Jedi72

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by Jedi72 8y ago
I'm so glad I don't use C hahaha. Y'all are crazy!
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by Jedi72 8y ago
If you're starting from scratch, you ought to check out Elixir. Phoenix is a supremely productive framework.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
It seems only a matter of time until Google is just an interactive yellow pages. Why would you spend millions trying to index peoples personal blogs etc. when companies will pay thousands for the spot in the results and give you the link to
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by Jedi72 8y ago
This is sound logic, but people still pay $1000 for a handbag or $400 for a pair of sneakers. People are idiots.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Google's current vision is to try and shape/control the tech landscape to a point where you have to pay them to be found, distributed on or otherwise operate over the internet. They would like to have all search, social interactio
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Its all about control. They want to own you.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
What?? This makes no sense.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Fission produces toxic waste. Thats just the fact. It takes thousands of years to become safe to handle. The idea that "we'll just bury it in the desert" is the same kind of short-term thinking that got us into our current
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Unless you develop in Elixir/Erlang where you can spawn millions of concurrent processes.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
This could also be a good way to refresh keys periodically. And with the scratch-off lotto ticket idea, you could anonymously assign keys using QR codes, which would greatly improve the UX, AND mean you dont need to store any details of the
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by Jedi72 8y ago
This looks cool, I like the collaborative planning stuff, but all I really want is a reddit-like forum where you need a cryptographic key to post. Make it so that you need a real physical ID to get one, like maybe you need to go see a Justi
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by Jedi72 8y ago
But of you tackle the problem first, and not the technology, it makes more sense to just build automated road systems. Dumb pod-like cars which are driven by roadside controllers. If we decide to go down this route it can be achieved with e
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Driverless cars are IMHO a classic example of technology looking for a problem to solve. Improving road safety, the biggest reason for them (again IMHO) can be achieved with existing technology by implementing smart roads with sensors and c
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Surely in terms of brain injury American football is comparable to professional boxing? If so, that sport seems to be doing right.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Same cadence.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
I have thought about this a little bit. If this is something Americans believe in, its time to make it official. Make a legal proceeding where you can "start again", so that nobody from your old life can trace you.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
I would call it a general purpose computing device and also would say you're not in control of what's going on.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Running programs inside a sandbox is not what the OP is talking about. If you can't reinstall your own OS and get root permission* to talk to the hardware, you're not really in control of whats going on. *Im of course aware you ca
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Companies that do this kind of garbage don't deserve your dollars. Its not enough to apologise after the fact, or offer opt-out, or any other half measures. I'm moving my domains over to someone else this week because of this.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
I guess the internet is getting old enough for fashion to start repeating itself.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Just to clarify, are you making the claim that everyone has the same mental capacity for thinking/deduction/memory/etc, it's just our perception of that based on various external cues which makes us think these levels ex
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by Jedi72 8y ago
In practice, men with big sticks dressed in blue coming and fucking up your day prevents this.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
If, in the view of a court of law, it was not the algorithms fault due to negligence or whatever then I agree they are not responsible. I only ask the same rules be applied to the machine as a human. As for who ultimately pays, fine, substi
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by Jedi72 8y ago
I'm all for driverless cars, but if you put an algorithm in charge then the creators of that algorithm need to be legally responsible for the outcome. I'm talking engineers going to prison when one of these cars does inevitibly hi
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Besides the obvious question of 'does it work' I see a myriad of other problems with this. Does Facebook have the internal procedures in place to prevent abuse? Will this data ultimately be used to advertise things like anti-depre
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Its Oracle certification all over again.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
I wonder what's going to be more effective - building the wall, or paying the people employed to guard the border?
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Good writeup. Since I can already see not everyone here actually read the article, here are some highlights. > Law enforcement has always been able to request information from us through the Telecommunications Act with a lawful warrant.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
I watched a documentary on Scientology ages ago about how they were suing the crap out of people for DDoSing their site. The problem was these people were basically just kids, most were ~14 years old, who saw something on 4chan and followed
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by Jedi72 8y ago
People also forget that when those companies were young they were hailed as tech innovators who brought economic prosperity, not evil monopolists destroying the planet with their unintended consequences. That part comes after

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