iacvlvs

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by iacvlvs 2y ago
Why? There’s always a lot of hand-wringing and FUD around giving people ID numbers, but never a coherent rational argument. What makes it a big brother nightmare for all humans?
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by iacvlvs 2y ago
I assume it’s a simple accidental transposition of “case in point”, an instance or example that supports, or is relevant or pertinent to, what is being discussed. https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/usage-of-case-i
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by iacvlvs 3y ago
I use 1password with Fastmail integration to create unique email addresses for each login. This new “sipping from thimbles” approach to authentication breaks that because iOS and/or 1pass don’t recognise it as a login until the passwor
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by iacvlvs 3y ago
South Africa’s violent crime problem isn’t despite its wealth, it’s because of the wealth and, crucially, the inequality in its distribution. Higher inequality is associated with higher crime and lower social trust. https://w
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by iacvlvs 3y ago
In many police departments in the US the problem is essentially that there are so many bad apples that every good apple that comes is spoiled or cannot do good. This can only be changed be decisive action from the top. How many bad apples
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by iacvlvs 4y ago
> Debian doesn't ask people before including their packages, and ex. nixos pulls directly from those "non-distribution" channels. Then Debian (or NixOS) are publishing the code for distribution, and Debian (or NixOS) shoul
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by iacvlvs 4y ago
https://index.medium.com/career-advice-nobody-gave-me-never-...
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by iacvlvs 13y ago
It is fundamental to all markets in the real world. It is also a defining trait of the platonic ideal of a free market, and one of the reasons why the platonic ideal absolute free market is unrealisable. Markets can be more or less free, bu
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by iacvlvs 13y ago
There is no true free market in the world. One of the defining characteristics of a free market is perfect information. This is one of the downsides of market imperfections.
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by iacvlvs 13y ago
From TFA: "In theory, this limits one’s visibility to aerial surveillance vehicles employing heat-imaging cameras to track people on the ground."
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by iacvlvs 13y ago
I agree with the point you are making. In the spirit of agreement, I would suggest that the right question is "what is it about your relative's blood test that you specifically want to bring to the attention of the NSA, government
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by iacvlvs 13y ago
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
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by iacvlvs 14y ago
Would turning your computer off, help? I can see it helping for normal EM interference, but in an apocalyptic EM pulses scenario I thought the induced current would be enough to damage components.
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by iacvlvs 14y ago
We're already working on a mosquito genocide solution. Ever since the Nature article ( http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html ) about how the ecosystem would be fine without mosquitoes I've seen a number of mosquito geno
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by iacvlvs 15y ago
iirc, Steve Wozniak did something similar: when Apple went public without giving anything to the early employees, Woz basically gave/sold (cheaply) them stock from his own holdings.
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by iacvlvs 15y ago
It's so good to know I'm not the only one still boycotting them! I was actually starting to reconsider it when the GeoHot thing happened and renewed my resolve. In this case, I don't think we're missing out on anything: if their Android tab
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by iacvlvs 15y ago
If we killed off other humanlike species because they terrified us, wouldn't we have also killed off other species that terrify us, like snakes, rats, cockroaches and spiders? I can't find a reference right now but I remember reading somewh
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by iacvlvs 15y ago
And hobbits! The BBC article Homo Floresiensis. From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis ) Homo floresiensis ("Flores Man", nicknamed "hobbit") is a possible species, now extinct, in the genus Homo
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by iacvlvs 15y ago
I've worked with worse: <PERSON> <PERSON_HEADER_1> <PERSON_HEADER_1_NAME> <PERSON_HEADER_1_NAME_FIRST_NAME>John</PERSON_HEADER_1_NAME_FIRST_NAME> <PERSON_HEADER_1_NAM
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by iacvlvs 15y ago
I know the opposite has been done, on a grand scale. A group of residents in a local suburb were complaining that a iBurst's (a local wisp) newly erected tower was causing headaches, nausea, tinnitus, dry burning itchy skins, totally disrup
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by iacvlvs 16y ago
I can't listen to it right now. Could someone please transcribe it?
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by iacvlvs 16y ago
I have a friend who used to use what he called "the hat system": when a creditor phoned to complain about his account, he'd explain that every month, he put the names of everyone he owed money to in a hat, and then draw names and pay them u
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by iacvlvs 16y ago
For what it's worth, I understand the point you are trying to make. I understand that you are not looking for a job. I understand that you do not hope to work for the company that requires a DOC/PDF/etc. document submission. I agree that re
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by iacvlvs 16y ago
The Degree of Hitler for Kevin Bacon is: 2 The Path: Great Depression Adolf Hitler
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by iacvlvs 16y ago
"Leave a missed call" was so popular in South Africa that the networks implemented "Send a call me", where you send a GSM code with the target person's phone number and the network sends that person an sms message from your number with the
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by iacvlvs 16y ago
I think he was following his values. He was willing to give up his life to help (his) people live. I believe his goals, intention and ideals were noble. His actions, on the other hand, were horrific. That's why they say war is hell.
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by iacvlvs 16y ago
No. It's converting EVERYTHING to K, then doing the arithmetic, then converting the result to C. 0C + 0C = 273K + 273K = 546K = 273C 0C + 0C - 0C = 273K + 273K - 273K = 273K = 0C 0C - 0C => 273K - 273K = 0K 0C + 0K = 273K + 0K = 273K =
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by iacvlvs 16y ago
And Afrikaans: jy (familiar), u (ever so formal), but u is (or seems to be) falling out of common use.
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by iacvlvs 16y ago
Every time someone would tell me that they used to smoke or that they'd quit, I'd ask them how they managed it. Over time some started smoking again, some didn't, and a pattern emerged. The critical factors I identified were a public commit
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by iacvlvs 16y ago
I heard someone mention that octopodes are attracted to the colour red. I don't know if that's true, but it would explain why Paul picked the German flag, with its red central stripe, and the Spanish flag, with more red than Germany's. Or m

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