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by yestoallthat 10y ago
And why would any positives matter, if there weren't actual people and their lives, and suffering inflicted or avoided, involved down the line? Lots of appeal to robots here. I'm not a robot. > But we need to be careful that we
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
> As the prisoners collapsed, choking and retching, the police opened fire. Over the next several minutes, officers poured hundreds of rounds of gunfire into the yard, including, a judge later estimated, between 2,349 and 3,132 pellets o
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
Does the US lending both hands to fucking up the Middle East make anything more stable? What stability was achieved by Vietnam, or all that stuff in South America? Not disastrous enough for you? Would you swap with even just ONE of the mill
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
> There is such a huge gap between your incredibly bleak image of Japan and the lively, optimistic and impressive Japan that I live in. Yet you manage to tackle not a single one of those criticisms head on. Of course, nobody read anythin
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
Disobedience would be refusing to take part in such scummy schemes, and making a huge stink over it. > Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws PROFESSED. To twist that on this on its head, and use another
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
> arbitrary State regulations They're way less arbitrary than Uber's action, so that's just projection. You want out of the social contract, be my guest.
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
While I don't like the company either, I wouldn't be surprised if competing companies had some PR peeps trying to stoke the flames. Why would they pass it up?
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
If they're successful, it means they managed to survive on their craft even before a lot of people wanted to see them. So why wouldn't they be able to continue to do that after they became better and more successful? You simply
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
Speak for yourself, I find it super simple. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp4l7eASeOk
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
Since when do street magicians shill for products? The way I see it, it's an attempt to capture forced attention from people who do not have an interest in the product by intermixing it with something they do have an interest in. There
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
> In talking that way about a device plugged into a wall, Yarmosh’s son was anthropomorphizing it — which means to “ascribe human features to something,” Alexa happily explains. Humans do this a lot, Calvert said. Do humans do this a lot
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
> Link gets more health and stamina as you progress, and you can acquire stronger weapons and armor, but he never gets stronger himself. He doesn’t learn to swing a sword or shoot a bow any better. But you do. If this is true, that'
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
> If the number one motivator for internet privacy is so that if there is someday an oppressive totalitarian government I will be safe, then I'm not convinced. That's not the argument, kind of like the argument for not having u
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
> Sometimes we need to make decisions as a society. That's why we don't have anarchy. I'd say that's individuals outsourcing their decisions to the perceived or real pressures and expectations of others. Also, while y
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
> They'd all need to stop, simultaneously. Plenty of people stop all the time, plenty never started. > In the meantime our world is such that any company or person who refuses on ethical grounds will be outcompeted, and go out of
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
Speaking of that, as of now on the front page: 23. Announcing the first SHA-1 collision (googleblog.com) 2882 points by pfg 1 day ago | flag | hide | 488 comments second page: 37. Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dum
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
On the other hand, the random nature of the overflow plaintext also means it's perfectly possible for one or several keys to various kingdoms having fall into unsuspecting laps. Whether that happened or how much of those will be discov
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
Also, use "pointer" on them: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/cursor
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
> I argue that political love needs to be particularistic in this way, but that care must always be taken to harness that particular love to good moral principles and keep people moving back and forth. Good political rhetoric does this
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
So DOS are "clearly bad" when it comes to providing "armour" against them, but a matter of taste, something a person could not possibly have an opinion on when it's a client of theirs? > they're not "po
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
The game is the medium, the people are the message. Other people say the same about an online forums, some people might even say it about war. I'm not being snarky, but I thought about it for myself, and the genuinely great memories in
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
Games are fun, until some dude in Path of Exile hands out free items because he'll delete his account after his wife divorced him for playing 24/7. And such.
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
Change "the" reason to "one of the main reasons" (and going from the top left to bottom right, the second of their four main features), and notice how my point remains untouched?
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
DOS attacks being a bad thing is the whole reason the service exists, so to then group it with "things some people consider offensive" is just double think. If Cloud Flare didn't want to play internet cop in regards to DOS at
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
Nothing (in the league of things we are discussing) is inevitable, it's a result of choices, sometimes masked with rationalizations of how things are inevitable. For me good times start where there are people with both feet on their ow
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
Why not have faucets that you can turn on and off at will, but after N seconds of no "user input" they turn off automatically? Don't even make a super complicated faucet, just add an automatically operated valve to the pipe,
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
I'm skeptical about willpower, too.. but what about "cognitive resources"? I bookmarked this because while I don't know if it's the whole and full truth (how could it be?), it certainly seems interesting, the whole
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
Is it that you think progress is a 1D line, where you're either "pushing forward" or a "folksy techno-luddite"? Because it's actually a tree, and any given moment we have a lot of options of how to go forward,
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
Sounds like all 3 I clicked on.. they all loaded 150+ tiny files, and started out with several seconds of a white screen.
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by yestoallthat 10y ago
Also 14% toxic: > "If parental love is so distorted that it demands submission and dependence for its self-confirmation, social adjustment turns into a test of obedience and the child’s efforts to comply bring with them the loss of

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