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by cracell 12y ago
Ah yes the libertarian view of "The free market will solve all problems" while ignoring all data to the contrary. Here's a good counterpoint to this view http://zompist.com/libertos.html
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by cracell 12y ago
And replace them with what? Pitch forked crowds? Security guards? Private police forces? All of the alternatives I know of are worst. There are many police forces they don't abuse their power. We just need better checks and balances to
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by cracell 12y ago
I'd feel much safer if they could laugh it off. Responding they way they did is illogical and just reenforces the idea that many in the American government now see the America people as the enemy.
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by cracell 12y ago
Here's a German video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuVuEz0S16c of the system in action.
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by cracell 12y ago
It's not scientific though. It's an anecdotal story. Which can be useful but shouldn't be taken anymore seriously than any other documented story about abuses of authority. But there's no good control to make scientific
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by cracell 12y ago
In fact the concept is very old (not to say anything about whether it's correct or not). "All Disease Begins in the Gut" ~ Hippocrates
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by cracell 12y ago
I'd love to see companies whose charters legally make them impossible to acquire. No idea how this would work in practice or if you could actually make it enforceable under US law. But I'm so sick of startups just being R&D fo
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by cracell 12y ago
Because Aereo was selling a service of setting up and running that equipment for you. I have mixed feelings on the whole case but your example isn't directly comparable. Really though the whole idea of local broadcasts of national show
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by cracell 12y ago
Seems like encouraging more females to go into tech jobs and making training for them more available like RailsBridge's workshops would be a far better use of money and time. If you want to simply stay on the dating side of things you
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by cracell 12y ago
This article was terribly biased. Many of those decisions could go either way. Stock price being up just means the company is being perceived more positively. We'll see how this really plays out.
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by cracell 12y ago
I really wonder if they purposely did this to try and make it close and get a good article. Had the car not ran out of juice they would have a very boring article.
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by cracell 12y ago
But on many orders of magnitude larger than 100 people.
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by cracell 13y ago
The author needs to read or reread The Mythical Man Month. Even in a large organization there are important benefits to having fewer people on a team. Even if this means that someone is sometimes doing work that they are overqualified for.
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by cracell 13y ago
It is rationale to not trust a company owned by Facebook. Facebook has a horrid record and we have no reason to trust them or anything they own.
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by cracell 13y ago
Why not all 3 and throw in the US as well? The goal is too record everything which means implementing programs like this in as many countries as they can. Actually identifying which countries such programs are currently operating in would b
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by cracell 13y ago
The article is evidence of the capability. And if you look at other leaks you see a clear pattern of them vacuuming up all the data they possibly can. Then take into consideration their budget and various data centers and it seems that they
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by cracell 13y ago
Why not? I used to think that specialization was the right path to go on. Learn everything about just a few things. But as I've gotten older I've realized that most skills have far reaching applications beyond the specific task. L
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by cracell 13y ago
Yes! Is there anyone in the industrial farming industry that's actually pursuing industrial scale polyculture technology? Monoculture is not nature and is not just not how plants evolved to grow. We can continue to force it as we have
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by cracell 13y ago
Cool product but very creepy branding. Might be ok to keep the name Mother but shouldn't be emphasizing it as a "mother" on the site at all.
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by cracell 13y ago
Completely ignores Google's aggressive acquisition of robotics' companies. I'm not sure how those two fit together but unless this is two branches of Google moving in different directions I think they must both fit into the s
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by cracell 13y ago
One thing to take note of is that they specifically deny working with the NSA. They could very well be working with a contractor or another US government organization and not be lying. Not saying that they necessarily are. Based on what I&#
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by cracell 13y ago
A story about a very large and popular technology company's response to allegations of them intentionally adding backdoors to one of their flagship products isn't appropriate for a technology news site? Edit: HN's on-top guid
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by cracell 13y ago
I have a Rift dev kit and while it is really cool saying they "mastered" virtual reality is link bait hype. The Rift is awesome but it has a very long way to go before anyone should use the term "mastered" to describe it
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by cracell 13y ago
Why is that? I don't understand Canadian politics but the main explanation I've read online for this is that it was due to US pressure. But since the US government is allowing Colorado and Washington to go forward with their legal
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by cracell 13y ago
Because Google is the biggest name of the companies supporting it and the one that will probably get Techcrunch the most clicks.
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by cracell 13y ago
Individual projects don't show how you work on a team though, nor do they show quality of code unless you submit code samples and those can be and are sometimes faked (taken from an open source project or just not written by them). Pai
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by cracell 13y ago
Ha, that's a pretty bullet-proof way to not get shutdown. To expand a little bit for the less technical readers. This is about developing a new protocol for email, and an open source software package that supports that protocol for peo
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by cracell 13y ago
This is exactly what Brazil is so upset about http://rt.com/news/us-spied-brazil-oil-588/ And really if you have the data, why not?
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by cracell 13y ago
He's saying that he wonders if the point of the article is to give those that deny scientific studies in a non-scientific manner ammo. Something they can point to to rebuke scientific studies because they don't believe the scienti
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by cracell 13y ago
Still no rule against it is much better than an unenforced rule against it.

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