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   by api 12y ago

   You nailed it with "rest of the world." The reality in the "developed" world and places like China, Brazil, and India is quite different. The U.S., Britain, etc. are experiencing widening income gaps, political and cultu
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   by api 12y ago

   > (I'd like to cue the arguments against having a Great War, "It'll be too expensive, no one would dare", circa 1913 or so). Funny... people now say the same thing about the potential of escalating conflict between Ch
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   Reason magazine's holocaust denial special issue(pando.com)

   7 points by api 12y ago|1 comments
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   by api 12y ago

   That's actually an excellent reply. It's sort of what I thought, but I wanted some insight from the trenches. My company is: https://www.zerotier.com/ I offered Dropbox as an example case because what I'm try
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   by api 12y ago

   Vultr.com allows you to launch a VPS with your own uploaded ISO / image, so if you made one for CoreOS it'd probably work. They also support FreeBSD. I've been using them in their Los Angeles location for a while and have had
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   Ask HN: Does open source hurt opportunity for investment or acquisition?

   10 points by api 12y ago|2 comments
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   by api 12y ago

   I had the idea a long time ago for a decentralized network with really small object size limits and bandwidth caps. It dodges a lot of the scalability problems. The idea would be for people to use it for communication, not big file transfer
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   by api 12y ago

   It's possible with central tracking servers if you de-hype-ify that number to say <500ms. With a decentralized network it's not possible. Even trying to achieve this would result in completely insane exponential bandwidth overh
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   by api 12y ago

   I wish these guys luck, but I'm becoming increasingly pessimistic about the idea of a 100% edge-only decentralized network that is really robust and useful. I don't think it's just a matter of putting the engineering effort t
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    by api 12y ago

    #2 is somewhat related to #1. It's so slow and inconvenient, the only user base are people who absolutely need the one feature it does deliver: very strong anonymity and censorship protection. Unfortunately that's to protect somet
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    by api 12y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Contamination_co... I'm not at all anti-vaccination, but I am anti-authoritarian and anti-closed-science. People have a right to know what they're putting in their
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    by api 12y ago

    I remember thinking this a few years ago... that cryptocurrency would be to banking what Napster was to records. This is particularly going to be true on the international scale.
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    by api 12y ago

    I blame conservatives for this too. They laughed for 50 years at all the hippies and eggheads who talked about the need for alternative energy. One of Reagan's first acts was to take the solar panels off the White House.
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    by api 12y ago

    Either they knew it was a bluff or our intelligence was either totally wrong or allowed itself to be misled. None of those make the Bush administration look good. I find the naïveté argument hard to swallow. The U.S. has the best intelligen
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    by api 12y ago

    I'd at least nod to this argument a little had Saddam not been a secular dictator and an enemy of Islamist factions. He was an awful guy, but not one of them.
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    by api 12y ago

    I've tended to take the darker view: that the war's planners knew it was going to be a tar pit, but lied us into it with promises of "quick in, quick out" and such (as well as the active WMD program hoax). Possible motiv
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    by api 12y ago

    War is a proven way to empty the national treasury into the pockets of contractors. That's good if you're a contractor but it's a net loss for the rest of us.
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    by api 12y ago

    Hmm... so you think it's just pure realpolitik and long-term geostrategic stuff. It just seems awfully expensive for that. Of course I suppose it's possible that they actually thought it would be easy and that the Iraqis would jus
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    by api 12y ago

    I think there are factors other than oil at work. Given the extreme fundamentalist religiosity of the Bush administration, I've suspected for quite some time that Iraq was driven by religious imperatives at the top with 9/11 and p
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    by api 12y ago

    Marketing can degrade into con artistry. It isn't always, but it certainly can. That being said, I think in the long run people appreciate it if your marketing isn't scummy. (Not directly aimed at the original article, though I do
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    by api 12y ago

    I tried Writer Pro a while back and was pretty disappointed... it was expensive for what I felt was delivered. I might give this one a shot.
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    by api 12y ago

    You just described significant portions of the security industry, which runs on maximizing the fear and FUD factor. It's not just true of computer security. It's really true globally of the entire "security" sector, from
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    by api 12y ago

    I wonder what these kinds of huge gains in laser technology might mean for fusion and beamed energy rocket propulsion?
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    by api 12y ago

    It's a really subjective thing, sure. I spent a lot of time in Boston in the Harvard/MIT orbit and I remember getting exactly the impression this article is talking about in many cases.
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    by api 12y ago

    Nearly every large corporation does this.
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    by api 12y ago

    Why would it? I have one. It's a great tool for reading, watching movies, replying to e-mails, etc. but you can't do real work on it. It's not just the small screen and interface but also the heavily restricted OS that can on
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    by api 12y ago

    "... great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it." From what I've seen this is absolutely dead on. Obviously I've met exceptions, but I have seen a pattern of people out of places like Harvard and M
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    by api 12y ago

    Of possibly more contemporary relevance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO I suspect that the heavy duty "Clockwork Orange" stuff was abandoned as low-tech, expensive, cumbersome, politically dangerous
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    by api 12y ago

    Gadgets and other manufactured goods are super-cheap compared to food, fuel, real estate, education, and health care. It's entirely possible for someone to have an iPhone but still be starving. My iPad cost about 3X a trip to the groce
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    by api 12y ago

    When I was 8-12 years old I used to run all over the neighborhood and play. Those are some of the best memories of my childhood. Would my parents be arrested today? Humans are so awful at statistics. Obsession over tiny insignificant but em