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burgerbrain

9,016 karma · joined October 18, 2010

Apathetic crypto-anarchist. Part-time deity. Enthusiast of rubberized concrete.
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burgerbrain··on The Girls Around Me App Takes Creepy to a New Level
Do victims of this feel like they had their privacy violated? If yes (and I strongly suspect the answer you will receive in a non-trivial number of cases is yes), than this is as real a privacy violation as they get.
burgerbrain··on In Manhattan Pizza War, Price of Slice Keeps Dropping
>.25c is nothing.

(25c, not .25c)

Hell, I'd pay 25 cents more just to have the privilege of not being handed back a quarter. Lugging around change is crap.

burgerbrain··on The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men
Local anaesthetic is hardly a selling point to me. I'd prefer general, even thought that has the slight risk of death. Better than the (in my experience) 100% chance of "whoops! We'll give you another shot of that and give it a few more minutes to set in."

That's happened to be with 2 back surgeries, one on my arm, and every filling I've ever had done.

Anyway, I'd get this procedure done in a heartbeat anyway.

burgerbrain··on IETF attendees reengineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network
My grandmother maintains her own wifi router, and nobody even taught her how....
burgerbrain··on Canada ditches the penny
...of pennies.
burgerbrain··on A Woman’s Story
(I suspect you already know this, but I find it is an interesting topic so I'll post it for others)

It should probably be noted when talking about the history of science during the so called dark ages that the Islamic Empire covered a very vast area. The society was homogeneous only in religion, not in 'race'.

My (limited) understanding is that their scientific collapse was the result of a series of (religious in nature) bans on various scientific activities (translation, dissection, etc) This seems to have had fair reaching effects on the viability of their Empire and has likely been the cause of the Muslim worlds comparatively limited scientific activity since then.

Therefore I would expect that the decline of Islamic science is not a symptom of a perceived performance deficiency among people with Arab names, but rather the cause. Considering the apparently solely cultural nature of the issue, any observed phenomenon could be subject to extremely rapid change and is likely to have a very significant number of outliers.

burgerbrain··on I'm sick to death of Android
I have to second CyanogenMod. It's currently the only thing stopping me from saying 'fuck it' and going back to a dumbphone.
burgerbrain··on Schneier removed from TSA oversight meeting at TSA request
Is there a list of other people the TSA is not allowing to testify? I would say the TSA has just given Schneier a pretty solid endorsement.
burgerbrain··on Too Hot for Humans, But Google Servers Keep Humming
Well regardless, firefighters have plenty of experience with running into hot as balls buildings and doing physically exerting things. If he wasn't referring to firefighters, then he should have been.
burgerbrain··on Too Hot for Humans, But Google Servers Keep Humming
I... don't see you participating in this conversation in the first place? So ok...
burgerbrain··on Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger
He was not: "using a client like Pidgin with an Off The Record (OTR) plugin."
burgerbrain··on Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger
Has it occurred to you that to many people the issue may not be piracy? I don't use the pirate bay, nor do I endorse copyright infringement, but this development nevertheless greatly concerns me.

No, I suspect it has not.

burgerbrain··on Too Hot for Humans, But Google Servers Keep Humming
Fairly certain he is talking about fire fighters folks.
burgerbrain··on "Lighten up"
If you think how men treat other men in the US workplace is at all comparable to how men treat women in Saudi, then you are fucking insane. Men poking fun of other men is NOT a human rights issue.

Cheeky insults, (which "my goldfish codes better than you" OBVIOUSLY is) are not attempts to "undermine your male colleague's confidence in their ability". If you think that is not the case, then you are obviously completely out of touch with male to male interaction in the US.

burgerbrain··on Why was Tanenbaum wrong in the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debates?
If all the end users use the CISC layer and no person uses the RISC layer, then I would feel comfortable calling it a CISC machine.
burgerbrain··on Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Declined to Join Apple
> "Apple is the future; Linux is the past."

Even Apple itself doesn't believe that. They left the server market when they killed Xserve.

burgerbrain··on "Lighten up"
"if you're actively working to undermine your male colleague's confidence in their ability"

You don't have a solid grasp on male-to-male communication in the US workplace. Please keep in mind that perhaps your culture is different.

burgerbrain··on "Lighten up"
If you want to treat the symptoms, then by all means villianize the perpetrators.

If however you are interested in treating the cause, then I suggest you listen to what yelsgib has to say.

burgerbrain··on "Lighten up"
No way in hell. HR would slaughter me.
burgerbrain··on How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick
> "Also, for every 1 law (or societal norm) that are highly skewed against men, there are 10 that are highly skewed against women."

I think most of the rational supporters of men's rights would like a world where both of those numbers are 0.

burgerbrain··on How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick
The author most likely meant "sick or deluded". I would however still object to that.
burgerbrain··on Neil deGrasse Tyson: ‘How Much Would You Pay for the Universe?’
Unfortunately mere supply often does not correlate with price as you might suspect. Look at diamonds.. the name of the game is artificial scarcity.
burgerbrain··on Neil deGrasse Tyson: ‘How Much Would You Pay for the Universe?’
A government agency running at 20% efficiency? That is a fucking miracle.
burgerbrain··on Amazon acquiring Kiva Systems for $775 million
Weirdly, Amazon and Netflix fill different niches for me. Amazon's player is flash so it works for me in linux, so I use that when I'm on my computer. However Netflix has an application for my (non-Fire) android device, so I use that there.

I really wish they would start pushing on each other harder, so I could use only one for both...

burgerbrain··on Git project seeks discussion on "push" change
Although git-push's behaviour never bothered me, I feel I must support this since it would set a good precedent.
burgerbrain··on 60 Minutes: Elon Musk and SpaceX [video]
Why is everyone so insistent on cannibalizing science to fund science? NASA's budget should be pretty damn near the end of the list of programs to take funding from, 1) because all the others are even worse than it is, and 2) because it gets such a fucking minuscule amount of funding compared to the other things.

Furthermore, shitcanning all the non-manned stuff NASA does is a fucking terrible idea. Science without study of the universe is crazy.

burgerbrain··on 60 Minutes: Elon Musk and SpaceX [video]
I absolutely do not disagree. In fact, I could not agree more. I'm just objecting to the possessive "its own" if the death cult in question is Christianity.
burgerbrain··on Ever heard of "Low orbit server stations"?
>"A small jar HHO generator which would then feed a micro-engine(like in a R/C car) powering an electrical generator which would feed power to the HHO generator."

Wait, so you split water and burn it in a generator to generate the power you're using to split the water? I would love to see someone work out the math on that one... Everything I know about chemistry suggests that the best you'll ever do is 100% efficiency, which you of course cannot hit if you're not burning all of your H2 (which you wouldn't be, since the point is to get H2 to lift the whole thing).

"This is already being done commercially."

Do you have an example?

burgerbrain··on SpaceX Prepares For April 30 Launch To Space Station
Wikipedia has 9900kg to LEO for the Falcon 9 block 1 and 10450kg to LEO for Falcon 9 block 2 (both from Canaveral).

To GTO those numbers are 2400kg and 4680kg.

The "Launch Payload" of the Dragon spacecraft (6000kg) appears to be approximately the Mass to LEO of the block 2 (10450kg) minus the mass of an empty Dragon spacecraft (4200kg).

burgerbrain··on 60 Minutes: Elon Musk and SpaceX [video]
>"just a human, with many flaws. As are [snip] Sagan."

Lies. How could you? :(

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