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by gonational 5y ago
Wait, didn't our version of Google also fall into the wrong hands?
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by gonational 5y ago
Coining a term: *The Social Limit* At any given moment, this is the income/wealth level of the medium social media account owner. Naturally, as those with fewer means come online, this limit decreases. The purpose of this limit is to d
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by gonational 5y ago
And, if you want to find where such "bad apples" come from, look no further than the UN, or any other international legal or military apparatus.
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by gonational 5y ago
Especially now that we know Einstein was responsible for the discovery of basically nothing. Not only did he stand on the shoulders of giants, but he essentially lifted much of his special theory of relativity from the thoughts and musings
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by gonational 6y ago
Science is a never ending series of incorrect observations, each disqualifying the penultimate while asserting the ultimate is axiomatic. When you're young you get excited each time a new breakthrough is happening. If you manage to gro
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by gonational 6y ago
"Far-right misinformation" ~ government-funded leftist "newspaper" Side versus side, always. Society engages, largely, in a series genetic fallacies, as a means of filtering information. If it instead dealt in facts, a l
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by gonational 6y ago
Well let's see; let's dump multiple trillions of dollars into the economy and give everyone who had no job, BEFORE the Rona, thousands of dollars for free, and then let's see what happens. I wonder what could possibly happen.
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by gonational 6y ago
This is true.
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by gonational 6y ago
Yeah. That's what they do. That's what inflation is. We work hard and save up $100,000, they (the 1%) turn that into $25,000 in 25 years.
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by gonational 6y ago
Reading Paul Graham's "essays" is inspiring, because, the more of his writing that I read, the more I realize that basically anybody can be a multimillionaire.
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by gonational 6y ago
The Future of APIs is SOAP over UDP. No kidding though, Poe's Law applies to this article. This shit has gotten out of hand. A List Apart used to be a serious publication; ideas like progressive enhancement and responsive CSS came righ
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by gonational 6y ago
If you understand why I have this viewpoint, then have I convinced you to have the same viewpoint? Or, have I given away some thing about my internal reasoning mechanics to suggest that I would have erroneously come to my conclusion, perh
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by gonational 6y ago
With no disrespect to you, this comes across like a pre-canned response from the Amazon Anti-Anti-Trust legal team... I mean, your second and third paragraph could be the introduction to an internal presentation about "why we at Amazon
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by gonational 6y ago
Embrace, extend, extinguish, Amazon edition. In my opinion, this is the inevitable conclusion of Amazon's sudden increase in direct involvement in OSS projects. With cases like elastic search close in the rearview mirror (I know that t
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Raspberry Pi phoning home to Microsoft(m.slashdot.org)
30 points by gonational 6y ago|10 comments
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by gonational 6y ago
I love how everyone here jumps on this, spread the love and joy for Iran, meanwhile much of the same group of people is perfectly OK with an entire cohort of our population being utterly censored and shunned. Best of all, the same cult will
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by gonational 6y ago
I've been using the TD Ameritrade app (formerly "thinkorswim") since 2008, on an iPhone 3G, without issue.
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by gonational 6y ago
Should felons be allowed to own AR-15s also?
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by gonational 6y ago
> how many countries and states that allow referendums have fallen down the slippery slope from there to "full democracy" A joke, right? I can’t speak for all states, but the last midterms in FL alone had 10 referendums, some o
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by gonational 6y ago
Franklin said, “a republic, if you can keep it”. Prior to the mid-1800s there wasn’t even a popular vote; people voted for their representatives and the representatives chose the president. This slippery slope of republic -> republic wit
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by gonational 6y ago
I 100% percent agree.
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by gonational 6y ago
We have allowed our egos to be so affected by contemporary politicians’ rhetoric as to forget the core principles we all want to believed in. Perhaps Trump was put in place (by somebody in a smokey room) to get the political left (who were
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Bar None – Touch Bar Disabler(shauninman.com)
2 points by gonational 6y ago|0 comments
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by gonational 6y ago
I knew how I felt when I read this essay, but I couldn’t quite put it into words, even in my mind. Then I arrived here in the comment section and discovered your refreshingly accurate comment; I knew, immediately, that I did not need to hav
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by gonational 6y ago
Well I at least found one sensible person! Thank you for your reply.
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by gonational 6y ago
If you’re part of some group (e.g., OSS contributors), and a mass media propaganda company, like Wired, which is run by a Vanderbilt, comes along and starts saying things about “this poor lil feller is being abused”, etc., you should be ext
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by gonational 6y ago
For anyone who uses Apple Pay: I had trouble at the pine64.com website using Apple Pay (kept getting “invalid shipping address“), but when I checked out via their normal CC checkout it worked fine.
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by gonational 6y ago
BitChute is down also. Unless BitChute is hosted in Google Cloud and this is just a Google Cloud problem, I have a feeling something major is being censored.
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by gonational 6y ago
Shoot, you got me :/
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by gonational 6y ago
[1] they = me accepting that one does not need to know all the actors and motives, in order to see an obvious plot

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