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by __jal 10y ago
"Human longevity embiggenator candidate #318621" And I can promise you I'm posting this in good, er, spirits.
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by __jal 10y ago
I don't disagree. I'm completely on board with reducing GHGs. I'm talking about proposals to pump sulfur compounds into the stratosphere[1], or the loon that decided to dump a bunch of iron into the ocean several years ago. Y
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by __jal 10y ago
The people who make me crazy are the ones who argue that everything will be fine, there's on need to change behavior because we'll fix it in post, I mean, geoengineer our way out of any problems. I always want to suggest to these
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by __jal 10y ago
I think it is about time to build a one-click opt-out to preemptively opt-out of all of these scumbags' systems.
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by __jal 10y ago
Other reasons I haven't mentioned: Using Mutt is the easiest way I've found to get and (more importantly) keep GPG configured. Yes, people use it; in my case, for interacting with some open source projects. I've played with s
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by __jal 10y ago
I disagree. Military contests, like any other, are about the relative strengths of the opponents. Comparing percents of GDP might tell you if you're in running with the pack or not, but the outcome of a fight between Lower Plonkova (sp
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by __jal 10y ago
> the idea that everyone should become a programmer is honestly just plain wrong For this to be fruitful, we need to define terms. I agree that the notion that "everyone" should have the skill set of a full-time software engine
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by __jal 10y ago
He should know: he's probably the individual with the single largest share of responsibility for the housing crisis. Not to mention responsibility for setting up with swindle that is currently used as an excuse by those who want to fee
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by __jal 10y ago
Same here. But you and I (or, more specifically, our firms) are not really the market for LE, at least at this point. I fully expect over time for others to compete with LE, using free certs as a loss leader for other services. I also expec
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by __jal 10y ago
If you define "make sense" as "having an explanation not rooted in the supernatural", then yes. By that definition, Brainf*ck[1] also makes sense. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
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by __jal 10y ago
> I want it deregulated and opened up to very serious competition. I also want our government to build reliable infrastructure (fiber) as much as is possible. I'm not surprised that you feel torn. Those desires are in direct contrad
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by __jal 10y ago
It is classic regulatory capture. US telecom, historically, basically owns the regulators. Occasionally, like now, the FCC pushes back a bit. Combine that with large regions of low population density and a lot of land, and we have very litt
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by __jal 10y ago
As frequently happens, Bruce Sterling was there. Pick up a copy of _Holy Fire_.
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by __jal 10y ago
I'm curious - where, exactly, do you see room for, uh, nuance? I can think of some extremely limited circumstances in which DRM may make sense. None of those apply to general-purpose computers in our homes, pockets or most businesses.
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by __jal 10y ago
That's not a chipmunk. This is a chipmunk. http://pmdvod.nationalgeographic.com/NG_Video_DEV/935/311/le...
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by __jal 10y ago
That's one view. Another is that strict, detailed laws without human judgement inevitably creates absurd results. Law doesn't work without room for judgement. Enforce rules designed for toy models of reality[1] and people won&#x27
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by __jal 10y ago
More like a strong economy == lots of energy use, and lots of energy use == lots of pollution, because the world uses lots of dirty energy. The fact that one can guess some results ahead of time doesn't cast doubt on the results, any m
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by __jal 10y ago
They didn't build SFU - the first thing called that was a rebranded MKS toolkit, from Mortice Kern Systems (later, I think, bought by somebody else). The second thing called named SFU was a different POSIX layer built by some company I
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by __jal 10y ago
They are truly amazing. Every time I think they've scraped the bottom of either the incompetence or the sleaze barrels, Comodo manages to get even worse. One of their sales droids hassled me a while back with some deeply slimy tactics,
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by __jal 10y ago
So you're in the third category.
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by __jal 10y ago
I'll throw out at least one selfish, utilitarian-ish reason why understanding of contrary viewpoints still matters: if you don't have a theory of mind that at least somewhat tracks an adversary, you will probably lose whatever com
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by __jal 10y ago
Correct. And one of my biggest gripes with F*%#book. Perhaps it can't be entirely avoided in a social networking app, but there's a difference between unwanted leakage and active encouragement. Providing incentives to people to ra
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by __jal 10y ago
- If you're trolling, I have nothing to say. - If you're playing that game where overstating things for political effect because you [...], have fun, but I don't want to play. - If you actually believe that, either your prio
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by __jal 10y ago
Not necessarily. I block FB at my router at home and via DNS on my phone, reject mail from them at my server and use a browser blocker for their web bugs at work. And still "my" data leaks to them via other people who apparently u
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by __jal 10y ago
It it were 419 and I started hearing from previously unknown dead relatives' barristers in VR-land, I'd know who to blame.
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by __jal 10y ago
Perhaps. Or perhaps you are choosing to interpret my words in a way that leads to a silly result. The much more obvious reading starts with noting that the party ruling Florida is the same party that also happens to have policy positions th
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by __jal 10y ago
Because one political party, currently mostly ruling Florida, has made a core mission out of defunding anything that benefits anyone not already wealthy, not part of a small set of favored programs, or "defense"[1] spending. Peopl
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by __jal 10y ago
Half-implemented, broken and cool is more fun than solid and battle-tested, and that's perfectly fine so long as you don't get yourself fired over a bad choice - have a great time. Honestly, I used to be more novelty-driven, too.
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by __jal 10y ago
> British working class finally voted for their interests That's a funny way of defining 'interests'.
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by __jal 10y ago
I'm actually talking about sort of the reverse. Secure Input is a system-level thing; it disables input capture via the accessibility API (which things like TextExpander use), which effects everything on the machine. That is what you w

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