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   by api 11y ago

   Agreed, but it should be something you can change or opt out of if it is needed. There's a difference between limiting and requiring approval for a dangerous but often useful activity and outlawing it entirely.
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   by api 11y ago

   So wait... maybe I should not be lazy and just try the thing, but I can't understand how it creates 'hosts'? Vagrant?
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   by api 11y ago

   It feels a little bit like it's being pushed. The reality I think is that it's being pushed a little and pulled a lot by the mainstream of the market. By mainstream I mean non-tech-savvy users, non-hackers. That's most people
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   by api 11y ago

   This is fairly tasteful, but in general I dislike making things look other than what they are. It's so easy to get wrong and become kitsch and tacky like fake candles and fireplaces and those fake palm tree cell towers they have in S
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   by api 11y ago

   "Or does the Japanese constitution allow for preëmptive strikes outside of domestic borders, in the manner of a traditional military?" I found this sentence interesting -- I've been under the impression for some time that pre
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   by api 11y ago

   I keep wondering if Apple wants to kill OSX and take everything toward iOS, totally jailed everything, and the cloud. I know if they did they'd lose me as a customer for anything other that (maybe) phones, but maybe they don't car
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   by api 11y ago

   Better title: VPN services only provide weak privacy, and can see your traffic as much as any other ISP. They are good for escaping an ISP that messes with your traffic and injects things or a country with soft Internet censorship (where so
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   by api 11y ago

   I admire Epicurus for his many visionary ideas in several areas, but ultimately his philosophy rings hollow. Pleasure as an end in itself seems both circular and ultimately extremely dull. It's interesting that Epicurus condemns extrem
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   by api 11y ago

   The parent is referring to the typical attitude that's normally on display here about piracy of music, books, movies, etc. It usually ranges from the dismissive to claims that it actually benefits artists to the occasional bit of &quot
10. 13150.▲
    by api 11y ago

    I heard ants explained this way once: the little bug is not an ant. The colony is one ant.
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    by api 11y ago

    Thanks for that reference. This is also very close to the true non-westernized definition of karma: evil is essentially a virus that spreads from perpetrator/teacher to victim/student. If the victim does not consciously decide to
12. 13152.▲
    by api 11y ago

    The Pi is a wonderfully disruptive thing. I think it's a quiet stalking horse for the second personal computing revolution.
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    by api 11y ago

    If you are in the top 1% or even 5% you are probably capable of genius things if given the opportunity. The majority never are. Genius is much more common than opportunity.
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    by api 11y ago

    Billions. IQ is normally distributed, so it's easy math. Lots of cynics think people are dumb or we don't have enough smart ones, but the truth is that we quite literally have more brains than we know what to do with. We are a spe
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    by api 11y ago

    Aging? We have tales of yogis and other "adepts" who could supposedly live much longer than the average life span for their times or who could self-cure disease, etc. While I don't take these stories at their miraculous face
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    by api 11y ago

    Terrorist ideologies are absolutist and fundamentalist. The mental habits that engineering cultivates are unfortunately compatible with this way of thinking in political and spiritual/religious realms. There is an absolute truth and an
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    by api 11y ago

    Crapware and foistware is always "valuable customer blahblahblah."
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    by api 11y ago

    It is indeed under-researched, so it should be researched. The fact that nobody is working on it at all is insane.
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    by api 11y ago

    Telepresence and telecommuting is a big one. The energy savings that could be realized are staggering, and it's so far probably one of the Internet's greatest failed promises. The Internet was supposed to break the tyranny of pl
20. 13160.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Many of the things on this list are more or less technical requirements. Forced security updates are required to stop the spread of botnets, for example. If you make security updates optional people will turn them off and you'll get bo
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    by api 11y ago

    It's called Amazon. Other cloud services and bare metal hosts are not called Amazon.
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    by api 11y ago

    They'd probably be more... computational: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1579550088/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=...
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    by api 11y ago

    Also relevant is this great interview: http://matrixmasters.net/salon/index.php/2006/06/27/podcast-...
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    by api 11y ago

    IMHO: "A little, but not too much. The more product-market fit you achieve, the more you should worry about technical debt."
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    by api 11y ago

    Things are not insecure or secure. Things are secure to varying degrees; nothing is perfectly so and few things are totally not. (... and anyone who claims anything is totally secure is delusional.) Making it hard buys you some resistance
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    by api 11y ago

    Make it clean and fast and you'll have a compelling secure host OS for VMs. One problem that would be good to address (and maybe it is) is making it really hard to dump the memory of a VM. We don't have homomorphic encryption yet,
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    by api 11y ago

    In simpler terms, copyright was created as a legal hack to prevent a tragedy of the commons that would result in a total devaluation of intellectual labor. There may be a more elegant and fair solution, but no solution and pretending the
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    by api 11y ago

    I've come to the same conclusion: the call to abolish copyright is just a bullet point on the cost-saving wish list of content aggregators and content mills, and the people who support it are hopelessly naive ideologues who have not th
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    by api 11y ago

    If we have the technology to both: (1) Resuscitate cryo-preserved (vitrified) brain tissue. (2) Re-create a body and somehow transfer this brain or mind into it (or upload consciousness)? ... then it is likely that we would have such a de
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    by api 11y ago

    That horse has left the barn and is half-way to Alpha Centauri. The right way to achieve private browsing is with isolated VMs with randomized browser settings and characteristics, and you can do that with or without WebRTC.