IncRnd

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811.
by IncRnd 4y ago
In the PRISM disclosure of 2013, the slide deck stated that the NSA had direct access to Google's systems. The deck claimed "collection directly from the servers". That, by its very design, goes around all the safeguards peop
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by IncRnd 4y ago
You are projecting your beliefs upon the structure of the article. In the actual article, Cognitect wasn't mentioned until five paragraphs later. The first five paragraphs talked exactly about open source in general terms not limited t
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by IncRnd 4y ago
What I pointed out through a rhetorical question is that the article's first sentence tells others their opinions of open source are limited, but the premise of that statement is that the author is separate from that rule and by the ac
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by IncRnd 4y ago
If you think there is no censorship outside the US, even in places like Belgium, you are sorely mistaken.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
If people would never need to go before a judge for any type of action, there would be no need for a lawyer. A contract, when presumably violated, gets adjudicated by a judge. Everything a lawyer does is judge centric. Ultimately, the law i
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> The only people entitled to say how open source 'ought' to work are people who run projects, and the scope of their entitlement extends only to their own projects. Yet, you believe you are entitled to say how all of open sour
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by IncRnd 4y ago
DOS is old code, so the humor comes from the paradoxial juxtaposition of touting the use of old code while simultaneously saying, "friends don't let friends run old code." This superposition of statements is set against the b
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by IncRnd 4y ago
In the third sentence you'll find a source link to the Reuters' article.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
The stock value has dropped by over half and meta is preparing for a recession. Ad sales and user growth have already slowed.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Not sure why you wrote that. You are responding to a comment about the history of greed and speculation, which many who tout crypto also share.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
It did. https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin/blob/master/src... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28830211
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by IncRnd 4y ago
No, that wasn't the claim I responded to. Twice, my comment explicitly mentioned the novelty of greed and speculation as the claim.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
According to your link it was real. "That’s not to say that everything about the story is wrong; merchants really did engage in a frantic tulip trade, and they paid incredibly high prices for some bulbs. And when a number of buyers ann
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> The world has never seen an economic phenomenon like crypto. There is no historical analogous technology trend or investment craze that comes close to capturing the sustained and frenzied momentum of crypto that has engulfed so many an
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Thanks!
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by IncRnd 4y ago
It's been confirmed, and an NFT of prehistoric turtle blood is on the blockchain.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Haha! That's an excellent way to state the issue.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Review: a formal assessment or examination of something with the possibility or intention of instituting change if necessary. None of your examples provide feedback as to why you want a change. That may be why you have been led to ask this
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by IncRnd 4y ago
An RFC won't compel people or companies in the way you hope. An RFC is a request and nothing more. A law is driven by the legal authority of a state and is backed by corporate & financial penalties, prisons, and guns.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
I don't think too many people tried that "crazy amazing loophole that the government doesn't want you to know about but can make you rich". Looking at the rest of the code, it seems this sort of action is doomed by the a
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by IncRnd 4y ago
"For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold." ― Seneca
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Not the OP, but I did something very similar with my wife and daughter a few years ago. Each day was more enjoyable than the last, especially with the RV. That was the most enjoyable time, and that enjoyment came from just existing and taki
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Today I learned that there are actually six provisions in the Code of Hammurabi for that, covering different effects to the mother and (according that system) standing of the mother! 209. If a man has struck a free woman with child, and
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by IncRnd 4y ago
The data was planted on the usb by an Evil Maid[1], so the salaryman could gain face [2] as an everyman. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_maid_attack [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(s
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> can say things as they are, one of the few things I liked about China as well Some of the people who live there would disagree with your assessment.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Check out knife statistics in China. They don't have school shootings but mass school knifings.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
I guess you don't like getting soced.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> Nobody knows what any particular ziggurat looked like, or what features were common to them. It is mostly speculation. You can see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chogha_Zanbil for pictures of the remaining ziggurat
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Yes, that's it. The picture is of the temple of Kukulcán in Chichen Itzam, Yucatan, Mexico.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
How does one "simply make a universal law"?

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