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by goombastic 8y ago
Article is paywalled.
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by goombastic 8y ago
I've said this before, software & tech companies are enabling this sort of authoritarian transition in countries and enabling the powerful to stifle voices of dissent. It is more than likely that the connected world wide web will f
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by goombastic 8y ago
I am going back to using Lynx next.
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by goombastic 8y ago
All saudi women should get out of the country and solve the problem. No women, no new generation, and end of said practice.
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by goombastic 8y ago
Alert: Crazy page hijacks your back button with page loads. Getting back here was a pain. Why do websites do this?
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by goombastic 8y ago
You should use the whitelist options.
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by goombastic 8y ago
Are we inside one of these things as well?
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by goombastic 8y ago
Dual nic PIs welcome. Need a cheap router.
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by goombastic 8y ago
This is a terrible example to set. It's like taking a blow torch to a candle and boasting about the mess in the end. What's going wrong with the world's working hours? Add commute times to this and this is slavery.
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by goombastic 8y ago
I predict that the Chinese style of governance will eventually succeed and will be improved upon by others. They seem to be able to get away with everything. Chinese style data oriented micromanagement of populations is likely to be the nor
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by goombastic 8y ago
>good handshake - warm, dry, and politely firm Anyone else suffer from seasonal (autumn, spring) palm sweat? This is like my single biggest issue during these periods.
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by goombastic 8y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't want this? I am spammed enough as it is.
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by goombastic 8y ago
Not sure why so many people here are surprised that benefits of efficiency accrue to the owners of capital. That's the basic premise of capitalism in a way. Profits float upwards, hard negotiation pushes downwards on actual workers and
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by goombastic 8y ago
Cool sci-fi idea would be to try doing this and suddenly discover that there is already some "other" information there.
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by goombastic 8y ago
Users. The critical mass of users that's required for this to happen comes once in a rare while.
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by goombastic 8y ago
More MBAs in management maybe.
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by goombastic 8y ago
Didn't Musk talk about something like this in the Rogan interview recently?
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by goombastic 8y ago
When the alternative is death and suffering, yes. Governments should simply adopt the policy of least resistance and stop enforcing patent walls for companies that do this type of price gouging.
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by goombastic 8y ago
>Who else dislikes this sort of pop-science writing? I love pop science writing. The thing is that this easy imagination helps a lot of people access hitherto unknowable principles of science. If you are science oriented or enquiry minde
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by goombastic 8y ago
At this point, I am beginning to believe this might be a non-problem for the vast majority being framed as a problem for google to milk it somehow. We haven't connected the dots yet.
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by goombastic 8y ago
>Not the biometrics. What use is biometrics when I can update the actual record itself? >And the leaked information doesn't allow one to impersonate someone. Thats because the biometrics doesnt work for anyone 60-70% of the time.
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by goombastic 8y ago
Apart from being technically bogus, access to the entire database is/was available for 500 rupees. The quality of the bureaucrats running it, the opaque way the government pushing it, the lack of actual data to support the IDs, the dea
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by goombastic 8y ago
This is strange. I run a 6 year old PC with win 10 on it. It has 4GB of RAM. I use an SSD and an M.2 drive. The thing is snappy as hell. I face zero lags, jitters, or switching delays at all. I get the feeling that writing things to disk is
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by goombastic 8y ago
Coffee: $1 or $40 depending on BTC price. Please buy Starbucks coin to avoid volatility.
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by goombastic 8y ago
The USA is effectively becoming an innovation black hole from all angles of late. I predict people moving away until only the ultra right remains.
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by goombastic 8y ago
I think the big issue really for me personally has been that I know that these interfaces are clunky/inaccurate and I don't want to be talking out loud and giving out info in public spaces etc. If there is an option to type, I g
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by goombastic 8y ago
With an appropriately fashionable president as well. Brawndo, the thirst mutilator!
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by goombastic 8y ago
Which is why they didn't invent the internet.
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by goombastic 8y ago
I get the feeling we have pointless products more often than not these days. All these advances, just to create a speaker that listens to you and helps you shop. And now this, there is going to be a whole lot more e-waste in the coming year
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by goombastic 8y ago
Looks like he is enthusiastic about other people working for his money.

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