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by zxcdw 13y ago
> The hard part is determining what eating well is. Eating well in seven words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.". ...where "food" is defined more or less as: "as little processed as available, mostly plan
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Care to cite examples?
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by zxcdw 13y ago
How do you enforce this and in which situations? I have a hunch that the actual legal technicalities aren't trivial.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Do you feel unhappy about Mozilla and what they're doing for some reason? If not, why the rant?
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Gamification and gaming the system at it's best.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Because as you imply in your other comment, MtGox is not deemed as trustworthy exhange by many. It is good that Bitcoin doesn't rely so much on it for now. After all, MtGox is not Bitcoin.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
> I wonder if a lot of these people who say 'X app is big in my country' actually just mean 'X app is popular within my social circle'. Yes, that is exactly what it means unless there's some research data provide
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by zxcdw 13y ago
I'm curious, why do you think that way?
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by zxcdw 13y ago
The worst part, I believe, is that these systems which are set in place are placed there in good faith of someone . I don't think that there's some huge government official conspiracy spanning thousands of people orchestrating th
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Professionalism is much more than competence and/or skill, just like good sports is about good sportsmanship too.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
But you decide to not provide additional information. You knowingly settle for not providing actual arguments to back up your claims. Do you think that these qualities are what Ukrainian people would want their society to be based upon?
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by zxcdw 13y ago
I challenge everyone to read your past comments and reflect this one with the fact that you're Russian. Now it would be a good time to stop your nationalistic dishonesty, when politics and people as human beings are against your views.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Something like a bipolar disorder?
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Define low-quality, boring and outdated in this context, and provide alternatives. I am waiting.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
> At least the vinyl has some aesthetic, subjective vintage value. For some of us so does working with assembly and other low-level quirks and domains. :) The challenges and problems, tools and solutions are very differnt and IMO much
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by zxcdw 13y ago
What does believing and not believing in pesonality types mean exactly? I mean, as a generalization, as a very introverted person I sure as hell won't get along too well with a very extroverted person unless I really have to. Of course
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by zxcdw 13y ago
He did explain why PHP is disgusting mess. And hell, the fact that people have that opinion stems from somewhere. And that is a fact we should all take a note of -- to build better tools. You see, PHP is nothing but a tool, and as a t
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by zxcdw 13y ago
I doubt they want to store underage titpics.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Yes, we are. Especially if we want to spin it that way. So much unjust suffering and non-optimal solutions. Then again from Darwinian view point we have been quite succesful...
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by zxcdw 13y ago
So there's nothing which keeps you from assuming Linux kernel wouldn't be backdoored by NSA, right?
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Because this will be the century when AI and robotics(automation) can be more cost-effective than a "big enough" proportition of human labour. What this means, is that at some point it is simply better to invest in machinery(aut
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by zxcdw 13y ago
So in other words anybody who finds it good satire or let alone funny agrees with what exactly? Yes, I found it amusing, not ashamed to admit at all.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
How is it way different? It's exactly analolous to providing a backdoor -- giving means to take advantage of the weaknesses. Whether the vulnerabilities are there by purpose or for by accident doesn't change the fact how exploit
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by zxcdw 13y ago
"Again"? Can you substatiate your claim? Maybe they refer to the fact that Microsoft indeed does share 0-days with NSA[1]. 1: http://www.dailydot.com/news/bloomberg-microsoft-zero-day-ex...
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by zxcdw 13y ago
As far as I am aware there are no instructions for AMD CPUs to generate random numbers thus far, although Wikipedia mentions that their upcoming Excavator(scheduled for a 2015 release) architecture includes support for Intel's RDRAND.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
I don't work in environment where I get to deal with hardware failures, so pardon my ignorance, but has anyone seen a failed CPU piece which has failed during normal operation? I am under an impression that it is very rare for a CPU it
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Is it okay to supposedly protect the country at the expense of non-US citizens such as myself? It feels weird that some people think that indeed, it is. I am being spied upon because of what I am not. I have no vote or political way to addr
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by zxcdw 13y ago
A non-US citizen here, so I have practically no understanding of the politics related to US nuclear power. However, the Wikipedia article for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository seems to mention that the cancellation was for political r
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by zxcdw 13y ago
What relevance does Chernobyl have with modern nuclear power plants? A honest question, because I am under an impression that with modern regulations and reactor designs the chance of a meltdown or less severe nuclear disaster are infitesim
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Is this a real world problem with real world consequences? It is my understanding that the nuclear waste can be stored safely without too much cost. It is also my understanding that there are ways to re-use the already used fuel rods, effec

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