musage

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by musage 8y ago
It can be fixed in CSS. Add scrollbars to <pre> on small viewports, or have it wrap on small viewports. Opera Mini could do magic with forcing text to wrap on small displays, why are mobile browsers shit today? If you don't want
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by musage 8y ago
Society is not a person, it doesn't have a definition. It's just an abstract excuse used by actual individuals. If you want to propose, as a person, a particular notion of privacy, do so.
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by musage 8y ago
Maybe that would make it okay to do it to you, but even then it doesn't justify it being done to anyone but you.
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by musage 8y ago
Ugh. > There is a catch, though: the Internet of Things will require augmenting today’s 4G technology with 5G technology, thus “massively increasing” the general population’s exposure to radiation, according to a petition signed by 236 s
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by musage 8y ago
Yeah, by now. The idea is to reverse that, because if you just say "fuck all regulations" you have pandemonium, which is the same in that it also favors the largest, but is different in that it's a million times worse than e
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by musage 8y ago
The actual point still stands though (though it is in response to something that doesn't even stand on it's own, but hey). Replace "patents" with "trademarks", which is not necessary for the structural integrit
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by musage 8y ago
I never caved in, and encourage others to resist, what more are you asking? Anything you're actually giving yourself? You won't get to action without thought and words, and this textbox literally doesn't allow any other input
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by musage 8y ago
In your case, not egging it on would be a start even. There is no bottom to this abyss. There is no limit to the number of victims, the upper ceiling for that is 100%, or a gazillion people. There is no limit to their innocence, and no li
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by musage 8y ago
> Well, I think here you point out to one, really, of the basic defects of our system: that the individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making. And I think that,
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by musage 8y ago
I would replace "orchestrate" with "influence". It's obvious it can be influenced negatively, to make the situation worse in context of this discussion -- otherwise the concept of bearing responsibility to influence
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by musage 8y ago
There's a store in Berlin selling food without packaging: https://original-unverpackt.de/
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by musage 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness Even animals react to it. A live and let live attitude (if not one of protectiveness) towards harmless/cute living things is perfectly healthy it seems.
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by musage 8y ago
Smelly air is "coming", so prepare for it by eating lots of onions? Nah. > I've heard quite a lot of people that talk about post-privacy, and they talk about it in terms of feeling like, you know, it's too late, we&#x
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by musage 8y ago
> Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage have developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped. -- George Orwell, "Nineteen-Eightyfour&q
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by musage 8y ago
That people like something doesn't mean it's good for them, or even makes them happy: anything that some people really like and that is undoubtedly harmful can serve to prove that point. It doesn't put social media and hero
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by musage 8y ago
Permant != self-sustaining, just extending to moon or Mars isn't "getting off" Earth anymore than you putting your fingertip on a bookshelf doesn't mean you're now "on the bookshelf". Whatever we build the
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by musage 8y ago
> If anyone wants to dismiss a movement because a few of its adherents are violent, that's obviously unjustified Nevertheless, that's what the comment referred to. For you it's an obvious non-issue, but not objectively so,
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by musage 8y ago
A bland expression isn't respectful, it's bland. Apart from the really fake stuff, which I agree is goofy and just as much an expression of weakness, I also think to some a smile is "goofy" because they can't poss
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by musage 8y ago
> In order to band together, we need a common enemy Yes, to band together, sure. But is that friendship? > Friends are predetermined; friendship takes place between men and women who possess an intellectual and emotional affinity for
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by musage 8y ago
I care because I love Berlin and many of the Turks in it. That's derpy and selfish but it's also true. And I care because when I was a kid, I had a good Turkish friend whose family treated me like family, and I still have to smile
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by musage 8y ago
Just generally stop with the personality cult bullshit, both positive and negative. As much as I think the best thing that could happen to FB is to just vanish, I can't "hate" this guy I never met who never ever seemed happy
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by musage 8y ago
> We choose as a society about the trade offs > I’ll tell you the commercial they’d like to do, if they could, and I guarantee you, if they could, they’d do this, right here. Here’s the woman’s face, beautiful. Camera pulls back, nak
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by musage 8y ago
What you say about "your country" kinda legitimates anyone saying that about "their" country, too. There's plenty of arms dealer selling to all sorts of sides, are there not? And generally speaking, at best soldie
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by musage 8y ago
> The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding o
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by musage 8y ago
> When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." -- Fred Rogers
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by musage 8y ago
You're most welcome. I found this too late to edit the comment, but here's the full interview and a transcript: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTu0qJG0NfU http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia&#x2F
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by musage 8y ago
> Jeff Schmidt demonstrates that the workplace is a battleground for the very identity of the individual, as is graduate school, where professionals are trained. He shows that professional work is inherently political, and that professio
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by musage 8y ago
IBM has always served as a medium between mankind and machine. Between the natural and the engineered. The emotional and rational. The classic and the cutting-edge. Our most important job is to help humanity and techn
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by musage 8y ago
> these things are less dangerous than smartphones They're also orthogonal to smartphones. > why do you think they aren't lying about what their mobile OSes or apps are doing? Why do you think everybody thinks that? And why
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by musage 9y ago
That reminded me of two quotes: > If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. -- C. S. Le

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