doodliego

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by doodliego 8y ago
Wrenching story, wow. One of those ones where you don't know what to say.
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by doodliego 8y ago
I agree with your main point, but not the last sentence. The complexity and expense of state of the art military technology is beyond the means of smaller nation-states, let alone rebel groups, and that trend has been accelerating since WWI
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by doodliego 8y ago
Exactly, sounds like he was a bright guy and a free-thinker with interesting hobbies. Somehow this gets twisted into nonsense about a Satanic NASA, moon hoaxes, and secret space fleets. Paranoia in action.
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by doodliego 8y ago
That system is open to adjustment through legislation, which means corporations and their lawyers will bribe politicians to benefit themselves and rapaciously loot the commons, just as they have in almost every other facet of society.
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by doodliego 8y ago
Hopefully from Federal prison with a life sentence. Literally billions of times he and his execs, managers, and engineers have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Federal Wiretap Act, and more.
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by doodliego 8y ago
No way do I put all my personal documents in the cloud of a company that doesn't do customer service, gets rid of whole product lines without warning whenever it feels like, and has no recourse to actual human help if you're locke
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by doodliego 8y ago
Your sample size of one is incredibly convincing. /s People who are isolated, bullied, low self-esteem, shut-ins, suffering mental illnesses, or a host of other factors can and do fall into echo chambers of radicalization and extremism
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by doodliego 8y ago
Only in the traditional publishing world. Readers, especially genre readers on Kindle, do not care about the publisher, agent, or the industry trappings, they only want good stories. The situation is analagous to iphone or steam indie games
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by doodliego 8y ago
Compare Amazon's responses during their S3 outage: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/01/aws_s3_outage/ (toward the bottom) What's the better communication plan: detailed, hourly updates or
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by doodliego 8y ago
Look how frequent and detailed Amazon's update logs are in that first Register article. Multiple updates throughout the day going into some detail.
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by doodliego 8y ago
¡Viva México!
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by doodliego 8y ago
"We reserve the right to refuse service to anybody." GoDaddy exercised that right. They are not obligated to provide service to anybody.
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by doodliego 8y ago
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." -George Orwell
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by doodliego 8y ago
They have "only" 2.6 million apps (as of March 2018): https://www.statista.com/statistics/266210/number-of-availab... 37% fraud-rules breaking rate is pathetic. Maybe they should spend time vetting these
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by doodliego 8y ago
Somehow I misread the title to mean a shoemaker from Eugene, Oregon is buried on the moon.
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by doodliego 8y ago
If you're removing 700,000 apps a year from your store for violating your own policies, it's fair to say your system is not only not perfect, it's horribly broken.
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by doodliego 8y ago
Good article, this line made me smile: "[a failed entrepreneur] would sneak into his alma matter’s cafeteria to steal food to extend his runway."
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by doodliego 8y ago
That solution ("per, pers") is as artificial and contrived as "zhe, ze" or other invented words. Will never get traction.
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by doodliego 8y ago
Unless you're Windows 10, then please QA your stuff.
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by doodliego 8y ago
The New Yorkers flooding into SF, like the author of this article, and driving up the cost of everything are a far more significant contributing factor to homelessness than the current minimum wage.
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by doodliego 8y ago
An OS used by billions of people including government agencies, hospitals, and nonprofits is not some videogame that needs new content. It's mission critical software, and these utter delinquents are treating it like a Steam early rele
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by doodliego 8y ago
WordPress blog
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by doodliego 8y ago
They would be treated like pets (taken away, owner held liable) until actual sentience is legally established, which isn't happening anytime soon.
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by doodliego 8y ago
Aren't most corporations incorporated in Delaware for tax reasons anyway?
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by doodliego 8y ago
Claims to want more feedback. "Blog" post has no comment field.