malfist

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by malfist 3d ago
Me personally? No. Label fits.
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by malfist 3d ago
> By the way, you didn't commit theft. It's more like credit card fraud. I'm sure you carry cash and an ID or more in your wallet. Hardly just credit card fraud. The wallet itself has value too.
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by malfist 4d ago
What are you trying to say?
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by malfist 4d ago
If I set my walet beside me and you swipe in walking by, you have still committed theft. Victim blaming isn't legally acceptable
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by malfist 4d ago
Outside of the current nonsense in Iran, we've never had to go to war to prevent nuclear arms. We've never had to go to war to ban weapons in space. These things are possible. Hard but possible
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by malfist 4d ago
Ads seem to be working for most people or are people in protection racket where they have to pay to fend off the mobster from plastering the front of their store with roadblocks and directions to a competitor?
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by malfist 6d ago
Who are you who is so wise in the ways of a private company's internal cost accounting
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by malfist 6d ago
I have prosopagnosia. Glasses that could tell me the name of the person talking to me would be amazing. But not if I have to give big tech data about everyone around me
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by malfist 6d ago
You can engage with the quote if you disagree with it and have reasons it's wrong or you can deflect with an ad hominem.
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by malfist 7d ago
And then you get two blue buttons and a terms of service talking about chemical sales
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by malfist 7d ago
When you've been perfectly precise in your spec and language, isn't that programming? Why use a stochastic goblin to do things in that case?
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by malfist 7d ago
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” — Frank Wilhoit
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by malfist 7d ago
Feel free to find an example of scientific literature referring to hookworms as either commensalist or symbiot in humans.
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by malfist 7d ago
What makes you think flock would prevent those crimes?
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by malfist 8d ago
Calling a symbiot a parasite does not make it a parasite.
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by malfist 8d ago
Just because your immune system is fighting for your life against a parasite and doesn't have time for side quests doesn't make contracting a parasite good for you
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by malfist 9d ago
Disk fragmentation isn't a thing for ssd's
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by malfist 9d ago
Ah yes, we would never hold a driver accountable for running a stop sign and killing someone. It doesn't meet the bar for seriously reckless
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by malfist 12d ago
You say highly unlikely when there is clear evidence of that happening here as covered in the article? It's not highly unlikely, its actually happening and there's proof.
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by malfist 13d ago
You forget the benchmark. The human subjects were told they were being timed. If you believe the lowest time is the primary metric you will absolutely trial and error at speed instead of meticulously plan out your moves to minimize that met
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by malfist 13d ago
I am no where close to qualified to do that. Hell, experts can't even define what intelligence is, much less define a test for it
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by malfist 13d ago
Is solving a snake like puzzle game in the least number of moves really what defines intelligence?
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by malfist 13d ago
The long arm of history bends towards progress. Not because progress happens spontaneously, but because people bend it
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by malfist 13d ago
Interesting that so many of them treated it as a riddle. I guess "given improbable situation, what is my name" is a common riddle format.
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by malfist 15d ago
It's both dense and vacuous. Dense because it's full of jargon its made up, and vacuous because even with all that it's not actually saying much. All that paragraph says is that four documents say something about a console fr
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by malfist 16d ago
Does the almanac need updating? I regularly use plate solving with my telescope and I've never had to update it's stars database
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by malfist 16d ago
Switch to firefox
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by malfist 16d ago
Yeah, why did they go through all that effort to build the Eiffel tower?
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by malfist 19d ago
Hell, it's not even as long as every generation or two. Its every four or eight years
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by malfist 19d ago
Because our government has failed to protect us from monopolies or duopolies. How many things can you buy with modern technology that you'd say the brand had integrity?

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