toss1941

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by toss1941 9y ago
I think of IPv6 like driving a stick shift car that you skip a gear with. If you're lucky, the engine won't stall but even if it doesn't, you'll be accelerating very slowly until the RPMs catch back up to where they sho
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by toss1941 9y ago
One of my favorite movies, and favorite one of the genre by far. If anyone who loves this movie hasn't seen the commentary track on the DVD, get it immediately. The actors present on the commentary are all in character so it sort of
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by toss1941 9y ago
Under what context, can you say? I assume not all your own doctors, etc.
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by toss1941 9y ago
I largely agree but this whole issue needs to be looked at through eyes of compassion first and foremost. Jesus stood by a woman who was about to be stoned for adultery and told her would-be killers that he who was without sin should cast
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by toss1941 9y ago
It was interesting to see how much of the media was cheering the cruise missile strike in Syria. I think socially and economically WaPo is very liberal but for some reason most of the media loves almost anything to do with war.
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by toss1941 9y ago
I imagined a Principle Skinner writing this article "Are we out of touch with the wants and needs of the American people? No, it's the children (voters) who are wrong..."
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by toss1941 9y ago
The beauty of freedom of speech is that it disarms that fine china that begins to appear on every square foot of ground in society where free speech is under assault. Without it, people quickly become accustomed to tip-toeing around issues
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by toss1941 9y ago
I was thinking of police corruption myself.
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by toss1941 9y ago
I wish I had a million+ reader outlet to push my specific brand of political agenda.
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by toss1941 9y ago
I always interpreted that resignation as "both sides are terrible, so I'm going to keep voting for my side". I wonder how many people really felt strong enough about politics to claim both sides are equally bad and then deci
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by toss1941 9y ago
Thanks! And to add, how can one possibly become less confident instead of more confident in our media the older one gets? I think the media is just a tool, to be used by those with the strings of the reporters, or the reporters themselves,
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by toss1941 9y ago
I agree, give them all the control they need to keep their ads or content disassociated with the undesirable corners of the site but unless actual crimes are being committed we shouldn't have any videos being taken down for anything.
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by toss1941 9y ago
Just speaking about accuracy in all reporting of our time (not including specific trade publications), I think there has to be a clever moniker for the phenomenon that occurs when you read or hear a news report about a subject you are alrea
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Some Fake News About Me from Bloomberg(blog.dilbert.com)
31 points by toss1941 9y ago|13 comments
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by toss1941 9y ago
Google should give censorship the middle finger, while also giving advertisers more control over where their ads play. Categorization is good, censorship isn't.
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by toss1941 9y ago
I'm with the "or it already has been". Automation is always happening with programming. Fully automatic programming has no meaning, since you have to define parameters for some set of algorithms to act upon. Once you defin
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by toss1941 9y ago
Does anyone know how this compares to Starbucks Via?
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by toss1941 9y ago
Saw someone call them out once as giving out "grandma-level advice", I felt it was accurate, no offense to grandmas of course.
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by toss1941 10y ago
Very cool. One suggestion to give an even better perspective is to... literally give a first person perspective from the planets on what the sun and other planets looks like in the distance. So on Mercury, the sun would look relative larg
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by toss1941 10y ago
Quad cores are the absolute minimum I would want for a standard office machine, unless it's only for a handful of basic applications. My latest work laptop is a quad core with 32 GB of RAM for running multiple VM's, but they coul
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by toss1941 10y ago
Welcome to the unintended consequences of government regulations. This is exactly what many "anti-regulation" people rail against, but examples like this are rarely brought up by "pro-regulation" arguments.
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by toss1941 10y ago
A big part of that incoherence comes the fact that a lot of their guidelines are too broad. For instance, one requirement says all activity performed by an admin must be logged. How many financial companies do this today on every server&#
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by toss1941 10y ago
How can you possibly draw any useful conclusions when your experiment's parameters are so fluid as to be uncontrollable?
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by toss1941 10y ago
I remember my teachers in high school making such a big deal about the scientific method on how important it was, how experiments must be reproducible to be useful, but today you barely hear it mentioned one way or another.
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by toss1941 10y ago
There is a very strong perception that if you are a conservative and you speak out either against left-wing views, someone will try to destroy your career and rob you of your livelihood. Take a look at a recent example of a teacher who mad
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by toss1941 10y ago
The problem is the story's substance starts with poisoning the well by making the accusation that the state of fear described in 1984 and Orwell's other writing is due to Trump and the 'white nationalists' he has in his
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by toss1941 10y ago
The notion that the media is somehow above criticism is pretty disgusting to me. They supposedly serve the American people but the MSM has made it painfully clear they are only interested in reporting news in a way that helps one side of t
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Ask HN: How to build a back-end where no two employees can see all user data?
5 points by toss1941 10y ago|4 comments
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by toss1941 10y ago
I remember seeing a C++ (Borland) book that was entirely about building a flight simulator. Google is betraying my attempts to find it though, and i'm not sure who the actual publisher was. That was during the 90's when I was 14
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by toss1941 10y ago
I don't want my phone acting as my nanny with an always-on camera. If it would, I'd sell it or break it faster than you can say 1984.

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