TooBrokeToBeg

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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> it’s every bit as deluded and cringeworthy as I’d expect. Not deluded at all. Sorry if you didn't get it. It's very strange that puritanical adherence of America has been rolled back (mostly) but the pedo label is still so to
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> if you're worried about organized gangs replacing a thousand ballot boxes on your election day, you have more problems than voting systems. The US certainly does. Should we throw up our hands and call it a non-issue? I don't
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
Maybe the "hero" shouldn't be throwing insults on twitter like a child. I thought the insult was well considered because, in context, the diver was going after kids. It's a sly kind of funny that someone from another co
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Nothing will change because no one addressing or discussing the underlying causes What exactly are you describing? I don't see the same world you do. These stories are top concern and referenced in almost every forum from niche ga
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
This implies they can be different with the same versions.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> the more generalized term morality Applied ethics, are what most people mean when talking about Ethics. They are industry specific and defined by the industry. Normative ethics are near equivalent to morality. Meta-ethics are what Sam
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Having a cellphone != understanding the technology and how it works That wasn't the assertion made, nor related directly to the assertion I responded to. Having an understanding of "how it works" is a weak way of couchin
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> The only true authority stems from knowledge, not from position Try telling that to the boss of your boss. Authority does not birth from knowledge. Compared to what you learn i school, processes and practices guide the vast majority of
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
I don't understand why this is so interesting, as it doesn't seem to be anything about regression per se. A userland tool supported functionality that it can't anymore, because it isn't available in a new kernel. This is
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Because voting softwares don't solve any real problem while creating a horde of its own It solves some problems that have been introduced over time in most election systems. Primarily, time to count/verify, ease of access and
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
Why is half the blog post about SQLite? Use SQLite, because everyone has or will. Yea, got it.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Are computerized elections understandable to laypersons? What do you mean "No"? The ubiquity of cell phones alone makes it self-evident. What YOU mean is not described by your assertion. > Worse; even if the election was t
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
This story was part of a news report sourced by the daughter of a general on NBC. I saw it between 1987ish (I may be off by a year). > The project never recovered from this ignominious retreat, and it was canceled in 1944. It was "c
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
Just because a candidate had a stated (or misstated or unstated) viewpoint doesn't mean a vote for that candidate is a vote for that viewpoint. That's not how any representative-elected political system has ever worked.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
Your whole "easy" solution is not a solution. You just avoid the condition and expect it's solved.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> The Streisand effect applies to getting attention to something that wouldn't have otherwise, and gaining momentum because of it. This is about providing a platform to someone who willfully spreads lies. Those aren't orthogona
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
Or you just overestimate how many kids who were dumb enough to get an ARM wanted to settle down and buy a house. More likely, the numbers are misleading in some way.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Standups are (in my experience) usually a symptom of a low-trust environment and or a high volatility process and or poor information flow. All of these things occur at different times throughout any company. Standups mitigate these is
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> The blame ultimately rests with them, This sort of rhetoric, specifically has hurt democratic culture. If something you dislike happens, it's because you didn't do ENOUGH instead of the intended realization that everything is
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> All good things in politics come from vociferous arguing I would hope you recognize the opposite. The natural inclination is to increase aggression to try again when battles are fought viciously and lost. The idea of losing as commonpl
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
Because of risk. Just because there's 10k people out there that can afford to borrow and repay, doesn't mean you set 100k loans hoping you got some of them.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> You are trying to use a universal solution to a specific problem Wat? It (UBI) is a self described universal solution. Inability to avoid becoming degenerate (where your daily situation will gradually worsen) in the western world is no
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> This sounds like the latest in a long line of economic theories and ideas cooked up by people who LOVE the game of pricing things and can't understand why others don't share that love. Basically, economic wankery. Same with d
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Whitespace means tab (0x09) or space (0x20). > Newline means LF (0x0A) or CRLF (0x0D0A). Complicating things from the start. Not a good sign.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
The compiler can do anything a linter can do. Multi-pass multithreaded compilers are not unheard of. eg While compiling to temporary storage, I do a linting in another thread. At the end, check for successes and move the artifacts into the
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Because assignment is an expression. It has nothing specifically to do with the position being a conditional. No, but it has a lot to do with the way humans write code. This is the source of the bug, not the logic. eg Why bother having
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
I'm still puzzled to why would a compiler allow assignment in an explicit conditional (outside of loop syntax). It's like a baked-in blindspot that most people just want to ignore for some reason. Some languages actually guard aga
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> that point of view ceased to matter to me. Except that you still feel the need to talk about them. eyeroll I think you troll topics masquerading as legitimate commentary (almost every assertion you made is an ad-hominem), because you
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Diplomacy gets you promoted That's an interesting viewpoint, usually coming from people who believe that their world is governed by fairness. I'm not sure that's reflected in reality.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> I've always understood race as a person's genetic background and ethnicity as a person's cultural background I've heard that maybe once every 20 years. It just isn't the way the language is used. It may not be

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