Horatio9000

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   by Horatio9000 8y ago

   I would argue that the hierarchy of loyalties discussed at the end of the article (Family, Community, Mankind, Life) comes from our positions in the Tree of Life produced by the Genetic Algorithm. We protect and grow our branches, starting
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   by Horatio9000 8y ago

   There was mild discontent when the Data Retention laws [1] were being rolled out across the EU in the early 2010s. This was a legal harmonization of existing collection practices for law enforcement purposes. It did receive a lot of press c
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   by Horatio9000 9y ago

   Its easy to say that, but what form could it have taken? RPC? X11? The adoption of simple REST style resources over SOAP, corba etc shows how useful the original "handle system + simple verbs" design really is.
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   by Horatio9000 9y ago

   > "The Methbot is a beautiful simulacrum of a real browser. It's gotten better over time. And by better, I mean, a more perfect life-like copy," said White Ops CEO Michael Tiffany. Very interesting.