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inherentFloyd

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About inherentFloyd

I am a machine that turns caffeine into non-working code, then turns non-working code into passable code.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #20076174

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    Comment #20075810

    Let's do a little experiment: >"As we've seen around the world in recent years, social media can be a major forum for terrorist sentiment and activity. This will be a vital tool to…

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    Comment #19504373

    I am not from India, but you do understand that the party that has majority control over India, the BJP, is a blatantly Hindu Nationalist party? I would argue this makes them even …

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    Comment #19200305

    >Mr. Dawson unspooled a series of far-fetched hypotheses. Among them: that iPhones secretly record their owners’ every utterance Yeah, but that's true.

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    Comment #19193870

    >Here in Montreal you can get a ticket for leaving your car door unlocked. Here in the US you get robbed when you leave your car door unlocked. Kind of a punitive measure in its ow…

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    Comment #19179471

    Surveys are also a voluntary release of private information? What's your angle, NYT? HMMMMM. I have to wonder if the US government is starting to look at China's technocracy as an …

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    Comment #19087204

    Good point, but it's still pretty stupid/hilarious.

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    Comment #19086970

    Aw, it was the 18th century: they lost kids all the time.

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    Comment #19046419

    The point of "I, Robot" was to show how these laws can lead to dangerous results if followed to the letter, and their inherent contradictions. I agree with the author: applying the…

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    Comment #19009726

    I have never done anything in Rust. Are there any benefits? Any drawbacks?

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    Comment #18802867

    How? It's still censorship.

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    Comment #18725084

    It's good to see the UK finally turning into the authoritarian dictatorship Orwell knew it could be. Good for them!

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    Comment #18537392

    >Maxwell Technologies Specified, Controlled, Tested and Guaranteed Oh no.

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    Comment #18503939

    Why do you want ads at all?

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    Comment #18437152

    Power corrupts, man. Simply hiding behind a monopoly doesn't really absolve a company of wrongdoing simply because a monopoly isn't wrong. Also, in your example, Coke definitely ha…

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    Comment #18415154

    The comments on this article are nuts.

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    Comment #18220067

    This has to be satire. Most of these are terrible and I'm pretty sure the fibonacci indentation originated on /g/.

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    Comment #18147343

    There was a fascinating article posted to HN a little while ago about Ithkuil's creator's relationship with its users. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-be.…

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    Comment #17988368

    https://rwtxt.com/public/list I love that feeling when something collaborative is brand new and everyone is testing the waters.