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by dc-programmer 2y ago
Eastern Orthodox Christmas is not on Dec 25 so the argument for EE is not as air tight as the author thinks it is
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by dc-programmer 2y ago
I agree, but the social engineering parts do feel particularly cruel
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by dc-programmer 2y ago
Mild spoiler, but I could not find corroboration for the black axe human sacrifice claims anywhere on the internet
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by dc-programmer 3y ago
It seems like other VPN vendors are slapping obfuscation on top of OpenVPN and advertising their service as unobservable. This paper contests that claim
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by dc-programmer 3y ago
Ah, sorry I meant in test.c. I was nodding off when I wrote that comment
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by dc-programmer 3y ago
What do lines 7-21 do?
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by dc-programmer 3y ago
This is agitprop
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by dc-programmer 3y ago
Does anyone know what geometric means in this context?
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by dc-programmer 3y ago
Admittedly those are bullshit. They do go away if you create an account and login though
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by dc-programmer 3y ago
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I prefer new Reddit when I’m on my phone (which nowadays is my primary causal scrolling device). I think part of the reason people stick to old Reddit is because they haven’t ripped off the nostalgia ba
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by dc-programmer 3y ago
At the individual level, the cost of using cash is that you are subsidizing the other consumers who are paying with a credit cards that offers cash-back or other rewards
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by dc-programmer 3y ago
They do get innovation points for inventing SQL (over 50 years ago)
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by dc-programmer 3y ago
They don’t really do investigative journalism though. Most of their articles are summary + opinion
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by dc-programmer 3y ago
It’s hard to beat billionaire donations to longtermism causes for the title of the least impactful
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by dc-programmer 3y ago
Shkreli served prison time for fraud that did not lose investors money. But I think what you are saying has some truth to it
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by dc-programmer 3y ago
What is your approach to API design?
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by dc-programmer 3y ago
Yes this is it. I patterned matched on tags to create a simple state machine. Then I extracted values using splitlines on commas and quotes
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by dc-programmer 3y ago
I’m usually not a big side project guy, but I successfully used AWK to solve a IRL problem last year. It really helped solidify my understanding of the language. The problem was that the Garmin GPS data for a bike ride I had just completed
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
Base64 encoding increases the size of text by 4/3. Like the other commenter asked, I wonder if another encoding could work
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
I feel like half the business models of VC companies these days is simply regulatory arbitrage
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
The luddites lost their status, leisure time, and middle class incomes. Their descendants worked 12 hours a day in factories. They definitely had good reasons to push back.
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
where’s the beef?
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
“I want to believe something is true so therefore it is true”. I actually respect the honesty here. Most people think this way but would never admit it. “Cogito ergo est”
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
If it is just a case of people losing their religion, then people would be substituting their time with secular communal activities like bowling leagues or freemasonry. Instead everyone just became a shut in. I believe the real reasons run
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
That is only one interpretation of the founding however. You could also argue that vision died with the Articles of Confederation or the Whiskey Rebellion
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
How can someone even argue the US died? It’s the only superpower in the world. Also no one really knew if a state could leave or not - it’s a question that had to be settled with violence. Might is right and all that
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
The theory I’ve heard is that Christianity’s dualism was inherited from Second Temple Judaism’s cosmology. During that time there was a lot more interest in angels and demons among certain Jewish sects. In turn these beliefs may have been a
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
I consider Grant the ultimate when the rubber hits the road guy. In his interbellum years he was kind of an aimless loser but when the stakes could not be higher, he stepped up and lead the union to victory.
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
The trinity is the Orthodox belief. The history of Christianity is full of “heretical” beliefs about the Godhead. Also there is solid evidence that first century Christians did not hold a trinitarian position
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
The conception of the trinity as co-equal persons of the same substance is a later development in Christianity. The earliest Christian writings (Paul’s letters) never mention the trinity; you could even argue Paul was a sort of binitarian

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