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emmab

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    Comment #33218780

    Oh, nevermind on #2 then. Sounds like they've been doing a lot of feature development.

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    Comment #33218761

    I had two main problems with LogSeq when I used it: 1. Not designed from the ground-up to prevent data loss. Has had data-loss issues in the past. 2. An electron app that doesn't l…

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    Comment #32849975

    Uh, you can treat holes as being defined as entities by their cause and telos, just like any other object/entity. e.g. A hole made by a hole punch (cause), for fitting into a 3-rin…

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    Comment #32503289

    So? I didn't say there were any good countries on earth.

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    Comment #32390608

    There's no disobedience like civil disobedience. All the best things in life are illegal. Long live anarchy! Fire to the prisons! Information wants to be free! ACAB! Eat the police…

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    Comment #31373901

    Or you can fight for absolute good and justice on a war to unweave entropy itself across the entire multiverse. Your choice.

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    Comment #28916296

    Haskell has implicit parameters[1]. [1]: https://www.haskell.org/hugs/pages/users_guide/implicit-para...

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    Comment #27111135

    > Additionally, some application developers directly parse a file in Mozilla’s source code management system called certdata.txt, in which Mozilla’s root store is maintained in a f…

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    Comment #27039679

    It's not strange. Many religions contain an absolute prohibition against denying your faith. It prevents any true believers in those religions from having government documents. It'…

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    Comment #26584703

    What?!? How does that work? Does he just draw up a blueprint and write "solid gold block goes here" and them some contractor says "yes that gold block will be $NNNNN" and includes …

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    Comment #26584674

    If it would be detected by profiling that does make the technique asymmetric in that it would only stick around if nobody profiled to find it.

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    Comment #26564265

    Slavery is wrong.

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    Comment #26453095

    The only winning move is not to play. Fight for liberation.

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    Comment #26453091

    Moral Mazes: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/45mNHCMaZgsvfDXbw/quotes-fro...

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    Comment #26430832

    Adding a content integrity hash in the lockfile seems like a more flexible solution.

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    Comment #25402757

    > but it’s way too much of a hassle to be used in the wild. No it's not, it's just rare that you'd have the ability to inject CSS but not JS. A core skill of hacking is being able …

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    Comment #21189176

    Solution: Reserve cool user ids and sell them yourself later if your service becomes popular?

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    Comment #21023449

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5gQLrJr2yhPzMCcni/the-optimi... The competition and test set will still have hidden biases due to the ontology you use. Sufficient optimization pres…

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    Comment #20415253

    Which is normal if you want to maintain only a single ssh session to a remote machine.

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    Comment #18727676

    omg could ya'll get back to researching decentralized technologies instead of speculating on them? who cares how much it costs? who cares if ethereum itself wins or it gets replace…

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    Comment #18455942

    > The size of the crowd suggested by the icon changed randomly for participants so that they were not merely jumping on the bandwagon of a large crowd, according to the researchers…

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    Comment #18452066

    Would "anthropology for the purpose of strategy" be reasonable/fair?

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    Comment #16950282

    Well if you're really paranoid that's the point where you get a new laptop.