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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Minsky denies having sex - not that he ever wouldn’t if he did have sex - but my understanding is that she was above the age of consent in the jurisdiction they were in, assuming he knew her age. “Where you live” should not be the determina
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Are they? Forgive me for being skeptical post-Kavanaugh but I find it hard to believe that Stallman licked somebody in public without it being big news... I think we need to have actual standards of evidence when it comes to booting someone
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
I wasn’t replying to you to be clear, it was a general statement. However your characterization of his comments wrt Minksy does make me question your credibility. If you couldn’t honestly characterize them, it is more likely that you could
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> fear of running afoul of ever changing--potentially ex-post facto--rules. And if it’s not clear, that’s a feature, not a bug.
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
I hate that you’re right. What is it with people flagging as an uber downvote?!
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
I’m not a copyleft person myself - I prefer Apache 2.0 style licenses - but I have so much respect for RMS and everything he’s accomplished, and I find it laughable that we can’t agree that he and his organization have been insanely effecti
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
In context his statement was entirely reasonable. Separately I find it hilarious that he’s called transphobic because he believes in non-binary identity but doesn’t believe in grammatical usage of the singular they (FWIW I naturally use the
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
I find it cute that they even uttered that question non-ironically. Hot of the presses: a pawn of IBM on the one hand and Microsoft on the other both oppose a free software advocacy group that fought against everything Microsoft/IBM st
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Much more the latter. It’s not really “caving” because this is what top brass actively wants. The political commentator Dave Smith has a great point where he views “wokism” as essentially a corporate plot. Post-2008 we had hordes of angry p
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> You’ll end up with spineless yes people who don’t push back and also do nothing but do PR (virtue signal the latest fad). Yup. And if you haven’t noticed, that is exactly who is running almost every major institution in Western society
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
I don’t know if it’s fair to say that the FSF is burning goodwill so much that the culture war has fully consumed tech and this is just the next battlefront. We have organizations openly advocating for discriminatory hiring based off race&#
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> Just because the media has twisted it does not make them true. And you may already be aware of this, but for any third parties reading this, please be aware that these types of things are not a one-off innocent mistake. When you start
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
In fairness, the hacked materials policy was a very transparent attempt to suppress the whole Hunter Biden laptop saga. (I really don’t give a fuck about that whole story but you can’t talk about the hacked materials policy without mentioni
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Ah, that totally makes sense. In retrospect it totally makes sense that the aggressive inflammation reduction of high-dose corticosteroids could cause that. By analogy, it's well-known that animals (including humans ofc) exhibit "
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Forks are arbitrary. There's no need to literally gather 51% consensus, it just means users of Fork A are in an entirely different universe than Fork B and that's fine. For example when BTC split into BTC and BCH, for me the ticke
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
There’s no citation needed, it follows directly from the fact that output varies between individuals. Unless you want to argue that fact...
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Depends on the person. Some people can do better work hungover than others can sober purely because their base level of skill/output is higher so the -20% or -40% hit (or however you wanna mathematically represent it) doesn’t outpace t
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
I know exactly the archetype of engineer you’re talking about and they are hands down some of the most valuable engineers you’ll find. It’s possible to have a 10x multiplier in “individual output” or whatever you want to call it, but 9 time
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Presumably you’re referring to corticosteroids which are not anabolic steroids. Or just making a tired joke, I couldn’t tell which :P
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
I’ve always felt the same way, I absolutely detest the whole farce of a manager claiming they’re “shielding the team” when really they’re just making critical decisions without informing their own team / gathering [real] consenshs. T
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
> Use your free time post-covid to build up something worthwhile. A cat is a good start! And to take it further, even if you’re one of those (many) people who thinks the sky is constantly falling with COVID...there is still no reason to
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
A word of advice, injecting such topics needlessly distracts from the actual point you’re trying to make.
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
The market capitalization of a cryptocurrency has no relation to its utility as a currency, except insofar as a volatile currency - particularly in the downward direction - hampers its usage as a currency without converting from USD at the
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Hilarious comment. But this is HN so I have to nitpick the minor flaws I noticed: > Bitcoin will become massively deflationary as hash rates plummet and vast quantities of the world's computation & food supply are turned towards
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
> Under such a system, if your choice is not to have insurance, what should happen if you step in a hole and shatter your ankle in a way that requires complex surgery to repair? In this hypothetical, I clearly wouldn't be able to af
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Kubernetes does a lot of different things but one of the more important is resource management. You spin up a fleet of Kubernetes nodes which can have totally heterogenous (differing) amounts of compute/memory/disk, and have the s
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Colocation isn’t a binary on-or-off thing. As a crappy example, Kubernetes pods maintain the invariant that all containers within a pod exist on the same Kubernetes node. So you can avoid the most egregious waste of resources/time that
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
I’m surprised you couldn’t tell because my reading is their point was quite clearly genuine and not at all sarcastic. They were just expressing the notion that while the acute personal cost is zero the actual cost is still borne. They didn’
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
> because naked propaganda spam gets downvoted by the users This is simply not true, although I suppose it depends on the definition of naked. Here's some random examples - although like anything, whether it qualifies as propaganda
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
It is, but to be clear I think the point there was not about public figures per se but about everyday people. Everyday (albeit obviously left-leaning) people would post the black squares out of a sense of obligation, and then the responses

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