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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
Privacy advocates are not a subset of libertarians. Libertarians may be privacy advocates, but there are many privacy advocates that are not libertarians. Privacy advocacy is popular among the upper classes, because they really don't want a
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
Even before I looked up your profile information, I knew that you were over 35, because "weenie" hasn't really been a popular pejorative in a long time. You were around in the Usenet days (or at least are old enough to have been), haven't y
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
The NSA stopped caring about your privacy after 9/11 — just read about the demise of project ThinThread [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
Besides the fact that most commercial monitors have pitiful ppi, the fact that monitor manufacturers are selling mostly widescreen monitors with a poverty of vertical room drives me crazy. It's hard to read a pdf of a book when its resoluti
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
There's an excellent add-on for Firefox called "No Color" that I use whenever I come across sites like these. One click makes it readable again. I'm not affiliated with the developer in any way. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/add
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
Nijk, you've been hellbanned, but you're question is valid so I'll respond to it (I can't respond directly to a hellbanned user). Brin and Zuckerberg are members of the (upper) middle class. Class is a broad term; the people who think tha
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
I strongly recommend that you read Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell. Although it was written in 1983, it is still the best description of the American class system that I have ever read. It's less than 200
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
> Corporate America is a nation of social climbers Well, yes, but you can only climb up to a certain point on the social ladder. In fact, adapting to corporate culture guarantees that you will never be a member of the highest class. You
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
Animals do not have language in the same way that humans do. Yes, the may have a way to communicate with each other by sounding their voices in different pitches, and yes, some apes can learn sign language, but that does not mean that they
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
I love the postscript of this: "It is nonetheless supremely ironic that the demise of Lisp at JPL was ultimately due in no small measure to the unreliability of a C program."
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
The article is extremely poorly translated, and many of the sentences don't make sense. This makes it hard for me to figure out if something was lost in translation or if the author is as ignorant as the translation makes him out to be. I w
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
The "Retina" display is just a marketing term which means that a person with 20/20 vision cannot distinguish individual pixels at a certain distance . Movie screens do not need to have a high ppi ratio because you view the screen from a gr
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
> It's insane how powerful CSS has gotten, can you imagine building something like this 10 years ago? Yes, but not in CSS. Actually, the fact that CSS has evolved to do this is really an indication of what a failure CSS is. Or rather,
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
>Calibrated Brain wave readers and eye cameras in the corners of your room can see what elements on the screen you're looking at and can execute commands based on certain thoughts. Brain waves (produced by changes in electrical current
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
No, I don't think that. I also don't think that HFT is necessary for an intermediary to create wealth.
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
Local governments are also involved in the stock market. High frequency traders make money by acting as an intermediary between buyers and sellers, and thus not creating actual wealth. Instead their supposed value is the "liquidity" they ad
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
> Waking Up and Sleep go together: Neural implants... Neural Implants‽‽ Brain surgery is a still a big deal, and is usually done as a last result to fix a life threatening condition or debilitating injury or condition. The idea of unnec
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
One of the reasons that NYC and its suburbs have a higher cost of living than upstate New York is because they have higher county taxes. They have higher county taxes because each county has to pay for it's own Medicaid. The larger counties
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
Fascinating! This reminds me of William J. Beal's seed germination experiment that started in 1879 [1]. Beal buried seeds in several glass jars, and then dug a glass jar every five years and planted it to see if it would grow. To extend the
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
Standing desks can hurt you if you don't wear proper shoes and/or use some kind of standing mat; regular desks can hurt you if your chair is unergonomic (there was an article on HN about this two weeks ago.) In a similar vein, you can devel
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
You need about two quarts of water a day, but you can get this by consuming fruits and vegetables that range from 84% (apple) to 96% (iceberg lettuce) water by weight [see link below]. Drinking eight glasses of pure water a day is ridiculou
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
This is the greatest innovation since Virtudyne's "The Digital Donkey" [1] — which is a parody of SimIndiana [2]. There really have been donkey cart driven libraries. [3] Of course, there really have been projects that used balloons in the
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
The site displays a list of the least number of blocks needed to achieve an integral multiple "overhangs" (ie. Floor (x) > y, where y is an integer). What the site doesn't mention is that after the first iteration, the harmonic series w
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
You're right. The FBI did have a warrant to monitor her email accounts [ǣ] (it's too late to edit my previous comment). The troubling thing about the Broadwell story was the FBI's preferential treatment of Kelley because she knew members o
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
> Most large public services you use (Skype, Exchange, likely Gmail, etc) have backdoors. Google gave up Paula Broadwell's joint Gmail account with David Petraeus to the FBI after receiving a subpoena. Gmail isn't secure unless you log
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
Trhtrsh, you have been hellbanned as of this [‡] comment. I'm not really sure why; HN might have changed their algorithm for banning, or you might have been banned for a bad submission. [‡]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5687245
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
I remember when Harvard, which had a $25.6 billion endowment at the time, stopped offering free breakfasts for upperclassmen (this was 2009, I don't know if they have reinstated it). It was a big deal at the time; it even made the New Yor
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
The elephant in the room is that many languages have adopted or have been influenced by the C language's miserable practices of ending a statement with a semicolon, and using the equals sign as an assignment operator. Both of these practice
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
There's a funny cartoon (from 1996, no less) about the downside of posting on the internet. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GhostOfUsenetPostingsPast
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by LowKarmaAccount 13y ago
Here's a basic explanation of the fractional reserve system prepared by the Federal Reserve http://archive.org/details/ModernMoneyMechanics

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