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by hugh4life 8y ago
The tech giants are too big, but there are geopolitical consequences for breaking them up. Countries like Russia and China can target smaller companies much easier than the Goliaths.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
Amazon is starting to ban some far right books. Sexual Utopia in Power is currently banned(it's on libgen) likely as a compete blacklist on it's publisher. The author had published a book on Kojeve for an academic publisher and th
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by hugh4life 8y ago
"U.S. personal income fell for the first time in more than three years in January as dividends and interest payments dropped" It hit the people with stocks and money in the bank the most.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
Whoopdeedoo... Z1 didn't go anywhere... the UK were allies using the tech for codebreaking... and you can't get more military industrial complex than ENIAC. You can parse my words however you like, but my general point is that the
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by hugh4life 8y ago
I personally find the idea that augmented reality headsets are "weapons" to be extremely stupid. Augmented reality doesn't really have much of a market yet and cutting yourself off from the US military also seems really stupi
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by hugh4life 8y ago
"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail
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by hugh4life 8y ago
"Fruit harvesting robots are totally feasible, but we have political and economic policies that make it easier to use migrant labor than it is to invest in innovation." While it's true the political and economic sentiment has
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by hugh4life 8y ago
Inoreader just changed their plan basically nurfing their free plan... I'd really love google reader to make a comeback. The also got rid of discussion and blog search which along with getting rid of google reader helped accelerate the
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by hugh4life 8y ago
I disagree with this. Over time GEDMatch will get enough samples for forensic purposes. I'd rather have an incentive program to get people to upload their data onto GEDMatch than to have the government work with the commercial companie
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by hugh4life 8y ago
There have been a few high profile cases of women leaving and trying to get asylum lately, but there's a weird case of two Saudi sisters who were found dead after they had tried to claim asylum. https://www.nbcnews.com/
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by hugh4life 8y ago
A few days ago I was checking the former computer language shootout for another language and saw that C# is beating Java on all the benchmarks. This surprised me because I always had remembered Java being slightly ahead. https://
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by hugh4life 8y ago
You can use reddit and completely avoid politics.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
I want a block all petitions feature.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
IQ is a significant measurement that should not be ignored but I think it's important to see intelligence as a social process. There are a lot of people that I know I would score much higher on an IQ test but they are way better in exp
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by hugh4life 8y ago
There is really a philosophical contradiction on many demands put on Facebook and the social media companies. There are many in western governments and media who want the social media companies to engage in "repressive tolerance"
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by hugh4life 8y ago
A few days old but I'm surprised it didn't get submitted. This really seems like a huge game changer. https://www.pcper.com/files/imagecache/article_max_width/new... There are already vendors toutin
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Intel's Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMMs Push Latency Closer to DRAM(pcper.com)
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by hugh4life 8y ago
I wouldn't rush into it, but with webassembly I can't help but think that a browser rendered mobile OS is a concept worth reviving at some point. And google is unlikely to pursue that since they have Android.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
This is more relevant for people like me that use Linux as their main desktop, but you don't have to choose just one. Both Mac Minis(and Apple Laptops) and NUCs have good resale value. Get a monitor that can take multiple inputs and th
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by hugh4life 8y ago
Representative democracy devolves into elitist managerialism that abstracts away whom they manage. I prefer to be governed by a lottery system with checks to insure loyalty and capability.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
One thing I just noticed with Instagram's website is that I can't select comment text any longer... that may or may not be a new change but I never noticed it earlier and it's driving me crazy now as I frequently copy comment
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by hugh4life 8y ago
I tried this when I was 12 or 13... from textfiles.com.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
"The dangerous clashes of the future are likely to arise from the interaction of Western arrogance, Islamic intolerance, and Sinic assertiveness." https://harvardmagazine.com/1997/01/forum.html
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by hugh4life 8y ago
I'd like to see a retroactive rebate program for tuition paid for transferable community college credits that went towards a bachelors degree at a 4 year university. Make community college free for those who use it successfully to get
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by hugh4life 8y ago
Instagram is the only social network I really like... but I'm worried they're starting to add too much to it.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
I'm guessing this was about newspapers/journalists which probably isn't the message people around here would like. "The lowest depth to which people can sink before God is defined by the word 'journalist'. If I
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by hugh4life 8y ago
I personally like to see loans during the first couple years capped and community colleges more subsidized.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
If I were the milk industry, I'd heavily promote meal replacements that use milk as a base. Especially in places where milk is cheap. I love Milk Fuel(formerly Schmilk) and I think it would be a good breakfast replacement for the masse
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by hugh4life 8y ago
If it turns out to be false, should the SEC look into it?
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by hugh4life 8y ago
And what else will Amazon employees demand AWS not host?

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