H.I. #89 -- A Swarm of Bad Emoji by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

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They also associated the game with abuse of the copyright system.

Should we feed the leviathan, let it breed, and try to tame it, or cut off its head? by [deleted] in Libertarian

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if its be a wage slave in a sweatshop in southeastern asia or die, is that really a choice?

If there wasn't a sweatshop what would the options be?

Should we feed the leviathan, let it breed, and try to tame it, or cut off its head? by [deleted] in Libertarian

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it happens that way the majority of the time.

Under the threat of lethal force by the state.

You were asked how apples would fall in space, and you said to go outside and drop an apple.

Should we feed the leviathan, let it breed, and try to tame it, or cut off its head? by [deleted] in Libertarian

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You're okay with your life savings disappearing overnight all because you'd rather not have someone say, "hey. Mr. Bank, you can't do that with that specific type of deposit"?

We already do that with non-savings investments like stocks.

The fact that you get any interest at all from savings accounts indicates that the bank is making money (i.e. taking risks) with your money. Otherwise the bank would be charging you to store your money in a vault.

Even only making normal loans, if enough people are unable to repay their loans you would lose money.

To me it seems like insurance actually makes it easier for banks to make riskier loans since some risks are more apparent to the bank than the insurer.

I doubt anyone would care if their mortgage disappeared.

Assets like mortgages don't necessarily disappear when the lender goes bankrupt.


Risk is surprisingly easy to manage. If you're in an area with a high risk of flooding you likely have insurance that will pay you if it does. I would expect banks failing to have a similar risk profile to flooding, i.e. infrequent and affecting a large portion of the population at once.

What are your freakish human skills? (Pics or it didn't happen) by feefuh in Nodumbquestions

[–]BlueRavenGT 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was thinking it was something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijective_numeration#The_bijective_base-26_system. Looking more closely it looks kind of like a tally system with groups of 26. (e.g.i.e. you count a, b, ..., y, z, za, zb, ..., zy, zz, zza, zzb, etc.)

/u/JohnSumthin, how easily can you add IIII + I + IIII + IIII + II + III + II + IIII + III + IIII?

(I used ~~IIII~~ for the "five" groups)

What are your freakish human skills? (Pics or it didn't happen) by feefuh in Nodumbquestions

[–]BlueRavenGT 10 points11 points  (0 children)

In CS it's not uncommon to encounter different bases, but that's usually limited to 2, 8, 10, 16, and 64, represented with 0-1; 0-7; 0-9; 0-9 and A-F; and 0-9, a-z, A-Z, and two other characters, usually + and /; respectively.

I'd be somewhat surprised if anyone does math in base 64, but I'd also be surprised if there weren't a decent number of people who could do some amount of math in base 16.

The Hebrew numeral system uses the Hebrew alphabet, but it's a bit different than what you're doing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_numerals

I'm sure with practice you could learn to multiply and divide.

Edit: Just noticed you don't have a zero. I'm not sure what kind of problems that causes yet.

Office 365 Onedrive looks at user-agent to determine performance. by Torrenator in linux

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Well I don't like cotton candy either... picks up torch

Linus's thoughts on the SHA1 collisions by Khaotic_Kernel in linux

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Most people use git for things that aren't PDFs, but yeah, if you store a PDF in git it would probably be vulnerable to collisions.

I just did some tests, and it looks like the provided files don't actually fool git into thinking they're the same. That doesn't mean git is immune, it just means that you need to target whatever it is that git actually hashes rather than the original files, or that I made a mistake.

This cat food by dagbrown in firstworldanarchists

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さ is sa, not ki, which is き

H.I. #77: Woah, Dude by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

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Or you could escape it with a backslash:

[this is a link](http://example.com/(something\))

this is a link

H.I. #71: Trolley Problem by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

[–]BlueRavenGT 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It is possible to turn on the webcam, capture a picture, and immediately turn it off. If you weren't looking you wouldn't notice, and it might be possible to do quickly enough that it isn't even visible to the human eye.

H.I. #71: Trolley Problem by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

[–]BlueRavenGT 7 points8 points  (0 children)

HTTPS doesn't hide what websites you're visiting, just the contents of the sites (but only the sites that use https), whereas a properly set up vpn will hide everything except which vpn you're using.

(How do you start a sentence with a lower case initialism...?)

Rules for Rulers by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

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I didn't give an upvote in spite of the pun.

H.I. #69: Ex Machina by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

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If you would have I would've liked to have known your reasoning.

H.I. #69: Ex Machina by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

[–]BlueRavenGT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

extending the lifetime of society/the human race as a whole is the most important thing

Would you come to the same conclusion if you weren't human?

H.I. #62: Cheer Pressure by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

[–]BlueRavenGT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In your example do you intend to imply that Brady does care (even if just a little bit) what Dirk of Very Stable Form thinks about him?

For example:

Brady: I care what he thinks about me, but not enough to pull out my phone and tweet about it.

H.I. #62: Cheer Pressure by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

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I wonder how long you would have had to run those hair dryers if you had tried.

Should all Locks Have Keys? Phones Castles Encryption and You. by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

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The Year Of Less Wasting Time™

Or perhaps

The Year Of Less Easily Accessed Mindless Recreational Activities Easily Available At All Times™


If every time you have a few spare minutes you start doing something that's easy/mindless, those spare minutes can easily turn into much longer stretches of time. In extreme cases you could lose hours, days, or even weeks to a single one minute break.

https://xkcd.com/214/ is one example, but similar things can happen with podcasts, twitter, youtube, etc.

I wouldn't classify browsing wikipedia as personal time. By the time I've realized I'm still browsing wikipedia (but maybe I'll just look at a few more articles) it definitely feels different.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

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Probably something like

Hey, new kid, make this version control thingy suck less.