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by aestetix 7y ago
See also, Bruce Sterling's "The Hacker Crackdown", an historical account of the era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker_Crackdown . Some of the players involved, including from 2600 Magazine and Def
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Autumn issue of 2600 now available for download(2600.com)
12 points by aestetix 7y ago|0 comments
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Gnome Foundation Is Being Sued Because of Shotwell Photo Manager(itsfoss.com)
1 points by aestetix 7y ago|0 comments
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A Nobel Laureate Goes to Burning Man(nytimes.com)
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by aestetix 7y ago
Isn't the YC business model 1. get lots of users 2. sell user data when you start running out of money and realize your business model doesn't work? Not sure how this would apply to actual issues like climate change...
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The Future of Hope(2600.com)
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by aestetix 7y ago
Will they honor GDPR related requests? The last I saw, the have some checkbox they require european users to "agree" to in order to continue using FB, which basically waives their GDPR rights. In addition, you might want to review
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by aestetix 7y ago
I was very pleasantly surprised to see Don Kagan's "Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War" in the list. His "Introduction to Ancient Greece" class is really good (and available online for free). I'd also strongly s
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by aestetix 7y ago
He also has a new book out, "Working." It's a pretty short read compared to his other stuff, and he shares a few new stories about what he had to do to get some of his material. All around great stuff.
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by aestetix 7y ago
The Last Lion - a multi-volume biography of Winston Churchill, by William Manchester.
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by aestetix 7y ago
Yep. At this point, to encourage health and respectful public discourse, the first step is to delete your twitte account. And probably facebook too.
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Zombieload Attack(zombieloadattack.com)
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by aestetix 7y ago
I don't buy it. The correct way to produce a decryption is to produce a full plaintext document, along with steps to reproduce it. It's also worth noting that this is the latest of a long series of claims of having deciphered it:
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Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others(edition.cnn.com)
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Mark Zuckerberg and Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation(youtube.com)
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Sonic the Hedgehog (2019) Official Trailer(youtube.com)
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by aestetix 7y ago
What does "not tolerating" mean? Excluding him from everything? If that's the approach, what stops you from trying to get someone you don't like excluded by searching through everything they have ever said or done, surfa
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Large Purchase on Blockchain(blockchain.com)
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Hackers on Planet Earth Videos on YouTube – Many Blacklisted by Google(2600.com)
1 points by aestetix 7y ago|0 comments
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by aestetix 7y ago
It was more money if you set up a bunch of computers all doing the same thing.
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by aestetix 8y ago
Which is partly because the business model is selling data to large companies and data brokers, not providing a service to the "customers" (users). And then you get places like Facebook that are themselves data brokers, and sell a
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by aestetix 8y ago
Because it's cheaper than having an actual support hotline and easier to ignore than having email. And in the US especially, companies hate having to support users, which is why they are also pushing for AI support instead of actually
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by aestetix 8y ago
What about lyrics from artists like Bob Dylan? Clearly I'm not the only one who thinks he writes poetry, given that he won the Nobel Prize for it ;)
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Facebook Bans Faith Goldy & Canadian White Nationalist Group in Latest Crackdown(buzzfeednews.com)
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by aestetix 8y ago
Good fiction explores ideas which are timeless. Also, I would say that the "beginning, middle, end" model is a rather superficial framing. Take the Homeric works like the Iliad, for example. It starts right in the middle of a mass
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by aestetix 8y ago
The first 100 pages of that book (Master of the Senate) is the best history of the tensions of the US that I've ever read. At this point, if someone wants to discuss some of the more charged topics with me, I insist they read that firs
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by aestetix 8y ago
"Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity." -- Mark Zuckerberg[1], defending Facebook's "Real" Name policy. Based on his total disregard for privacy and his clear thirst for power, I w
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by aestetix 8y ago
Does this mean Facebook can now be considered a publishing platform, and thus liable for content put on the site?
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by aestetix 8y ago
This "solution" will result in tip money being taken from servers who work hard and being given the servers who don't work as hard, which in turn will reduce incentive to work hard across the board, and lead to a worse dining
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by aestetix 8y ago
I stopped reading when I got to this point, because it is clearly an opinion piece masked as news. Regardless of whether I agree with the opinion, because it is classed improperly I can't take anything else in it seriously.

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