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by fivestar 9y ago
Usually it doesn't work to buy products at full retail price and resell them at a higher retail price. I guess the "in Canada" part is how it worked out for him? Trader Joe's probably wants to protect their brand in hop
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by fivestar 9y ago
I see nothing in this comment that would require a downvote.
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by fivestar 9y ago
It's always that way--the surveillance state grows up around you, all the while ensuring you that no harm will come to you as long as you don't resist or subvert. But here's the thing about that: At some point, if we end up
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by fivestar 9y ago
Google does this with all their APIs. Maybe Tensorflow just has it a bit worse. Google writes code for Google and then abandons it at some random time in the future without much notice. It is off-putting, but they are primarily inwardly
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by fivestar 9y ago
You sound like me--I'm not quite as radical wrt Microsoft and Apple (the devil you know), but a long time ago I made up a list of "places I won't work for and why" and the MIC was on the top, you know, the Lockheeds and
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by fivestar 9y ago
Think: FTP, TELNET, IP. You know, protocols. The open things the Internet was originally based upon.
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by fivestar 9y ago
They're already screwing us over--they took sides in the election and modified/molded content and search results in an attempt to push their agenda. That was evil.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Any thinking person should question the insipid nature of government because it never seems to get perfected but is always and everywhere just a blunt object which bludgeons us into cooperating with it one way or another.
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by fivestar 9y ago
I think a major point was missed: The reason for infrastructure projects is the meta effect called "jobs." There are no projects that don't take into consideration how many blue collar jobs get created/maintained. You
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by fivestar 9y ago
Spare me, if Hillary Clinton had won "mathematicians" would be off jerking around doing something else.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Didn't Venezuela do that? Enjoy the collapse while watching your family starve and fighting the army with sticks and rocks. No thanks.
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by fivestar 9y ago
I would say the biggest problem by far is voter education--people simply are not educated on issues. They listen to idiotic MSM sound bites and narratives and are influenced by identity politics rather than anything of substance.
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by fivestar 9y ago
I'm not tracking. Are we not a representative democracy? How are less (the word you seek is 'fewer') voters being represented? I need to know if you're one of the many millions of disaffected socialists who is still w
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by fivestar 9y ago
There are already court cases that affirm that anything you store in the cloud is not subject to 4th Amendment protections because it's not on "your" hardware. WTF? We get conned into buying into all this cloud bs and then
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by fivestar 9y ago
What I want is an open source printer--like a reprap, but 2D? Why not? The printers we buy are such obnoxious crap that falls apart as soon as the warranty is over.
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by fivestar 9y ago
I was not aware that any ammunition in the US is microstamped.
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by fivestar 9y ago
May or may not have perpetrated the same crime circa late 80s using $1 bills on soda machines not yet hardened against the attack. It may or may not have taken a lot of dexterity and timing to pull the bill back just at the right time or t
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by fivestar 9y ago
the government in our tech. Lovely. I knew about it before, but this drives home the point that tech people need to work harder and value freedom more than we do today. Otherwise we end up in a police state dystopia. We need our telecom
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by fivestar 9y ago
So is making a car so hard to work on that it has to go back to the dealership just to change out a dead bulb.
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by fivestar 9y ago
I have a hard time imagining self-driving cars merely negotiating the traffic I drive in each day much less deal with the myriad foreign policy and security issues that have led us to this point in time. Imagine the lawsuits if it can ever
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by fivestar 9y ago
Cognitive bias pretty much sums up the whole of the tech industry these days. Educated fools who never apparently strayed from the tech courses to ever consider philosophy, history, or even a foreign language. But they sure do know what&#
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by fivestar 9y ago
Whether or not it makes them worse, it keeps them away from everyone else where they can do serious damage. If you want to fix what is wrong you start by not labeling people "felons" for life--change every law so that when someone
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by fivestar 9y ago
We're going to end up like China--executing people for most serious crimes. We only spend the money on prisoners in the US because we have the luxury of doing so. If (when?) we falter, we're right back to frontier style justice.
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by fivestar 9y ago
But it's not about "making very good money"--you look at who runs the country and it's a tiny few who attended a select group of institutions. It makes the whole "American Dream" concept a huge lie. But you c
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by fivestar 9y ago
I don't see it that way. The 80s "greed is good" mentality laid the groundwork for the fleecing, but that was not Reagan's fault other than perhaps that administration was the time when financialization of everything beg
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by fivestar 9y ago
It doesn't--this is one of those times where the statement makes zero sense, but it was fun to bash Reagan. No, the whole story of runaway costs can be explained quite easily by the financialization of higher ed--the liberal student l
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by fivestar 9y ago
There has to be a top--there is no demand at some price point, even with loans.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Um, not sure what you are talking about wrt community support? The community, and the state was supporting the university quite liberally. My observations from attending and then later working at a large southern public university is that
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by fivestar 9y ago
Don't know why this got downvoted--drive by hate, mainly. The left clearly took a huge hit and don't like it--and they shouldn't--because the backlash has only just begun and if humanity really is a marketplace of ideas, the
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by fivestar 9y ago
70% of Americans never did a single minute's research on the issue or what is was, how it operates, or anything else. Pollsters just throw out general ideas and everyone agrees that it's a "good." Also, the adults in m

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