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by ilovetux 8y ago
Is this where we are headed? Pretty soon we will be a world of endless flame-wars. It works for Trump (someone I do not like) and it'll work for Musk (someone I like). It might even work to the author of the article if they manage to g
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by ilovetux 8y ago
I don't get it. If these systems are not air-gapped then that is gross negligence. There is absolutely no reason that these systems are exposed to the internet.
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I remember in the 90s a site with curated links was a common feature on "home pages". Remember home pages? They were cool geocities, Myspace and more. I wish they would make a comeback. The closest we have to curated content is th
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by ilovetux 8y ago
Here is an article citing a Charlie Rose interview from 2005. https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/04/an-old-eric-schmidt-interv...
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by ilovetux 8y ago
One of Google's cofounders once said that if there is more than one search result then that is a bug. That sort of thinking inevitably leads to this sort of thing. There are always shades of grey. I'm looking for a link, will upda
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by ilovetux 8y ago
This is certainly true. In fact, I would go so far as to say we (those born or raised in the US) are conditioned from a young age to become dependent on our consumer economy in order to lock us into a system where we have to accept this sor
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by ilovetux 8y ago
The two most important pieces are a high-quality head-set and a foot-pedal to rewind/fast-forward. After that, a good ergonomic keyboard is very helpful. That's the bulk of it, but you can find other ways to spend money such as sp
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by ilovetux 8y ago
Author here. I am currently looking for a new name for this project. Feel free to suggest anything either here or on the github issue I made for it https://github.com/iLoveTux/aina/issues/4
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Show HN: Aina, a templating engine for the new milenium(github.com)
1 points by ilovetux 8y ago|1 comments
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by ilovetux 8y ago
I have experience with and equipment for transcription. If this site had the feature to add transcriptions, I would like to transcribe maybe one or two videos per week and I don't think I'm the only one who would. It would be a ni
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by ilovetux 8y ago
Right, and you make a good point that it does not make sense for all types of law. I think that these studies are a good thing and I would never want to discourage anything of the sort, but what is missing is a way to ensure consistency of
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Ask HN: Is there a legislative equivalent to unit tests
1 points by ilovetux 8y ago|2 comments
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by ilovetux 8y ago
That's interesting, I know facebook has done some research on emotion/sentiment analysis on posts and comments. I could see a browser extension, a feature of a search engine or a content aggregator which analyses the emotional con
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by ilovetux 8y ago
Along with the author, I am hesitant to needlessly follow regulations which only apply to a small portion of global population of which I am not a part. Especially since there are simple ways to sidestep the liability. This, however, does g
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by ilovetux 9y ago
>> does not mean that you will get their profiles in your inbox. They will just see your ads. I do like that this business model limits data exposure to third parties. That being said, I don't believe that it is possible for the
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Ask HN: Do any consumers prefer targeted ads?
2 points by ilovetux 9y ago|4 comments
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by ilovetux 9y ago
I couldn't agree more, the world wide web is definitely just a piece of the internet. I remember the battles over chat protocols, the scourge of p2p protocols and even the move from email to webmail and back again. The web has always b
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by ilovetux 9y ago
The important thing here is passion. It is easy enough to teach the basics of programming like it is easy to teach the basics of math, but without passion for the actual subject people tend to disregard even their own knowledge and expertis
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by ilovetux 9y ago
I have three children and they all have a OLPC laptop. They are designed for children 6-15 it is easy to forget how physically small people in this age group can be. I think a larger screen would make it more difficult to carry and would re
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by ilovetux 9y ago
I tried a few google searches and nothing. Perhaps this would be better on StackOverflow or similar, but I like Ask HN and used it almost instinctively.
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Ask HN: What are the rules for posting to "Launch HN": category
2 points by ilovetux 9y ago|4 comments
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by ilovetux 9y ago
I never thought about those recaptcha things. I feel guilty and almost dirty for helping them do these things. I also feel ripped off. We are programming their computers with our data and they are using our work and intelligence to train sy
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by ilovetux 9y ago
That is a very interesting idea and a lot more do-able than what I originally asked. If you post it, I would come over there to discuss, but today I wanted to explore the idea of representative democracy vs direct democracy. Please don&#x27
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by ilovetux 9y ago
> direct democracy was too prone to degenerate into mob rule Do you think its possible that new advances in technology since 1776 might just enable direct democracy to avoid the degeneration you cite? > to actually implement it, you h
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by ilovetux 9y ago
But what happens when the citizenry decide that our class of informed representatives no longer serve their interest? That these elected officials only care about election and taking money from lobbyists. That our president is...but I digre
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by ilovetux 9y ago
Don't we currently have this same problem in politics? It might just be me, but in recent times political attack ads seem to be increasing in occurrence while decreasing in taste. This looks like the same trolls, just a little more pol
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by ilovetux 9y ago
I know this question is rather vague, but the basic idea is that a web-based application could be created with every American having an account. The purpose of the application would be to allow votes on each political issue from participati
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Ask HN: Can the US House and Senate be replaced with a website, should it?
1 points by ilovetux 9y ago|15 comments
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by ilovetux 9y ago
I don't think I would pay a monthly membership for a website, but what I would be willing to pay for is Google and Facebook to stop watching me and showing advertisements. If I could pay the online ad companies to pay the content creat
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by ilovetux 9y ago
It's true that you can't put half of your population in prison but you can bring prison to the population just look at North Korea and a few other authoritarian nations around the world. We need a way to let law enforcement do the

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