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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Guns are more often used as deterrents than to kill. Unfortunately, the cases of deterrence aren't newsworthy.
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Statistically, you are more likely to die from a mass murderer in Western Europe than in the USA. In both places the chances are vanishingly small and people can still live without fear. What does "allowing to happen" mean? Why ar
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Hashgraph doesn't use blockchain - look into interviews with Dr Baird if you're interested. MachineZone, the big game company, is now building on Hashgraph: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hedera-hash
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
President Trump is cutting regulations and despite all the hysteria to the contrary he is actually reducing the administrative powers of the executive branch and shrinking the size of many agencies. All of this makes libertarians happy - at
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Hedera Hashgraph recently revealed that it supports more than a million transactions per second based on current usage by developers, that's enough to support decentralized servers and open source MMO environments. It uses gossip proto
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
The problem with Motherboard is the way they talk about hardware. The pessimistic voice makes it seem not worth the trouble. They aren't even trying to spark curiosity in their readers and it's a disservice.
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Motherboard articles proudly promote a dim view of hardware, which is unfortunate for a publication with that name.
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
New non-blockchain distributed ledgers like Hedera Hashgraph can support 300,000 transactions per second. That's enough to decentralize servers, or host an open-source MMORPG. No more single point of failure.
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Apple makes its business selling to the sizable population who has money to spend and enjoys iOS apps and Apple hardware features. There is a similar set of premium academies in education. Tesla didn't wait to enter the car market unti
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Advertising isn't necessarily a bad thing. There are restaurants and niche products I value that I only discovered due to a postcard ad or a sidebar ad on a forum I frequent. In moderation it's an informer and can be good for soci
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Hog and wild boar grazing destroys ecosystems because they eat roots and even tear up the roots of plants and trees they don't eat. Hawaii's forests are being killed by boar ( http://hawaiianforest.com/wp/speci
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
That's a much more manual and difficult B2B contractual process. A completely different level than automated data sharing via tightly integrated plugins.
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Does that come back to the federal funding in any way or do universities capture it all? Maybe there should be a stipulation that university profits above a certain threshold originating from federally funded research should help pay back t
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Unfortunately Reuters and AP have picked up the Fox/CNN style habit of speculatively including other current event stories to support a specific narrative while ignoring other information more relevant to the story - such as Remington&
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
My parents have very minimal technical abilities and they’ve always been paranoid about putting any personal info on a paper form and that extended to the internet when things moved online. They always left the birthdate field blank on form
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
The Stranger is a notorious left-wing tabloid that loves to pick fights with the rest of the city, especially its more centrist rival, the Seattle Times. Stranger articles are consistently slanted with a pessimistic view of anything that do
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Manufacturing output may have increased along the curve of a plateau, but it is still much lower than what it would be in an unregulated environment. https://www.mercatus.org/publication/cumulative-cost-regulat... Why
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
There's a difference. Smoot-Hawley was a massive and unprovoked tariff. China already taxes products made by US companies at similarly massive levels - I've been to China multiple times and everything from American brand toiletrie
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
The reason why Middle America has so little spending power is because regulations and taxes have decimated their manufacturing and resource extraction industries and effectively moved them overseas. This of course led to a loss of specializ
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
News usually reports on rumor and calculated leaks before any official announcement.
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
There doesn't need to be any physical impactors for there to be a significant effect on climate and life. Ice ages can start and end due to tiny changes in the Earth's orbital wobble. https://phys.org/news/201
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Whatever you ever filled in or posted to the servers of a private company under your real identity is "data about me that has been collected by private companies". It's not that complicated. Most places now (for compliance re
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
In T-Mobile Account Settings you can choose to disable T-Mobile's selling of your data to third parties. It's on by default.
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Article by the Washington Post on the same topic for those who may prefer a different flavor of 'biased source': https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebooks-ru...
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Japan has incredibly high levels of domestic borrowing, but has long suffered deflation. What factors make Japan the exception?
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Federally guaranteed student loans totaled $122,500,000,000 last year [1]. Subsidies create artificial demand and push prices upward. They take away the student's incentive to say those same things of the price that you're ascribi
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Mediated solutions are better than the alternatives of the perpetrator getting a criminal record or the shopkeeper deciding to break the shoplifter's fingers. These systems can and should be improved to avoid life-ruining spirals (bad
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Also, a new article from the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebooks-ru...
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
There is a new Washington Post article that covers the Obama campaign story - it's not being entirely silenced: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebooks-ru... I agree that there is a pattern
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
This Washington Post article has details. Obama Supporters clicked OK on apps, those apps pulled their friend graph (including the state of residence of friends) to generate outreach such as emails encouraging the supporter to evangelize sp

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