tekproxy | 5 years ago | on: Remove some offensive/archaic terminology from OpenSSL
I'm offended by this run on sentence.
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tekproxy | 5 years ago | on: Remove some offensive/archaic terminology from OpenSSL
Can't you empathise with people who identify as black and have to see phrases like "black magic" meaning evil while "white magic" is good? Why not start here? Are we only changing open ssl because it's easy?
tekproxy | 5 years ago | on: Remove some offensive/archaic terminology from OpenSSL
It clears the mind of problematic thoughts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak#Vocabulary
tekproxy | 5 years ago | on: Remove some offensive/archaic terminology from OpenSSL
We should also change all of these doubleplus ungood words:
Black market
Black magic
Black Sabbath
Black widow
Black soul
Black sheep
Black eye
Black mark
Black rider
Black out
Black box
Black book
I was triggered twice just typing this up.
tekproxy | 5 years ago | on: ZFS Removes References to Slavery
This is kink shaming.
tekproxy | 6 years ago | on: Powerful Concepts for Understanding the World
Are machine learning algorithms receivers of intelligence?
tekproxy | 6 years ago | on: Tradition Is Smarter (2018)
You didn't ask me but I have a similar outlook and would appreciate reading suggestions.
Jordan Peterson talks about the diversity of opinion being important because there is no single or constant fitness function. His lectures on personality get into this a bit. His 12 rules book does not.
I believe he's informed a lot by the work of Jonathan Haidt. His book The Righteous Mind is good.
tekproxy | 6 years ago | on: Scientists Likely Found Way to Grow New Teeth for Patients
That's amazing. Put it under your pillow and let us know what the tooth fairy thinks of that little gem.
tekproxy | 6 years ago | on: Why I quit Twitter
Maybe Twitter is like smoking Styrofoam?
tekproxy | 6 years ago | on: German parliament passes bill allowing banks to sell and store cryptocurrencies
Read the white paper.
tekproxy | 6 years ago | on: German parliament passes bill allowing banks to sell and store cryptocurrencies
It'll compete with the failed central banks first, and considering the technology is young and shit right now, it's doing pretty good in places like Venezuela.
tekproxy | 6 years ago | on: Trigger warnings don’t help people cope with distressing material
My dog was afraid of taking a bath. I fixed this by rewarding her for coming into the bathroom. Once she was comfortable, I got her into the tub and rewarded her. After 15 minutes of "exposure therapy" she loves jumping into the tub and it's easier for both of us when she's stinky. I'm pretty sure people work similarly but it's hard to reward them with dog food.
tekproxy | 6 years ago | on: Rising California Gasoline Prices Highlight Growing Divide in U.S.
Science denier! Burn the heretic! /s
tekproxy | 6 years ago | on: Rare warming over Antarctica reveals power of stratospheric models
Do it. :)
Innovation is not inevitable.
tekproxy | 6 years ago | on: Journalist says CBP withheld passport until he agreed he writes ‘propaganda’
Somewhere something bad happened.
Orange man bad.
tekproxy | 6 years ago | on: Nestle finds new way to use cocoa leftovers to sweeten chocolate
I remember in chemistry we learned the difference between ordinary, reagent grade sucrose and the fancy, organic, fair trade, whole wheat, gluten free sucrose. The fancy stuff was way better for you.
tekproxy | 6 years ago | on: The Lyttle Lytton Contest
Came to the comments to find this line. You didn't disappoint,
tekproxy | 6 years ago | on: Volkswagen boss criticizes Germany’s decision to privilege coal over nuclear
We found a way. It's called thorium. Waste is only radioactive for a century and iirc it's a lower energy. They can also use current waste as fuel.
Reactor tech is 40 years old. If your phone is 4 years old, one might consider it trash. Imagine how good they'd be if the industry innovated even as slow and conservatively as medicine. Oh, there's also liquid sodium and fast breeders.
FUD keeps the tech from advancing.
tekproxy | 7 years ago | on: Diversity Should Be #1 for Good Reason
I think judging peeps by their gender, skin colour, and sexual orientation is immoral and inefficient to boot. Should I send myself to the gulags now?
tekproxy | 7 years ago
I think private ownership of the means of production and voluntary exchange is super evil, y'all, because reasons and feelings. /s