pavelludiq

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by pavelludiq 7y ago
> Ad blockers today also try to fool the site and work around anti-adblock, which I think isn't fair to the sites. You're right, it's not fair, but there is no fair in war, and make no mistake, this is what it is, a war fo
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by pavelludiq 7y ago
> Why? Why can't we ask whether "privacy" is so precious that we should preserve it at any cost? I would suggest opening up one of the many books that deal with the history of various police states of central, eastern and
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by pavelludiq 7y ago
China is a genocidal state, and the supposedly hundreds of millions of supporters of that state policy in China are also genocidal by definition. I see no reason not to disrespect them. This is not "a difference of opinion" it&#x2
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by pavelludiq 7y ago
Congratulations to the EU commission and the EU parliament on achieving the exact opposite of what they wanted to do despite being told this would happen and despite it actually already happening in Spain and Germany. It's not like thi
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by pavelludiq 7y ago
Common Lisp code tends to be very stable long term. Occasionally people dig out some old code from the 60s or from really old books and papers and it will just run on modern systems. Maybe with slight modifications since the standard was fi
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by pavelludiq 7y ago
> we should make sure that non-smokers do not take up vaping How about we let adults do as they please instead. The most anybody should ever do about vaping is warn people that maybe it's not the safest thing in the world. Instead
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by pavelludiq 7y ago
> Individual liberties cannot be realized without sanctions and foreign policy. What kind of jingo non-sense is that? We now have over a century of data on how effective US foreign policy is at promoting democracy around the world and if
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by pavelludiq 7y ago
The holocaust was in many ways enabled by mass surveillance. How about we start there. It was done mostly manually, but even something as trivial as census data from an occupied country likely killed an unimaginable amount of people. Then
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
"Our service is where we make sure only good guys are, our competition is only used by literal child eating nazis" No cartel in mankinds history has enjoyed this type of competitive advantage, good job SV :)
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
Your phone doesn't just contain private data about you, it contains private data about people you know. Selling them out like this is a scumbag thing to do, not to mention it's probably a TOS violation of every service you interac
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
I know multiple minimum wage workers who nonetheless spend a significant portion of their income on tobacco products, all of them taxed at enormous percentages. Taxation is literally the worst addiction cure in existence with 0 evidence tha
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
No matter how dangerous free speech may be in your mind, censorship is 1000x more dangerous. I see evidence of this all around me as the remnants of an inhumane regime still stand in every city here and in the cities of most of our neighbor
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
> still don't really see anything wrong with supporting the government or military As a non-American(but citizen of an allied nation), the fact that the US is currently involved in something like 12 regional conflicts(that we know o
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
I'm not saying that it is inherently evil, I'm saying that you as a member of the public must assume that it at least has that potential at all times for it to function as intended.
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
The whole concept of liberalism is based on the assumption that governments are extremely dangerous and potentially evil and in need of constant control by both the public and it's own institutions. Even if it appears that a specific g
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
The reason Europe doesn't have as many startups as the US is because nobody in their right mind would fund things like Juicero here, not because the bureaucracy. The "splash the spaghetti on the wall and see what sticks" appr
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
You need a military in order to prevent other people from bombing your country. You absolutely do not need to bomb other people, and if fact if your goal is to not get bombed, not bombing other people might be your best option for a bunch o
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
Still, using ip addresses to try to determine where a request is originating from is not a good idea. I'm also not intending to bypass a block, I just happen to be in a network right now that that doesn't have a public ip in the E
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
I'm in the EU, but since I'm looking at it from a work computer, and I guess our network exits in the US, I can see the article, so they are in breach of GDPR even with their stupid block.
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
You do know there is an enormous difference between paying for a subscription and letting your gym MITM you/pick your pockets for info, etc, right? For example your gym might have video surveillance, which is fine, but it has to have a
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
If they renamed themselves to Adbook and explicitly claimed their service is to offer targeted ads instead of being a social network, they might have a case, unfortunately their service is to offer a social network and they don't need
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
With that money you can bribe every cop my country 100 times over. I wouldn't worry about it :p
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
> But what if an online service's business model relies on processing profile data for purposes such as targeting ads to be viable, and regulators decide that a subject's right to object to that processing outweighs its necessi
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
Similar laws have been on the books in most if not all EU countries for literally decades. How Americans can be blind sighted by the way things have been for years is absolutely beyond me.
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
Where is C's (un)official home page?
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
(loop for item in '("Hello" "world!") collect (string-downcase item))
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
The reason nobody can give you an example for how to make a binary is because there are many many different ways of doing that. To name just a few: * in ABCL you would generate a jar file, just like with java or clojure * in SBCL you could
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
Yes, basically Lisp gives you the tools to automate the process of implementing patterns. You implement the pattern once and then you just reuse the implementation the way you would ordinary logic in normal programming languages.
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
Portacle is an emacs packaged to be easy for beginners, so no :)
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by pavelludiq 8y ago
Portacle makes it all even easier, it's a self-contained package of emagc/SBCL/Slime, etc. with sane defaults https://portacle.github.io/

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