fu9ar

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by fu9ar 10y ago
I didn't argue against fiat currency. I argued against FUD against China's currency based on stupid ideas. I do think that the difference between a gold-backed and fiat currency is a valid difference, but would never advocate for
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Shit, often videos "just don't load" and I am in the middle of a major US metro area.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Thank you. You just rocked my world. Just being able to choose the bitrate of the stream prior to it chomping down on data is awesome.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Did you know that one of the schools that I went to disbursed financial aid a week after tuition was due, meaning that many students were dropped from their classes and had to re-register at the last minute with a late registration "fe
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by fu9ar 10y ago
That was one of the key events in my life that convinced me of free software ideals.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Your attitude is the source of every problem with contemporary academia.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
You don't understand these arguments because you came from such an extreme place of class privilege that you already had the education in high school to get paid "programming" jobs. People coming from poverty don't have
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Well, the entire institution of business has an explicit profit motive and academia has an explicit knowledge motive, so while there may be misguided individuals in either pursuit, that doesn't sully the previous poster's point.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Essentially, it doesn't matter what mechanism generates the signals except when it came down to me wanting to play with Linux twenty years ago and a company decided to release a product that was only compatible with a single operating
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by fu9ar 10y ago
That is what kept me out of Linux when I was a teenager, but it was MODEM drivers at that time. Lack of driver support for an operating system is not a technical problem, it is a social problem.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
The web-first approach of the entire global software industry is half-baked.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
That is because the problem is the ideology of Capitalism working within a consumer market economy.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
I won't do business with Lenovo after running into multiple BIOS soft locks. The first, I was attempting to install a WiMaX card into some random laptop, and the last Thinkpad I had was BIOS locked to only be able to accept the 80GB HD
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Thanks for the neoliberalism in a nutshell post. Go ahead, bury your head deeper up your own ass instead of dealing with the reality of the economic situation in which we all find ourselves. I got a job as a "temp" once. I was wor
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by fu9ar 10y ago
If all you send is more like a checksum or a quantum salt, a few bits of entirely-secure-in-transit entropy in the encryption key could be enough to guarantee secure end-to-end communications in the moment.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
I don't want everything I read and write online to be analyzed by agents of a government agency who have, along with some other agencies, spent the majority of the past fifty years engaged in unilateral neo-fascist imperialism. I was u
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Do you realize that Uber and Lyft drivers are often making below minimum wage when you account for their costs? The only way they are getting drivers is by offering fat bonuses to both parties for driver referrals. The entire business model
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by fu9ar 10y ago
"I will neither confirm nor deny any prior illegal activity."
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Spreadsheet programs are great for data entry if we take the care before hand to design the data structures well so that they easily export and can be easily analyzed by a computer. Easy stuff like small org budgets can be done with spreads
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by fu9ar 10y ago
idk im pretty good at exporting to CSV.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
makeup is drawing
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by fu9ar 10y ago
the map is not the territory. the model is not Absolute, but it gives us a really, really good idea.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
And legions of STEM graduates with poor critical thinking skills believe that is the norm for the liberal arts and post ceaselessly with poor grammar and qualitative reasoning about the superiority of their academic discipline. It is like a
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by fu9ar 10y ago
The point of an urban transport truck is to transport goods within dense urban areas so that we don't have to suck down exhaust fumes all damn day. Your objection is absolutely irrelevant. You could have realized that by reading the en
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Your idea that there is some fundamental difference between big government and big business is false. Power is power.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
fu9ar@traveler ~ % ^[[200~echo "evil" It works, but it also doesn't work. Usually I use the middle-click-to-paste feature, which just doesn't work at all.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
There are also Christians who believe it was an allegorical story based on events that were happening when it was written.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Human service workers, biomedical researchers, and etc. still need to make a living too. The problem is that a small sector of the people in the world are being ridiculously greedy.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Did you read the article or just head straight into posting this morning?
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by fu9ar 10y ago
[citation needed]

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