dreamfactory

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by dreamfactory 13y ago
> This has happened time after time and shows no sign of stopping because of fundamental problems Maybe in the US but it's not a fundamental of governments generally.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Refreshing to see such a clear and reasoned repudiation of the usual naive 'free market is king' nonsense.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
...think that's what I said - the oppression is a response to perception of a greater evil of instability. Scratch any country's leadership and you'll get the same kind of result. The question is whether that is justified, an
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
People don't sit around on their bums for too long - it's just not in our nature. If they weren't slaving away in factories they might end up as a society that primarily produces cultural capital (huge social stability there)
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/24/whats-next-...
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Wasn't that the whole idea - for them to stop producing and polluting the planet? That giving them food would be cheaper. Of course it would threaten our dependence on cheap clothes and expensive gadgets.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I'm talking about a sudden catastrophic global effect. To some extent we got lucky with Chernobyl and it was contained, have yet to see with Fukushima.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Surprising that nobody here acknowledges the black swan nature of nuclear power. The comparative average is precisely not the point. FWIW I once had dinner with an architect of one of the early nuclear plants. They had been lied to about th
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
As far as I understand, public unrest is one of the greatest fears of Chinese leadership, hence tight control and censorship. That may speak volumes about the willingness of their public to take control along with protesting (as opposed to
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
What does that even mean? Who is dependent on what in that scenario?
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
As far as I know, no coal plants have ever resulted in a Chernobyl-scale effect.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Good, concise, and clear model.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I have read that dirty bombs are a myth and technically infeasible.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Article makes no sense to me. He is just advocating for RESTful architecture in API design, which hardly matches the controversialist tone. At the same time it completely ignores anything but the simplest read-only API with a 1:1 mapping to
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I feel like I'm kind of getting it but in quite an abstract sense. Do you have any thoughts around how this might look put into practise in software development?
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
They were also hacking email accounts on people's computers I believe.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
How, given that they can't form a majority?
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
> gender neutral, it's highly debatable whether he, him or his are also Not in the English language. It's debated by some whether this might have a subliminal effect and reinforce social gender stereotypes (though no evidence f
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Are these people illiterate? Are they not aware that in the English language masculine pronouns are correct for both gender-specific and gender-neutral uses? Mankind refers to everybody. It may seem awkward, particularly to over-literal typ
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
How about asking people how they would feel if curtains were made illegal?
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Reduce your batch sizes to reduce uncertainty.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I once travelled from the US with a guitar a few years back. I was told at check-in that instruments travelled free and had to be taken onboard. Was even ushered to the front of the boarding queue when I got there so I would be able to stow
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
People have been worrying about mass starvation due to overcopulation since the Victorian age (I believe it was a big motivation for the missionary movement).
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
You mean spoilt kids behaving badly? You can be given material needs without having to work but you will still need to work hard to become a dancer, ride a skateboard, play the piano etc. Maybe the root problem leading to antisocial behavio
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
So why does poetry exist and what are hobbies?
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
You're spot on - social graphing/big data isn't some kind of facebook-exclusive superpower.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
There's something off about that cosy consensus view, quite apart from the fact that it is so open to manipulation. It's basically highly conservative and only accepts the status quo. The reality is that what may have seemed a com
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Counterfeiting money is an example of something which is relatively easy but can be hugely damaging if done on a large scale - we try to make it harder for the casual counterfeiter but mostly we rely on draconian penalties around it precise
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I feel you are both missing the point that the kind of abuse we are opening ourselves up to inevitably includes catastrophic abuse as well as everyday injustices. Two examples that spring easily to mind - jury nobbling by organised crime, m
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I suppose in the case of future clandestine organizations developing individually targeted assassination viruses, they would be able to obtain their own sample from the individual.

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