eponeponepon

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by eponeponepon 2y ago
Are you in the UK and within some short distance of civilisation? If so, you very likely have a newsagent near by you and there's a surprisingly good chance they still do a paper delivery round. Obviously if you're in a hut up a m
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by eponeponepon 2y ago
It's fine, it's worked for millennia - you simply gather your many belligerent sons, hand them large clubs and send them to batter the power company's director till he gives in.
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by eponeponepon 2y ago
On a long enough timescale, all of these things are dust, though. ...basically, label your axes.
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by eponeponepon 7y ago
The key to building an idea is inducing blind faith in others . ...imho. Edit to expound: if you have blind faith in your idea, then when it is about to fail, you will go down with it. If you don't, and it's about to fail, you
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by eponeponepon 7y ago
I'm not disagreeing :-)
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by eponeponepon 7y ago
The Orwell comparisons may seem trite to you, but the fact is that if there's no available word for a thing, it becomes difficult for people at large to discuss it. Some organisations conclude that if the masses can't name a thing
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by eponeponepon 7y ago
My word, but this would break _so much_. I would like to think that I've managed to keep my wits about me enough over the years that I haven't got any code needing to find both 'A.txt' and 'a.txt' in the same p
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by eponeponepon 7y ago
Email has been slowly balkanising itself for years now. By way of example, I know personally several people who run mail relays and not only refuse to relay messages from and to Google email servers but even refuse to _receive_ emails addre
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by eponeponepon 7y ago
I think this is the story you were after: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-42951788 (apologies if that's one of the BBC's randomly unavailable-outside-the-UK pages...)
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
It's not just Western society, it's humans in general. The rest of the world might not get so wound up about narcotics as the West does, but there are plenty of other things that the mob makes unhelpful binary judgments about.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
There is never anything wrong with writing "n/a" in any kind of form. There was a long overlap during which any form that took contact details already had fields for email address and mobile phone number, but before either of
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Unsettling is exactly the word. https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/16662 leaves me trying to work out what on earth the poster's really trying to do - even though I know full well that there is no post
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
On the other hand, cherrypicked excerpts can be terrifyingly convincing: "What is the best way to login to my Ruby application in a browser via Perl?" We've all been asked a question like that and had a cold dread creep over
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Neat. I could definitely use this for some home infrastructure I'm playing around with at the moment - will definitely give it a shot!
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I don't really get the way terminal usage gets framed as outdated, or GUIs as unnecessary depending on one's preference. They're each for very separate use cases - tasks that are easier done in a terminal belong in a terminal
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
E2E doesn't actually matter that much in the end; it's far more interesting to advertisers (and therefore valuable to Facebook) to know who you're talking to than to know what you said. Three-letter agencies know this too - s
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I think the exact changes that he (or his agents) made are kind of immaterial - ultimately, it seems, he tried to implement too large a change too suddenly, and it failed. There's a lesson in Akhenaten's history for many areas of
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
The Amarna period is endlessly fascinating to me - it seems such a clear example of how little has changed in the way politics and society interact for thousands of years.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
In theory, the same way as a policeman - assessing the situation and the context, and then making a decision not to issue the fine. But in practice, I don't think it can, without having total surveillance capabilities - not to mentio
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
This cuts both ways, of course - in some ways, I think we want automated systems to be able to discriminate. A good example is speed cameras - in days past, a man speeding to get his wife to the maternity ward could be pulled over and the
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
There's a world of difference between "this person has a track record of not paying their bills, so exercise caution before lending" and "this person was observed reading subversive literature, so don't let him leav
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Some matter is conscious. My fingernail is not, but it's a subset of the matter that equals me, and I am conscious (you'll just have to take my word); I am a subset of the matter that equals all matter, so it has to follow that th
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
It's a throwback to our feral ancestry. I'd contend that the urge to overcome our animal nature is the bedrock of what makes us human.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
> In a way, that's part > of its appeal. You're not wrong - and this is no small part of why it's a tough problem. But I think those three are a bit of a "pick any two" situation.
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
> sad kids LARPing as Nazis. Spot on. A description I am undoubtedly going to steal when the opportunity arises, so thanks! :)
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
No, I mean half of them flat-out don't know how to handle their instruments properly, and even the ones who do are still using them to make art that is lazy, adolescent and derivative. The production-value stuff I totally understand an
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
I have never looked at the term that way, but what you say is completely fair. I seem to recall a time when a lot of that scene rejected the label and tried to claim it was "just black metal", but now that I think about it, I susp
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Can we be clear on this, please? It's in human to hate another for their origin or religion - not just un-American. This problem isn't about whether or not you're a good American, it's about whether or not you're a
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
NSBM's a difficult problem. For one thing, where do you draw the line? For every band that are out-and-proud unequivocal neo-nazis preaching race-war, there's another who insist they're apolitical as musicians, another who ju
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by eponeponepon 8y ago
Buckle up - it's only worsening. I'd bet on there being plural internets by 2030 at this rate.

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