Caveman_Coder

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GitHub taken offline by the biggest DDoS on record(datacenterdynamics.com)
1 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|0 comments
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
They didn't say explicitly...but you have to look at the context of the conversation...perhaps I misread it
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "Do you want poor, unskilled, uneducated customers, vendors, employees, neighbors, and fellow citizens? Or skilled, prosperous, educated ones?"
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
No, plus the question is a kind of false dichotomy...they present it as either you're college educated and productive/capable/smart or you aren't...it turns out you can be very productive/capable/skilled/s
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
A recent reading of Nietzsche made me view what is currently going on socially through the lens of his master/slave morality...it makes watching the "Oppression Olympics" more entertaining anyway...you can really see the &quo
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I don't think it is fair to discriminate against anyone at all and certainly don't think that this "shifting discrimination around" game is going to work well at all in the long run...
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "My "race/culture" is navy submariner, and I always enjoyed watching the few sailors who hadn't had their background racism washed out of them at boot-camp realize that getting the job done well was what matter
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "...i replied by disagreeing that it is more, and claim it is the same amount of discrimination, just moved around." How is this an acceptable solution?? So its more like "discrimination is bad, but only against some gro
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Digitalisation and nuclear power(world-nuclear-news.org)
1 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|0 comments
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I loved that book! Excellent recommendation. If you want a good intro to non-PWR nuclear power technologies, I'd highly recommend "SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future" by Richard Martin.
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I'm not sure what to make of his statements...they could be correct assessments of his military's capabilities, or they could be completely false...who really knows?
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
TLDR: "With advances in communications and artificial intelligence, it’s not at all impossible to imagine scenarios in which SSN motherships deploy a lethal force of killer torpedoes, capable of remaining on station for days — or longe
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The Submarines of the Future Will Be Robotic(warisboring.com)
2 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|3 comments
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Is the Cloud Killing Data Center Jobs?(datacenterknowledge.com)
1 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|0 comments
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Here’s How Much Money Dropbox Saved by Moving Out of the Cloud(datacenterknowledge.com)
1 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|0 comments
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Canada begins Small Modular Reactor strategy roadmap(world-nuclear-news.org)
54 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|49 comments
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
1. Discrimination is bad. 2. Minorities have faced discrimination the most. 3. Let's discriminate against Whites/Asians to correct #2, even though we accept the truth of #1. I don't get this thought process at all..."let
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "She's gone now, instantly, after working there for 20 years and rising to senior executive VP. What is going on in our industry?" Her crime was not having ideological purity...
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
Is it false? You can identify as whatever the hell you like these days...that is a fact.
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "So you being poor is justification enough to spread divisive comments and fuel further hatred (on either side)" This is over-dramatic... I'm just saying in today's world you can identify as whatever the hell you wa
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
White != "upper class" Turns out you can be a poor white (like myself)...just an FYI.
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
Its also systemic bias when you won't even interview men... I have first hand experience with this. As a normal working-class white guy with poor parents and no connections (I worked my way through school), I had a hard time even landi
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "Often I can't really tell the difference between affirmative action and reverse racism." There is a good reason for that...its because there isn't a difference. You have to do a lot of linguistic gymnastics in orde
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
"Extended outages, or retirements, among the region’s nuclear power plants would have detrimental effects. At the same time, having stored fuels like LNG and oil at dual-fuel units, combined with imports from Canadian hydro facilities,
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "...instead of the 200+ hours I spent studying for Google" That sounds like an exaggeration. I'd bet that very few people who work here had to spend that much time preparing...
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Wind and Solar Could Meet 80% of US Electricity Demand(cleantechnica.com)
1 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|0 comments
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Winter Storm Highlighted Problems for Power Generators(energycentral.com)
1 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|1 comments
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I'd check out "The Concept of the Political" by Carl Schmitt...it presents a different argument about national identity and nation states [1][2]. [1] https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2017/SOC286&#
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "Unions are not always fighting "unjust" monopolies." Nobody said they were...
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "People unionize even when their employer is not a monopoly." Nobody said that unions form only when the employer is a monopoly...I'm not sure what "point" you're trying to make here.

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