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by asciimo 8y ago
Obvious to some. When consumers receive a valuable service or product for free, with no obvious strings attached, they consume it. I don't think most people would preoccupy themselves with the provider or manufacturer's business m
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by asciimo 8y ago
"Revolutionize fishing" seems to mean selling data to fisheries so they can pull even more fish out of the ocean.
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by asciimo 8y ago
You will always have the option to transact directly on the blockchain, just like you have the option to send email with hand-crafted SMTP messages. Coinbase offers convenience, take it or leave it.
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by asciimo 8y ago
Ha. I had this open in another tab all day but I didn't realize it was Michael Pollan. Time to read.
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by asciimo 8y ago
I love finding gold like this deep in a thread.
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by asciimo 8y ago
And it can't suffer.
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by asciimo 8y ago
Robots can emulate enough personality to offer low-maintenance companionship. Even Alexa and Google Assistant become part of the family, to some degree. Maybe Aibo provides a fraction of what you're looking for in an animal companion,
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by asciimo 8y ago
There's a decentralized Twitter clone that runs on the Ethereum blockchain. https://peepeth.com/welcome
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by asciimo 8y ago
Reminds me of that guy who pretends to be Satoshi Nakamoto: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/craig...
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by asciimo 8y ago
> I believe a happy cow is better than no cow Considering that most of US beef comes from factory farms, the concept of the "happy cow" is nearly mythological. Given the choice, I would rather not exist than play those odds.
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by asciimo 8y ago
I think the point is that web sites could also be vetted.
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by asciimo 9y ago
> Linux Subsystem Wat.I just went googling after reading this comment and at first glance, it looks like this is an officially supported method to run GNU apps in a Windows terminal? Can you boot directly into Ubuntu desktop without mess
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by asciimo 9y ago
Here's a photo album of producing the original golden record, followed by its visual contents. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa-jpl/sets/7215767618791618...
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by asciimo 9y ago
From the Voyager FAQ ( https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/frequently-asked-questions/ ) Even if science data won't likely be collected after 2025, engineering data could continue to be returned for several more years. The
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by asciimo 9y ago
Xenophobia?
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by asciimo 9y ago
Reminds me of the Doom status bar face. Pretty straightforward when you're visualizing one value. [ http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Status_bar_face ]
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by asciimo 9y ago
Be careful not to judge the author by his judgment of the cover of his book.
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by asciimo 9y ago
EV West makes kits you can drop into your old Karmann Ghia, Beetle, Porche and more. http://www.evwest.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=40&osCsid=63be...
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by asciimo 9y ago
No one has mentioned it yet, so here it is. If you don't control your private keys, you don't control your bitcoin (or other cryptocurrency). Hardware wallets are easy to use. Of course you still have to physically secure hardware
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by asciimo 9y ago
May as well be suspicious about the amount of bitcoin they mined, and when they mined it.
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by asciimo 9y ago
I was hoping to hear something about the imminent Gear watch (S4?). I guess Apple is the only company that bundles their various releases into a single event?
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by asciimo 9y ago
I'll take your question seriously and provide this story of an 1985 NES attempting to mine. ( http://retrominer.com/ )
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by asciimo 9y ago
This article stumbles right out of the gate. "Atari SA -- perhaps best known for 1980s video-games 'Pac-Man' and 'Space Invaders' -- is now jumping on the cryptocurrency bandwagon." Those games were created Nam
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by asciimo 9y ago
I had an opposing experience. I picked "Schedule" on each continent in the Countries course, and nothing happened. I do not know how to start the course.
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by asciimo 9y ago
I was considering this but opted for a Samsung Galaxy Tab S3. The stylus is nice, and you can take quick notes directly on the lock screen. I'm writing this post with it and it's much nicer than a virtual keyboard.
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by asciimo 9y ago
The challenge helps explain why the user experience for desktop printers hasn't changed much in 25 years.
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by asciimo 9y ago
Yes, that's true--the malware installed in our government has done some bad things that need to be discussed. But we also have to address the vulnerability that resulted in its installation.
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by asciimo 9y ago
My sarcasm detection browser extension predicts 96% probability of sarcasm in the comment.
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by asciimo 9y ago
Egg and dairy production it pretty horrific. (And chickens and cows are fed plants.)
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by asciimo 9y ago
It can be. There are lots of stories of USDA inspections being lax. For example ( https://www.motherjones.com/food/2015/02/usda-whistleblowers... ). Meanwhile, the meat industry is investing in "clean meat

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