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Cryptome for sale with access log files from 1996 for $50M(twitter.com)
3 points by daviross 11y ago|1 comments
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by daviross 11y ago
This is where stronger protections against this sort of deception would be useful. I'm (sometimes) fine with sponsored articles. I've seen some sites use it well. But it has to be honest, clearly marked.
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by daviross 11y ago
This seems like something of a selection bias issue. By the same token, I don't know that I've run into anyone lately who's checked their phones while talking with me. Not to say that it doesn't happen, of course, but
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by daviross 11y ago
This seems like an unfalsifiable set of statements. Anything someone can say to the contrary just gets wrapped up in "But your genes programmed yourself that way". Hint: There's not a whole lot "Gene survival urges"
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by daviross 11y ago
without actually asking Him if He's there and if He cares. I'm curious. What does this response look like? I can't say I've ever seen anything which would seem to match this, and it's definitely a question I'
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by daviross 11y ago
This sort of expectation ends up being a mental block for me sometimes as far as putting something I've done out there. If I put it out there, someone might use it and expect updates. How many projects could I maintain at once? Is thi
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by daviross 11y ago
This entire thread seems somewhat missing without the famous predecessor article Against Narrativity http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Paper/against_narrativity.pdf by the same author. The linked article provides some phra
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by daviross 11y ago
First I thought "Good thing I don't have an account", then it turned out I had one for one reason or another. Closed that straight away. Now to find out if they'll drag their heels.
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by daviross 11y ago
Rabbi Israel, the famed "Maggid of Kosnitz," once asked a rich man what he usually ate. The rich man was rather ascetic; he proudly described to the Chassidic master his one daily meal, in which he ate and drank nothing more than
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by daviross 11y ago
“But if you know of any stories like those reported, I want you to escalate to HR. You can also email me directly at jeff@amazon.com. Even if it’s rare or isolated, our tolerance for any such lack of empathy needs to be zero.” This seems
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by daviross 11y ago
It's definitely cool to see that they're picking up steam/attention. I got a pair of chappals from them in the Kickstarter, and they're without a doubt the fanciest/best-quality sandals I've ever owned. Custome
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by daviross 11y ago
Fine, fine. Kant's 1st Imperative -- Back to universalizability: If everybody used Adblock, then many sites would shut down. That's universalizable. In fact, I'm encouraging the universalizing of this one, rather than wha
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by daviross 11y ago
If everyone used Adblock, many websites would shutdown. - Fails to make the claim that many (but not all) websites shutting down would be bad. Kant's 2nd Imperative - Passes. It treats them as ends in and of themselves by focusing
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by daviross 11y ago
Metafilter, mainly. ($5 signup fee, and then I chip in $5/month to help support it)
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by daviross 11y ago
Reddit? No. Another internet community? Sure. I already do. (Then again, I wouldn't be-paid to use Reddit either. I'm not opposed to paid communities, in fact I rather like the idea. But hanging it on Reddit (y/n) seems a b
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by daviross 11y ago
Just because your idea doesn't make you any money doesn't make it any more inherently moral or immoral. It puts things at a moral deficit, at least. (In other words, it's not necessarily immoral, but it does mean there&#x27
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by daviross 11y ago
If there's not an event which I want to head to? Often times, just doing some weekly cleaning & cooking. Especially if it's a vat of caramelized onions, soup stock, pasta sauce, or something else where I can set it up and let
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by daviross 11y ago
Seems like the reaction will need to be (in order to combat/penalize this): Any app which does this sort of thing will automatically get a Play Store/App Store 1-2 star review. Even if it's otherwise a great app. Engage in da
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by daviross 11y ago
Were there ever an article which confirmed "Hey, we're definitely headed for Gibsonian Shadowrun-style future", this'd be it. I mean, sure, if you have the money, you can be king-of-the-world like he describes. After all
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by daviross 11y ago
Not given the ethical cost required to get anywhere near there, no. Though "Do you want to" makes it sound like it's as much of a choice as "Do you want to move to another country?" (Which is itself a rather restric
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by daviross 11y ago
Presumably as soon as we keep people out of our technology sites as well. Communities are driven by people, at their core. It's a very myopic view of the world that says we can have a state of pure apolitical nature.
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by daviross 11y ago
In other words "It's easy to make money if you have a lot of it already"? Useful advice for a micro-fraction of the population, but this sounds like advice on "How best to wax your yachts" compared to even the avera
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by daviross 11y ago
I think an economist would say you do get to choose. You could have chosen a different product that was packaged better. Since the onus is on you to sort out the packaging, you should have incentive to prefer products with packaging that y
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by daviross 11y ago
http://blink1.thingm.com/ Blink(1) fits your requirements.
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by daviross 11y ago
Which is why I make a point of noting advertising and specifically weighing against them in any relevant purchasing mental calculus. They're definitely helping make a decision, but not in the direction they'd like.
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by daviross 11y ago
This looks potentially very useful. I'm eyeing Node for setting up a basic Slackbot myself, so this might be what I use as a baseline. (At the least, it has more Github stars than other projects in similar areas which I've seen) (
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by daviross 11y ago
Considering how often ad networks are vectors for malware... that sounds like a pretty unilateral introduction of risk. If a site can prove itself to be a good Internet citizen and prove its value, I have no problems whitelisting it. (Or pr
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by daviross 11y ago
This looks really interesting. I'm always in favor of more RSS-readers competing, and Markdown-like also gets bonus points. One thing I'd love to see, as someone who surveyed the field back when Google Reader shutdown and found my
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by daviross 11y ago
I may be missing something, but I'm really not seeing the Marx side of "Marx meets Adam Smith" here. It sounds much more like 'If we embrace Moloch more than everyone else, maybe it'll be kind to us!".
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by daviross 12y ago
Wow. This is really a shame. I use uMatrix in particular enough that I would've gladly chipped in on a Patreon for continued development.

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