aaronem

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by aaronem 12y ago
You get a gold star.
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by aaronem 12y ago
> piracy guarantees privacy in viewing It does nothing of the sort; it only makes it less likely you'll get a targeted ad, and more likely you'll get a nasty letter from your ISP instead.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Oh, well, that's much more reasonable, of course; it's not civilization entire you'd like to see collapse, just cities. How do you imagine this working, pray? "Build lots of trains" I expect to feature prominently i
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by aaronem 12y ago
You say that as if "just shutting down all roads" were, however modified, at all a sensible thing to suggest, unless you number among your desiderata the messy collapse of the existing civilization, to be replaced by one which doe
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by aaronem 12y ago
> What is it with HN lately? > Anyone makes a post and 17 people feel obligated to argue "Forget it, Jake. It's Hacker News."
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by aaronem 13y ago
I spent a while looking, but I'm pretty sure there's no actual game there.
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by aaronem 13y ago
You've put your finger on the nub of it.
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by aaronem 13y ago
DNS amplification works on precisely the same principle.
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by aaronem 13y ago
I've definitely noticed a different response from waitstaff when I'm on my own than when I'm out with friends; it seems as though, in the former case, a waiter will tend to be a bit less formal and more friendly than otherwis
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by aaronem 13y ago
A fair response, although I might quibble with your choice of the term "moron"; if that was what I thought, I doubt I'd have bothered replying to you at all. (I note also that, in my earlier reply, I forgot to mention that se
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by aaronem 13y ago
There's also the question of what message you might send by losing such a suit.
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by aaronem 13y ago
I'd like to see TCO in Javascript, but before that I'd like to see some less headache-inducing method of dealing with lots of asynchrony. I'm not at all sure the method described in the linked article would work as well as sa
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by aaronem 13y ago
Thus far, he's led his nation effectively, and for the most part done a good job of looking out for the interests of his people. One may respect the skill he has thus demonstrated, without approving of every policy he's enacted in
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by aaronem 13y ago
You make it sound as though there's some reason to worry about getting involved in a land war in Asia.
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by aaronem 13y ago
RAINT-1, to be exact.
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by aaronem 13y ago
This itched me -- I've never gotten the impression that Christopher Poole was particularly stupid, and I couldn't imagine him reacting to a genuine offer of $1.2 billion for 4chan in any other fashion than by demanding cash on the
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by aaronem 13y ago
I can't find the story either, but that sounds like an excellent start to me.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Well, as I understand it, you can sue over any tort if you feel so justified, and the rest is up to a judge. I'm not a lawyer, though, so I'm not even sure about that much, to say nothing of being able to predict the likely outcom
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by aaronem 13y ago
I'm not sure whom you imagine to constitute "they", but I've found from my own experience that assigning the responsibility for a problem, to some nebulous "they", tends to result in considerable underappreciat
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by aaronem 13y ago
Primus : "(something really stupid you'd have to be an asshole to say)" Secundus : "That was really stupid, and you're an asshole for saying it." Primus : "LOL I TROLL U LE TROLLFACE.JPG LE MFW LELELELE
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by aaronem 13y ago
There is no coercion here. You need to learn to distinguish between what you see and what you imagine you see.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Could be both, as for example when not only do you get your ass kicked, but some prick uses the iPhone Daddy bought him to take video of it, which he later uploads so he can share the link around your entire school. Just another point in de
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by aaronem 13y ago
> because I am always right Really? Your whole comment here constitutes a contemptuous dismissal of anything, suffered by anyone, which doesn't live up to your particular standard of "bad enough to cry over", and you say y
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by aaronem 13y ago
Which is another way of saying that this technology, like any other, is morally neutral, and only the actions of the people who use it have any moral weight.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Seconded in full, save that I suspect in a lot of cases it's not just "interested in not seeing it" but rather silently cheering bullies on, on the same general theory as someone might, while finding the specific methods dist
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by aaronem 13y ago
Why does it need to be called " anything bullying"? It seems to me that for anyone who's been bullied, or who hasn't but has seen what it does to someone who is, the noun stands quite well on its own.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Yes, you are wrong. There's a huge difference between trying to shut down conversation, as you seem to imagine such a reaction to be, and simply trying to keep conversation on someone else's site from spilling over onto your own,
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by aaronem 13y ago
You wouldn't happen to have a link to a working version, by any chance? I'd like to play with it, and I'm not soon going to have the time to sort out what's wrong with the version I linked.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Link to the Open Xanadu demo: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/126637177/Phase_1_no_nav_... Doesn't work for me due to Javascript errors, but I figured I'd post it all the same.
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by aaronem 13y ago
It appears to be either live or live-ish. (On the other hand, according to the schedule, Jaron Lanier should've been the first speaker, and he doesn't appear to have been from the perspective of the stream. Did he speak and it was

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