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oh good, that's what I was going for.

Riiiiiight, a splash of coke in a cup full of ice is 400 calories? I commute by bike every day and lift weights a couple times a week. 2000 calories would be a starvation diet. Fuc…

I would say that in a face to face conversation, but I'm not scared of the magic words you can't say on television.

I didn't argue against fiat currency. I argued against FUD against China's currency based on stupid ideas. I do think that the difference between a gold-backed and fiat currency is…

FUD FUD FUD US fiat currency has only existed for 45 years, which is less time than your outside range for "proof that its a stable currency." edit: Apparently, since you are missi…

Shit, often videos "just don't load" and I am in the middle of a major US metro area.

Thank you. You just rocked my world. Just being able to choose the bitrate of the stream prior to it chomping down on data is awesome.

Did you know that one of the schools that I went to disbursed financial aid a week after tuition was due, meaning that many students were dropped from their classes and had to re-r…

That was one of the key events in my life that convinced me of free software ideals.

Your attitude is the source of every problem with contemporary academia.

You don't understand these arguments because you came from such an extreme place of class privilege that you already had the education in high school to get paid "programming" jobs…

Well, the entire institution of business has an explicit profit motive and academia has an explicit knowledge motive, so while there may be misguided individuals in either pursuit,…

Essentially, it doesn't matter what mechanism generates the signals except when it came down to me wanting to play with Linux twenty years ago and a company decided to release a pr…

That is what kept me out of Linux when I was a teenager, but it was MODEM drivers at that time. Lack of driver support for an operating system is not a technical problem, it is a s…

The web-first approach of the entire global software industry is half-baked.

That is because the problem is the ideology of Capitalism working within a consumer market economy.

I won't do business with Lenovo after running into multiple BIOS soft locks. The first, I was attempting to install a WiMaX card into some random laptop, and the last Thinkpad I ha…

Thanks for the neoliberalism in a nutshell post. Go ahead, bury your head deeper up your own ass instead of dealing with the reality of the economic situation in which we all find …

If all you send is more like a checksum or a quantum salt, a few bits of entirely-secure-in-transit entropy in the encryption key could be enough to guarantee secure end-to-end com…

I don't want everything I read and write online to be analyzed by agents of a government agency who have, along with some other agencies, spent the majority of the past fifty years…

Do you realize that Uber and Lyft drivers are often making below minimum wage when you account for their costs? The only way they are getting drivers is by offering fat bonuses to …

"I will neither confirm nor deny any prior illegal activity."

Spreadsheet programs are great for data entry if we take the care before hand to design the data structures well so that they easily export and can be easily analyzed by a computer…