You just rewrote her essay into a paragraph. Concise, I like it!

They said somebody who can build cars. I assume that means on a large scale. Much as I like Tesla, they are not currently up to the task and their market cap makes then undesirable for anyone looking to buy a company that can make cars.

hence the sarcasm tag

wait, you mean "rm -rf /*"?

wait, you mean "sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root"?

wait, you mean "sudo shred /dev/sda1 &"?

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Random binary dumps aren't what they used to be. You should manually decode some 8-bit ascii by hand:

    $ python
    Python 2.7.6
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import random
    >>> print(''.join([chr(random.randint(32,255)) 
         for x in range(50)]).decode("latin-1"))
    ¿IBÄõq½¦Áºn}@õÖhzUÌÓQ£m5ë¢ümÇ®=ÇƪLÛHt

Now that's quality random binary garbage.

Medium-quality random binary garbage. randint is an alias for randrange,[1] which produces "slightly uneven distributions" according to the docs before version 3.2.[2]

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html?highlight=rand... (There's no such hint for the 2.x docs, but I'm guessing it was just added later for clarification)

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html?highlight=rand...

Someone needs to write a JAPH of "sudo shred /dev/sda1 &" <Begin obfuscation contest>

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M &

would be worse. `shred` is slow.

And dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda & is probably faster than shred, but I could be wrong as it might be doing essentially that.

sudo rm -rf /* is a shorter way to achieve the effect of --no-preserve-root. You're not deleting root, but all the files within it.

> shorter

Are you saying you don't have it aliased?

    alias sudo="sudo rm -rf /*; sudo"

The sneaky sudo.

Now we wait for someone to train a RNN and produce a fake but believable reddit parody with generated titles :)

Have you seen this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditsimulator

Some of them are amazing - "TIL Robin Williams died a year ago yesterday, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Will Consider Legalizing Dank Maymays if Jet Fueled"

Yes, but this works with Markov chains, not RNNs

Minimum wage is necessary

Minimum wage is a band-aide on gaping wound. The problem is that employers control employees lives, while employees at worst can take a company down - leaving the owner in a position where he just has to go get a job. The power obviously weighs heavily in the favor of the employer.

If everyone (and I do mean everyone including the 1%) was given a wage that could keep you alive and healthy, then there would be balance of power between employer and employee and you would see people taking advantage of each other much less.

Ha, you put it much more eloquently! I agree - the underlying problem is obviously how much the wealth disparity has grown.

Why?

Isn't this a tiny bit concerning that one company can effectively force the web to comply with their standards by "punishing" any non-conformers? I know Bing exists, but still, this is something that would happen in a monopoly.

When 100% of people find those intrusive pop-ups annoying, the "standard" then is not so much belonging to Google, but shared by all.

I have a few todo improvements, but if you'd like to see this one tested/implemented, add as an issue on the github!

cheers for the heads up, spelling ain't my forte!

the js version (that example) isn't as good as the py version