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by ewzimm 11y ago
The author is a molecular biologist with several published books and over 100 peer-reviewed articles, so he definitely has a grasp on basic biology. I think that what you are missing is the assertion that each atom plays an individual role
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I sure hope it doesn't go in that direction. What will they do when I want to play the music I recorded myself or my friends' bands? It seems like this might actually discourage verification because it can be a criminal offense to
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Of course, there's always the alternative of listening to music without DRM. There's a lot of good unencumbered music out there, and maybe all these restrictions will help give it a boost. I think the industry message should be as
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I appreciate that this comes across perfectly formatted for w3m. Just shows that we can push for advanced features while maintaining compatibility for the simplest experiences. Some of the frustration for new features comes when developers
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Game theory is usually presented as the science of human interaction, but I admit that I have no special knowledge about what Nash might think. I do think that individual interactions are very different from overall trends in the same way t
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I definitely agree that smart contracts are going to be implemented as another layer. They'll erode the need for traditional enforcement slowly. And while there's a need for resolution when there's a bad contract, that resolu
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Thanks. That's exactly it. People might try to counter by saying that specific cases don't work that way, but that's not what game theory predicts. It won't tell you the outcome of a specific instance of a conflict, but
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by ewzimm 11y ago
You're right in general, but if two groups use a common software platform and write the rules of the contract into it, there's less need to build up an enforcement regime. I'm not sure exactly how you're interpreting con
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Ethereum is a currency and enforcement system built for computers. Initially, ambiguity isn't a feature because it's meant for contracts and things which are meant to be precise. Room for ambiguity in ethereum can be added later,
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Skepticism of heavy tracking is absolutely justified, so I want to address that first. I've read Richard Stallman's blog for the last 15 years, and he has had a lot of good thoughts about it. I think everyone should have access to
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by ewzimm 11y ago
It's still possible to create a local guest account, but that means giving up a lot of settings that I might want to maintain on the regular account, and it's a hassle to have to log out and in again just because I don't want
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I agree completely. The split between public and private life is so natural that we sometimes forget how important it is. Sometimes people need to be able to experiment and access information privately so they can think it over without bein
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Windows is now essentially a personalized, cloud-based operating system with the primary interface as a personal assistant, so I expected to see all these things as defaults. The advanced features just couldn't work without it. I'
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I figured the info would be easy enough to source with a quick search, as everyone has different sources they prefer to trust and I didn't want to make it about the source since it's all public record anyway. For example, if you l
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I'm sure you understood that I meant his administration prosecuted whistleblowers leading to sentencing. I was just quoting this article to make it easy for anyone who wanted to look it up: http://econintersect.com/b2ev
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I appreciate your dedication to the obvious, but the question I asked was: if software continues to grow in influence over the world, reaching the limits, what specifically will block it? The article makes the boring analysis that something
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by ewzimm 11y ago
It's not just possibly more than any previous president. Public records show that he has sentenced whistleblowers to 25 times the jail time of all previous Presidents combined. He has also used the Espionage Act more than all previous
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by ewzimm 11y ago
They are being pretty conservative here, praising Silicon Valley for quick growth and predicting an eventual slowdown. It would be more interesting to speculate on what might happen if growth didn't slow. What if the tech boom came clo
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by ewzimm 11y ago
People realize that oversight is a public aspect of most government activity, but they also see that the rules of oversight are created by government and that those who make the rules tend to occupy privileged positions and receive large do
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Locking a computer into running signed code is just like programming Firefox to refuse to access https sites without properly signed certificates. There's nothing about it that's incompatible with a fully free, GPL software stack.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Trisquel is as easy to use as Ubuntu. It's built from Ubuntu LTS with all the proprietary parts removed. The default desktop environment is a customized GNOME 3 meant to operate more like GNOME 2, but it supports everything Ubuntu supp
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by ewzimm 11y ago
That's a little too extreme, but you could imagine a real example not far off. In the case where they used 13.html to list their secret cost of goods and omitted it from the button controls, skipping from 12 to 14, and you typed 13.htm
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by ewzimm 11y ago
This seems like a bit of a strawman version of the Greek crisis in relation to capitalism, attributing to human failures actions which were a result of a complex series of coercive acts. The worldwide financial crisis was created because of
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Yes, I think that's definitely it. That's what I meant by being too trollish. It's too much like something a troll would say. But I never even realized the anti-gay term was based on flamboyant, although it makes perfect sens
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I was never the type to participate in the troll raid style, just the kind to nudge a conversation in a certain direction, more like taking a position in a debate that I didn't necessarily agree with to make it more interesting. I&#x27
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Social norms change. Samurai used to ride around and slice people in half just because they could. Public hangings and lynchings used to happen all the time. Most places in the world have eradicated that sort of murder out in the open, and
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I definitely think the solution has to be deeper than banning people from forums. People exhibiting sociopathic tendencies have needs that aren't being met in their real lives. They most likely need therapy, counseling, or community su
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I miss those days when I was proud to be a troll, when it meant tricking people into thinking in ways that they normally wouldn't. People used to love trolls! Of course, it didn't just mean that. There were also troll raids when f
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Nobody is debating that extreme insults are normal when people get angry. What people are saying is that it needs to stop being normal.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I get the impression that he is looking to the future rather than the past, and that's convergence. Right now, we have 7-inch tablets and 7-inch phones. It's pretty easy to see that these are essentially the same thing. Windows 10

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