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by canadian_voter 9y ago
The threat of anti-trust to Google is good enough, I hope it's not acted on. I can guarantee you that someone at Google had studied game theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-credible_threat Edit: To clari
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
The problem with ignorance in the internet age is you can now find sources that confirm your wrong headed ideas, entire ecosystems even. When I was young, lonely and isolated, the internet was a godsend: it connected me to like minded ind
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Going to go ahead and recommend Paolo Bacigalupi's The Water Knife . And The Windup Girl is even better, but not on topic.
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
They got all of ISIS with one bomb? Good job, promotions all around.
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
It should be noted that Manjaro is phasing out x86. From Manjaro v17.1 Hakoila onward they will only be supporting ARM[1]. [1] https://manjaro.org/2017/04/01/phasing-out-x86-architecture-...
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
"FirstNet will provide 20MHz of high-value, telecommunications spectrum and success-based payments of $6.5 billion over the next five years to support the network buildout" I only had to read that 4 times to figure it out. Let&#
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Personally, I'd target older wealthy folks with the most intuitive UI yet created: people. Give them a tablet with one big red button, no controls. They press the button, they connected to a real person. They tell the person what to do
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
No money in tech for the elderly. They require more support, rarely upgrade and they die sooner. Kids require no support, constantly upgrade and become lifetime customers.
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Yes, this is what I meant. I feel like most people's daily internet use is highly surveilled already. I can see the ISPs thinking "FB and Google can only get 80%, but we can see it all, if only we can get them to change the rules&
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
The FCC defined Web browsing history and app usage history as sensitive information, along with other categories such as geo-location data, financial and health information, and the content of communications. If the rules are overturned, I
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
I think we need to get over the idea of privacy. It's not technologically, politically or legally feasible to expect that anything you do on the internet can or should be kept from the authorities. Big data is such an incredible tool f
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
> Regardless, he is probably in the black financially due to book sales alone... Well, if he's sold more than 20,000 copies at $55 each[1] then yeah, he'd have broken a million. And if he just kept the treasure then he's
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Sure, but I like the larger print. Maybe I'm just getting old. :)
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
What an interesting read. I also enjoy how the URLs display on hover. Stylin'.
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
> How many Canadians do you think are going to go picking Strawberries in California? Standing here, looking out the window at the cold snow blowing, I can say that I would very much prefer to be picking strawberries in California at t
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
“Whatever the chain of events is, the chain begins before birth,” said James M. Cantor, a University of Toronto professor of psychiatry whose research team has made a series of startling correlations finding that pedophiles are likely to s
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Also, all of your activities both at work and at home will be monitored for compliance with our "Helping Our Employees be Safer and Healthier" policy. No smoking, no drinking, no refined sugar, no red meat, no extra-marital or unp
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
You and I are in this world together and we should help each other as much as possible. Ah yes, the clarion call of modern capitalism. Why not just make the data free and open to all? Knowing more doesn't always lead to better outc
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
> The recipient must have taken a personal risk in order to affect positive change for greater society. There are plenty of ways to disobey without breaking the law.
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
In the future bitcoin[1] mining is banned on inhabited planets and instead done on Dyson spheres. [1] It's the future, so neither bitcoin nor internet are capitalized.
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
I agree. I found myself watching some of the videos over and over, and skipping others with only a cursory glance. The text was easy to read. When I watch videos with text I find myself pausing a lot. And nothing is more annoying than tryin
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Bingo, I think you nailed it. The cashless society – which more accurately should be called the bank-payments society... is a utopia where money cannot leave – or even exist – outside the banking system, but can only be transferred from ba
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
In my experience it is exceedingly rare to use cash, especially cash in amounts greater than $5, for anything other than crime. I own a legitimate, legal business. Half my revenues come in as cash. It is crazy insecure, dangerous, inconv
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
tldr; read and understand what you're signing before you sign it. Then, too, they would swindle you with the contract--and how was a poor man to understand anything about a contract? It was all nothing but robbery, and there was no sa
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Last time I flew into the US I was reading a copy of The Reluctant Fundamentalist on the plane. But I'm white, so nobody cared. Next time I think I'll try The Anarchist Cookbook.
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Hello, my name is Tim. I'm a lead at Google with over 30 years coding experience and I need to look up how to get length of a python string. <sarcasm> The problem with Python is the arcane, arbitrary and nonsensical syntax. It
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Gee, that's almost exactly what I got: def flatten(nested_list): output_list = [] for elem in nested_list: if type(elem) == list: output_list.extend(flatten(elem)) else: o
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Do you think this is the document he was handed? https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/documents/inspection... A few highlights: You may be subject to an inspection for a variety of reasons, some of w
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
There's no universe where having less information available to students improves learning. I think that's an oversimplification. I highly recommend The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. A quicker read is the article that inspired the
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
<sarcasm> How can we be sure he wasn't radicalized during his visit to Iran? Surely such an inconvenience is a small price to pay for the safety and security of our great nation? If he's got nothing to hide, what's he a

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