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by ythn 10y ago
> Republicans are consistently in favor of trading liberty for temporary, limited security if it's not their firearms, speech, or press That's a pretty big "if". Trading guns, speech, and press in exchange for securit
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by ythn 10y ago
If you think Democrats are not guilty of trying to weaken encryption and/or expand anti-privacy capabilities, you are mistaken.
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by ythn 10y ago
USA is a surveillance state. Here in UK we are much more progressive and respecting of peoples' privacy /s.
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by ythn 10y ago
> and try to dismiss all your opinions in every way possible "The problem with this way of thinking is..." Maybe people should rephrase so that they say what is right about your way of thinking first. By always framing the prob
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by ythn 10y ago
If we can't predict the effects of basic, "simple" market regulations like these labor laws, what makes you think a complete overhaul of the system is going to be so much better? If we ever do UBI, I predict there will be mas
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by ythn 10y ago
> the dual hypotheses that the Amazon (and much of N. and S. America) was both far more heavily populated, and far more ecologically managed, than previously thought. Book of Mormon confirmed, checkmate atheists
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by ythn 10y ago
> I am secure in my knowledge that Islam does not encourage terrorism There is not a universal flavor of Islam that is accepted by all Muslims. Islam is a decentralized religion with hundreds of factions that all have different interpret
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by ythn 10y ago
How many non-technical people do you know that use encrypted email on their personal email accounts? There's nothing wrong with using PGP, for example, but if I found out my totally non-technical neighbor was using PGP, I would probabl
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by ythn 10y ago
Too late, I'm already drinking a cup of liquid butter to help my heart
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by ythn 10y ago
Trolling is purely destructive? How about playing devil's advocate? Is that purely destructive?
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by ythn 10y ago
I wouldn't say that hurting people is always the objective of trolls. For example, I enjoy trolling as a flat-earther from time to time. Do I really believe the earth is flat? No, but it's fun trying to defend something absurd jus
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by ythn 10y ago
I think political correctness is not a symptom of anything; rather, it's a calculated effort to control language and shape ideals. If you can control the way people talk about things, you can also shape the way they come to think about
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by ythn 10y ago
I'm assuming in the web dev world "legacy codebase" is used very loosely here. In my company, "legacy codebase" is referring to C code from the 70s that is still ticking today.
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Maybe you should stop thinking of code as solving problems and more like painting a picture. It doesn't matter if there are mistakes or if you've done everything perfectly, as long as you've created something cool. It's
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by ythn 10y ago
I've tried so many Linux distros over the years, and Xubuntu impressed me enough that I've abandoned all other distros for around 5 years now. It's got the perfect balance of trade-offs that make it fast, usable, and low-main
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by ythn 10y ago
I think this phenomenon is starting to extend to every field. For example, My wife's car would sometimes fail to start. However, later it would start with no problems. After a while I noticed it had a much higher no start rate when it
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by ythn 10y ago
The kind of managers who use lines of code as a performance metric are the kinds of managers I avoid like the plague. It usually indicates that they don't understand what I am working on and are likely to reward code firefighters more
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by ythn 10y ago
> The billionaire, Xiao Jianhua, who has been missing since Friday, is in police custody in China, where he apparently is safe, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of arrest. It's interesting to see how a c
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by ythn 10y ago
Brita
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by ythn 10y ago
> i would caution anyone ... This always comes across as condescending to me. You can caution me all you want. I can caution you about your political views too. Does cautioning people do anything?
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by ythn 10y ago
Capitalism is surprisingly adept at evolving. I don't think it's "going away, no matter what". I'm also skeptical of the "automation apocalypse" that everyone is talking about. MY predicition is there is g
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by ythn 10y ago
No, it's because the companies aren't encumbered with a million layers of bureaucracy and regulation ensuring every single employee has every single possible safety net in the world preventing every single type of failure known.
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by ythn 10y ago
Climate change is a problem, and it seems to be the number one problem for atheists and the like, but I'm still skeptical that the forecast of gloom and doom will come to pass. Unfortunately, it's lose/lose for skeptics: If y
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by ythn 10y ago
I don't get how superconductors fit in with V = IR. Assuming that superconductors literally have zero resistance, doesn't that imply there will always be zero voltage on the line as well? And without voltage, how can you push curr
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by ythn 10y ago
Blockchain + machine learning
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by ythn 10y ago
> I think in this case, it's raised that we know the subject's gender identity What if we don't care about the subject's gender identity and are more interested in their biological identity?
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by ythn 10y ago
You can spin any type of classified material as "corruption" and "wrongdoing". Who draws the line? What if someone indiscriminately leaked everything on the Manhattan project during WW2? Would they be a hero because they
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by ythn 10y ago
You do know what the word "seems" means?
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> I can't understand something so it must not be real I never said that, don't twist my words. I said it seems bogus because I've never experienced it and I don't understand it. I never said it isn't real - it pr
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Impostor syndrome seems bogus but only because I've never experienced it and therefore can't understand it. Why do you feel like an impostor? The world is analog, not digital. There's no rite of passage that will suddenly swi

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