georgia_peach

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by georgia_peach 5y ago
What innovation in computing, hardware or software, has the porn industry made?
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
Investigation? Maybe. Punishment? Definitely not. As long as my financial benefit isn't "directly attributable," and my takedown procedure is "expeditious," DMCA has me covered! https://en.wikipedia.o
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
If I'm working on something interesting , something of real tangible value, it's very easy to tune out everything --noise, headache, hunger, hornyness. When I'm grinding out corporate stuff to pay the bills, it's anot
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
A nice consistency test would be to create a "platform" for production-ready, revenue-generating source code and data sets--using pornhub-style content moderation policies of course!--and see what happens.
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
If you closely study Twitter's actions (How did that Arab Spring turn out for everybody?), or read about the InQtel origins of google (Assange's "Google Is Not What It Seems"), or how the Israelis blasted the Palestinian
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
You are right. If I distribute copyright infringing content on a USB stick and sell it, I can look forward to an FBI investigation, 5 years in prison, and a fine of $250,000. If I write an algorithm to do the exact same thing over the int
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
This is a soundbite falsehood. The military industrial complex is the driving force of the internet and all things computing. Porn is just another monetization.
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
Instructions specify intramuscular injection, but how frequently are they aspirating to ensure that they haven't landed in a vein? Make sure they don't shoot it into a vein. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
The same can be said for stocks, bonds, real estate, commodities, and paper currency (7%+ USD inflation as of Jan!), and does not distinguish cryptocurrency from any other traditional asset. Quite a stretch to call that theft --unless it
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
> Lantern's CEO and lead developer is Adam Fisk, a former lead engineer of LimeWire [0] no thank you [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_(software)
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
There are so many charities today. Utterly impossible that more than a handful are sustained by $25 checks from old ladies. Most are money/reputation laundering & tax dodges for corporations, lobbyists, governments, and high net-
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
obligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
Hats off! It's an efficient move--collecting a salary and pension while forcing nerds in a different country to do your job for you--for free! If only they were this concerned about the children in Rochdale... https://en.w
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
LOCKSS may replicate between nodes, but it is neither anonymous nor permissionless, and is child's play compared to the problems the major cryptos are trying to solve.
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
ENIAC consumed 174,000W. Raspberry Pi: 0.1W. Practice makes perfect.
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
Who is BTC stealing from?
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
Nationality is beside the point. A store of value has to be backed by something (know-how, labor, natural resources, etc.), and these somethings (and their markets) have to be defended (agreements, force, counterespionage...), and all of t
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
In a crypto vs. fiat world, the energy consumption argument doesn't hold water when fiat probably uses just as much (or even more) energy.
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
Even though many of these things are grifts wrapped in scams boxed in hustles, the idea of fiat currency upheld by energy and math seems like an improvement over a fiat currency upheld by energy and weapons, and a worthwhile endeavor. BTC h
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
I don't find the energy/environmental arguments compelling. US military accounts for almost half of US fuel consumption, 10-20% of the federal budget, and hundreds of toxic waste sites throughout the world. Propping-up the petro
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
The base specs of lisp/scheme aren't statically typed. If some lisp-like is statically typed from square-one, that's nice, but it's not really lisp at that point. If I can copy-paste unmodified CL code into Coalton, and
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by georgia_peach 5y ago
Lisp/Scheme are great brain-expanders. So is APL. For long-term maintenance, the more static typing the better, so I wouldn't use them for anything big, but they're great for one-off problem solving. Before anyone chimes i