darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
I don't care about freedom of the tobacco industry, nor the freedom of teenagers to smoke, nor the freedom of adults to smoke flavored cigarettes. I take it you can't identify any other 'harm.'
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> If nicotine addiction is relatively harmless without conventional cigarettes, who cares? Because we aren't doing anybody any favors when we permit the industry to give teenagers a chemical addiction to their commercial product,
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Changing the flavor sounds needlessly draconian, as adults like apple and bubblegum, too." I heard this same sort of thing back when Obama banned flavored cigarettes. I wasn't very sympathetic to it back then and I&#
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by darkpuma 7y ago
NFS will give you better performance if you've got a trusted LAN.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I don't think "war with the US" was meant to imply "A war in which America was on it's own and did everything" ; that's a cynical read of it. A less cynical read would be that "war with the US&quot
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Americans do call it a World War, don't they? I think you're being a bit too cynical.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I think you're discounting the roll of America's massive industrial output, which shipped more than 17 million tons of goods to the Soviet Union throughout the war, including more than 400,000 trucks/jeeps, 7,000 tanks, 11,00
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "aren't those ads targeted to the viewer (you) rather than the content of the video?" That shouldn't matter; youtube should not be showing adult ads to an adult when the adult is watching a children's show.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Oh, I completely agree. Youtube should stop pretending they have a service suitable for children. Youtube should be making it clear to consumers that their service is for mature viewers only because they are incapable of vetting content
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It may be the case that they do it with sufficient accuracy to stay in business, but insufficient accuracy to provide quality content streams for children. My above comment seems a bit unpopular, but I really don't think youtube is del
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> " The fact that this isn't a difficult problem to solve is the strongest indication that A) YouTube knows exactly what's going on" It may also be the case they're totally incapable of doing it right, despite
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If kids 'need' TV shows to watch and parents need a source of children's entertainment they can trust, isn't that were we normally expect an organization like PBS to fill the need? With an organization like PBS, they hav
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Yep, people saying Breezewood isn't special probably haven't been there. The experience isn't something you can really derive from looking at any picture. I've driven across America numerous times, been to more rest s
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by darkpuma 7y ago
This is certainly not what Dobbs had in mind.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "[fans don't] help when it gets above the 98.6 degree body temperature." I'm not sure about that. It would be true with a spherical cow, but I don't think it's true when real people are involved becaus
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Could it be the case that Boeing is behaving obstinately as a negotiation tactic, perhaps to negotiate more favorable terms concerning who pays for the re-training? Maybe they recognize that retraining will be necessary, but fear if they
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If I headbutt a brick wall because it's in my way, was it the wall that gave me a concussion? Or was it me that gave me a concussion?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
From what I've personally seen, the vast majority of "hostile design" is employed on private property. Particularly on property owned by corporations or universities, moreso than private residences. It's pretty easy,
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by darkpuma 7y ago
So called hostile design in fact reduces the incidence of confrontations between police officers and trespassers. Since it reduces the incidence of confrontations, and therefore violence, I think comparing it to "cracking skulls&quot
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Yet an underlying concern is that pilot programs like these could alienate riders from taking public transportation entirely." Junkies defecating in the train station discourages me a hell of a lot more than "hostile
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I was participating in rec.games.roguelike.development until 2011 or so. Some of those communities lasted a lot longer than most would expect.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Sometimes, but it's becoming less and less common.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I've seen professionally-oriented PHP forums and they are no better than any casual-interest oriented PHP forum. Tons of visual clutter with all kinds of rectangles nested inside each other all over the screen with little apparent purp
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I think we're beginning to see the emergence of the videophile, like the audiophile, in which a small minority of consumers become obsessed with video quality and pursue it to the ends of the earth, all the while illogically neglecting
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I bet they A/B tested that feature and decided users loved it because their metrics did not reveal how many users were muting their televisions. Maybe on Smart TVs they know, but perhaps not if that smart TV is hooked up to an externa
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Let me preface this by admitting that I'm a very poor judge of video quality since I generally think those 720p/700MB torrent encodes are swell. So I'm going to ignore the matter of video quality; by my awful standards they&
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by darkpuma 7y ago
You seem to be right. This article talks about mass graves of diggers being found: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/03/underworld-mon...
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The men who made it were in fact professional miners and engineers from what I understand.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The last time I was in an Apple store I was in Seattle getting a MBA battery replaced. The Apple employee told me there were indications of water exposure but no apparent board damage, so the humid Seattle air was probably to blame. Thank
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by darkpuma 7y ago
For monkeys, we're pretty damn clever aren't we? The lesser apes don't make war nearly so complicated.

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