etherael

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by etherael 13y ago
So by describing socialism as orthogonal to taxation are you attempting to imply that socialism can exist without taxation? How exactly does that work? What does it in practice mean for "worker control of the means of production"
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by etherael 13y ago
I guess I should clarify what I mean by that; I do not physically interact with the people in question on a regular basis in meatspace, but the mindset is basically the bedrock of near every anarcho capitalist focused community in existence
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by etherael 13y ago
The kinds of things he is saying are very widely espoused by people of similar mindset. If you were trying to profile based on political beliefs and agitation he could easily be me. (he isn't, for what that's worth, I personally k
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by etherael 13y ago
> For anyone who's been paying attention to the darker subtext of the PRISM scandal, you can draw the uncomfortable conclusion that the government is saying: "Hey, tech sector, guess what--the halcyon days of your industry igno
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by etherael 13y ago
My favourite bits of the project; Elasticsearch ZMQ Golang & Haskell Unbound DNS And a bit of old Python glue to hold everything together. It's funny how long things can last when you think you would have outgrown them pretty quick
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by etherael 13y ago
I can respect that, acknowledging that they all are just a pack of murdering thugs at the end of the day and it's not some system for the service of the people was my entire point. I will not be a slave, I don't care what that cos
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by etherael 13y ago
If you're actually serious the best part about this response is that you honestly consider it a mitigation. Hey if you don't like your gang just join another one. Or convince all the other gangsters to quit the gang and all people
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by etherael 13y ago
Yeah if I was from the US I would have to renounce my citizenship, but there's no doubt in my mind I would have done so if necessary. Also it's the US and some African tinpot dictatorship if memory serves.
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by etherael 13y ago
> for all I know every single penny of my tax money could have gone to provide food for the needy and beds for the homeless and it's just your taxes that are going toward funding guns and NSA. It's a collective pool to which yo
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by etherael 13y ago
I'll take a pure tyranny I can choose whether or not to participate in over a democracy that demands my submission on all collective decisions any day of the year. I don't even really understand the reasonableness of the counterpo
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by etherael 13y ago
Yes, it was extremely complex and I consider myself quite ingenious for accomplishing this breathtaking feat of ingenuity, but here's the trick; If you disapprove of anything about a business, it turns out that you can actually choose
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by etherael 13y ago
>You can either give up by selling all your belongings and begin to live on the street as a non-tax paying citizen, or you can do something to stop the things that are taking away your freedoms and liberties, or at the very least, do som
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by etherael 13y ago
Sure, there are degrees of contribution, and direct is clearly more intentioned than indirect, but at the end of the day the beast doesn't care if it's fed willingly or unwillingly, and the vast majority of government funding is i
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by etherael 13y ago
> your incentive to actually act on what they're doing will be diminished. Because you already have acted on it, they attempted to violate your privacy and you solved the problem, there's no point wasting time with useless po
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by etherael 13y ago
So your point is not that police actually do have a duty to protect you, but the legal precedent cited to show this did not do so? I have to wonder why even bother to argue that point? It strikes me as debating whether the link currently hi
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by etherael 13y ago
You mean say a cop is hiding behind a steel door while you go toe to toe with a knife wielding crazy? http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/to_serve_but_not... Nah, never happens.
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by etherael 13y ago
Well, fuck.
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by etherael 13y ago
An automated turret is not at all the same thing as a firearm with an automatic fire mode. An assault rifle with an automatic fire select might indeed increase the likelihood the operator is killed. An automatic turret on the other hand doe
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by etherael 13y ago
This argument is spectacularly stupid because based on the rise of exactly these kinds of incidents, you could justify the production and distribution of automated turrets to negate the use of current SWAT tactics. You can't just stop
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by etherael 13y ago
How? By voting for the other party that also supports and implements the exact same fascist legislation? I don't understand why people still have faith in the political process despite the abundance of evidence indicating it's a c
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by etherael 13y ago
So, time to start disinfo on all plausible channels indicating that he is leaving via diplomatic channel X and; A) fuck with the states of the worland B) provide cover for the real escape when it comes.
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by etherael 13y ago
These days, as an anarcho capitalist, I just feel like the entire world is continuously handing me ammunition to justify my position, and I have had plenty for years. Both amusing and sad.
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by etherael 13y ago
I agree with you here, NoSQL can't be used for everything yet, maybe one day, hyperdex + acid looks promising, we'll see. But even restricting the field back to first tier SQL based solutions, you're still talking MS SQL vs P
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by etherael 13y ago
Last I saw cassandra and pgsql were pretty close to even on single systems, but you can push as many shards in a cassandra cluster as you want. Where are you getting 5% from? Do you mean to imply sql is typically 20x faster than NoSQL on co
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by etherael 13y ago
This is reasonably clever, but how do you get a full disk mirror from a server you can't get into without powering off, if you do power off, the amount of time the system is down is a tipoff to the target as to what's going on. As
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by etherael 13y ago
> They do?! Oh dear, I'd better tell the DBAs about that. You mean the MS SQL DBA's? Cause generally that's what people in MS shops are going to be working with, should they not be able to run tests on MS SQL and write SQL
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by etherael 13y ago
It's a con because everyone has to use windows, not because of using windows, an open source tech stack typically works just fine with both Linux and Mac using devs, and has leftovers for windows users. An MS stack? Everyone's s
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by etherael 13y ago
> Your first sentence is has 0% to do with the tech stack. It does if the target area is massively underrepresented in the tech stack in question. It's just a plain old fact that there are far more options for NoSQL storage layers b
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by etherael 13y ago
If this is just terribly out of date I'm glad to hear that and sorry to cast dispersions based on out of date information, I can't test it out anymore though as I don't actually even have any more windows systems, anywhere.
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by etherael 13y ago
SQL databases in general don't scale well once they've maxed out a single machine, cross server joins are never going to be pretty and there's a pretty good reason why denormalising data and the adoption of NoSQL solutions wi

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