DanAndersen

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by DanAndersen 8y ago
>This represents a great challenge for those who believe that individuals left to their own devices are most likely to make rational choices. The unfortunate reality is that institutions, organizations, and governments are also not prone
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
From what I understand, the issue is that labor is limited compared with the sheer volume of material to be digitized. I wonder if any such libraries have considered programs for volunteers to come in and digitize some materials. Would it b
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
The term "refutes" seems incorrect here. Perhaps "denies" instead. I was expecting a public demonstration of proof or evidence against the claim beyond an assertion.
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
The hedonic rush of social media is an unfortunate aspect to modern travel. Vacations and trips have always had the aspect where the traveler plans how to tell friends/family about the trip after the fact. However, I've caught mys
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
That assumes that the opposition is willing to spend political capital arguing "in favor of extremism."
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Defense (Contributed)(youtube.com)
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
If Congress makes laws banning distribution of firearm blueprints, it's considered a 1A/2A violation (or at least legally dubious). If social media companies ban distribution of firearm blueprints on their sites, it's not con
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
>Finally, with instances, you keep control: if you find that you don't like the moderation policies or culture of a particular instance, you're always free to pick up and move to a different one. Last I heard, Mastodon didn&#x2
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
I'm curious how the "they're a private company, they can ban whatever they want, it's not a 1A violation" argument fares when you have government officials publicly urging Reddit and other companies to ban 3D-printi
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Reddit bans 3D printer data files for firearms(reddithelp.com)
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FCC shuts down Alex Jones' pirate flagship radio station(chron.com)
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
There's a strange conflation in the article between "owning things" and "owning land." I think there is something fundamentally different about the two, in that having a patch of ground for which you are responsible
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Practical, Scientific use of Photogrammetry(vimeo.com)
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
Interesting to see the lack of "it's their platform, make your own browser and app store if you don't like it" justifications here.
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
That would honestly be a pretty good pivot. The trouble with Gab and Voat is that if you only bill yourself as a "free speech alternative," you get almost-exclusively populated with the sorts of people who have to worry about that
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
>The way society is going seems to be making the amendment less and less relevant as time goes on. Exactly. As society moves more and more online, it moves more and more into a virtual territory that is owned at every level by corporate
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
Perhaps I was unclear. When I said "scale," I meant it specifically in the context of being able to weather DDoS attacks. By way of analogy, consider you are the owner of a small independent city paper -- the sort you see offered
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
The main difference we are seeing in this new world of large tech companies is that the role of the "judge" is diminished. Groups figure out the fine lines on which to make judgment, but only as a matter of internal company policy
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
Anyone with a server can host content in a technical sense, but can it ever scale without playing ideologically with the big players? One tactic for deplatforming undesirable sites is a DDoS -- if you put your home server online, what optio
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
One thing that hasn't yet been remarked on here is that the 48-hour-warning message said that the linked posts were flagged for having phishing links . Notice that the statements made afterward by MS were not on the grounds of the ori
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
There's an argument that putting children through traumatizing simulated events has unclear psychological consequences. Western education at young ages goes surprisingly graphic when talking about certain historical atrocities (think s
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
Be careful what you wish for.
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
>and we should demand that neutral platform organizations like Apple, Facebook, or a university don't do it either (which is not the same thing as saying that they should be forced by law to do it) What sorts of demands would be lis
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
Related: selecting points on the surface of a sphere https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/random-points/ Poisson disc sampling can be quite useful.
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
Footage from Venezuelan TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew0RN8ozA8I
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Venezuela President Maduro 'survives drone attack'(bbc.co.uk)
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Shooting Macro(youtube.com)
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
"PIN number" is just a shorthand for "number that is a PIN." Never understood the pedantry on this one; when spoken (a lossy channel of communication), "PIN" is similar enough to "pin" and "pen&q
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With that mindset, what makes oceans "natural boundaries" with any meaning? It's all just collections of atoms that humans socially assign meaning to.
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by DanAndersen 8y ago
>I don't understand why this hasn't been all over the front-page of HN. I fear the hacker ethos of the tech world, the mindset that cared about the right to tinker and to not have the government tell you what you can and cannot

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