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Well, it's not evil if you're a white nationalist. To every ethnonationalist the expulsion of The Other is the ultimate good. We've seen it in every state where such is the dominant ideology.

ixnar  ·  2120 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tuning the sine wave to save energy

Interesting technology, sounds like PFC on steroids

Aside: holy hell vox.com's design is obnoxious

ixnar  ·  2121 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In Narrow Decision, Supreme Court Sides With Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple

But what if by baking the cake five innocent people are killed? The baker is also an evil demon and the customer is the owner of an arms manufacturing company that sells tanks to child soldiers.

ixnar  ·  2158 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens

More evidence that people who take evopsych seriously are full of crap

ixnar  ·  2199 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cambridge Analytica used "bribes and Ukrainian sex workers."

    Help us Obi-wan Mueller, you're our only hope

Isn't he one of the guys that lied you into the iraq war? I find this snoop cuddling quite worrying

ixnar  ·  2211 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: House of Reps votes in favor of Internet censorship

It's almost as if huge sites where the admins have no connection with their users is a bad thing

I'd rather laws like this don't have to get passed. Unfortunately we can't have nice things

ixnar  ·  2217 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: House of Reps votes in favor of Internet censorship

Uuh, making site operators liable for what their users do is actually good. That U.S. admins can throw their hands up in the air when contronted with abusive user behavior is a cancer upon the Web

I've heard of MaidSafe before, and it was not good things. And of course there's a bit about cryptocurrencies

Core dump of exciting decentralized things:

OStatus and ActivityPub: GNU Social, postActiv, Mastodon, PeerTube

IPFS

The return of static Tor-friendly webpages and services

ixnar  ·  2240 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?

This isn't so strange considering authoritarianism's reason for existing is justifying the unjustifiable. Power speaks truth, especially if that truth can be used to build more hierarchy and power

ixnar  ·  2304 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: “Alt-right” women are upset that “alt-right” men are treating them terribly

Boo-hoo 🎻🎶

(aimed at the ladies addressed, of course)

ixnar  ·  2326 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Welcome To Nauru, The Most Corrupt Country You’ve Never Heard Of

Australia manages to be even more awful than I previously thought..

ixnar  ·  2359 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Thoughts and Prayers, the Game

As best I can tell It's any gun that looks "scary". kleinbl00s post (to which I cannot reply) supports this, except maybe for grenade launchers. But even then you need to own grenades also. Just seems silly

ixnar  ·  2378 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason

Should use a symplectic integrator. I think there's free software to do this

ixnar  ·  2401 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: These Women Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism

Interesting. I wonder if fake people could be useful for other things

ixnar  ·  2403 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Yet another thing Millennials are killing: electric guitars

Interesting article, awful CSS :/

ixnar  ·  2416 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Charlottesville: Violent clashes over US far-right rally

You don't realize white nationalists use "free speech" as a way to appeal to centrists? There's something to be said about the danger of relying on state power of course, but it should also be apparent that white nationalism is violence in-itself. There is no democratic value in protecting it.

ixnar  ·  2419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Charlottesville: Violent clashes over US far-right rally

    The mayor of Charlottesville, where the now-cancelled rally was taking place, said he was "heartbroken" at the death.

Myeah, as I understand the mayor had the power to stop this and did nothing. Jerk.

ixnar  ·  2457 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Do Buddhist Monks Think of the Trolley Problem? - The Atlantic

Another article that seems to think we can treat programs as subjects. AI would be better off without the "AI" moniker I think, because it attracts people who think that software and wetware are comparable

Turbonormie is a great word, the dual of turbonerd

ixnar  ·  2481 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Oculus Founder Plots a Comeback With a Virtual Border Wall

Our cyberpunk dystopia draws closer

ixnar  ·  2481 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I’m not worried about Bitcoin scalability, but I am losing sleep over Ethereum

Perhaps it would be prudent to exchange some BTC to ETH at this point

ixnar  ·  2486 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mysterious 'Wow! signal' in 1977 came from comets, not aliens, researcher reveals

It's never aliens 😔

ixnar  ·  2508 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information to Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador

I wonder if this could lead to the DHS simply not telling Trump about things.

ixnar  ·  2526 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Republican Lawmaker Who Secretly Created Reddit’s Women-Hating ‘Red Pill’

    not standing by your actions and words

In theredpill's words: what a beta

ixnar  ·  2527 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: White House Proposes Slashing Tax Rates for Individuals and Businesses

10 years sounds a bit optimistic. I recon 20-30

ixnar  ·  2601 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Even Furries Are Fighting Fascists

Excellent. Shun the fascists

ixnar  ·  2617 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

Hey kids: if you see a transhumanist/lesswronger in real life offering candy/promising eternal robot life, just yell "roko's basilisk!" and they will run away screaming

ixnar  ·  2652 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why US liberals are now buying guns too

Predictions: Republicans proposing gun control laws targetted at the poor and non-white, progressives forming autonomous militias

2017 is going to be real interesting

ixnar  ·  2677 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The 'impossible' EmDrive Thruster has received its first peer-reviewed paper

One way to test it is to apply a static field and do some sweeps, maybe +-1/10/100/1000 V/m. Just insert some metal sheets in the chamber and apply a voltage

I'm working on a blog post about this, might have to draw some sketches