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by CookieMon 10y ago
Sounds plausible - abusing the flag/report system seems to be common with groups who like to act as self-appointed censors. How did you tell the difference? (or suspect the difference)
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by CookieMon 10y ago
And Hacker News deletes it, <sigh>
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by CookieMon 10y ago
I've seen so many moral-handwringers try to justify silencing people by trotting out that XKCD comic as though they were "the community" that Cueball weirdly stopped feeling like a positive hacker character for me - half the
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by CookieMon 11y ago
I tried a VRBox (a plastic version of the Cardboard) and it had zero presence, it feels like looking through a high tech "look anywhere" View‐Master — which is frickin cool in its own right if you ever liked View‐Master (like me),
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by CookieMon 11y ago
I'm not involved in OneGet, I was quoting the article when I said "we renamed...". The article dedicates some paragraphs to the reason for the renaming. tl;dr legal cost-cutting.
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by CookieMon 11y ago
To clarrify the situation with OneGet, there are a bunch of things that were widely misreported, and a good corrective article here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/garretts/2015/05/05/10-thin... Some o
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by CookieMon 11y ago
Yeah, but that's a chicken and egg problem because unless/until BitcoinClassic outcompetes the other one, none of your code will ever get executed, so any developer wanting to scratch an itch must contribute to the existing bitcoi
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by CookieMon 11y ago
I don't think he believes all spying is always wrong, he believes there is a "non linear effect of leaks on unjust systems of governance". If there's nothing outrageous about the who/why of your spying, you don&#x27
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by CookieMon 11y ago
Destroy the Sun. All other proposals solve only half of the problems and lead to ugly hacks.
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by CookieMon 11y ago
It's amazing that we're migrating all of open source into a single centralized proprietary basket - amazing in a slow motion trainwreck kind of a way. After we already watched its predecessor Sourceforge fill opensource projects w
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by CookieMon 11y ago
I'm going to need a bunch of "Share it on..." icons to annoyingly slap on all of my web pages :D
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by CookieMon 11y ago
> it'll be useless because all your non-nerd friends (and most of your nerd friends too) won't have accounts there Call it Eternal September, the unwashed masses, the quality of online communities dropping as they grow, call i
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by CookieMon 11y ago
I wonder about this with open-source as well, since it's often about scratching the itches of the demographic that participates in it. But I don't know the unexotic underclass well enough to know if there's anything helpful s
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by CookieMon 11y ago
If they wanted to torpedo the price, get routed around, and lose all that capital investment in 16nm mining fabrication. Bitcoin was designed so that attacking the network will be less profitable than joining it. But I can imagine scenarios
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by CookieMon 11y ago
> Bredbandsbolaget refused to comply, stating that its only role is to provide customers with internet access and ensuring the free-flow of information. Now that's an ISP to be with, regardless of whether they are the cheapest. Th
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by CookieMon 11y ago
> fairly religious, as well as notably conservative and libertarian leaning These are words I would use to describe North America ;) So you'd want to remove regional bias by comparing engineers to people from the same demographic
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by CookieMon 11y ago
> I'd like to know where they got that data Yes, given that the context seems to be people who go into engineering in Middle Eastern and North African countries which are too dysfunctional to employ engineers, you are left wonderin
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by CookieMon 11y ago
Perhaps such networks already exist? Should I be checking out I2P? I can't be the only one hating how our Internet "town squares" and public spaces have all become commercially owned, centralized, sanitized and surveilled, bu
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by CookieMon 11y ago
You also haven't factored in home-owner government welfare: Here everybody aims to keep the house in as much debt as possible as long as possible because the interest can be written off as an income tax deduction, while the "repay
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by CookieMon 11y ago
Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/basicincome/wiki/index Basic income better aligns everyone's economic incentives, so it solves ( in theory ) a whole host of the problems we've got. It's great to
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by CookieMon 11y ago
> I would take my business elsewhere. Great in theory, but surely nobody "elsewhere" will host you securely if hosting you means all their other customers get hosed. "the attack against ProtonMail can be divided into two s
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by CookieMon 11y ago
That is damn interesting. US art photography books here I come. And thanks for taking the time to cite it.
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by CookieMon 11y ago
the transfer would be a "work" in its own right, and have its own copyright.
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by CookieMon 11y ago
...and to avoid TPP etc. leaks becoming traceable, now something to routinely scan for this sort of thing and perform character and eol normalisation.
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by CookieMon 11y ago
Why not both? The comments section is where the errors and baiting and propaganda gets called out, which has exploded with click-revenue media. Plus you can get a feeling for different community viewpoints. 'Tis a shame.
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by CookieMon 11y ago
> And if your boss objects to your weekend parties, then you should consider changing jobs. Caring about such issues is as sign of serious problems in the company. It doesn't work like that. On PT I listened to an HR employee laughi
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by CookieMon 11y ago
Anyone know a link that doesn't require Flash?
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by CookieMon 11y ago
> This measure, usually called the oil intensity of the economy... ...is calculated by dividing the total national oil consumption by GDP expressed in constant monies. So it's not taking into account the increased offshoring of our
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by CookieMon 11y ago
I frequently hear about flux but yours is the first explanation to make me want to try it. Usually people praise how "how easy on the eyes" it is etc, but I'm quite happy with white and my eyes are fine. While tired late at n
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by CookieMon 11y ago
That was a good idea. Opal now seem to be getting back to coding under a CoC which lacks that clause. It looks like the clause was hammered out during the Opal discussion and the version on the covenant website was updated but not the maste

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