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by iand 12y ago
It's pretty easy to make substantially similar copies of the source code and run them in biological containers. The hard part is the maintenance.
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by iand 12y ago
Echoes of ludic life as defined by Bob Black in the Abolition of Work. http://www.primitivism.com/abolition.htm
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by iand 12y ago
>Amazon also is in the interesting position of probably being able to disrupt literally all commercial and retail business in the next couple years I agree, but replacing a diverse range of suppliers with a monopoly is not a positive for
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by iand 12y ago
HN is not one homogeneous mass of people. There are libertarians who write pro-free market comments and there are authoritarians who write the opposite.
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by iand 12y ago
The British people didn't make any kind of bet, the few politicians in power at the time took it, lost hard and still ended up as Lords.
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by iand 12y ago
Why say failed state? Do you presume that all countries must have a state?
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by iand 12y ago
I guess they could have just gone to http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/home/ and downloaded via CSV
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by iand 12y ago
How do you discover new music without buying it first?
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by iand 12y ago
I don't agree. I'm pretty sure we can make apps today equivalent to those from 20 years ago that are an order of magnitude more responsive even with all the indirection layers (640x480 resolution, 256 colours, no ui animations etc
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Security Update 2014-002(support.apple.com)
100 points by iand 12y ago|66 comments
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by iand 13y ago
I've never intentionally shared my contacts with LinkedIn and yet I get shown names from my address book. One was my teenage son and I tried to connect thinking he'd signed up for some reason. Nope, he'd never even considered
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by iand 13y ago
Singularity
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by iand 13y ago
On the contrary, we need fewer countries, fewer borders and more decentralization.
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by iand 13y ago
People aren't backing out, they are reducing their pledge. Do same anti-trolling measures deal with that?
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D-Wave 512 qubit computer provides no meaningful quantum speedup(scottaaronson.com)
1 points by iand 13y ago|0 comments
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by iand 13y ago
Unlikely. Siri was an acquisition for example.
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by iand 13y ago
You can choose not to use these services. There are other forms of transportation.
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Beyond3D - Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt()(beyond3d.com)
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by iand 13y ago
There are some people who have argued for infinite copyright terms or perpetual ownership over every utterance they make. Rand argued for IP, saying (roughly) "a man has rights to the product of his mind." In general though, I thi
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by iand 13y ago
Copyright (patents/intellectual property) is one of Benjamin Tucker's Four Great Monopolies[1] that give rise to monopoly capitalism[2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tucker#The_Four_Monopo... [2]
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by iand 13y ago
Without seeing the actual paper I don't think it's fair to assume that no adjustment is made to an organisations funding to account for their level of involvement with climate change debate. The methodology paper appears to catego
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by iand 13y ago
The sad state of climate change debate is that we now have the vested interests of the fossil fuel economy pitted against the vested interests of the subsidised clean fuel economy, with their guaranteed feed-in tariffs. Not to mention the d
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by iand 13y ago
The methodology accounts for varying degrees of involvement in climate change.
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by iand 13y ago
Even though the underlying research is paywalled, the methodology is openly available and very interesting. It lists all the organisations in the study and their funding sources, plus the structure used for categorising their involvement. L
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by iand 13y ago
I grew up in the seventies and my greatest fear was nuclear attack. That might be because I'm British and we're only 4 minutes from the USSR. I didn't feel weary of the doom mongering and I'm not at all cynical about the
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by iand 13y ago
In don't believe it did. https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/California_Northern_Distri...
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by iand 13y ago
A cache
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by iand 13y ago
My recollection was that the judge in this case pursued a very clever strategy. There were two questions to be decided: are APIs copyrightable and did Google infringe. The jury were asked to assume the API was copyrighted and then decide wh
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For Nearly Two Decades the Nuclear Launch Code Was 00000000(todayifoundout.com)
124 points by iand 13y ago|67 comments
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What can an attacker with 51% of hash power do?(bitcoin.stackexchange.com)
2 points by iand 13y ago|0 comments

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