axanoeychron

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by axanoeychron 11y ago
There is an element of truth in what you call hyperbole. Gordon Brown (in the treasury) produced a report to see how UK could integrate with the EU. The output was basically that the UK economy is not flexible enough. A very large portion o
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by axanoeychron 11y ago
People might not always agree with you dude and that is okay. Overuse of the wink smiley is patronising.
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by axanoeychron 11y ago
Perhaps but that does not invalidate what he said.
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by axanoeychron 11y ago
I do not think it is a problem that some people are not willing to charge something that you want to charge for. That is, for you to be profitable, you rely on someone else not doing something. That is the nature of competition.
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by axanoeychron 11y ago
The answer is to make your adverts fast, lightweight and battery efficient. This is competition at its finest - those with the fastest and most compact adverts do not get blocked. Claiming your business model will be harmed by progress in t
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by axanoeychron 11y ago
Nope but I can see how you can read it that way. The important part is after the 'but'. More that I am paying for the same services but doing the right thing costs me far more in excess of the benefit to myself.
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by axanoeychron 11y ago
I am a UK taxpayer too but my building has no recycling. I live at home for one or two days a week and no personal transport. Why should I suffer all the costs of recycling?
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by axanoeychron 11y ago
I hate adverts. My problem with adverts is that they are not information, they are selective truths or downright lies. I cannot trust adverts.
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
Bitcoin is technically interesting and awesome. My problem with Bitcoin and why it does not completely solve the problem described in the article - it is a social problem. Like land, a lot of Bitcoin is landed wealth. It has an inherent ine
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
I completely agree with this article. I would like to share a story of my own journey in this. For a long time I had wanted to lose some weight and to remove some bad habits. It dawned on me that I could eliminate the habit altogether by sc
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
You cannot defend frontrunning of a market. If I ask for X at Y. Someone else shouldn't have the facility to buy it based on my own trade signal and try sell it back to me. It is mindblowingly simple theft. The arguments for liquidity
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
This is an interesting hack: a host script can communicate with scripts in an iframe via the postMessage API and relying on the fact that a script running in the frame can make same-domain requests. I am worried that people will choose this
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
Aww. This is unfortunate - I frequently visit Freecode.
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
> I find the general "Main Street" sentiment toward the profession to be misguided. > I won't say HFT is the most valuable thing that its practitioners can be doing. I think the (trading) world would operate just fine
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
This makes me think of TempleOS. TempleOS [1] 'shell' operates as a programming environment - what you write is compiled and inserted into the same process that the OS is running as. It's a single address space. [1] http:&#x
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
These submissions make me feel like I am on LifeHacker.
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
I have a question regarding the type and amount of conflict between different organisations. I ask this because the kinds of issues in this article seem like common courtesy and respect to me. What kind and how severe is the conflict at tra
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
It would seem that applying a law in spirit is incompatible with human nature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
For the EU requirement to check if information is in the public interest, we have to have guards against the system being abused, such as wealthy people removing information about themselves. This implies some sort of public record - to pro
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
Good question. While the right to forget is socially beneficial for society, there are technical problems that make it inconvenient. There is the problem of whether it is censorship to force a neutral party whose mandate is merely to store
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
This is a strawman argument. It's blatantly obvious that a historically significant event such as a dictator needs to be kept as part of the history books because of the impact it had on many different people. At the end - the argument
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
Why is it no longer relevant? I don't think that is true.
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
I find it deeply concerning that a Klout score would be used for anything. Klout is not a measure of value.
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
That is a contrived example. In your example, the information would be kept, the fact the property was foreclosed would probably be stored in a cabinet or computer system in an office somewhere. You would make an effort to seek out and obta
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
Does this mean we should accept and ignore character smears, witness protection, cyberbullying and libel? Is it okay for someone to surrender the arbitrary association of content to their name which may not be true? The solution might not b
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
The person who wants the information is the one causing the removal of the content - not the government. It is not about the government trying to suppress information. The government (or court system) is acting on behalf of the individual.
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
The article and discussion is not about what you yourself put online, it is what others put online about you which is then indexed. The cost of removing from an index is insignificant compared to the personal cost to the person.
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
What if your statement is false?
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
I am not sure what to make of this argument. A number on a calculator is data, not information. Do you want a perfect search algorithm that knows no bounds? Would you be okay with it finding a webcam stream into your home? Or phone or your
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by axanoeychron 12y ago
This really is not the same as censorship, equating it does not make an argument. Your example uses a robbery - a crime which is very much in everyone's interest to be public. It's useful to know where the crime was committed and

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