chaosfactor

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by chaosfactor 11y ago
You do not understand medical ethics. And I do, because I've actually run human subjects experiments as approved by an IRB. QED.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
You do not understand medical ethics. The surgery requires a staff of 150 doctors and nurses and exclusive use of a state-of-the-art operating theatre. The doctor clearly can't afford to go testing on animals.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
You do not understand medical ethics. The worst-case cost to the patient is miniscule relative to the benefits to society.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
Stallman just LOVES puns https://stallman.org/puns.html
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
The slavery analogy holds because in both cases we are talking about freedom. A word you aren't using.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
The patient is of sound mind and agrees to the transplant. That makes it ethical.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
Costs vs benefits.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
Did you just say that allergies are never genetic?
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
Wikipedia articles have topics, this does not.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
It's not gratiutously negative - or even negative at all. It's a matter of fact. The advice in that column will not lead you to create a successful company, so take it with a healthy dose of humility and with a grain of salt. Inde
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
P(you create a successful company|you read this guys post) ~= 0
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
I have theorized that allergies, such as cat allergies, may, in some cases, be your body's way of warning you that there are Big Cats in the vicinity and you should GTFO.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
Hahaha is rsync's comment for real? Also, how meta can we get here?
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
What would be really awesome is to have the ability to fire up a cloud instance and do computations on the Internet Archive.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
This talk is fantastic.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
Vote with your feet. Using Bitcoin is a vote for that kind of system.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
Wow, this post has some hard core moralizing in it. The whole concept that a mean comment is going to prevent the next AirBnB. That may be the case, but it's unfalsifiable and straight up passing more judgement. I can do without that,
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
It's funny because I actually kind of like it.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
You've created a nice little chicken and egg problem for yourself.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
My laptop died and I am broke and jobless, and needed to do some programming for InstaSource. My only choice was to use my Chromebook. Now I do all my coding on it. It's surprisingly awesome!
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
I'm using emacs on my Chromebook by using crouton.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
It's funny because it's plausible.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
I agree with this guy! Computers will never be fast enough to justify the use of a forward thinking library like this! Nevermind future integrations with the GPU or SIMD or technological enhancements we can't even imagine! Why, Javascr
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
The button can automatically order batteries for you when it's running low.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
This does not generalize to arbitrary purposes. If you just want to detect that the user has run more jobs than your build system can possibly benefit from and print a warning, there is no reason to start messing with the jobserver. This is
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
It makes some sense to want to know this. You might know that your build process doesn't benefit from more than 4 jobs, and want to alert this to the developer who tries to use more.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
Write a target that greps the Makefile itself and extracts the targets.
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
This probably won't work if you just pass -j. If I needed to solve this problem, I would have just grepped the output of `ps' to get the make invocation. If I wasn't sure which invocation was correct, I would have used heuris
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
This is an exercise in paradigm paralysis. How about: I predict that if I were teleported 100 years into the future, I would have no fucking clue what was going on, you wouldn't be able to explain it to me and I would probably die from
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by chaosfactor 11y ago
Calling into sed when you use ssh increases your attack surface to include sed's attack surface. And likely more.

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