brashrat

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by brashrat 10y ago
[informative comment about corporate PR disguised as open source news removed as "off-topic"]
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by brashrat 10y ago
it found nothing for me and I don't do anything pathological
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by brashrat 10y ago
chilling effects need to be kept in perspective; for example, while I'm completely fearless about telling off the govt whenever I wish, no way I'm going to reveal how I feel about Snowden to the HN community: I'd be ostraciz
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by brashrat 10y ago
no slippery slope argument is a fallacy when the underlying process can best be described as a slippery slope. "Slippery slope" is not a fallacy, it's an analogy. I'm in favor of crypto, privacy and the same things you a
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by brashrat 10y ago
Thanks for the compliments. What I mean by "unprovoked" is, if the Palestinians would stop attempting violence, the Israelis would stop attempting violence. If the Israelis were to stop their violence... the Palestinians would jus
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by brashrat 10y ago
I grew up the same way :) ... except he rubs me the wrong way, I think he's not at all interesting or clever, a completely banal failed ironic, with a deep streak of hate inside.
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by brashrat 10y ago
the name may be intended to be ironic, but the irony of the irony is that if you are interested in communicating about conducting one or more felonies, I would in fact urge you to use encryption. I hate when people hate the "if you hav
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by brashrat 10y ago
| "The less violent side"? As I said, click around wikipedia for number of rocket attacks, number of terror attacks, etc. initiated by the Palestinians, mostly against civilians. Regardless of how many more Palestinians are gett
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by brashrat 10y ago
but... but... Arabs living in Israel are first class citizens, they are not forced to live on reservations, and they participate in elections and are elected to the Knesset, Israel's parliament. The occupied West Bank is land that wa
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by brashrat 10y ago
| not any more but damn fess up about the Armenian genocide already I read PP as talking about the Turks present day treatment of the Kurds, not their previously reprehensible treatment of the Armenians. Are you excusing the way Kurds are
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by brashrat 10y ago
| I think what bothers me the most about all of this is how criticism of the national policy of the state of Israel is reworked by certain opponents as anti-Semitic attacks... Why is this? Let's say extremes from both sides of any is
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by brashrat 10y ago
definitely interesting topic. Reading their analysis though, led me to believe they didn't control for enough obvious variables. Let me go through a scenario to give an example: how much was Nokia worth to Microsoft? Their idea that &q
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by brashrat 10y ago
3) when you want the liquid smooth feel for your 99% time, why don't you boot Linux and run an MSWin in the VM?
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by brashrat 10y ago
why the pseudo? it seems living rather than pseudo-living. it needs a particular environment, but that's true of a lot of living things.
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by brashrat 10y ago
my definition of "waaayyy too much of their life" in the context of this topic is, people who don't have much going on IRL due to social adjustment impairments and personality disorders discover these online communities and h
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by brashrat 10y ago
few things grind my gears like hipsters telling me how much THEY care about products being usable LIKE IT'S SOME SORT OF NEW IDEA, like they are the ONLY ONES WHO CARE. beards and winter hats in summer seem, counter intuitively, to inc
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by brashrat 10y ago
Is pumped hydro dependent on geography? I'm no expert and I'm skipping over the research and calculation part, but I'd be somewhat surprised if solar panels on my house could generate enough electricity to pump more water up
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by brashrat 10y ago
That's not actually true in practice in the US: the morphine dosage used to treat pain for advanced cancers is given knowing full well it's a fatal dose. That it hastens death in addition to numbing the pain is something not much
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by brashrat 10y ago
whoosh! you provided a Tim Cook response to a Steve Jobs comment.
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by brashrat 10y ago
A personality like Steve Jobs's would never tolerate having another Steve Jobs around, so this is what I always assumed. Steve was always laser focused on a small number of elements to create buzz (one button, really thin, it's a
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by brashrat 10y ago
you can put your hunger to work for you, but you need to remind yourself that, if you carry extra pounds, hunger is what weight loss feels like. That ravenous feeling if you can keep it going, that right there is the success. celebrate it,
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by brashrat 10y ago
if we're going to quibble, it's "discounted /expected/ future cash flows"
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by brashrat 10y ago
investments in assets result in depreciations which are expenses that reduce profits; you don't write off the asset as a loss all in one year, but it all gets written off across a series of years.
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by brashrat 10y ago
I thought this headline was referring to what I think is a more insidious form of moderation, the type that's practiced here on ycombinator with regard to style, for example, negativity is punished broadly here. The reason I find it mo
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by brashrat 10y ago
pro-tip: I've seen demonstrated, if you repeatedly whack the bottom of a bottle of wine with the heel of your shoe (or, in a similar manner, smack the bottom of a bottle of wine against a tree trunk) the cork will slowly emerge on its
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by brashrat 10y ago
ok, sure, the idea of empathy ignores the limits of human psychology... because it's an "idea". human psychology is not an idea, nor is are its constituent parts ideas. so what? if there is scarcity and competition, no doubt
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by brashrat 10y ago
assume for the sake of argument there is a constant amount of traffic. You can spread it evenly or lump it together. So... Berkeley has a large number of extra-busy boulevards carrying traffic farther than it would ordinarily have to go? ot
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by brashrat 10y ago
you are saying that a large collection of self-reported anecdotes more correctly describes a population than a study; we say "you're wrong," and there is plenty of statistical evidence that proves you are wrong, but of course
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by brashrat 10y ago
an OSS project is not enough to give us any security, chips that are mostly made super cheaply in sketchy countries and that are complex enough to contain whole computers and OS's... If you are successful with your OSS stopping spying
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by brashrat 10y ago
wow, I really do not want to quibble with you about something we agree on, so for the record, "hey everybody, I agree with cyphar!" However: the GPL2 says that you can impose no restrictions on what what people can implement with

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