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by aspensmonster 13y ago
Wow! I've managed to infuriate someone enough to downvote my OTHER comments too! That seems strangely reminiscent of behaviour I see on those other, filthy casual websites. Fuck all y'all. I consider this mission an 11/10 suc
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
Please. Let's not give Gaben any more distractions from Left for Dead 3. EDIT: Yes... Yes... Let the butthurt FLOW through you! Hacker News is MUCH more professional and serious than those filthy casual peasants over at reddit!
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
PHB: "That's it. Now you've confused everyone. So what exactly is stopping us from doing this?" Anderson the Engineer: "Geometry." Client: "Just ignore it." PHB: "We have a task. Seven red lines.
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
An hour goes by and no one has called me on this? "Basic Income" and "no 'currency' to speak of" seem contradictory. I'd go for no currency rather than BI now that I think of it. Replicators for everyone!
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
Wow. After 5 hours and 51 comments this story is already on page three at rank 73! Slow clap right there.
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
In an ideal world, we'd all be living in a post-scarcity economy with Basic Income and no IP laws and no "currency" to speak of. In an ideal world. An ideal world sounds really cool! The implementation details might get a lit
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
My understanding is that, under Swedish law, Assange has what amounts to an arrest warrant. That they don't call it that and insist on merely claiming he's "wanted for questioning" is, as far as I can tell, semantics. He
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
Caprica holobands with advertising.
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
Actually, I think HN user mrxd hit the nail on the head here: >Here's another graph showing that the recent rise in tuition in Michigan is due to declining state education appropriations. > http://i.imgur.com/5gYHQ
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
Tech workers totally don't need a union.
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
>Why the, in my humble opinion, most important word of the original title was dropped For the same reason HN wants to roll out pending comments.
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
I know I'll get downvoted to hell for this reddit-like behaviour, but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc Others have already stated the specific reasons why this isn't a good idea very clearly and conc
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
>but with the expectation that they won't be maxing out their connection all that frequently. It's an old, antiquated expectation. It needs to die. Ever since the advent of peer to peer technology, there has been a perfect use-
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
-__- IT'S. A. FUCKING. WATCH. -__-
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
Of all the ducks, I think the number of doors on the car isn't that high on the priority list :P However, ensuring that you can still afford to pay all the bills for months --or years, preferably-- on end in the event that your source
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
>...about $220k a year in SF. That's workable. That's depressing. Sure, it might be workable too. But depressing. That's a little over a million dollars in FIVE YEARS. Ok ok, one or two more for final take-home pay. And th
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
I think the meat of the issue is right here: >It would basically be a choice between having children or having a retirement.
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
I enjoyed that link immensely. Such a welcome change of pace.
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
The incidents definitely are depressingly typical on a long enough time scale and with a large enough area. Maybe self-driving cars will eventually solve this problem, assuming they don't come with their own problems too. Granted, we
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
Well, I'd love to see some tech a la "Ghost in the Shell" that can just break down all the alcohol in the bloodstream on command, or otherwise maintains the euphoria without getting to the point of "I'm going to go
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
>At a mid-morning press conference Thursday, officials said eight people were still in the hospital. Five were in critical condition, and three were listed as serious. I just... I just... WTF. Just WTF. We've had injuries and incide
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
Yes. Driver identified as "Rashad Charjuan Owens, 21."
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
Now how about that cool drill-down tool I've been hearing about :D Edit: I'm... I'm an idiot! Apparently this is the tool I'm thinking of, or at least something similar.
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
That's strange. If ever I tried to build a botnet with millions of nodes I'd surely be thrown in prison for years at least. Probably decades. But if I've learned anything in my short time on this planet, it's to always c
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
Indeed. It's kinda depressing to compare the company lists between Texas State and UT Austin [1,2]. Sure, many of the same companies are there. But others --like NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, Raytheon, Toshiba, Verizon-- are only to be fo
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
"Electrical Engineering with a Computer Engineering Focus." Don't ask me why Texas State calls it that. Take a look at my degree plan and it's more or less identical to that of an ECE degree. Indeed I have heard that Qua
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
Oh FFS. Where's the principle of charity when you need it? YES. Without graphics processing of one form or another, on one chip or another, over one cable or bus or another, to one screen or terminal or another, your GIF absolutely won
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
>Is there evidence that this problem actually exists? This seems likely to be a manufactured story. I don't know. I thought he (edit: or she, I suppose) was pretty clear. His description of what the press does and doesn't rep
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
Well, I'd love to be doing work on the hardware side of things. I'd love to even intern --despite the fact that I'm graduating-- at a company like Freescale or Intel or Qualcomm or Cisco or AMD. As long as I could continue to
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by aspensmonster 13y ago
Well, the fourth estate is owned by the elites.

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