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by cubano 12y ago
> Individual humans are smart. Groups of humans are dumb. Actually, you have that exactly wrong[1]. "Behavioural economists and sociologists have gone beyond the anecdotic and systematically studied the issues, and have come up with
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by cubano 12y ago
Even if they are not convicted, these charges are more than enough to appeal the entirety of the case against Ulbricht. As someone with direct experience with police corruption (I will save the story for some other time), I hope like heck h
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by cubano 12y ago
My guess would be that they are not trained to know better and that they have to write about something, anything really, that has some chance of grabbing reader attention and isn't related to celebrity culture. What's more interes
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by cubano 12y ago
Which reminds me of the old chestnut - being paranoic doesn't mean everybody is not watching you... Yes, and its corollary and my personal favorite... I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
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by cubano 12y ago
No I believe the motivating factor is not money, but a short-lived burst of fame, and even notoriety, for the authors of the studies. Think about it...you dedicate your life to your science, and grind day after day, year after year with no
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by cubano 12y ago
there needs to be a culture of using assertions in order to produce the desired results. IMO, proper "culture" is a significant part of almost all aspects of project management and no matter what, without it, the teams will nev
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by cubano 12y ago
"Explain How Everything in Computers Works. How Does a Source File Turn Into A Working App?" in under five minutes. How do you even begin answering a question like that? You could try to be romantic and playful and say the love
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by cubano 12y ago
I use 125mb.com for free hosting and they have the same one-button install feature if I remember correctly. But for sure, nothing wrong with this info...it's cool how the OP set things up for his solution.
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by cubano 12y ago
Yeah...although I have to admit, it seems to be getting somewhat better recently, as difficult as that is for me to grok.
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by cubano 12y ago
I feel like with Godaddy hosting I could make a website in like 2 minutes by pressing a few buttons.
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by cubano 12y ago
Sure it is, but if some carriers are a state-sponsored arm of a bad actor and are told by their masters not to treat traffic equally, thus breaking the net neutrality pact, then what are the responsibilities of the the other carriers? Worms
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by cubano 12y ago
Because, simply, the ability for the Technorati to push and pull code from a website does not an act-of-war make, no matter how you and I may view it. It seems almost certain, however, that in the coming week, this story will be told in the
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by cubano 12y ago
I agree...it seems much more akin to sport than militaristic action. Since sport is pretty much a direct offshoot of war, I think the analogy works ok.
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by cubano 12y ago
Yes I have now, and I must admit I totally mis-characterized its content in my OP, and although I don't necessary agree with all of your POVs, I do appreciate the thought and effort you put into creating it.
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by cubano 12y ago
Hahahha...awesome...exactly! Except, in my experience, the image at the end should be a picture of the one at the beginning with a FB and Twitter link in it.
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by cubano 12y ago
I've been freelancing as an all-purpose web developer/designer for three years now, and to me the main problem isn't the professionals understanding of these should-be-obvious points, it's the clients. Every site I'
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by cubano 12y ago
I have always had some misgivings about capitalism. Well, I, for one, appreciate that you laid this out as the first sentence of your paper/blog post. And I'll agree to a point; capitalism is the worse system there is, besides e
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by cubano 12y ago
People choose to believe (and to not believe) in all sorts of wacky stuff[1]. UFOs, Illuminati conspiracies, Rumpology... But when it come to not believing in scientific theories that are obviously standing the hard tests of the scientific
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by cubano 12y ago
Sounds like an ideal candidate to be the next Bond villain.
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by cubano 12y ago
Could be we are on the wrong side of the firewall for that, although I agree.
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by cubano 12y ago
Why indeed...my off-the-cuff guess for why is for obscene piles of cash and some minor ego gratification? After reading the interesting article, I commend him for the creativity and sheer audacity of his social and sometimes-technical explo
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by cubano 12y ago
Yes, but will they lead to Big Money?
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by cubano 12y ago
Couldn't he then also be called a "public relations" specialist and make a very comfortable living in corporate America?
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by cubano 12y ago
> In (most) other cases, it's because the troll wants to see you get angry. Do people really do that? I've been posting to newsgroups for 35 years...I have never once even considered betraying my personal beliefs just to make s
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by cubano 12y ago
Sure...propaganda generated for the direct purpose of trying to influence the masses. It has been around forever and is used by everyone from governments to multinationals to mom-and-pops up the road. However, my question is this...is a &q
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by cubano 12y ago
I think my real issues are significantly different from what you may think they are. I've read many behavior and relationship books over the years in my quest to improve my life, but in the end, I seem to be unable to make those &quot
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by cubano 12y ago
> We are materially richer, but what about the social connections? Well...Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn of course.
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by cubano 12y ago
I've teetered on the brink of homelessness for a few years now due to very poor life choices and an overbearing legal systems that convicted me, for all practical purposes, for the act of doing drugs in private. I am firmly convinced t
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by cubano 12y ago
Right...ok that's a valid corollary to Occam's razor and I respect that POV. It just odd, to me at least, that with such a logical and profitable path laid before them, as the article reminds, that GM could be that incompetent w
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by cubano 12y ago
Probably, like so many other things in our culture, because the multi-national corps. ran the numbers and came to the conclusion that the profit margin would be higher for gasoline, and then did whatever needed to persuade consumers to stee

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