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by billiam 6y ago
the level of understanding in government of how the Internet was shaping up way back then was really really low; I was around then and felt it was crazy but unless the regulators can understand and measure an industry, they won't every
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by billiam 6y ago
The encrypted traffic will be the traffic Amazon will be most interested in, since you took the trouble; they won't peek into the DB but they will be able to infer lots about what's going on if they want. It's the Tor Paradox
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by billiam 6y ago
If we're seriously arguing in HN over whether something as fundamental as this is going on , imagine the confusion among potential users of Signal.
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by billiam 6y ago
Maimonides was a smart dude, but I must say I don't understand the highest level here: do you have to know they are about to be impoverished? If so, don't you know their identity to give them a job, a loan, or a gift? Payday lende
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by billiam 6y ago
Or, maybe, when we realize our society is set up to increase billionaires' fortunes, not happiness or well-being, his example of Giving While Living will become a standard for the very rich, and everyone will know his name. Why not mak
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by billiam 6y ago
Quite telling that some people see this as a triumph of humanity and your reaction and some others is to make sure you can you end your life if in a similar situation. Martin of course never had that choice to make. But I think the real poi
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by billiam 6y ago
What's really amazing is to think that it was only after grasses started taking over that very large land mammals could evolve on the vast marshy plains of North America and over 5 million years or so as sea levels rose due climate cha
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by billiam 6y ago
I would suggest that what you say is an excellent illustration of something implied by the OP: we're not reading the way that our learned ancestors did, we're processing words. Books mean everything to me, but I can't really
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by billiam 6y ago
If it was in his tea he never would have made it on the plane. The inventor of Novichok pointed this out and said it was likely applied to his skin.
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by billiam 6y ago
The chicken is interested but the pig is invested.
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by billiam 6y ago
"I have no editor" is the first sentence and a grammatical mistake in the second sentence. Boldly played.
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by billiam 6y ago
This is sadly true, but we have to fix our libertine taxing authority and corporate law in any case. These are assets that are not adding to overall societal welfare, so I would rather criminalize and tax the thing society needs to change r
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by billiam 6y ago
I don't see why. There's a huge body of work that shows that taxing wealth versus capital income is likely to increase productvity while reducing income inequality, which is a hug source of our current economic problems and polari
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by billiam 6y ago
This "model" is so stilted and devoid of common sense that I wonder if this guy wrote it late at night on his phone after a few.
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by billiam 6y ago
TBH we haven't really tried very hard to communicate with cephlapods. A few dozen scientists max have worked on this in the last 50 years.
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by billiam 6y ago
Yes! I worked in precious metals exploration and the staking process seemed kinda crazy to me---racing up and down the hills in prospective areas, carrying the paperwork and bottles to put it them in (you can't use regular glass becaus
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by billiam 6y ago
Good idea!
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by billiam 7y ago
It's a shopping problem, not a language problem, according to these companies.
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by billiam 7y ago
for those interested, this find was made possible by what I as a (recovering) geologist believe to be the coolest event on Earth---a kimberlite pipe. Created in the deep mantle, these extremely dense magmas melt upward at increasing speed,
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by billiam 7y ago
That banking wet dream used to be subject of this article, Switzerland! As long as you had enough money.
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by billiam 7y ago
I believe slips this knot by making any uploader responsible for securing rights from every person in any picture they upload, no?
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by billiam 7y ago
This.
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by billiam 7y ago
Clearly the system is not working, and this isn't about editor/ideologues taking over the Wikipedia entry for a favorite game or public figure, but an entire nation. I'm Croatian, and while I've never used the site, I co
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by billiam 7y ago
This feature if functional and accurate would immediately get both sides of my payment business. You listening, Stripe and Square?
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by billiam 7y ago
If I could say just one thing about programming to my kids, I would quote this.
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by billiam 7y ago
I'm sorry but your misreading of American history is substantial. Texas v. White in 1869 made official that which Shay's Rebellion, the annexation of the Texas Republic, and the Civil War had established by actions--that secession
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by billiam 7y ago
Mozilla's priorities are (and have mostly always been) for FF on Windows. It's a gripe that me (and the great majority of FF devs who use Macs and Linux boxes) have been suffering under for years) that those OSs will just never be
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by billiam 7y ago
We are way worse at understanding how the effects of global temperature rise will manifest than we are at estimating those changes. That is coming to pass now - pollinators disappearing that could collapse ecosystems are just one example. W
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by billiam 7y ago
It's....complicated. That's why The Three Body Problem is not just a great scifi book, but a real mechanics brain teaser. That doesn't take away from the strength of this illustration, which is explanatory in nature, not auth
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by billiam 7y ago
this.

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