Lorento

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by Lorento 11y ago
I know someone who uses this in China and apparently it's fantastic. Faster than commercial VPN services even for streaming video. Not sure how that'll work out in the long run if it gets more users than providers. The concept sou
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by Lorento 11y ago
If you live in the US or UK, your movements are already being tracked by license plate reading cameras.
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by Lorento 11y ago
Not entirely racism, but still discrimination.
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by Lorento 11y ago
Yea points sound nice in a way but I like to just replace the specified nationality with "black" and see if it still sounds OK. "There's a points system to allow the most successful blacks to work among regular citizens.
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by Lorento 11y ago
Yes, can you imagine if there was a "black visa"? We still discriminate hard but it's so entrenched that it seems obviously right.
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by Lorento 11y ago
I mean not allowing foreigners to work, even when they live in the country. Ironically, the public's distrust of the Irish and other foreigners has led to the law disallowing them at the border rather than individual employers at the j
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by Lorento 11y ago
It's funny how blind people are to the same thing happening today. Most employers openly refuse people based on their nationality and we are perfectly accepting of that, even enforcing it with the law! I wonder if people in another 100
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by Lorento 11y ago
It wasn't till after I graduated that I started to realize the enormous volume of books arts majors had to read. And I don't understand why their information is presented in such an inconvenient format. If the book is making an ar
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by Lorento 11y ago
It's not easy to tell how smart someone is by meeting them. That tends to bias you towards social abilities. IQ tests help to level the field by testing abilities that we can't easily observe just by knowing someone. Not that IQ t
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by Lorento 11y ago
Seems to be very dated. Plenty on adjusting carburetors, in fact adjusting all sorts of no-longer-needing-adjusting parts.
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by Lorento 11y ago
I think the lesson here isn't that iCloud is unreliable, but that any data storage is unreliable. Syncing isn't backup so you still need a backup.
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by Lorento 11y ago
Don't dating sites have an 18 year age limit despite different states having different ages of consent, etc? It's just easier than making a fine grained filter.
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by Lorento 11y ago
American companies also support their own government's efforts to imprison people for visiting the wrong websites (gambling, piracy, child porn, etc). Isn't it a bit arbitrary to accept that in America but not other countries? You
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by Lorento 11y ago
Just wondering what value the singleton provided if you only obtain it once. Isn't the purpose so you can obtain it whenever you want? If you just use a regular object, you run the risk of accidentally making another instance somewhere
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by Lorento 11y ago
Covert agents are usually criminals in the countries they're spying on. So it's right that they should be exposed so they can be brought to justice, just the same as a Chinese spy caught working in America would.
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by Lorento 11y ago
It's not a good idea to manually create filters that 100% block. You can't think of all the special cases like this.
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by Lorento 11y ago
Perhaps the crime should be buying or selling it, not simply possessing it. Then there's no market if there's no money.
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by Lorento 11y ago
I agree. I think people hate pedophiles in much the same way they hate(d) gays. Because it's disgusting and perverted, not because it harms people. The fact that some children do actually get harmed and that many people have children t
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by Lorento 11y ago
According to the article though, this deceitfulness is actually good, not destructive. It puts us into a more productive Nash equilibrium than we'd be if we each individually assessed the risk of our single investment and said "na
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by Lorento 11y ago
I think this is just a sign that there's healthy decision making going on. If what the CoC claims is true, that Jamaica's law was passed without following the proper process, then that is a problem and it should be challenged whet
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by Lorento 11y ago
If you kill one man, you're a murderer. If you kill thousands, you're a conqueror.
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by Lorento 11y ago
History really distorts things. Do we have to wait 200 years to see fights with ISIS in a similar "noble tragedy" kind of light, where there are no clear baddies and nobody's assigned blame for the killings? Maybe some of tho
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by Lorento 11y ago
Instead of focussing on the abstract "state", why not recognize that almost every eligible voter in America decided what the state should do by voting either democrat, republican or nothing.
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by Lorento 11y ago
There's a powerful part of the "free software" ideology that's not explained well at all here - the GPL helps to force non-free software out of the market. Unlike, say MIT which can help non-free software get a leg up ov
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by Lorento 11y ago
Yes, it doesn't quite add up. For that money, you could hire the guy to turn things on and off by hand for 50 years.
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by Lorento 11y ago
A real life example of this type of trick happened with a large public sculpture in New Zealand recently. It looks innocent except from the right angle. http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/65855907/Cloud-or-phallus-Sc.
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by Lorento 11y ago
I have a pdf scan of a text book that exibits this problem. It's a complex math book with a lot of superscripts, subscripts and combinations of them. Some are the wrong symbol - eg i instead of j, etc. It was very difficult to study fr
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by Lorento 11y ago
Google for "Lisa Wilberg esc" (just like what a stalker might do to narrow it down to the correct uni) and you get the robots.txt file itself in 3rd place. The author isn't doing any more harm than Google already is. It'
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by Lorento 11y ago
What do you think the feeling among contributors is? Are you happy to change yours? Doesn't GPL effectively prohibit combining it with a closed source commercial product? That suggests you still won't be able to bundle all of MAME
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by Lorento 11y ago
What kind of information would we lose, besides information about the extinct species themselves? For example, are there unsolved questions in science that could be solved if we still had a specimen of a missing species? I don't see th

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