canders

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   by canders 14y ago

   You make a good point that loss of some kinds of freedom might be compensated by gains of another kind. But I think you are incorrect in implying that by making this observation you are exposing a logical flaw in Kaczynski's argument. The t
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   by canders 14y ago

   Kaczynski addresses this possibility explicitly in his 1995 essay "Industrial Society and its Future": "Anyone who has a little money can have something printed, or can distribute it on the Internet or in some such way, but what he has to s
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   by canders 14y ago

   The authors of this article write in their abstract: "Are there fundamentally random processes in nature? Theoretical predictions, confirmed experimentally, such as the violation of Bell inequalities, point to an affirmative answer. However
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   by canders 15y ago

   This program tricks Dropbox into thinking that you own a file when all you actually have is hash values for each 4MB block of the file. Dropbox will add the file to your account whether you own a copy or not. There are two major consequence