purpled_haze

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by purpled_haze 11y ago
...and I could not find the word "correlation" anywhere in this article discussion statistics, harm, misunderstanding, and studies. Shame.
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
I'd like the people that -1'd me to explain why I'm wrong. No matter how much defense you put up, if you are accessible, you are at risk for unauthorized use of data. Employing only people you trust and showing them you trust
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
The best security: be honest and place complete trust in those you employ. Hire people you trust. If there is nothing that is blocking you, then morale is higher, and people get more focused on what is important. If there is nothing to brea
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
A large organization I'm very aware of used such a strategy for their investments.
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
54% chance to have made money if you bet on any of these exclusively from IPO. That's a good reason to diversify over everything, or better yet, wait and then go with the ones who've increased investor value over the past two year
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> Tobacco and Alcohol companies would likely suffer as a result of drug legalisation, like cannabis. To state this in another way- think of all of the Budweiser/Bud Light sponsorships and commercials and replace that Bud with the ot
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Happy 30th Birthday 'Legend of Zelda'(techtimes.com)
1 points by purpled_haze 11y ago|0 comments
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
I'm curious- what do you think of Fedora? It's in the top 5 distros along with OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, and Mint, and yet I hardly ever hear people talk about it. I had personally given up on Fedora years ago, but recently was to
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> It isn't his fault the managers were being unreasonable in the timeline, and the company grossly over-manufactured the cartridges. Yes, the real problem is that they expected something comparable in quality to his previous games w
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Played that game for a good hour and a half at least. Fun for the whole family. Also, Desert Bus for Hope raises money for charity: https://desertbus.org/ At time of writing, they've raised $3,112,329.72. More info her
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
I played it a lot. I can't say I ever enjoyed it. It was a frustrating game with very little reward.
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Yes, fingers kept typing wrong word.
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
If you want to learn much more about this, watch the movie, "Atari: Game Over": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715406/
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Good to know it is just this organization having the awful ideas. ;) Btw- I've worked with some great Dutch developers and am in awe of all of the talent there from the things I've seen over the years. The language isn't bad
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
So true. And since you've gone the intellectual route, I'll choose the emotional one: I propose the Dutch don't like English because their language is also bastardization of different languages. As a defensive mechanism, they
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Just don't try to shut it down. "We love you, Skynet! We just need to do some routine maintenance."
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> I'm not sure that github is the problem. Agreed. Quote from nzakas who suggested the move: "It's not just that the GitHub experience is suboptimal, it's that it aggressively undermines development. There's just
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Protons are said to be massless, but a proton may have mass that is so small that we cannot measure it easily. We can't currently say with 100% certainty that it is massless- only that it is at most very, very small: < 1×10−18 eV&#x
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> Force carrying particles in general don't have mass. Massless particles don't have energy. Massless and energyless particles have no speed. I have no interest in massless and energyless particles that stand still.
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British scientists granted permission to genetically modify human embryos(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by purpled_haze 11y ago|0 comments
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Neat site. Someone should make a screensaver like the last two random attractors on: http://paulbourke.net/fractals/lyapunov/ http://paulbourke.net/fractals/lyapunov/explore1.jpg http:&
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Have been on board with this idea for some time, but, that said, here's some criticism of the specifics: > Is there existing software that could be used instead? Agree, up to a point. Very few OTS/SAAS solutions are practical f
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> Depends where you are and on your circle of friends. chess.com > I always found the fancy carved sets harder to play with than a basic one Me also. > That seems a bizarre thing to base your choice of game on. It was a response to
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> Chess is an inelegant ruleset. En passant and castling may seem inelegant to you, but to me they make it more interesting. Also, Chess is an Olympic sport, you can find people almost anywhere ready to play with you, and it has a rich h
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
The comment about chess is just astounding to me: "The queen, which can move horizontally, vertically or diagonally, is nothing more than a combination of the rook and the bishop, making it an inelegant redundancy." Whoever stated
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
All of these are simulations. We cannot simulate current economics in a way that would approximate reality.
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
And now that this is public, we're all at more risk.
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> I've always countered with "So, you'd be okay if a government agent was watching you have sex with your wife? Every time it happened? For the next 10 years?" That actually wouldn't bother me at all. I'd ki
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Two things: (1) The NSA is there to protect us, in theory. (2) There will never, ever be guaranteed privacy or security as long as you continue to use other people's equipment and network. Using the internet expecting privacy is like c
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
While I agree this is bad, I think it's a misuse of the term IoT. Webcams have been around since the 90s.

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