revdinosaur

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by revdinosaur 12y ago
Interesting, is this true for males of all species or is it limited to human males?
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by revdinosaur 12y ago
You realize that Walter White is an anti-hero; a tragic figure not to be emulated... right? But to your second point, yes, HPPD[1] is a serious condition. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percept
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by revdinosaur 12y ago
I would argue that his ideas, outside his domain, are not communicated well because they are not well-formed. Criticizing him for being boorish and ill-informed about social issues does not take away from him being an accomplished biologist
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by revdinosaur 12y ago
It's dehumanizing to the victims to dismiss allegations of sexual assault because of a convenient theory that aligns with your politics. While it may be your version of Occam's Razor to assume that this is an internationally-coord
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by revdinosaur 12y ago
Do you include in your estimate those who may currently be JS developers not by choice but due to the vogue of web apps?
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by revdinosaur 12y ago
I'll refrain from pointing out the strong political biases your sources because I did cite the NYT, but I wish to note their use of tone arguments to highlight waste. $22M a year spent on teachers awaiting arbitration sure sounds like
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by revdinosaur 12y ago
I'm not in disagreement at all. This is a valuable purpose of the press.
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by revdinosaur 12y ago
This is an oft-cited phenomenon, but it should be noted that this policy started to be dismantled 4 years ago [1]. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/nyregion/16rubber.html
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by revdinosaur 12y ago
I find your frequent use of "tumblr-isation" as a negative to be alarmingly anti-intellectual for this site. Do you realize that the terms you pick out, "privilege" and "patriarchy" are of academic origin from
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
Well that line of reasoning is exactly what I was referring to. The reporter doing due diligence and fact gathering is in ill taste, but responding in kind and releasing personal information about her is justified? That doesn't hold wa
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
This has a tinge of pettiness to it, don't you think?
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
I worry about any economic system that is defended almost entirely with a verse that, at best, belongs on a coffee cup.
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
I think that it does, to some degree, in order to fulfill some of the promises that proponents claim will be delivered in the near future. There are ceaseless calls by BTC advocates for retailers of all kinds to accept bitcoin payments. For
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
I don't entirely disagree, but even still people understood both of those things conceptually before they existed. Credit, arguably, predates state-backed currencies and PayPal provides the same functionality as a bank for online trans
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
I think the argument against your anecdote is that it was the best solution for you--no doubt a technologically literate person who has confidence in their mental model of what bitcoin is. For the general populace, it's a distant novel
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
Suggesting that future developments will make these jobs obsolete is a weak argument against improving their conditions today. Also, if improving the quality of life for their human employees rapidly advances automation developments then wh
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
TinCan[1] does that, at least with text. There was a discussion here a few months ago about using AFSK to control external hardware that spurred me to hack together a script that allows this (output only) on iOS Safari[2] and I use it to co
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
While this is true, one only needs to be a vendor who ships products to begin to associate metadata with purchaser's wallet address and start breaking down that privacy. Multiple addresses works in theory, but we don't know how of
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
Thank you, these sorts of timing attacks are very interesting. I was asking for clarification because I am curious about vectors such as these; vulnerabilities in JS runtime or in HTML/CSS. This thinking was spurred by an article poste
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
Just to clarify, as I've seen many of your responses to posts on this subject, you're advocating against use of javascript encryption in client-side applications served through the browser. If the encryption library were running o
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
I'm not sure that's fair. It is bulb shape and it emits light. The source of the light happens to be the sun. This is kind of like saying that tungsten lamps aren't lightbulbs because they don't work when not supplied wi
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
rev.dinosaur @ gmail if you've still got some
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
This is a great hack, very clever. You mention on the GitHub page that you use a comparator to convert the signal for the ATMega168. I know that the ATmega328 has an embedded comparator so I'm wondering how easy you think it would be t
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
That sort of claim seems to warrant extraordinary proof. Do you happen to have any?
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
Is it really so ridiculous to question the claims being made here, though? Also "there are crazier things than this" is an incredibly bad argument when defending a product that has, in early stages, claimed it "automatically puts you at an
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
I have a small printer on the cheap end of the spectrum. I started off printing things from Thingiverse because I was having a hell of a time trying to create STLs from the 3D modeling software I already knew (Lightwave and Maya). It worked
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
I took a look at your source, but upon reading it saw it as a gesture to taint the data I provided so wasn't sure of its relavence to my status as a citizen of the US. I take issue with the "traditional historical" definition of a citizen s
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
Do you have a better source of information which provides alternate takes on the correlation? Generally people attack the source of information they want to disagree with and say "correlation does not imply causality" when they have no data
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by revdinosaur 13y ago
If your definition of complete and total failure is "no casualties to civilians or law enforcement" after the suggestion was made to citizens, then you are correct. Also, your statement about us not being traditionally defined citizens se
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by revdinosaur 14y ago
I think everyone following this has read the article you linked, and you have a valid point. But I think that you are in error if you're endorsing the idea that because something is normal or happens often (like casual banter between males)

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