MerManMaid

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by MerManMaid 5mo ago
This is incorrect in that the term was not neutral before WW2 nor was Nazi Germany Eugenics really unique. Taking these claims one at a time: >the term was value neutral. By the late 1930s the academic community had largely moved on from
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by MerManMaid 10mo ago
>I thought there was a name for this(cant find it) Ne supra crepidam? "not beyond the shoe" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_supra_crepidam
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by MerManMaid 1y ago
The 22nd amendment and age. (for me anyway) https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-22/ Not saying he won't try to circumvent it (definitely wouldn't be shocked) but if anything would tr
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
>An IPv6 router with a stateful firewall blocking incoming connections could have just the same issues with timeouts, I'd imagine. You'd be surprised... PCP (Port Control Protocol) implemented by large vendors such as Cisco and
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
He steered us to join the war which did end the depression. Whether it be the new deal or non-isolationist policy, his direction led us out of the great depression which started before his presidency and ended before he died.
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
It was bad engineering full stop. Yes the root cause might stem from management but good engineering would not have the doors flying off... thus bad engineering. Regardless of everything else, engineers are responsible for their designs at
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
In smaller countries like Germany increasing the class size makes sense but countries like the US, it just doesn't scale. Just to give a better sense, my quick google-fu (so take it with a grain of salt) shows Germany having 2.8M peopl
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
Just some quick fact checks: >is father was a somewhat wealthy engineer. At the time Errol & Maye were divorcing they had 2 homes, 5 cars, a yacht, and a plane. Most people don't own homes at the moment, let alone a private plan
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
In the context of this thread, IEEE aren't the ones who can improve such things. WiFi 6E and WiFi 7 both make considerable improvements on connect time but at the end of the day, they deal with the "backend" if you will. They
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
What's the effective difference between exiting now and if it does achieve in your words "nearly infinite value" to him personally? Either way he is set for life, truly being one of the most wealthy humans to have ever exist.
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
IPv4 as well as IPv6 was designed with endpoint to endpoint communication in mind so when NAT was conceived (originally intended to be a stop-gap while we moved to IPv6) we also had to re-write many other protocols and create many new ones
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
Or you know... kids and/or elderly who lack the knowhow?
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
Germany does not mandate that TOR end-node providers are expected to log their users. Saying that not logging someone who went through your end-node is intentionally hindering the police would be like accusing a shopkeeper of intentionally
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
>If IPv6 were made today, it would be tunneled inside an HTTP connection. All the new apps would adopt it, the legacy apps would be abandoned or have shims made, and the whole thing would be inefficient and buggy, but adopted. Since poki
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
PLCs are explicitly considered high value targets as they control large swaths of a nation-states critical infrastructure as well as connect to high value end-points in air-gapped networks. Now perhaps you're not working on anything so
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
>I do NOT miss that point. The point is, new protocol should not be very different from previous one, unless its really necessary. >>The only flaw is too small address space. >>>With current IPv6, you have to throw up half
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
>What IPng team should do, is just take IPv4, extended it to 64bit, call it IPv6 and we are done. This is literally what they did, except they made it 128 bit rather than 64. The thing you're missing is that literally every IPv4 pro
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
In short, the problem with using Nazi's as a comparison is the strong emotional reactions people are prone to experience. (Justifiably so to be clear) When a person invokes the Nazi's while discussing subjects that aren't nea
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
>there's always going to be competition for the best. Agreed but surely we could come up with a form of competition more fair than something which heavily favors the wealthy and/or familial alumni.
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
Love where your head is at, but assuming we're talking about the united states, we literally just have enough money and resources to subsidize every kid who wants to attend college if we really wanted to. There are so many measurable l
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
I actually agree with the spirit of what you're saying but I feel compelled to point out that Alexander actually wasn't a king for very long. The median reign for hellenistic rulers was 20-30 years whereas Alexander's only re
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
Absolutely, I just think our time is better spent examining the source of the problem.
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
>It’s just you. The ineffectiveness is the point. This service is a joke, it’s surely illegal. Everyone knows it’s a “failing” system, you can’t scale free customer service forever. Is the spirit of this service corrupt? Absolutely. Does
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
Perhaps its just me, but I feel like a lot of users are missing the forest for the trees here. Services such as these only pop up when legitimate solutions prove ineffective at addressing the problem. To me, these services are more indicati
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
>History is written by the winners. 100% of that "he led the flank himself and commanded while the other men just watched" is suspect. History is written by the literate. (i.e. the rich for most of human history) In this case,
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
Microwaves use the 2.4ghz spectrum but typically not with any real precision which means that while in use they just tank the 2.4ghz spectrum. *As an aside, one of my favorite things I get to do at work is when onboarding new Jr. Net Engine
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" I mean in theory, you're absolutely right but so rarely does it ever actually shake out that way. It seems like corporations continue to make the same mistakes while simultaneo
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by MerManMaid 2y ago
The historical significance of the burning of the Library of Alexandria is absolutely overstated but not for the reasons most think. Like most Libraries today, the bulk of the collection most likely consisted of reprints of works that could
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
>I can only watch cable news on TV, am I going to call that an essential computing device too? If that is the only way you can find out about what is happening to the government responsible for your safety and wellbeing or alerts about i
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
Honest question, can you provide a single example of a company that came to dominate an industry only to then go out of business purely because people chose to stop buying and interacting with them? I honestly can't think of a single e

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