Eerie

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by Eerie 9y ago
Encrypted files that nobody but the owners can decrypt.
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by Eerie 9y ago
A dream can't be failed. A dream is a dream.
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by Eerie 9y ago
>Space hostile Earth is hostile, too. A large part of human civilization is dedicated to making Earth more hospitable for humanity than it is in its natural state. We can do the same for space. >Space empty Only in a sense that a larg
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by Eerie 9y ago
I just thought it was funnily relevant. You know, drink enough blood and you just might turn into wight...
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by Eerie 9y ago
>wight loss technique wight
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by Eerie 9y ago
Keep up the good work. You are such a great example of Poe's law. I can't even
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by Eerie 9y ago
There is no stealth in space. Therefore, instead of hiding, the aliens are going to pro-actively fry every competitor civilization by using their solar shades as a Nicoll Dyson Beam... :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjt
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by Eerie 9y ago
USA spends 50% of its budget on health-care and social security. Looks pretty socialist to me.
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by Eerie 9y ago
You are complaining about free stuff. Stop complaining about free stuff.
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by Eerie 9y ago
Most biological components function in 3D space, though, not on a surface.
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by Eerie 9y ago
It couldn't, because it's theoretically impossible. That's the joke.
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by Eerie 9y ago
Call me back when Bitcoin can process as many transactions per second as Visa. Or, heck, even 10% as many transactions.
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by Eerie 9y ago
A billion years of living things eating each other. Quite happy, indeed.
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by Eerie 9y ago
>Unless you mean that some data is shared, but cannot be modified, but this would be semantically identical to not sharing anything. That's the gist of Rust's borrow checker. Shared data can't be modified (unless you use a
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by Eerie 9y ago
Any country that will dear to sink an US aircraft carrier will either have the means to wipe out most of US population too (Russia, China) or just won't care about the consequences (North Korea / Iran, if they think US is about to
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Using fake ransomware to stop real ransomware
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by Eerie 9y ago
I know someone who programs in LabVIEW for 15 years, and is horrified by the idea that he could be forced to write in a different language, because visual programming is so much better (in his opinion).
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by Eerie 9y ago
You totally could pump it out, and I suspect that's what humanity will have to do, as clearly we are not going to stop pumping it in for a while...
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by Eerie 9y ago
>In fact, even just forcibly building infrastructure without putting the groundwork of civil society, democracy and working laws in place doesn't work so much - see Soviet Union. 1. Former Soviet Union countries are much better off
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by Eerie 9y ago
This is fake news.
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by Eerie 9y ago
>The mild sedative of alcohol to drown out the screaming void of my mind left idle without access to the internet. Consider doing something with your mind...
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by Eerie 9y ago
My impression is that most people buy Bitcoin, expecting to sell them at higher price, while claiming that it won't crash because it has real use. Well, tulips are also quite useful. You can't decorate your garden with Bitcoins...
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by Eerie 9y ago
>"Information wants to escape" might be less ambiguous. "In current age, information is easy to copy and disseminate, and hard to keep from being stolen".
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by Eerie 9y ago
Nothing. It's not bingo until it includes node.js (rewritten in Rust).
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by Eerie 9y ago
>Perhaps, but then how do you build such a brand if your revenue streams depend on things like number of page impressions? Any brand that depends on page impressions will inevitably evolve into toxic garbage. The solution is content you
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by Eerie 9y ago
>Either way, since utility is unique up to scalling (e.g. Johnny could get as many times of it from a sandwich as Paul does from a near-identical sandwich), at least in choice theory "worth" is closer to having an "inheren
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by Eerie 9y ago
>simply having a potentially temporary demand does not mean it has an _inherent_ worth. Just to serve as devil's advocate here: Nothing has an inherent worth, unless you postulate the existence of "worth" as an immater
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by Eerie 9y ago
>For uk students Facebook is almost a requirement of the social life. So, are you telling me that students , people at the stage of life when they are most rebellious, and their minds are most flexible, just won't be able to find a
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by Eerie 9y ago
Against a gun, naturally. Against a knife, maybe not so mismatched. I'd not try to stab someone who is actively poking me in the face with an umbrella.
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by Eerie 9y ago
1. You don't have to use Facebook. You really, really don't. 2. Facebook is under no obligation to provide societal benefits for you. It doesn't even have a moral duty to act upon your complaints. Why? See 1. It's not a

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