PerkinWarwick

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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
That's a good point. Perhaps the temptation is to choose philosophies that have the appearance of power. Sticking pins in a voodoo doll of your boss, Mr. Scrooge for example. Some acquaintances of mine did that at their job once and i
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
This man is a genius. We've hit Peak Modern Art. Honestly, you can't buy this kind of PR. Do a dozen more, number and sign them on the back, profit.
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
>Reddit now will become the place that inspires mass shooters instead of 8chan I can guarantee that there are plenty of evil doings on Reddit and Facebook. One argument, and a more honest one, that people can make is that (a) social medi
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
>Do you find yourself being just as concerned when the reading list is 7 male authors and 2 female authors? Or only in this direction? Not at all, it just stuck out at me while I was browsing through their program. Women represent barel
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
> if you just want to dismiss the observation. I'm not and I'm willing to give it a chance. I'm just not seeing a strong correlation. What I do see people doing when they lack control is to attempt to gain control. Put t
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
Zero moderation beyond criminal content is/was basically Usenet alt groups. Somehow the world survived all those years. Listen, I understand the need to cordon off the wrongthink people so that they can't communicate with each ot
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
That's an interesting theory, although I doubt that 19th century US farmers, among the most self-sufficient people in history, were lacking in religion, superstition, or conspiracies.
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
>"Hateful" Reddit or FB communities also don't allow "free speech". The moderators will ban people who go against the grain. Which is fine I think, but why have Reddit or FB do the censoring (aside from things th
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
Heck, I view it all as 'misinformation', and I certainly don't need some cubicle drone at youtube to decide for me. Certainly the average person is smart enough to understand the statistics of the thing, after all that's
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
While I see that funding will tend to constrict the research around the desires of the funders, it's worth considering that 'science' has also expanded into areas that don't deserve the title. The softer disciplines are
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
>I think you'll find if you spend time on universities today, they are essentially apolitical. An interesting experiment would be to compare English Department reading lists in the 1970's vs. now. My bet is that you'd see
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
A total user base of 50 or so would be fine. The trick is to find a group where everyone (mostly) wants to interact. An extended family could probably work.
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
>Haven't universities been like this for ages? I can honestly say that when I went to college people were essentially apolitical. I don't remember anything you might view as a campus protest and the biggest fuss on the main ma
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
You know, I don't doubt that Amazon is a bunch of bastards, but I can't say that any company I have worked for ever did much for employee tragic circumstances. They were just more polite about it.
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
Generally, I'd say that anti-carrier strike group tactics involve simply (well, maybe not so simple) overwhelming the defenses. Quantity can work as well as quality. You might look into Russian missile work. Of course, as a land powe
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
I'll fly in if need be.
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
It'll be developed at Facebook. Every 'like' is Alive With Pleasure (h/t to Newport cigarettes).
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
What I'd like is something identical to Facebook (preferably hosted in a box on my desk) that I invite all my friends to, and they have the ability to invite people to. 2nd gen is probably far enough. Anyone cuts up rough, I go by the
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
Hey, at least they're not requiring a chip implant. Of course the phone OS people are going to do this. Judging from a few years of Live PD, every single person getting pulled over never ever has a valid ID, but always always has a ce
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
Huh. I always assumed it was going to be teledildonics. ..damn, a downvote. I mean, who can be against teledildonics? That'll be the main thrust of technology when our robot lords and masters take charge.
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
I might have thought so some years ago. In an era when 1/2 of the Western world hates Western civilization, I'm not sure that it matters anymore. Of course, in the long run, it's all just fodder for a history book. The furth
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
Perhaps as a hobbyist device, there's certainly a lot of interesting apps that could be written. I'm assuming here that it is somehow subsidized (via volume or via data mining) and is cheaper than alternatives.
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
The underlying question is 'what would it take to break the device free'.
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
...or much of anything else. I've seen commercial libraries monkey with processor state in some nasty ways.
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
It seems to me that in the case of the x86, the virtual memory system could detect overrunning the end of the stack and announce it to you. The meta-problem is what to do with the information.
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
One obvious area is in small embedded systems. It's surprising how hard it can be to track down a stack-caused bug when you've got a bunch of interrupts banging on it. Generally it's a little unnerving to just pray that you&#
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
Have an upvote. From all accounts, the F150 EV looks like kind of a good deal in terms of electric cars. What the reality on the ground will be is a different matter. Personally, I have zero need for a car and a fair amount of need for a
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
The Facebook angle to this sounds absolutely heinous, but just what have they done to lock the headset to Facebook? Is there some kind of secret handshake/encryption going on? If someone from the Evil Empire was here, it would be inte
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
A lack of Taiwan dependency may well avoid a world war.
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
What I really hope is that the F150 has decent insurance prices through either volume or repair parts overlap with the ICE version. Gotta admit that the concept of emergency power for the house makes it tempting. The Prince of Darkness (PG

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