Aqueous

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by Aqueous 11y ago
How? What qualification or rhetorical flourish makes it objectively, explicitly clear that these are not serious threats?
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by Aqueous 11y ago
I can see how a reasonable, disinterested person might read these comments either way. Specifically, some of the comments that were supposedly 'obviously' not threatening have to be taken in the context of the entire conversation
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by Aqueous 11y ago
I prefer to apply the principle of charity when replying to others' arguments. You chose the most uncharitable reading of my invocation of the 'silly' 'yelling fire' prohibition. Obviously I'm talking about the
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by Aqueous 11y ago
Free speech doesn't include yelling fire in a crowded theater, nor does it include making suggestions of physical violence against a judge. This entire argument seems to revolve around the author's subjective notion of a 'cr
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by Aqueous 11y ago
I didn't watch it precisely because I heard it started to indulge in conspiracy theories, which I think does more harm than good and marginalizes Lyme patients even more. Plus, there's a simpler explanation for why the medical est
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by Aqueous 11y ago
I've been struggling with neurological Lyme for years. The disease stopped my life in its tracks for most of my 20s and because of that I missed out on those years. During a time in which I would have been out in the world building a p
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by Aqueous 11y ago
Oops, the site is down. I guess the verdict is in: Voluntary human extinction doesn't scale.
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by Aqueous 11y ago
Sure - and plenty of MP3 players existed before the iPod, some of which, on paper, were better than the iPod (longer battery life, bigger capacity, more formats, better platform compatibility). But it took somebody who cared about user expe
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by Aqueous 11y ago
"So defection from the electrical grid will remain well out of reach for most Americans, and even those who manage the feat will waste a lot of capacity thanks to solar panels and batteries that are rarely used to their full potential.
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by Aqueous 11y ago
I actually think "Typesafe" is an excellent name for a company - whether or not it has grown to be more than just Scala. It says to me: If you build on top of our software, you will be safe and protected due to our built-in guaran
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by Aqueous 11y ago
""Mr. Hamm absolutely did not ask to be on the search committee or to have anyone from Continental put onto the committee, nor did he ask that anyone from the Oklahoma Geological Survey be dismissed," [Vice President of Publi
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by Aqueous 11y ago
The article describes him as a 'large' man - http://i.imgur.com/6l3rImj.png is a candidate, pre-beard, almost two decades younger (allegedly from a 1997 talk.) I wouldn't say it's definitely him - just a
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by Aqueous 11y ago
Yes. I don't think it's been reported that Nick Szabo has been involved in any BitCoin startup, let alone an exchange called "Vaurum" / "Mirror." Credit to the guy: in the world of the Internet where perfe
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by Aqueous 11y ago
Nick Szabo has been ID'd repeatedly as the most likely author of BitCoin by various attempts to discover Satoshi's identity, and this article does not do anything more than that. Yet he remains stubbornly alive!
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by Aqueous 11y ago
There's plenty of blame to go around. The individual who was fired said "As a result of the picture she took I was let go from my job today. Which sucks because I have 3 kids and I really liked that job." That certainly seems
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by Aqueous 11y ago
I think you have left out an important detail: She did so on Twitter. Because it was on Twitter, at least one was (at least temporarily) let go from their job (and has 3 kids). Neither were given any opportunity to apologize, or to explain
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by Aqueous 12y ago
BeOS is a good example why if you're already big you can be proprietary but if you're small it's better to release as open source (when there are big players in the market.) If BeOS had simply released its source early on it
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by Aqueous 12y ago
"Error establishing a database connection." I see what you did there.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
The example given by the NYU neuroscientist seems to be betray some misunderstanding/lack of vision: "Would you try to understand the universe by simulating every molecule? What would you have achieved? It’s going to be just as co
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Sure - "The loud fanatics" who have no following certainly drop into irrelevance. I think if what you say were completely true we would not have had any movement forward on positions that were considered radical just 10 - 20 years
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Despite the inflexibility of RMS' arguments (they grate on me as much as anyone) I feel like his position on continuing to develop GCC without modern features like a fully exposed AST is necessary to keep the "moderate" posit
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Being called 'anti-Semitic' because you dared to criticize the actions of Israel shuts down debate and effectively removes certain areas of conversation from free speech. It is possible to criticize fundamentalist Judaism, and the
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by Aqueous 12y ago
No - it would ideally cause that (still a minority) portion of Turks who would be most served by a protection of free speech to demand the restoration of Facebook services from their government. Perhaps the 20 million Turks who are more sy
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by Aqueous 12y ago
This conflation of "anti-Islam" and "criticizing Islam" is what's holding us up. Those in the West should reserve the right to criticize the tenets of Islam (of which there is plenty to criticize) without being slan
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by Aqueous 12y ago
This one was easy. Just drop Turkey on Facebook. The fact that they didn't was weak - Turkey does not represent a huge slice of their userbase, they could easily afford to lose it in support of free speech. At one point Google dropped
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by Aqueous 12y ago
He was not talking about the ETF he was talking about Gemini, the actual exchange that the Winklevii recently announced.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
To the sarcasm-impaired: http://bitcoinobituaries.com
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Namecoin ( http://namecoin.info ) might be of interest to you.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
It certainly seems like Bitcoin is dead.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
you told elon musk we should have Space data storage . even charitably taking the premise that this is the same thing as "space internet" (it isn't) is it possible that you are the not the first person to ever think about th

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