From an anonymous source, I found out it's automatic termination if you're using super mode unauthorized. Would love to get one more anonymous or non-anon source to verify.
You asked so many great questions that could be part of a LongNow debate / discussion. I think this is a very relevant question / exercise:
"I wonder, is there some sort of an alternate future where this could be avoided?"
There's a dystopian set of novels called "The Domination" where the author explores this. Instead of the Internet, because of a protracted Cold War between two superpowers (not the ones you're thinking), this alternate world has iron fused memory cores immune to any hacking that we can conceive of in our timeline.
I think what the OP meant by 'modern,' was an equivalent of Rails that uses the technologies demanded by the tech industry today. On the one hand, the industry went to Python because a ton of data science libraries were written in that. On the other hand, React ended up real dominant on the front-end because of all the sh*t code people put between HTML JavaScript tags. Another route, is any promising asynchronous and scalability like Node or Elixir. So these divergent vectors make something like a Rails that can serve the needs of big data, snappy UI and scaling while at the same time using the team we've got super difficult. The needs of the industry have created an oblivion of the solution that was always already there, Rails.
I've read almost every photo book at the Mechanics Institute... if there are gaps in my reading it's pre-20th century stuff. I guess it's famous if you say it is. Four downvotes. What a way to start a Saturday.
"The Famous Photo" - it's not famous.
"Most dangerous radioactive material" - All radioactive material is dangerous given enough Roentgens.
"Selfie" - Anachronism and misapplication.
I feel like there should be a machine learning like filter that can be applied so this stuff doesn't get posted here anymore.
If you look at the history of it, it puts him in the same league as the polar explorers of the "heroic age." I think the what now part is two parts: write a book about it; do the motivational speaker circuit.
It was really popular in Brazil, too. It would be cool if they just open sourced it, or launched Orkut the 2005 edition with security patches today. I would use it if it was web only.
If you go here https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications you can see all your logins. You can migrate each login, one by one, using an app like 1Password to generate new passwords that you don't have to remember.
So this doesn't really work. You think you deleted it, but when you "re-activate" your account, there are backups that bring back most of the data from the starting date of your account to just before you deleted it - plus or minus a day.
I would think a dystopian bent on the humanities would be much worse. They only exist to hide the real sins of the sciences' use (death, destruction, greed). Yeah, there is no justification... there is no science way to prop up the humanities. But if humanities teaches you to see in new ways, then you have to acknowledge that there's a hermeneutically useful set of tools on which science got based.
All the responses to you show how much a liberal arts education is lacking these days. I'm glad you home schooled your son. I'm sure he'll be a fine gentleman. The Clemente Course you point out is really eye opening. There's been so much doubt on "read a little Plato" and life will be better, that folks see more value in working at McDonald's. "I can make 12.50 an hour rather than waste time on Plato."
The title is simply false. I read the article and it does present interesting history from the browser wars. However, any cursory glance of web server logs will show that sometimes the user agent string is blank, or it starts with "MobileSafari" or "UrlTest." The user agent string is client generated and can be anything the client wants.
There is no refutation in this piece. Borges stated that he would use Leibniz's Theory of Indiscernibles, which holds that objects cannot differ in name alone, but then never mentions Leibniz again. I feel this piece is often given to philosophy students to find out who is really BSing in class or who has really understood the essay form where you state your thesis and then defend it. Thank you OP for reminding me of the days of my youth.
You did not read the whole text. The author affirms that time is a river, and that he is this river. Moreover, the text is written poorly on purpose to mask people like you. He mentions that his argument is based on Berkeley and Leibniz, and mentions Leibniz only once. I laughed at this genius joke of his affirming Leibniz's indiscernibles. There should be a hacker news where people who do not read what is linked are banned permanently.
With a startup, you can setup KPIs. The author of this piece mentions growth as the main one and to focus on that. How was the author able to measure his growth as a photographer?
And it's really hard to verify what people heard in the past. “Our kings, presidents, judges, and officers begin their tenures with oaths to the now-silent deities, taken upon the writings of those who have last heard them.” How do we know that they weren't just doing poetry or fiction, or creating religion to control the masses?
'But I can't help but feel, looking at a lot of the media pushback at the moment, that a lot of it is straight-up fantasy novel 101 "Reactions To Wizardry".'
If the last US recession is any indication, the elite (in this case, the quants), can ruin a national economy and not get burned.
I wish the author gave less vague examples to his claims.
I'm not sure the author is doing an either/or. Instead she is examining the uses of the word "pharmakon" in Plato's work, and suggests that how it describes the innovation of written speech as a spell or drug or scapegoat could be inferred of technology, too. The author concludes, "Demonizing the substance, rather than the impulse, behind addiction is what leads us away from true healing and towards damaging narratives. Technophobia isn’t a soothing ointment, it’s pushing some guy you don’t like off a cliff and hoping your pustules magically disappear."
There is no controversy. The genocide happened. I've met the survivors. They were brought to my school and I saw the tattoos with numbers on them. I saw the sadness in their eyes. The Holocaust denial statements you've spewed would be illegal and banned in Germany, too.
Another way of putting this is: If you can't use lego blocks to build something, then you don't understand it. But why would anyone want to recreate Shakespeare using lego blocks, or recreate a motorcycle using lego blocks? I'm sure a 5 year old would love it to pieces. I would rather make a reproduction of a motorcycle with real metal.