Drakim

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by Drakim 8y ago
Plus, it's super motivating when they can put their HTML+JS file on some free host and show it off to friends.
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by Drakim 8y ago
That's a pretty good point. The only answer I can think of is that people are using these batteries to avoid peak electric prices during the day, while charging it up when electricity is cheap. If that is your plan, and you don't
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by Drakim 8y ago
The implication is clearly that you ought to pay for the products, so that you aren't the product. But if the incentives for paid and free products to monetize your data is the same, switching from one to the other doesn't help. Y
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by Drakim 8y ago
"Whoops, we can't secretly sell your data anymore! That means you can't control your smart wifi lightbulbs from now on!" For me, this is a refutation of the "If you don't pay for the product, you are the produc
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by Drakim 8y ago
Is it? The same could be said for Americans speaking an European language.
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by Drakim 8y ago
Human-likeness is not a very popular trait to attribute to a higher power because it shows the underlying anthropomorphism at work. There is no reason to think that if there is some sort of higher power, it has an any bigger interest in hum
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by Drakim 8y ago
I don't think GDPR is flawless, but at some point if we don't do anything, privacy violations are going to become so common place and so entrenched in the online economy that we can't fix it anymore. At that point, the discus
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by Drakim 8y ago
> Taking as an axiom that God exists and loves us I think the axioms you need for this kind of argument is that: is God exists, God is human-like, and God loves us. Why would a cosmic being care more about humans than bacteria? Why would
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by Drakim 8y ago
If the case being made is just that we don't need the absolutely latest smartphone, I'm totally onboard. But there is also a lot of offhand grumpiness about how we don't need all this technology, which I disagree with. Techno
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by Drakim 8y ago
I saw a funny cloud today, I took a picture of it. I usually don't carry an extra standalone camera with me all day just for moments like that. I can also google up information about light-bulbs when I'm standing at the store wond
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by Drakim 8y ago
What is the reason, in your opinion, that these people were born with an irrational hatred for coal? Something in their DNA maybe? Or could it be that the consequences of coal negatively affects their community?
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by Drakim 8y ago
The point being is that it's a human speech API which is easier for humans to utilize "manually" if they don't have a robot servant.
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by Drakim 8y ago
He could also quit today and Facebook could donate the $1B and you'd end up exactly the same.
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by Drakim 9y ago
I used to have an iPod too, but the hard-drive eventually gave out. What I did was get a dedicated android device for audible/music. One of those that looks like a mobile but doesn't have a sim card. A lot of people comment on how
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by Drakim 9y ago
It's pretty crazy to me that people can feel this way after things like the Equifax breach. Equifax was sitting on all that data that people didn't even know they were included in, and probably didn't even WANT Equifax to pos
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by Drakim 9y ago
That's too close to what-about-ism for my tastes. I want those banks to be held responsible too, but I'll take just one or the other if I can't get both right now.
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by Drakim 9y ago
Does that matter in this context? All I see here is talk of SSH and vim.
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by Drakim 9y ago
I suspect that was very geographical, over here (Norway) young people were on MSN Messenger. It was practically universal for anybody who wasn't an old fart.
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by Drakim 9y ago
Well, technically we do things like ban outright lying in advertising already, but it's called regulation. Usually when people talk about "bans" they mean blanket bans for an entire industry, like, banning guns, banning fast
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by Drakim 9y ago
I assume not? That's not very common, you can't even buy most alt-coins with fiat. It's usually bitcoin for alt-coin.
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by Drakim 9y ago
Blocking popups when the JS of the page is clearly trying to spawn more is not "default behavior" at all, it's a trick browser vendors do to enhance the user experience.
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by Drakim 9y ago
I think that's a bit naive. Some changes from the default are so accepted and given today, we'd end up with a bizarre situation where browsers ship with a "broken" default that nobody wants. We are just so used to it tha
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by Drakim 9y ago
As an interesting idea as that is, the moment you introduce the possibility of staying in power forever then it only becomes an issue of adjusting the ratio parameters, something people won't react to like "abolish the hard term l
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by Drakim 9y ago
I assume because it would defeat the intention of electron, since the entire point is to "magically" make your webapp into a standalone application with no dependencies. Just download and start it up, like any application. Whether
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by Drakim 9y ago
At the very least, all purchases should include info about the randomization. It shouldn't be legal to sell randomized products while keeping the randomization secret.
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by Drakim 9y ago
Is it always online? I thought you just needed to be online when you booted the game, so your singleplayer game wouldn't exit on you if your internet died.
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by Drakim 9y ago
Normally you have one user of the contract who invokes it, and somebody else mines/computes the results. I think the trick here is that the user of the contract is also mining/computing the smartcontract at the same time, and thus
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by Drakim 9y ago
On the flipside, being this open might mean that weaknesses come to light because of the increased scrutiny. It's just like when talking about secure communication, you explain exactly how the public/private key exchange works, wh
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by Drakim 9y ago
There is a world of difference between: "Buy five thousand and I'll give you 10% off" "Buy five thousand and don't buy from my rivals and I'll give you 10% off"
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by Drakim 9y ago
Some of the cryptocurrencies attempt to have baked in functionality that allows it to have utility past speculation.

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