litmus test being its... corpus frequency? How do you suppose we determine acceptability now ?
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
This is just... wildly vague. People break rules for all sorts of reasons, ignorance, desperation, mental impairment, sometimes just plain maliciousness or greed. It's one thing to discuss something like a school campus with a small co
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
> but there are just a few cases in recent history where at least short-term outcomes seem to support the claim that it may reduce crime levels Those studies would be interesting to read, can you link them?
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
> The extreme punishments for breaking the law might have something to do with it. Historically speaking, this is almost never true. People constantly think the solution is crueler punishments and we have hundreds of years of records o
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
That's... amusing.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Just like "computer engineer" is a silly term, it should be "computer operator".
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
This comic definitely speaks to me on a deep emotional level, but at the same time one of the things I like so much about computers is they're essentially unbreakable. Not that you can't get one into a non-working state, that is,
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
I mean, the point here is the standardized input/output system that leta everyone build programs without knowing each other that more or less interoperate.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
=[ We have many millenia of books using black text on a white background with various colors added, why are computer monitors all of a sudden so special and annoying
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Ok, I'll bite: how? What's the secret sauce? And can I use it with some random perl program I downloaded that prints horoscopes?
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
I don't want "a terminal", I want a command based interface combined with being able to use the same set of tools/commands on all the files I interact with. Like, it gets taken for granted, but being able to literally gr
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Sure, I get the theory, so why doesn't exist? Where's my modern text/command based interface?
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Oh hey, if only html was text based. Oh, wait, it is. I'm rapidly developing grumpy old man habits about this gulf between "web" and "terminal". Imagine a world where we do `ls | grep .files.size` or something. I me
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
I feel like any term that had this feature would also fully support truecolor, which suggests a way forward.

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