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by aryastark 13y ago
Thanks for the downvote. Didn't realize I was on reddit. > Don't exaggerate, don't use hyperbole, don't lie, don't be immature, I did none of those things. I used a device called humor. Perhaps you have none.
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by aryastark 13y ago
Who cares what is legal/illegal. That's missing the point. Under the PATRIOT Act raping and torturing infants is legal[1]. When corrupt politicians make corrupt laws, the only thing that should matter is what is morally correct
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by aryastark 13y ago
I disagree. I have an old IBM ThinkPad from the era when IBM still made PCs. Dell is pretty close. Their laptops are on the shitty Toshiba-ish side of things, granted (although higher quality build). But their monitors and keyboards are
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by aryastark 13y ago
I don't like unattended or scheduled delivery. This is what Vons does, in LA. However, we also have Yummy.com which provides delivery instantly. I've bought from them a few times, and they show up literally faster than a pizza
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by aryastark 13y ago
This is what ultimately did 3D Realms and Duke Nukem Forever in. There was a lot of overlap between Apogee Software (later, 3D Realms) and id Software in the early days. The mantra of 3D Realms was, during Nuke Forever, that the game will
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by aryastark 13y ago
Google Street view cars collect WiFi data as they drive by your location. See here: http://epic.org/privacy/streetview/
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by aryastark 13y ago
China's growth is being sustained by a development bubble, where they are accumulating the infamous ghost towns. But I've never heard anyone deny the fact that they are doing these things. And, of course, everyone in the US alre
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by aryastark 13y ago
Yeah, I really can't believe that hasn't been fixed by now. Not only that, but it's impossible to follow discussions here. You have to go through your comment history to find threads you reply to.
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by aryastark 13y ago
This must be red herring day on HN. USD may be the most ubiquitous currency on the planet. However, go visit a country like Japan. Once you're out of reach of any currency exchange, you won't have much luck using your USD. Iron
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by aryastark 13y ago
You remind me of the people that use Excel to do desktop publishing, or mocking up GUI screens. God bless your special breed.
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by aryastark 13y ago
a large number of apartments/condos do not have an outside stoop. Which makes this whole drone thing a bit impractical. UPS already has enough trouble opening a lobby door or getting past a security gate. The only practical thing I s
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by aryastark 13y ago
they must announce it runs on AWS.
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by aryastark 13y ago
$1000, for 1/12000000th the total current supply of bitcoins in existence? Sounds like a deal to me. The same fraction of USD is $100,000. There are 313 million people in the US. These are the majority of people using the dollar.
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by aryastark 13y ago
Entering credit cards into a '90s site was a scary thing. I saw what a number of sites did. Plaintext files with hundreds and thousands of credit card numbers. Just sitting there. Waiting for some random script kiddie to come along
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by aryastark 13y ago
Presumably, you are using the G+ profile. Otherwise, we wouldn't be having this discussion. What your blank G+ profile will do is connect your YouTube video views, with your Google Map searches, Google searches, GMail, and whatever
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by aryastark 13y ago
Quake 3 was pure perfection. That game never crashed. And I was playing on Linux in the bad old days of the late '90s, when sound and graphics drivers were spotty at best. I don't think we'll see anything like it again.
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by aryastark 13y ago
First Winamp, and now John Carmack leaves id. This has been a brutal week. On one hand, it's exciting to see John working on VR tech. I really do hope we see something amazing out of it. But it still feels wrong, an id Software wit
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by aryastark 13y ago
It's tremendously easy to contribute to open source. The problem is, everyone wants to get their name in the Linux kernel. It's just not happening. The technical bar is too high. Pick something less visible. There are literal
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by aryastark 13y ago
At least on Linux. The original was x11amp, which becamse XMMS. But there are much better options, especially if you want to go text mode. MOC ( http://moc.daper.net/ ), or even mplayer if you just want simple playback. A
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by aryastark 13y ago
I use it to collaborate with a fairly non-technical person, where it's marginally easier to use than email. That's it. I'm actually rather horrified at the people using it for backup and git. These are stupendously bad ide
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by aryastark 13y ago
I think this all remains to be seen. Right now the currency is experiencing rapid growth due to network effects. This is an entirely new type of currency in an entirely new environment. Until initial growth reaches an equilibrium, we&#x2
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by aryastark 13y ago
In a similar vein, HR is not your friend. Never trust what they say. Especially when they have you sign things.
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by aryastark 13y ago
reminds me a bit of Animal Farm. Where the rules on the farm slowly change over time, allowing for more and more transgressions to occur. 2009 is also, I believe, around when Google started recording WiFi data with their street view cars.
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by aryastark 13y ago
I'm not sure how people are determining this is a bubble. There are roughly 12 million bitcoins in existence. Priced at $668, that means there is a mere $8 billion in the entire Bitcoin system. That's tiny. For a global curren
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by aryastark 13y ago
You're not going to have reasonable discussions on reddit. Or here, for that matter. If you want serious discussion, hit-and-run style up/down comment systems are not what you're looking for. The up/down system acts mo
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by aryastark 13y ago
The tech press is a circus. In Hollywood, there are two films that ever matter. The one that had the lowest budget made by kids. And the one that had the largest budget. Anything else is not a story. Same with Silicon Valley. You have
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by aryastark 13y ago
Spotify was doing it when I tried to join. They apparently changed it later, to not require Facebook. But, you know, first impressions being what they are, I'll never be a subscriber. Trust is hard to recover once lost. Guess Googl
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by aryastark 13y ago
I'm not sure what people are expecting. YouTube is a site that has a wide, general audience that includes adults and children, of all backgrounds and nationalities. The popular videos are almost exclusively lowest common denominator
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by aryastark 13y ago
"Is the NSA storing nude pictures of kids? Are your children in danger? More at 11." We may get meaningful regulation after all.
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by aryastark 13y ago
Unity has probably one of the best UIs I've seen. I also use Blender, so I know how complex UI can get. But with Unity, they encapsulate everything into game objects and components. That's it. It really can't get much e

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