yitosda

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by yitosda 7y ago
Fascinating data. There's a breakdown per-state showing that only eleven states have a lower homicide rate than Egypt. Looks like Puerto Rico, District of Columbia and Louisiana are the worst as of 2012 (latest the set shows unfortunat
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by yitosda 7y ago
In a word, context. Human brains are just context gathering pattern matching machines. We can't even count without all kinds of context being automatically bubbled up into our consciousness. When we see other drivers, we can take all k
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by yitosda 7y ago
There's nothing wrong with this. Public/Private keys are for sharing secrets and proving identity. Assuming you are using a sane cipher and mode, your risks boil down to any of a myriad of methods of stealing/bruteforcing you
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by yitosda 7y ago
This is exactly what I'm talking about. You've narrowed down the scope of logic to apply to everything !good, which is some emotional value that exists outside of logic. In reality "good" is a vast trove of information w
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by yitosda 7y ago
I think we are both arguing that some people narrow the scope of arguments to the point that they aren't useful to the original problem, merely more amenable to logic. Let's call this "not useful scoping". I further argu
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by yitosda 7y ago
I think we agree, but I appreciate that my wording wasn't perfectly clear. "pare down to its essence" was a bad way of saying "disregard intersecting issues and focus on one logically resolvable issue." Your soundpr
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by yitosda 7y ago
That's true, but it doesn't really have much to do with my points: * Common (current) culture around rationalism fantasizes about the human using it being able to choose the best course of action in every situation (and examples t
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by yitosda 7y ago
There's a ton of (especially early) nerd culture idolizing many forms of what most people know as the "Spock" character (somewhat more accurately, Vulcans in general). This is typically contrasted with emotions, sometimes as
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by yitosda 7y ago
It's odd that that page refers to the desktop client as "native". The parts of an electron app that are native to the OS (as opposed to the OS-independent HTML/JS) are irrelevant to most people's desire for "na
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by yitosda 7y ago
Your citations seem roughly in line with what I said and expected: Americans pay double overall, with a similar dollar amount of public healthcare. Proportionately speaking, that means Americans are not taxed the same (higher incomes). Inte
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by yitosda 7y ago
I think I misunderstood your original comment. I heard "paying for one's own expenses plus for those who can't afford it" (which is same in the US and the EU), where it seems you mean "paying from taxes plus out of
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by yitosda 7y ago
You're putting words in my mouth, complete with quotation marks. I never said anything about what anyone should do. I didn't even say that on the whole people in the USA pay less. In the EU, people pay a varying amount (overall a
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by yitosda 7y ago
Possibly, on average. Some pay (vastly) more, some less. I don't see the double-dipping in the math though. EU has populations of people who aren't contributing in taxes much or at all.
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by yitosda 7y ago
We already know that prices are changed for different devices and browsers. It's not a stretch to think that choosing the Filthy Rich profile will cost you in online shopping.
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by yitosda 7y ago
Should be "deaths / person-miles" when comparing to driving.
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by yitosda 7y ago
As the sibling says, Signal really isn't that bad for convenience. I didn't have much difficulty switching my family to it. I suspect use of messaging apps other than Signal has little to do with the convenience delta and more to
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by yitosda 7y ago
It was frequently said that /at the time of release/ ie6 was better and more standards compliant than the other web browsers. Then it was left to rot for years. Perhaps notably, it was actually faster and had lower memory usage th
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by yitosda 7y ago
I don't think the prevalence of hate groups is necessarily related to any countries' commitment to freedom and human rights. Virtually everyone outside of the hate groups wishes they didn't exist, but it's precisely the
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by yitosda 7y ago
Try to create a new profile to compare nondestructively: "firefox --ProfileManager" I can confirm both that newer firefox is notably more responsive than old, and that I (or an extension, though I don't have many) managed to
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by yitosda 7y ago
Depends on how you define "the problem". Homelessness is a symptom of several other things widely considered to be problems. If you limit the problem to "some people who want a house don't have enough money to afford liv
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by yitosda 7y ago
Setting aside what will surely be a torrent of what-abouts, the parent's point about the US federal (lack-of-)authority seems like an example of a better system. (First what-about: the election system is related to but distinct from th
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by yitosda 8y ago
I think there's a bit of confusion about what exactly Google is doing. IIUC they use (and develop) gerrit. Effectively this workflow means everyone is working on the same branch and the first commit to pass review gets in. The next guy
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by yitosda 8y ago
It looks like you're moving the verification goalposts away from what is actually running on the hardware and simultaneously walking this back from government to civilian uses. These are completely different discussions (though I might
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by yitosda 8y ago
I'd be interested in further details about the testing. If any manufacturer actively wants to backdoor their hardware I'm skeptical that anything but an extremely expensive teardown of an infected device would find it. It is simpl
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by yitosda 8y ago
> Huawei has completely opened its source code and hardware to several governments, including UK, Canada and Germany, for security testing. Their findings are much more informative and objective. What does this even mean? If I give a bat
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by yitosda 8y ago
If The IBMs have no one left to scam, they are no longer IBMs. They'll settle for some other kind of awful, I'm sure.
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by yitosda 8y ago
I doubt you need to account for a gap in work experience for a burger flipping job.
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by yitosda 8y ago
Calling it "minimum wage" seems like a marketing gimmick. I believe Amazon finds themselves needing to raise wages because the other large employers are as well. In other words, the unemployment level has finally dropped far enoug
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by yitosda 8y ago
It's possible I've been living under a rock, but while I'm aware of rat being pejorative, I'm finding out in this thread for the first time about the anti-semitic undertones. It's pretty clear that the difference is
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by yitosda 8y ago
Much of the point of a dog whistle (as I understand it) is plausible deniability. The parent comment stands: shutting it down over something that "may mean something" -- even though with context you may be quite sure -- is a bad l

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