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Comment · 6 years ago
I kinda worry about this.

I wish I could tell people that having that much access raises legal issues for me.

It's not enough to have them sign a contract limiting liability because as a business they have far more lawyers than I do.

When I work on a contract I want to be able to say in court that I couldn't possibly be in any way related to the event of a bug, security breach or data loss because I simply do not have access.

It is genuinely worrying on my part to carry around credentials with that much data. What if my laptop is hacked or stolen? I do not want to be sued (again it doesn't matter if they have a valid case or not, I don't want to deal with legal fees or anything.)

This is what I wish.

Obviously things are far from that.

Comment · 6 years ago
Taking a pill is a somewhat poor way of getting substances into the body because it must go through the liver anyway. It does have the advantage of slowly leaking into the body though.

If you read into this subject to avoid processing by the liver or other problems like this you want an injection, sublingual administration or rectal administration or a patch/cream. For want of a better word "sensitive" parts of the body such as the scrotum are more permeable to patches/creams. You could probably get tipsy by dipping your balls in a drink similar to boofing.

Comment · 7 years ago
I'm not sure "Responsible Disclosure" makes sense in any case.
Comment · 7 years ago
Anyone else feel buying drugs online is a relatively more legitimate use than most of what crypto is promoted for?
Comment · 7 years ago
There's no reason to think evolution gave us a single variable for "goodness". We have a strong tendency to love our in group; our family, friends, tribe and so on. But I see no reason why love of the out group should be the same.

Parents do lots of bad things to get their children ahead. Consider the soldier who "loves his country" but "hates the enemy." Prosocial behavior benefits your society, not other societies. But there's also no reason to think it benefits individuals.

We know the halo effect is real and we have no reason to think empathy to attractive people is the same as empathy to ugly people.

More worryingly consider the case mother cat. Mother cats love their kittens. They also eat them sometimes when they are sick or there's not enough food. The same drive to have genetic offspring can produce care and intense hate. There's no reason to think apes don't have similar kinds of natural urges.

Comment · 7 years ago
It's difficult to talk about this but it really fucks you up when your parents are fat and sit around watching TV all day. I still don't know how to explain to other people what it's like or how I still struggle very hard today. You don't develop an I or a tongue and other people there's nothing for them to hear.
Comment · 7 years ago
Bad article. Sell me on her poetry not her biography.
Comment · 7 years ago
It's slow. You should read up on the challenges of implementing memcpy in C emulated on Java. Basically you have to manually implement paging.
Comment · 7 years ago
>Since we want to support those languages as first-class citizens, we can't require GC support as a base concept

I feel like you're overthinking it. Can't you just have a table that holds GCable objects and only hand out indexes to C and co?

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