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by ordinary 6mo ago
> Often you either end up with one "dev ssh key" for all machines (which is bad) Or, conversely: with one "dev password" for all machines.
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by ordinary 9mo ago
This careful response seems sensible at first blush. After all, maybe in 5 years things will be better for Venezuelans! On the other hand, maybe not. In my heart of hearts I believe the odds are not great, but in lieu of a time machine, I
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by ordinary 9mo ago
If we take GP's post not quite literally, here's a useful list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_Russia-related_deat...
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by ordinary 11mo ago
Journalists have a long and storied history of standing up for free and independent journalism, and they're right to!. However, they have a rather more spotty record (with highs and lows) of standing up for other fundamental requiremen
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by ordinary 1y ago
Nukes make individual countries safer, but every additional country with nukes makes the world as a whole less safe.
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by ordinary 1y ago
Over the past half century, a lot of women went from housewife to part-time worker, resulting in more hours worked per adult citizen and household, but fewer per labor participant. The same is true if labor participation in general went up,
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by ordinary 2y ago
> Russia violated Turkey’s airspace only once, the jet was shot down immediately, and, save to say, Putin was on the phone with Ankara to prevent an all out escalation with a NATO member that can trigger article 5 at any time for self de
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by ordinary 3y ago
I believe (with zero supporting evidence) that Blizzard implemented level scaling reluctantly, in order to better facilitate ad-hoc group play. Unfortunately, they kind of screwed it up. When you move around in the overworld, you sometimes
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by ordinary 4y ago
Only for the first time. Subsequent times work even with cookies disabled.
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by ordinary 4y ago
It is worth pointing out that einpoklum's point is not merely academic: Stallman is old enough that he really did get introduced to computers and programming and software through corporate and university mainframes, and not through p
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by ordinary 6y ago
> I miss OKCupid's blog. For anyone who might want to re-read them, gwern archived the old OKCupid blog here: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/
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by ordinary 6y ago
I've been using SingleFile for a couple of months now, to auto-save every page I visit, and it works well. It's exactly as simple as it needs to be. My only real complaints are that it can be slow on large pages and that it pollut
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by ordinary 7y ago
I've been looking for something like this for a while now, to store all pages I visit into a personal archive, but all the options I found either involved setting up a proxy and MITMing all your requests (too much effort to set up) or
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by ordinary 9y ago
Isaac Arthur: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g/vid... Exploring science fiction concepts using currently known science.
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by ordinary 10y ago
Are you sure we shouldn't take the idiom 'a picture is worth a thousand words' literally?
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by ordinary 10y ago
Here's a list: https://arewee10syet.com/
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by ordinary 10y ago
When, say, 100000 people are out on the street protesting something (anything), and 5 of them throw a chair through a window, then yes, I would prefer the media to focus on the 99995 who engaged in peaceful protest. Those 5 do not just disc
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by ordinary 10y ago
Tourists do not commonly suffer from PTSD and a host of other mental problems. There are real, valid reasons why you don't just dump them in a random suburb and let them fend for themselves. Incidentally, insulting people is not conduc
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Eroom's law(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ordinary 10y ago|0 comments
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by ordinary 10y ago
It's undoubtable that surveillance is becoming harder now I disagree, that's very doubtable. Modern law enforcement has access to an amount of information that exceeds that available in any other era in human history, by an orde
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by ordinary 10y ago
To add to qb45's reply, that kind of a manipulation does not remain hidden. And when it inevitably comes out, the very people you've been trying to convince will be angered by your dishonesty ("I thought I was talking to a re
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by ordinary 10y ago
A couple of days ago, I got a DVD-R in my mailbox. When I looked at was on it, it appeared to be a list of conspiracy theory videos. The file names of several of these alleged that aborted fetuses (human) were used in the meat industry, by
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by ordinary 10y ago
Unlike in most other European countries, Dutch law allows for life imprisonment without parole, from which only a royal pardon can save you. Since 1970, 43 people have been convicted, 2 of whom were eventually pardoned, both because of term
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by ordinary 10y ago
People organise neighbourhood watch WhatsApp groups to prevent crime instead of relying on the police to fix things. Within ten years these groups will probably grow into armed and organised right-wing groups. I have seen the signs for th
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by ordinary 10y ago
Prison sentences in the Netherlands for aren't imposed as punishment alone, not even mostly. They are primarily tools of prevention (including the prevention of recidivism). If a convicted criminal is no longer considered to be a threa
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by ordinary 10y ago
I think production peak oil implies prices will rise as the market adjusts, while demand peak oil implies the opposite.
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by ordinary 10y ago
I enjoy /r/geopolitics.
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by ordinary 10y ago
On the other hand, the Netherlands is almost entirely Dutch speaking.
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by ordinary 10y ago
I have not tried Bash for Windows, but I've been a Cygwin user for almost a decade. The main problem I have with using any kind of shell on Windows is that process spawning takes much, much longer than on *nix systems. I regularly find
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by ordinary 10y ago
you are performing a micro violation of your own privacy You cannot violate your own privacy. My privacy is mine to control. And give up, if I so choose.

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