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by brbsix 11y ago
People still donate to charity, don't they? Or voluntarily sign up for insurance programs? If the programs were effective in reaching their stated goals, I wouldn't expect them to be entirely chipped away. If instead the programs
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There are plenty of cameras like what you're describing on the market today. Modern incarnations of the Panasonic Petcam. Search 'WiFi IP camera'. You just don't hear about them because they aren't hyped to high hel
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Basically just a browser without a GUI. You can run a normal browser like Chrome or Firefox with a dummy display server or a real headless browser like PhantomJS or SlimerJS.
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There's a brief bio here: http://behindthedojodesk.blogspot.com/p/about.html One interesting quote: "My role and what I do has grown beyond what it was originally envisioned to be at Hacker Dojo, and frankly
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It sounds like you're advocating for totalitarianism. What scientists in what disciplines are the designated authorities? What does "no more doubting" or "you should accept what scientists are saying" even mean? Sup
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I think you could say the same about most issues that politicians (attempt to) address. Were Nixon or Nancy Reagan ever trapped in the inner-cities deciminated by the results of their failed drug policy? Were generations of their families i
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Since when are any politicans forthright in correcting and apologizing for their mistakes? Barring prison or other legal woes, when was the last time the advocates of any government program awknowledged and sought to remedy the deleteriou
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What he's getting at is "pathological altruism". You'll notice a pattern where people act on their empathy (declaring said action objectively good) and failing to appropriately reflect on it's consequences. Such is
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Missing cache of emails that is. Just search "missing cache" and you'll see even more of her.
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Why the downvotes? Are people really advocating for state censorship and propagandization? Perhaps the state has already achieved it's goals if this is so.
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The fact that establishment figures from both sides see him as "a very real threat" seems like a very good sign. For all the talk of democracy, it's pretty funny (funny ironic) listening to all the talk of subverting the elec
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An embedded option would be nice. I think it would be a great way to drive adoption. Also not everyone uses Chrome. I visited epiverse.co from my mobile browser and it just tried to open it in Chrome. At the very least a "comment with
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So world government? Some of the most powerful people on the planet have been openly advocating for such a system for quite some time. If such a system is created, I certainly wouldn't expect it to be in the interest of "the peopl
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One of the more positive aspects of hereditary monarchies is that their rulers are invested in the long-term success of their kingdoms. Democratically elected rulers have no such incentive. Instead, they promise favors to donors and their e
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IMHO nuclear weapons have done far more for peace (specifically in the prevention of world war and conventional international wars) than the UN.
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Not everyone's time is worth the same. Some people have more experience, intelligence, or can simply brute-force the task with determination. Productive societies reward people as such, and for good reason. You're talking about ob
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Do you know of anyone who's successfully used an iPhone camera in a hobby project? I looked around a bit and wasn't able to find anything. Here's someone with some older camera modules...[0] Didn't sound too hopeful. I&#
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It's a sad fact of life that people only accept tyranny from their government after first having accepted tyranny from their parents as children.
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I've had the same wish, but AFAIK cell phone cameras use proprietary interfaces and are not very useful on their own. They require a GPU and chipset. You'd have to include nearly the entire phone to make use of an iPhone 6s camera
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Knock-offs, particularly the sort advertised in spam and shitty foreign web shops, often have no active ingredient. Even generics are "knocked off".
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Isn't that what we have crypto protocols for? To secure something that is insecure by design? The Internet was not designed to be secure either, which is why we use HTTPS. If you need the contents of your email to be signed and confide
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Off the top of my head, that sounds just like Mailpile[0]. There's obviously many other less recognizable solutions. https://github.com/tonioo/modoboa sounds pretty similar. Lots of players in the modular Linux &q
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Orthodontics is a field known for its protectionism. It'd be pretty foolish but I wouldn't be surprised if you receive a cease and desist.
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There are a few realms of business that seemingly necessitate such games. It's about as aggravating as can be imagined. I wish I knew a way around it. Different people? Closer aligned incentives? The cross-cultural aspects here make it
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You don't even need a time machine to see the truth in what you've said. Remember the seemingly absurd "silent black helicopters" of conspiracy lore? Then look what was revealed during the bin Laden raid. Of course plent
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I wonder why you're being downvoted? Perhaps they know something we don't about the terrorist attacks averted and Constitutional protections upheld due to the NSA's virtuous efforts?
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Yes. We have Constitutional rights that protect us from such surveillance. Foreigners have no such protections from the U.S. government. This has essentially "lifted the veil" and made it abundantly clear that our government will
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I'm not a fan of U.S. law as it currently stands, but not enforcing laws as a matter of course (i.e. not an act of protest) pretty much demolishes rule of law. That sort of activity goes hand in hand with corruption and failed states.
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The really sad thing about this is that nature has a remedy for the grip of opiate addiction, iboga, yet it is illegal as well.
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Does this use haveibeenpwned.com's API? Looks almost identical apart from the interface support for multiple monitors.

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