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by gnosis 14y ago
"One could argue that the demise of Reader is the best thing to happen to RSS in along time as this supposedly decentralized and decentralizing standard became too reliant on one vendor" I'm overjoyed that yet another for-profit corporati
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by gnosis 14y ago
I hope what you're building is open source and resides 100% on the client's machine. Because if it's closed source or makes use of your servers, then it can't be trusted, no matter what lofty rhetoric you use to advertise it. The fact is t
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by gnosis 14y ago
"We're going to have more visibility and less privacy. I don't see how you stop that." Well, you could start by trying to fight them instead of being an apologist for them and trying to make it happen. The mayor of NYC coming out strongly
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Project Daedalus - 50 years to another star(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
There are many blood stopping agents out on the market. Many of them were originally developed by/for the military in the Iraq/Afghanistan wars, and are now available to civilians. Here's a list of some of these products: Bleed-X, TraumaDE
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by gnosis 14y ago
I am not a doctor, but from what I've read, treating an infection is usually considered much less of a priority by emergency responders than stopping severe bleeding. You can bleed to death in a few minutes. Few if any infections are going
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Vim heresy(alexreisner.com)
3 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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In before ____
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by gnosis 14y ago
Said nobody, ever
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Poll: What Internet slang are you most annoyed by?
12 points by gnosis 14y ago|37 comments
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lol
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rofl
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This.
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ur
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u
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tl;dr
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Other slang not on this list.
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by gnosis 14y ago
I'm never annoyed by internet slang.
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by gnosis 14y ago
It's all equally annoying.
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What Enlightenment Means [pdf](undividedjournal.com)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
You seem to view yourself and your life as a failure, as a "loser", and think you have a long-term record of failures. Such an ingrained self-image is not going to be magically changed by any advice from a web forum or self-help book. Even
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by gnosis 14y ago
Opting out and taking counter-surveillance measures have always been options. But look at the world we're in now. Those options have not been very effective for the overwhelming majority of internet users, who often don't even realize the
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by gnosis 14y ago
This is exactly the sort of thing developers who care about privacy can avoid doing, and oppose when someone else does it. See the following[1] article and thread for a discussion of why such opposition is necessary (if it isn't obvious to
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by gnosis 14y ago
David Brin's position is incredibly naive. The rich and powerful can always buy themselves privacy and security. The rest of us won't have that luxury in such a "transparent society".
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by gnosis 14y ago
"My point is that it's not even remotely practical to convince enough of the population to "value privacy" so much that these things won't be built or to even remotely hinder them. The population of earth is just too large." When you get
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Just don't join //them// and (A) you will sleep better at night and (B) you will be helping the world. ... Just stick to what you believe is right and don't worry about the others." There is another benefit to standing up for what's righ
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by gnosis 14y ago
"There will always be developers who will be willing to do this either because it's challenging or because they need to put food on the table." But those people don't have to be us. Each of us has a choice to make: to cooperate with the
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by gnosis 14y ago
The more talented people work on privacy-invading technology, the more powerful, pervasive, and smoothly-running the surveillance state will be. Most of us have the choice to deny the surveillance state our own talent. We can work at more
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by gnosis 14y ago
"offered money and a chance to work on such a system, I'd work on it in a heartbeat" You would. But that doesn't mean that everyone would. I am appealing to those of us who value privacy and ethics above making a quick buck or getting to
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by gnosis 14y ago
I don't think the typical user thinks he's got nothing to hide. More probably, he doesn't realize just how much he's spied on or by whom. Nor does he realize how the information these spies gather on him could be or is being used to his de

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