alphapapa

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by alphapapa 9y ago
Vast tragedies throughout history were perpetrated by people who thought they knew better than everyone else, that their ends justified imposing their means on the rest of the human race. Your attitude is dangerous, because you can use it t
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by alphapapa 9y ago
What a cynical, defeatist attitude. The Internet is full of people, and you don't know who reads what. Everyone has to learn somewhere, to start from something. Your logic essentially is, "No one can learn anything; their opinio
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by alphapapa 9y ago
Wilfred is a genius. The OP article is from about a year ago, but it laid the foundation for the Emacs package he just released: http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2017/08/30/helpful-adding-cont...
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by alphapapa 9y ago
What kind of conclusions do you mean?
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by alphapapa 9y ago
It helps us see through the deceptive arguments against anonymity. You don't think that's helpful?
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by alphapapa 9y ago
So what about the IPCC scientists who have whistleblown and quit because of their unscientific practices?
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by alphapapa 9y ago
> Universal basic income, free university education and free state-run healthcare are leftist... no Democrat puts those things in their platform so I wouldn't call any democrat leftist. That's not a logical conclusion. Even if
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by alphapapa 9y ago
Well here's an interesting observation: the "right" subreddit cites some sources that the "left" subreddit cites, but not vice versa. For example, NYT and Politico appear near the tail of the "right" sub&
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by alphapapa 9y ago
Left and right are degrees of authoritarianism, e.g. libertarian is far right, and nazism and communism are far left. Nazism and communism would be flavors of authoritarianism.
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by alphapapa 9y ago
MBps or Mbps? I'm guessing the latter, but...
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by alphapapa 9y ago
Good grief, it's like an invisible war going on inside your browser. > We're on a mission to drive them out of business But if you succeed, won't you go out of business? It's like antivirus vendors: if there were no
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by alphapapa 9y ago
They should probably change their wording if they want to gain wider appeal: "Plasma Mobile turns your phone into a fully open hacking device..."
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by alphapapa 9y ago
So, just to be clear, you want to impose your will on the planet, as a whole. You don't care about any form of democracy. You don't care what anyone else thinks. You think you're right, and anyone who opposes you is wrong.
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by alphapapa 9y ago
> How about this: Are people allowed to act in a way that will save themselves, even if it sames everyone else on the planet, and has some side effects? I think the answer is an emphatic yes! Who decides which ways will save and are ther
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by alphapapa 9y ago
Why do you trust the IPCC?
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by alphapapa 9y ago
> Never mind that smarter, nation wide, grids can allow electricity to flow in either direction depending on where the production and need is. Larger grids are also more vulnerable grids. We should learn from the lessons provided by, e.
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by alphapapa 9y ago
Nothing wrong with his comment. Yours is rude.
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by alphapapa 9y ago
I'm sorry but this is a complete no-go. As much as I like Backblaze's attitude and pricing plans, this is unacceptable for a backup service. It's way too easy for files to be accidentally, unknowingly deleted, and for thi
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by alphapapa 9y ago
Indeed, I nearly lost my GPG key due to undetected corruption, because the corrupted file had been backed up for a long time. I only recovered it from a very old CD-R backup I made years earlier. Keeping old snapshots (e.g. one or two per
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by alphapapa 9y ago
A couple of years ago I went to use GPG for the first time in a long time. My private key didn't work. I looked at the file, and its size was 0 bytes. Cosmic ray? GPG crash? System crash while the file was being written? How it g
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by alphapapa 9y ago
How do you define "hate movement"?
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by alphapapa 9y ago
> It is the argument that is still lawfully used to deny service on the basis of sexual orientation in much of the country; only a minority of states have public accommodation laws under which sexual orientation is a protected class. &gt
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by alphapapa 9y ago
It's very simple. It's morally wrong to enforce fairness of outcome, for a few reasons: 1. Doing so requires taking away from those who have, whether property or opportunity. This is theft and oppression. 2. Doing so requires an
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by alphapapa 9y ago
> In fact, I did not refuse to consider his arguments. I considered them. They're poorly sourced, terribly reasoned, and not very well communicated. There are prominent, respected authorities and experts on both sides of the politic
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by alphapapa 9y ago
I'm observing that your attitude is defensive, as if the assertions you're refuting are personally insulting to you, as if they imply that you shouldn't have bought a Tesla. I don't understand why this is so.
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by alphapapa 9y ago
Here's a comment that refutes the use of those "scientific" sources in the Quora post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15021735
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by alphapapa 9y ago
Are you saying that there exist unbiased sources? Who has the authority to determine which ideas are worth discussing? Are the rest of us obligated to comply with their judgments?
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by alphapapa 9y ago
Are you saying that the question, "Did NASA land on the moon?" is equivalent to the question, "Is the main reason, that fewer women work at Google, that men are sexist?"
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by alphapapa 9y ago
> Ignoring an argument because its source is "odious"ly biased is the political equivalent of using heuristics to prune a huge search space. You're proving Damore's point. You refuse to consider his arguments because
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by alphapapa 9y ago
Is your attitude typical of Tesla owners?

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