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by gnu8 7y ago
Do you know for a fact that plastic BBs are not considered ammunition in China? That seems silly to me but I'm ready to believe it.
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by gnu8 7y ago
I still don’t understand how the Stingray is a saleable product. There’s no way such a device could obtain FCC certification, or for a prospective user to obtain a license to operate one. So notwithstanding the fact that the government want
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by gnu8 7y ago
The mere fact that Bloomberg is wealthy proves that he knows best and we should bend to his will. After all, someday when you sell your startup to SoftBank, don’t you want to use your money to improve society and get your way?
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by gnu8 7y ago
I shouldn’t have to tell Facebook to delete something it should never have had to begin with. How are we going to force Facebook to stop doing terrible things forever?
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by gnu8 7y ago
I was really talking about people who never stray outside of the walled garden of Facebook. In the case of someone who never enters the walled garden, but partakes of the web, email, and other such applications, I would say they are on the
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by gnu8 7y ago
I always saw Intel naming their product “Core” as a cynical ploy to confuse terminology by associating their product with multi-core computers. It is as if an automaker decided to brand their new motor with the name “Engine”.
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by gnu8 7y ago
Having a smart phone and a Facebook account does not constitute being on the Internet. In many ways, AOL users were closer to being Internet users than most people are now.
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by gnu8 7y ago
What we need is a way to jam these trackers with generated data to the point that they are useless. Something like https://trackthis.link , but running 24x7 on countless computers, phones, raspberry pi, hacked routers, and virtua
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by gnu8 7y ago
It's sort of like saying 99% of cattle prefer the chute that brings them most efficiently to the killing grate. It isn't really about what they want, just about how they behave.
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by gnu8 7y ago
It is better not to engage people who think like that. They’re don’t have a good faith interest in improving the situation, they only want to talk down to people.
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by gnu8 7y ago
If you enjoy coding so much that you don't get enough of it at work, contribute to or start an open source project, or create a proprietary software product to sell for your own profit. Don't donate free work to the company that&#
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by gnu8 7y ago
The only way it makes sense to abuse oneself like this is if you have an ownership stake in the company (a real one, not some unvested options), or get paid by the hour. Otherwise you should rinse your coffee cup and walk out the door after
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by gnu8 7y ago
I'm exasperated by the holdup on golden rice. I'd buy a sack of it and put it in the ground myself if it were on the market.
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by gnu8 7y ago
I have clicked on my last X for the day. This is getting to be worse than the X10 camera pop up ads from years ago. I’m a person, not a conversion or an eyeball, and if someone offers me a document I expect to be able to read it without bei
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by gnu8 7y ago
I would have enjoyed reading the rest of that, but unfortunately a pop up appeared in the middle of the page as I scrolled down. I automatically close any page that does this. I can’t figure out why anyone thinks it is reasonable or appropr
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Halloween Documents(catb.org)
1 points by gnu8 7y ago|0 comments
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by gnu8 7y ago
Outside of large cities with functional mass transit, most low income people do own (or finance) cars. Otherwise they would be no-income. You can find a lot of low end job listings that say “reliable transportation” and they don’t mean a bu
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by gnu8 7y ago
At a real company you have to write up something saying what you are planning on doing before taking any action, eg change control. I don't think that type of thing fits into the "move fast and break things" culture though.
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by gnu8 7y ago
How is that a credential?
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by gnu8 7y ago
I don’t think Twitter ever really exposed this feature. I never even saw where you type in the latitude and longitude. There’s a button to use the supposed location of the device but it’s not immediately clear to me how that would work or w
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by gnu8 7y ago
That heat is not wasted if you live in a place that has seasons. I’d like to see EVs with a petrol burning heating system that could provide cabin and battery heat during winter. Many gas stations sell untaxed kerosene that I think could be
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by gnu8 7y ago
If we assume good faith, then they’re not committing espionage, they’re just incompetent to an extreme. Why then should we take the Chinese telecom industry seriously?
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by gnu8 7y ago
Do you really want your client to load a URI just because someone dropped it in a channel you're in?
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by gnu8 7y ago
I have read in other discussions that the contractor has great confidence in the deployment of the sun shield because of their experience with similar systems on classified satellites. I think as long as the launch is successful there won’t
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by gnu8 7y ago
After all the drama surrounding the bureaucratic paralysis and legal encumberment of Java, I wouldn't touch another corporate language with a ten foot pole. Let Go Die.
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by gnu8 7y ago
They mean keep a local copy. Likely that was written by someone who uses the word download for all computer related operations. I didn't have any intention to make a local copy but I am going to now, just to spite their ludicrous prohi
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by gnu8 7y ago
I can't see why anyone would want that. If you weren't connected to the server then those lines were not sent to you. They're ephemeral. Ask someone to fill you in on what happened or send you a log.
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by gnu8 7y ago
Where would you deport them to? Whatever your answer, I can assure you that the people over there don’t want measles people either.
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by gnu8 7y ago
The United States itself does not respect international law and does not permit its soldiers to be prosecuted in the ICJ under any circumstances. Therefore there is no reason to afford it any similar consideration. International law is larg
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by gnu8 7y ago
For someone who isn’t a citizen of the United States, it’s not illegal to fight against the military of the United States. It’s not possible for Assange to have committed a crime here. Would you suggest indicting a drone operator of the US

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