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by dagaci 7y ago
I'm not sure your theories have a base. Population may not like whats happening, but the peoples will only rise to protest when they feel directly threatened. People will feel directly threatened if these systems produce too many false
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by dagaci 7y ago
" escaped the effects of a global nuclear war through luck and sensible judgement by a large number of people" -: And sometime by a surprisingly small number of people too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis
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by dagaci 8y ago
And before any architects reply smartly about the misuse of the term "blueprint" see here: https://socratic.org/questions/why-is-dna-called-the-bluepri...
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by dagaci 8y ago
I didn't think it was so challenging to use the term "genetics" after all from a reasonable point of view our genes are the blueprint of the body and our emotional responses derive from that...
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by dagaci 8y ago
A euphemism, by which i meant "hard wired". Human's are like every species pre-disposed in so many way to be driven by the negative rather than the positive.
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by dagaci 8y ago
I've never been much engaged in FB,TW or Instagram or too many Social platforms. But I still have to disagree with Mr Linus, after all where would we be without the Slashdot effect? Social media simply accelerates aspects of what we ar
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by dagaci 8y ago
It actually seems to be normal practice to quickly allocate blame, even when its quite clear that little if any investigation has actually taken place. One of the effects of allocating blame is that large swathes of the general public will
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by dagaci 8y ago
Not to mention that being extremely fit or just trying to be means that your mind is being occupied by being busy, people will act more positively around you and you will also tend to sleep better. Despite appearances we humans are much mor
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by dagaci 8y ago
So many times i have seen coders "promoted" to managing roles. It actually seems to be normal practice to do this because: the coder is intelligent, the coder knows whats going on technically, plus the idea that general experience
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by dagaci 8y ago
Look closely at the ruling classes and then you wont be so surprised by these strategies
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by dagaci 8y ago
Egyptian Civilization was sustained because of the Nile delta productivity. Literally all the nutrients gathered over 1/4 of the of the African continent are deposited nowhere else along the river route but in Nile delta, this unique p
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by dagaci 8y ago
I think its easy to be hung up on the meaning of the word, but a Civilization would start with a common governance, and sometimes that includes culture, as the proper Britons and Franks of old will have always had a different culture compar
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by dagaci 8y ago
Many of these great "empires" were simply extended looting machines, once they ran out of looting opportunities they collapsed in the same way that a Ponzi collapses when it run out of new "investors". While things were
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by dagaci 8y ago
Buzzkill
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by dagaci 8y ago
If you don't read the news then how are you supposed to make a judgement about who to vote for or understand current trends or be alerted to issues with products recalls or where the great bargins are? I stopped reading newspapers very
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by dagaci 8y ago
I'm not sure why this is modded down. There is a general trend up in the market over the past few days, and given that the FB price has recently been displaying a higher volatility than its peers, you would expect the kind of movement
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by dagaci 8y ago
Addiction should not be seen as abnormal, it is actually extremely normal. Humans and all other animals need to actually addict to activities as this is part of the survival mechanics needed to perpetuate the species. However this addiction
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by dagaci 8y ago
Can't comment on Sequel Pro yet, but even SSMS is in need of improvement.
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by dagaci 8y ago
> Is the choice to run a less valuable network really a choice? Well yes it is, although people take Ethereum quite seriously the code-base led Vitalik has quite a distance to go before it completes the roadmap delivered some years ago.
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by dagaci 8y ago
The problem with centralisation is that it enables a kind of corruption: entities can engage in both financial censorship and arbitrary money printing. That being said a cryptocurrency does not have to be decentralised. However it is very i
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by dagaci 8y ago
I think you are correct here, but also consider what a typical Java and C# programmer's are developing, they are writing line-of-business application's they are not data-mining, or doing a lot with algorithm's. As you implied
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by dagaci 8y ago
Maintaining an independent browser has been of no benefit to Microsoft for very very long time. It has actually been an extremely costly effort with almost no result. That's my opinion. The CEO Nadella however has no interest in this k
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by dagaci 8y ago
I only read personal mail in the web browser, its too much to maintain a mail app if you have to do more than enter much more than enter your username and password.
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by dagaci 8y ago
Your statements sounds a little confused. Everything stagnates, suffer from miss-direction, or just become irrelevant. Someone in an earlier post mentioned sourceforge for example. we just have to hope that this acquisition doesn't mak
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by dagaci 8y ago
andy_ppp was not trying to invalidate what Tim Cook was saying but just remind everyone that the motivations here may be less than altruistic
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by dagaci 8y ago
Humans are overwhelmingly emotional creatures. We are a bunch of monkeys with only a fragment of real awareness of why we are doing X and Y. Human brains judge another persons whole life in milliseconds (we all do it, can't help that),
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by dagaci 8y ago
Just to give unspoken point of view, a scenario which i would like to pose: That Income inequality provides a kind of fiscal stability vs uncontrollable inflation. If you overlay a chart of inflation on top of the chart of inequality you wi
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by dagaci 8y ago
1835 "To finance the compensation (for slave owners), the British government had to take on a £15 million loan (40% of its budget) with banker Nathan Mayer Rothschild and his brother-in-law Moses Montefiore. The money was not paid back
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by dagaci 8y ago
Ok but why was air-gap so controversial ? Is it more than having isolated servers ?
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by dagaci 8y ago
Coinbase and other platforms have existed and been in viable state a long time before the huge December 2017 bubble

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