Lagged2Death

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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
For how long will Americans blame FB for the rise of Trump? The subject of the article is accurately summarized by the headline, and this isn't it. The information systems that people use to process news have been rerouted through F
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
With traditional (coal, gas, nuclear) electrical power generation, one unit of energy is delivered to your wall socket by dumping about two units of heat directly into the environment somewhere else.
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
I'll try, I guess. Respectfully suggest you consider the root comment here with these guidelines ("name-calling") in mind.
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
It has little to do with intelligence. It has mostly to do with not having the first clue how to tell the difference between a legitimate attempt at dialog and ideologically-motivated rhetoric. Hm.
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
"Patriarchy is a model whose name alone..." is ad hominem. Tone policing ("...you're really going above and beyond with the contempt...") is ad hominem. In the sense that both shift focus to the speaker rather than
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
...there's a lot of history and context around the form of argument from patriarchy in spaces where men are discussing the issues that affect us. There is not. This is a shortcoming born of inexperience and youth. Your context is too
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
Patriarchy is a model whose name alone... Hearing the name doesn't make you an expert. The world isn't so systematic; history and context matter. There's quite a lot of study and learning to absorb if you're inclined,
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
What a dreadful noise! I wonder if there's a good reason so much cold-war detritus is so ominous, so foreboding, and so nerve-wracking in its design, character and presence. Maybe there are practical reasons in this case; maybe the sou
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
The name "shortwave" is ill-considered and misleading but there's no changing it now.
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
Mint 18.2 ran like a champ on my work desktop. This is an older Dell XPS 8300. It has a 3.4GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, 8GBs of RAM, and an AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card. This fellow has a very different idea of what
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
I don't see how this would work when the URL lists are full of regexps etc. If you could make it work, you'd would wind up with some sort of source file of domains, parsed at build time to generate list of hashes that actually shi
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
...the top 20% of earners shoulder 84% of the tax burden of the federal government[1]. Where does that number need to be in order to silence the socialist rabble-rousers? 90%? 95%? "Percent of income tax burden landing on top 20% of
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
The "Hollywood Ten" screenwriters who were blacklisted by the film industry (private employers making employment decisions!) were, in fact, members of the Communist Party USA... Yes, but 1) that was just the tip of the iceberg l
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
The question in my mind is: Does an opinion suddenly become a "thought crime" if expressing it publicly might get you fired from a non-governmental employer? The consequences don't include incarceration or even necessarily th
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
I don't know that much about McCarthyism but I think it's safe to guess that you know less. It was considered a witch hunt because nobody cared about facts or evidence, the spectacle was the point. Victims we're persecuted be
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
But this guy might lose his job. His career. All for voicing his opinion. This has always been true and I can't understand how you would imagine it was ever otherwise.
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
Textbook thoughtcrime punishment. People are fired for exhibiting corrosive, counterproductive, or otherwise bad attitudes every day. Are they all victims of "textbook thoughtcrime punishment?"
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
I'm established now. I own a great company. I love my work and have happy customers and supportive people in my life. So I can see straight through the resentment for what it is... It's likely enough the author is observing some
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
...at a certain point, the tech industry’s chemical suppliers were enlisting family members to pay for IEEE memberships to help vote down new environmental measures. Nothing to see here, just the free market regulating itself. Good job!
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
"Micro-particles" might also be misleading. The article spells it out: The pieces of plastic are not necessarily floating bottles, bags, and buoys, but teeny-tiny pieces of plastic resembling confetti, making them almost impossib
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
I wish more commenters would read the article. It's not about garden-variety, dictionary-definition, transient, intermittent, universially-felt-at-some-point sort of "loneliness" many of you assume it is. It's about chro
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
You just can't keep up with the craziness. It feels like he's trying to distract the TV news from something.
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
As far as I can tell, we're talking here about reversing a cryptographic hash and sifting the one true master password out from the much more numerous hash collisions. Do you really expect that level of effort to be common in a divorce
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
I'm not super familiar with the Honan story but I recall (and quick skimming seems to confirm) that it was more about lax security policies at Apple et al, the interconnectedness of social media accounts, and social engineering than it
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
"...there is no GPS tracking ability to it. It is really the same thing as the chip that is in your credit card." I had an RFID credit card years ago, but that turned out to be really insecure[1], and the issuer discontinued the
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
...an attacker can use the knowledge of your password on site A to bruteforce your master password offline. This might be a concern if you're the victim of a state-level targeted attack. That's not a threat most of us have to de
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
I have a default password that is very simple ... that I use for most logins ... Unless you're vitally important to my life... That's all fine if you're a perfect robot. It will turn out that you aren't, though. You co
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
"a hundred miles square" means 100 x 100 miles, 10,000 square miles. The linked article makes this clear. At $250 per square meter, 10,000 square miles of panels would come to $6.4 trillion. I think we should be heading in this di
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
I know I had my fair share of hissy-fits... "Hissy fit" is a gendered insult. You're suggesting that anyone who admits that Sessions has bad intentions is acting like a menstruating woman. It's really offensive. Maybe
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
The war on drugs failed decades ago... If you subscribe to the view that the war on drugs is/was chiefly motivated by white supremacy and the preservation of a minority right-wing establishment (as Ehrlichman apparently did [1]), it&

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