Borogravia

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by Borogravia 10y ago
Oh, we're still paying attention to Sean Parker?
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by Borogravia 10y ago
Oh, look - it's the "help twitchy white people feel safe" app. Illustrative that we're making this kind of thing, rather than anything that might actually help make neighborhoods safer.
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by Borogravia 10y ago
Imagine my surprise to learn that this utopia of privatization literally dumps shit on the poor people who live there.
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by Borogravia 11y ago
People have been doing "google bombs" like this for about a decade, haven't they?
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by Borogravia 11y ago
Beyond parody.
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by Borogravia 11y ago
>That one is on Obama Well, no. Bush had a glorious, golden opportunity in the wake of 9/11 to turn this huge wave of international goodwill into something that could have actually made the world a safer place. Instead, he did preci
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by Borogravia 11y ago
It's going to be funny as hell when the Chinese version dramatically outperforms the great-at-nothing boondoggle we've talked ourselves into buying.
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by Borogravia 11y ago
Of course America isn't the worst case - but the point is kind of at the heart of the matter, and minimizing the issue just because the issue is even worse elsewhere is nonsensical.
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by Borogravia 11y ago
You're not kidding - calling le Carre a "pop novelist" to begin with, let alone lumping him in with a hack like Tom Clancy, is selling him desperately short.
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by Borogravia 11y ago
Uber are a bunch of assholes, but I don't think anybody's arguing that established taxi monopolies aren't also a bunch of assholes.
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Google PR are such a bunch of fucking clowns.
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Because nobody else in politics ever did this.
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Strongly disagree. Inelegant, but effective.
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Something something tech bubble, something something are you kidding me...
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Fascinating.
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Great piece.
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Actually, Uber already did exactly what the article was talking about, to a Buzzfeed reporter. You should probably read more carefully.
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Depending on the country you live in and what your race/religion/sexual orientation is, a company selling your information to somebody else could also get you killed.
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Like CocaKoala, I have no idea what Gaming on Linux is, and the article wasn't at all helpful in explaining it. It must have been those "high editorial standards" getting in the way. Let's take this from the top: * It&#x
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Nobody ever explains why people comment before reading articles, yet here we are.
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Completely agree. As a hack writer who periodically takes a swing at writing sci-fi, I struggle badly when trying to get both realism and excitement into space combat.
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Wormholes, man. Wormholes. It's still not the same, of course - a game where you don't really "fly" your ship, like EVE, is never going to be immersive in the same way an Elite game is - but it's damned addictive in
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Gee, that sure sounds like a scientific way to make such a determination.
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Beta backer here, have already wasted a ton of time in this game. "Fly-by-wire" is called "flight assist" in the game, and it works essentially the way you describe. You mostly get the sort of gravity effects you're
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by Borogravia 12y ago
No, I think the author has every right to be insulted and angry over the presumption that he should work for free. Just saying "well, that's the way it is" is intellectually lazy, and portraying a dominant middleman like Huff
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Just imagine how many lives it will save once Google is allowed to implant Maps directly into our parietal lobes.
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by Borogravia 12y ago
To add to the WW2 examples - The German Bf-109 wasn't the best fighter of the war by most standards, yet it got flown by arguably the best fighter pilots in history (thanks to the insane Luftwaffe policy of keeping the best pilots on t
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Oh, you know, just a few things: http://valleywag.gawker.com/uber-used-the-boston-bombing-ann... http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/28/uber-s-bigg... http://pando.c
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by Borogravia 12y ago
I agree with your point, but do you really find it that surprising?
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by Borogravia 12y ago
Yes, I read the article - did you understand it? He talked about building a better AFFILIATE service, which works by tilting nominally non-promotional Google results the way someone with money wants them to go. Then he said, "don'

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