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lotsofcows··on Is my toddler a stochastic parrot?
The settlers were greeted by English speaking native Americans who had been working the shipping trade.
lotsofcows··on Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014)
"makes it easier to socialize ... even though alcohol is bad in many ways"

Isn't this justification you bring your activities into harmony with conscience?

lotsofcows··on Ask HN: How to navigate the world as a brain-damaged 17 year old?
Don't give up on the GCHQ idea. As a large public (in the business sense) organisation they will be hot on "reasonable adjustment" and possibly interested in the diversity of thought/opinions resulting from your horrible attack.
lotsofcows··on The Overlords Finally Showed Up
Love the western bias here.

The Dark Ages was a time when the christian west consciously stopped learning. Fortunately the muslim world carried the banner for intellect for a century or two.

Will the new dark age posited be western only? Or wealthy middle-class only? And will some other group develop as we stagnate on a feed of AI generated listicles?

lotsofcows··on I asked Signal motivations for SMS removal
2FA, NHS, gov.uk reminders, a large %age of my social group...

WhatsApp is a closed protocol owned by Facebook. It has its uses but relying on it is a mistake.

lotsofcows··on I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
Gosh, never look at C. You'd break ribs.
lotsofcows··on Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?
...then you didn't read it. Try again, it's a brilliant reflection of human nature and really digs into the dystopia / utopia thing.
lotsofcows··on My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
An app? You just need DropBox and a text editor. Both are pretty ubiquitous.

I used to find myself moving between random terminals so used curl webdav instead of DropBox.

lotsofcows··on Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater
That's for England. London is more like >GBP500k.

https://lginform.local.gov.uk/reports/lgastandard?mod-metric...

lotsofcows··on IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations
"Tommy Robinson is not allowed to open a bank account"? What? After multiple frauds and also declaring himself bankrupt he might have difficulty finding a bank willing to take him as a customer but I'm unaware of anyway of anyone banning him from opening one.
lotsofcows··on 112 Gripes About the French
Other way around. This text seems very similiar to: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Instructions-British-Servicemen-Fra... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Instructions-American-Servicemen-Br...
lotsofcows··on JavaScript Is Weird
I keep having this argument with my boss but he refuses to let me write machine code.
lotsofcows··on Munin Website Redesigned
It's lightweight, it's flexible, it's hackable and it's very orchestrate-able. I've had dashboards showing summary stats for IoT devices, the VMs they're talking to and the hypervisors the VMs are running on with very little effort.
lotsofcows··on Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard
IMO the Nokia E7 was the perfect phone in all dimensions. Modern phones are impractically large. Man, I'd love to see some innovation in phone design. How did we go so far backwards?
lotsofcows··on I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (2007)
Dan Simmons Shrike books have the same epic scale of Ian M Banks' scifi with the slightly more prosodic style of Ian Banks' standard fiction.
lotsofcows··on What Day of the Dead tells us about the Aztec philosophy of happiness
Seem's a little disrespectful of others' belief systems. How can you possibly know that the God's sacrifices were a "mistake"?
lotsofcows··on Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
No, of course not; my upbringing, the people surrounding me, the cards life dealt me have no impact on me in way whatsoever.

Poster should call him out. Say you find it unpleasant. If the online echo chamber extends into real life as well he's got no hope.

lotsofcows··on IBM acquires Red Hat
"stupid sysadmin reasons" Yeah, who needs stability and consistency? It far more important to be able to jump upon the latest whizz, bang, wheeeeee!
lotsofcows··on Quitting my job has been the best thing I've done for my career
Everyone on here is a 1%er.
lotsofcows··on The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple
Ha. This looks more like good old capitalism rather than any state sponsored spying.

"Nobody's making you buy from China"

lotsofcows··on ‘Five Eyes’ Nations Quietly Demand Government Access to Encrypted Data
But these are privately owned by the garage to report drive-aways.

The context of this comment seems to imply these have something to do with the state?

lotsofcows··on ‘Five Eyes’ Nations Quietly Demand Government Access to Encrypted Data
"dinky little B-road near me has a 4×2 grid of ANPR cameras " How do you know they're ANPR?

"I wish they'd fund health" How do you know they're state funded cameras?

lotsofcows··on 14,400-year-old flatbread remains that predate known agriculture
The uncooked rice you buy in the store has been dried.
lotsofcows··on How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational database
That's a different choice.

You might be "choosing" not to bother understanding the alternatives, but you're not making a choice between the alternatives because you don't know what they are.

lotsofcows··on How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational database
That's not a choice. To make a choice you need to be aware of alternatives. You use NOSQL because it was easy to achieve your goal.
lotsofcows··on Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags
You seem to be under the impression that opting out of it somehow removes us from it's effects.

As an American you have presumably been affected by eg GDPR and should therefore recognise this is not true.

Leaving the EU means we have removed ourselves from that decision making process. We will still be affected by any decisions they make.

lotsofcows··on Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015)
Yes, hypocrisy is one of the worst things that you can to yourself and others.
lotsofcows··on Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015)
Do you realise you're using the word "cheater"?

Having multiple relationships, known to all parties is subjectively wrong and we can argue about it as much as we want.

Agreeing to a monogamistic relationship and secretly breaking that agreement, as implied by your use of the word "cheater", is objectively wrong.

lotsofcows··on ‘My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels’ in Many Languages
Brilliant! (Apart from putting the words journalist and Daily Mail in close proximity)
lotsofcows··on Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)
The example looks funny but I'm not giving free training to Google's AI just to try it out.
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