tornadoboy55

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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
> They're really not. What's true is the experiences that led you to feel the way you do and the fact that you feel that way. But I didn't name a single experience or anecdote. These are all googleable facts..
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
See my sibling comment. If there's so much examples of things going tilted against men in most western countries, shouldn't you say there's at least some common thread across them all, an indicative cause to all these (differ
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
It won't change because of tremendous legacy inertia. Everything from assembly to scripting languages are in Latin-English. All kernels are Latin-English. CS is taught around the globe as a 100% English major usually. Our first humanoi
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
They will sign up voluntarily for a military that is decently funded (having to shout 'pew pew' in training because your training rounds have ran out is ridiculous.. and yes this is real). Plus a wage that would be semi-competitiv
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
We've been largely winning against the sea since 1500, and that's with windmills and wheelbarrels of mud. Look up the Afsluitdijk. Or the Deltawerken. Our combined 'water defense works' are considered one of the modern w
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
Yeah, the common sentiment is 'the best time to take action was 40 years ago. The absolute limit was 20 years ago. There's no stopping it now, even if we reduce our emissions to zero . The latent emissions in the atmosphere will
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
WhatsApp is the most used messager with 90%+ market penetration. It has more than a billion users globally. Snap is nowhere near that user base.
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
Those 'after me the deluge (French saying)' people are the worst. Same as rich people fucking up the globe but massively buying 'escape hatches' in New Zealand. If you're that kind of person, you should be burned at
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
You can install Gnome Sushi to have that in Linux.
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
Sorry but that's just blatant lying. Apple takes great care of optimizing its OS and apps for its hardware, to the point where it's possible to use Final Cut Pro on the anemic MacBook 12 somewhat comfortably(!)
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
So does Linux. Before I had a MacBook I tried Ubuntu on my PC twice (this is back in 2007 and another time in 2011) and both times an upgrade made Ubuntu unbootable(!). These days its nicer, but the 'Linux is more stable' myth is
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
That's your Homebrew bash..
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
http://eclecticist.co.uk/notes/appledesign/images/image12.jp... That's all I need to say about that. As for the reasons.. Devs want a POSIX (macOS, Linux or BSD) system because many of the utilities used
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
That's primarily because gun bans or gun control are a net benefit whilst letting your poor and old starve is a net negative.
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
Or just use an iPhone. The amount of marketshare Apple would lose if there was even a hint of a US-intelligence backdoor in their systems keeps them with a very, very vested interest to actively fight that.
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
For Apple it won't matter since apps are heavily sandboxed and can only pass eachother data through predefined APIs. Jailbroken phones are another can of worms though, since you're literally leaving open an exploit to run unsigned
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
My point is you don't need to, even running a shell that's 10 years old :)
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
Output from `bash --version` on macOS: `GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin16) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.` that's a 10yr old bash and there's barely any shell magic that you can do on Li
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
That's just part of the daily coding jargon. Call it a pet peeve, but it frustrates me intensely when everyone calls their defaults 'sane' (implying others their defaults are not). Such a misused word. Same goes for sensible.
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
I'm not exactly a Trump fan, but why is Clinton's daughter rolling into a $600.000 job at NBC straight out of college not considered 'bribing close friends for political favor'? The US is so fucked up politically..
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
That's patently false. Good luck enforcing US business law in Norway.
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
Your method also only works if you have a small social circle or don't go out much. Good luck planning a big party or trip without a Whatsapp/Telegram/Facebook group chat..
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
'because if I do nothing with my brain, I'll have nothing. But if you have your 2 million sitting around (in an investment account), it'll earn you 160.000 a year.'
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
Of those only WhatsApp and FB Messenger are globally relevant. (by that I mean have 1 billion+ users, globally distributed)
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
Consumers are bothered by games that get released much later (or not at all) on iOS instead of Android, or the other way around. They're not directly bothered by the cause, but they sure as hell hate the symptoms.
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
Just use Snowdens quote: saying you don't need privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't need free speech because you have nothing to say. To be honest, I actually ran a very private setup (Copperhead OS, P
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
Yeah, it's like that almost everywhere in the world: girl pregnant, you don't want it? Shit, son.. time to be financially hamstrung for 18 years. Girl pregnant, you want to keep it? Shit, son.. you still don't have a say. It&
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
> Many people caught growing at home are punished twice: first through criminal law, and then through civil claims like from energy companies and banks or landlords. Why would the energy company sue you if you paid your electricity bill?
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
I would love for Google to be a gatekeeper of all ads. Malware, flashing banners etc. would all vanish overnight.
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by tornadoboy55 10y ago
I'd be more scared to get stabbed in Glasgow than in Amsterdam though.

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