Contravariant

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[–] Contravariant 14 points 1 week ago

Depriving Russia of nuclear scientists, or capable people in general, might well be worth whatever wages they brought home.

If you want to bring the inter-european war into it I'm not sure if we can afford to be unpragmatic about this. By all accounts letting Russia bleed manpower in exchange for some small wages is well worth it. If you want to deprive them of money you really need to strike at their ability to export gas and oil at inflated prices. Advancing knowledge about fusion aids that goal, though the effects are likely (hopefully?) too late to matter.

[–] Contravariant 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lenovo definitely deserves to be banned after that shit they pulled with the malicious root certificates.

[–] Contravariant 1 points 3 weeks ago

So none of the attackers managed to leave the scene after the police arrived?

[–] Contravariant 2 points 3 weeks ago

That same description applies to downloading a zipped file.

[–] Contravariant 0 points 3 weeks ago

For a revolution to succeed you need the power to remove any people in power that oppose you, doesn't get more authoritarian than that.

[–] Contravariant 1 points 1 month ago

And at this point it's also code for 'machine learning'.

Which really is just fancy statistics. Sometimes it's barely more advanced than plain regression.

[–] Contravariant 1 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of the time I did roughly the same thing trying to get people to move away from internet explorer.

[–] Contravariant 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Heck if accelerating to Mach 19 in about 2 meters is acceptable you could just disable the rotors and only experience an acceleration of less than Mach 1 in just a few meters.

[–] Contravariant 14 points 1 month ago

I won't pretend that its popularity is in any way proportional to its quality, but I enjoyed it and so did many others so she must have done something right. Calling a work that many people enjoy trash just sounds a bit elitist to me.

Feel free to call the author whatever you want though, at this point I've no respect left for her.

[–] Contravariant 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just so I got this clear, making it illegal to tell advertisers when their ads are running next to dangerous or illegal content is a freedom of speech win?

[–] Contravariant 2 points 2 months ago

I'm surprised you got tired of the stupid decisions if I'm honest.

I wasn't aware the characters were making any.

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