arca_vorago

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by arca_vorago 13y ago
Here are some good papers, there are lots more, but a small primer on what I am talking about. Bottom line is this, I was replying to the response to this comment "More people living doesn't necessarily mean people living better l
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
I don't think you understood his comment fully. He was not claiming that "people think gosh I have 1000 more calories, I will have another child" it's that with increasing lifespans globally, the population is booming, b
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
Slightly related story, first time I ever played Quake Live was against F4taL1tY, with instagib railguns. I lost by one point and challenged him to a CS match. (played cal back in the pre-source days) He declined... but I got a signed t-shi
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
The real issue that needs to be discussed, but no one wants to, is how one particular three letter uses drugs as a source of black ops funding, so that it is beyond congressional oversight. Of course, congress is so compromised they are muc
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
My bet, especially with the rumors of a secret google data ship, is that google is getting ready to make a data power play. Something along these lines: "Look at the horrible way NSA treated our customers... We're gonna make sure
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
Then they can fork it and allow people to post issues on their fork... but this does get me to thinking about how many people even involved in the FOSS world don't understand it very well. Perhaps I am the one wrong here.
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
For those of you interested in learning how the cough scam cough system of credit scores works and how to maximize the system, here is a talk I have found very informative. It's a dirty business and industry... http://ww
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
Actually bitcoin has many strengths, but anonymity is not one of them. There have been multiple papers that go into how easy it is to trace, and even laundering style services like SRO used aren't very good. http://fc13.ifca
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
I'm curious why more people aren't setting up dmz'd ssh servers on something like raspberry pi's for communication/document transfer with others. I wonder how viable a torrent like ssh p2p system would function...
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
Just now saw this comment. I have also been discovering the beauty of individual thinkers blogs, in addition to HN (for example, Bruce Schneier's blog is one of my favorites). I'm a fairly recent daily HN reader who has moved from
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
I can't wait to find out what it is and what kind of participation is available. GG has been doing some of the best reporting on a variety of issues for at least a few years.
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
I remember a documentary by a wealthy persons son who interviewed one of the founders of Kinkos who makes a comment something along the lines of wanting to look down on Earth from the Moon someday and being able to say, "I own (part?)
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
I see your intention now, but you are using the words in the wrong context with the wrong definition. There are plenty of hosted open source products that require little to no setup.
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
"Comparing it to open source isn't really possible." I don't really understand this line of reasoning. You are running code on your servers, are you not? Your code is either closed or open. (closed) How is comparing it t
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
Ugg. I really like where you were going with that, but you lost me at this: "People shouldn't spend any time configuring a server for a blog." Maybe some people shouldn't be spending any time configuring a server for a
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
According to one of Sibel Edmonds recent sources, the majority of them are selected largely based on their corruptibility (if they are clean, they are removed from the selection pool).
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
"Lavabit shuts down, because it turns out that hosting email for the criminal class carries real risks and isn't terribly lucrative." Perfectly summing up your bias on the matter.
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
The main contradiction you are referring to has it's core at this phrase: "Breaking that commitment was wrong." People who are inside the system are so invested in the viewpoint that they and their people are always right no
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
I hope I am not responding to too many people and seeming spammy, but here goes. I agree completely that we do not necessarily need to posit and organized "Illuminati-like conspiracy" to have cause for concern. There are plenty of
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
Negative. The problem with conspiracy theorists, or any group for that matter, is that they are so easily put into that group and then dismissed as a whole. Personally I think at the core of the matter is an enormous imbalance of importance
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
Just the MICC in general. I remember talking to Mudge on the phone about two years ago, asking him how Darpa was treating him. He said he loved it... guess where he is now? Google.
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by arca_vorago 13y ago
Lurkers first post here. I always said saying "I told you so." when stuff like this started getting revealed would feel like a hollow phrase. Some of us have spent quite a bit of time talking about these issues, and were mostly re