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Probably, though I don't eat much meat other than fish these days as it is.
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Reply to comment by dele_ted in Do you think you have it in you to kill a person? by J7383
If we never died, people would have to actually live with the long term ramifications of their actions. I think that might help fix a lot of shortsighted problems we face.
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Reply to How do you make money? by Defasher
Software consulting. I'm a rather large advocate of free software and contributing back, so I tend to focus on projects or firms that align with those goals.
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As a transhumanist, probably not. I'd prefer if we all lived forever honestly.
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Reply to comment by _deleted_account_5_ in Has anyone heard of the proprietary software f.lux, a program for making your screen slightly redder at night to help you sleep? by elyersio
The flux website has a bunch of links.
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Reply to Ripple cryptocurrency founder Chris Larsen overtakes Mark Zuckerberg to become world’s fifth richest person before plunging to 15th in just a few hours by fightingthememes
This is like that time Bezos became the richest person in the world for less than a day. Easy come, easy go!
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Reply to comment by __deleted_____ in Twitter bans violence - UNLESS it's perpetrated by the state / military by matches_malone
Perhaps GNU Social, previously known as StatusNet (and the old identi.ca which appears to now be based on something called pump.io ) could work here?
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Reply to comment by sudo in Are there any raddlers that enjoy rational fiction, such as HPMOR? by elyersio
I'm hoping that it turns out to be legit and we start vitrifying all humans (and probably some other animals with intelligence) until medical science catches up enough to fix our medical issues. It'll be hard to make it affordable without more people knowing that it exists, though.
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Reply to What do you like to talk about? by elyersio
I really like math, functional programming, and free software (FSF style), though I'm interested in a lot of things and always enjoy learning.
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Reply to comment by sudo in Are there any raddlers that enjoy rational fiction, such as HPMOR? by elyersio
Do you mean cryonics? I wouldn't consider that a pseudoscience, but it still seems to be more hopeful than proven at this point (still need to demonstrate that vitrifications is actually reversible).
Cryogenics has to deal with freezing while cryonics has to do with vitrification which replaces water with a different substance (avoids the issue where water expands when frozen which kills cells).
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Reply to comment by elyersio in Are there any raddlers that enjoy rational fiction, such as HPMOR? by elyersio
He has a public Facebook account for one where he occasionally talks about economics. The Sequences on lesswrong.com, while rather interesting, also cover it a little bit. Also, some of Harry's ideas are very clearly libertarian (e.g., being a market maker trading galleons with muggles for profit), though the theme behind Harry is that he's supposed to be somewhat idealistic despite having a lot of knowledge.
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I liked the stories, but Yudkowsky is an unapologetic libertarian which is rather annoying. I do like the transhumanism aspect, though.
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Reply to [Feature Request] Superscript in Markdown by sudo
When going the route of mathematical formatting, it'd be nicer to just support some form of LaTeX. For example, MathJax looks useful here. With that syntax, you could group a longer superscript by doing something like foo^{one two three}
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Reply to 'Unclear, unfunny, delete': editor's notes on Milo Yiannopoulos book revealed by An_Old_Big_Tree
I love how they call him out as a "controversialist". Similar in idea to a "shock jock", it certainly gets the point across that he's a professional shitposter. What's even better is that he's so bad at it, he can't really continue to make a living at it while people wise up to his bullshit.
Reading through the notes gives me the impression that this book had a very specific audience in mind that doesn't really require any editorial input. The poor quality in exposition reminds me of how a lot of phishing emails have terrible spelling and grammar: it helps filter out the people who will realise it's a scam before wasting time on them.
Dangerous was eventually self-published in July 2017.
Oh, of fucking course it was.
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Reply to comment by sudo in youtube-dl: Free Software Application of the Week - Week of 2017-12-25 by sudo
Yeah, just use the full URL as an argument. I think VLC supports some video sites, too, but I'm not sure if it uses youtube-dl.
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The very first I ever heard of youtube-dl was due to mpv, the free software video player. By default, it pulls in youtube-dl as a dependency so you can stream videos from sites straight from mpv rather than needing to download them if unnecessary (e.g., watching a video without all the BS javascript and malware).
The frequent updates are great for sites other than youtube, too. This also helps for circumventing draconian copy protection or shitty Flash players that still exist.
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Even if there isn't a normal GUI way to do it on their site, I'm sure there's a REST API which you can interact with using free software. I'd imagine the CLI tools around this already do that, so not too many worries there.
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Reply to The big break in computer languages by ziq
He brings up type safety being something useful in Go, but without generics or some sort of parametric polymorphism, I still find it to be a flawed language. At least Rust already has that baked in.
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Reply to comment by elyersio in The PC BIOS will be killed off by 2020 as Intel plans move to pure UEFI by J7383
Pretty sure the Linux kernel works fine with EFI.
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On the positive side, Keurigs are horribly wasteful, terrible for the environment, and make a shit coffee-like substance to boot. The boycott is for terrible reasons, but at least they accidentally targeted something worth boycotting.
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Most pharmaceutical companies and other abusers of imaginary property laws (IP laws). They gain a government-sanctioned monopoly on something, and in the case of pharmaceuticals, this can often be life-saving medicines or treatments in general.
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Reply to Permission to ban voat trolls please? [Banned] by ziq
Place is 100% communist SJW tranny.
Uh, what? Pretty sure it's not, but even if it was, what's supposed to be bad about that?
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Reply to comment by ziq in [Trigger Warning] 8Chan/Voat Fascists Describing The Infiltration Tactics They Use to Fuck With Raddle by ziq
Right. I believe a lot of people confuse anarchism with chaos, not decentralization, removal of hierarchies, and the other actual aspects of anarchism.
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Reply to comment by ziq in [Trigger Warning] 8Chan/Voat Fascists Describing The Infiltration Tactics They Use to Fuck With Raddle by ziq
They'll have an incredibly poor understanding of radical politics.
This right here is probably one of the most transparent things they do. They confuse anarchism with anarchy or liberalism.
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Reply to by !deleted1665
Hey, now that's not such a bad idea. While using the word "libre" instead of "free" has helped some people understand the concept better, it doesn't work so well for English-only speakers (at least those who aren't good at recognising root words). When I try to explain the concept, I try to emphasise that the software itself is freed from being enslaved to any particular person or group.