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by aric 12y ago
Yes. You make it sound like people can't hold multiple opinions. A person can simultaneously believe the drug war is unethical while believing that selling (rather than openly revealing) 0day exploits is unethical. The difference is th
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by aric 12y ago
Thank you! I'd be honored. Likewise, I'll be eager for any music from you, especially as you're even willing to ask. It should be noted that I truly love all forms of music and sound without reservation. Would be nice if HN
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by aric 12y ago
Sometimes it does. It depends. For instance, if I'm listening to NPR, Democracy Now, or other news shows and podcasts, those are usually too distracting. I can't get any real work or reading done if it's too engaging. "S
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by aric 12y ago
I said it partly distills a spirit of cities that never sleep , not of sleep . :) Not everyone lives in dense urban areas. And many who do don't want to listen to the actual noise of their environment. It's often distracting. Th
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by aric 12y ago
It invokes a mood. It distills a spirit of night and cities that never sleep. Urgent events from a police scanner play upon a feeling of social connectedness. Combining that with ethereal music plays upon senses of tranquility, danger, peac
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by aric 12y ago
Bookmarked. I already occasionally listen to local and nonlocal police scanners via Broadcastify with my own playlists of atmosphere and ambient-shoegaze music. No joke. I'll use this. Some beautiful, fresh music on the roll here.
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by aric 12y ago
Is English your first language? I'm not asking out of disrespect. I'm genuinely curious. The grammar of headlines and titling is often confusing to several non-native speakers. Incomplete sentences and 'news speak' play
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by aric 12y ago
Talking about the systemically brutal consequences of people who have blind allegiance to the rule of law is not equivalent to inferring that humanitarian law (e.g. Bill of Rights) shouldn't exist. It's not equivalent to saying
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by aric 12y ago
I prefer that rhetoric as follows. 'Anyone who supports the war on drugs has abandoned liberty and freedom.' Terms like "the rule of law" encourage a mentality that's unempathetic and unconcerned with many forms o
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by aric 12y ago
Similarly, behind every good ship is a trusty Ship's Cat. ( ...and often whiskey too. ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship's_cat
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by aric 12y ago
The euphemism known as an IRS audit would interfere in his life if an exchange into or out of USD took place. Anyone can attribute value to anything. That doesn't make it valuable. Taxation here would require provable gains or losses
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by aric 12y ago
If you think a person who wants to carry or transact a supposed worth of 10,000 EUR or 3,000 EUR or higher, without being tracked, is performing an action befitting of the word "criminal" (and often the harsh, cruel treatment that
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by aric 12y ago
Brainfuck is a backwards gun. https://www.google.com/images?q=backwards+gun C++, nunchucks? Ha, fair enough. But I'll continue to think of Go as my legion of tiny gophers under command, scurrying into battle or workin
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by aric 12y ago
I don't think I misunderstood you. Sorry, respectfully, I just don't see a good argument in the article against theoretical uncontrolled markets by drawing parallels to that context. Of course, it depends on a clear definition of
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by aric 12y ago
It really isn't. That's a heavily controlled environment. Airlines condone reclining. Therefore, reclining should be expected by people paying to enter, unless the terms of service state otherwise. The only idiotic part of this
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by aric 12y ago
Lack of privacy seems like a good way to encourage cultural genocide. Total transparency for individuals would make it easier for prevailing thought-leaders to suppress minority groups. Culture could be eliminated before it has a chance to
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by aric 12y ago
Value has value. Labor is labor. Agreed. It's laughable to base assumptions on relating "labor" to "value." The forms of labor that generate value depend entirely on cultures, systems, laws/artificial constrain
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by aric 12y ago
It's worth watching these short videos from years ago to get an idea, though this is a different game. Chimps outperforming humans in memory games: 1. "Man Vs Chimp - memory test" https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by aric 13y ago
I appreciate your politeness. Forgive me. I won't cast you off as one of those unquestioning faithfuls to a status quo. You're clearly concerned with questioning it, which is far beyond the attitudes of most people. Most people ca
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by aric 13y ago
I am begging the question. It's important. But you're forcing presumption. You presume that drug patents lead to better 'results' and that this form of corporatism is one in which society should place its faith, at the e
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by aric 13y ago
It reconciles by coping. It's better to deal with the harsh reality of peaceful commerce than it is to continually mold an economy with abysmal, suppressive, artificial constraints. Such laws are overwhelmingly wielded by large corpora
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by aric 13y ago
> The whole article sounds like a call for regulation based on a fear of change. It's the opposite. The article is hypothesizing that regulatory capture will lead to major policy fights against decentralized manufacturing. In fact,
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by aric 13y ago
It's the site's ultimate responsibility. If getpaint.net wants to maintain a site with deceptive ads, that's their explicit decision. I couldn't care less about their limited choices. Excuses like that are worth a null d
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by aric 13y ago
Sites like this need to be called-out and shitlisted. They have no regard for whether computers get infected. It's even worse when it's a site for supposedly "legitimate" software (or any download) allowing huge green [D
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by aric 13y ago
There have been countless (known) RTF vulnerabilities for over a decade.
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by aric 13y ago
Framework fatigue is understandable. Need? No. Want? Yes and maybe. Fortunately, no one's forced to use any one thing. That's because of the answer to your question: yes, no, and maybe. Do we really need another app? Another book?
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by aric 13y ago
I trust that the researchers of this study are too distrusting of all evidence to the contrary.
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by aric 13y ago
Upvoted as well. We ultimately agree. I'm sure you understand my contention. > "It also means submitting to the authorities when you break the law; MLK spent a lot of time in jail." I interpreted that phrase as exclusive
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by aric 13y ago
That's not the definition of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is not, in any way, exclusive to waging disobedience within a regionally localized or symmetric form. By definition, it's only exclusive to disobeying one'
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by aric 13y ago
Who created that rule? People must martyr themselves in cages, in blood, and in torture to peacefully resist, disseminate, and earn approval? Lunacy. There are stark differences to Martin Luther King, Jr. This current era is a time when peo

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