jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
The development of fission technology seems like a fine case to consider. I doubt we are more paranoid and militaristic now than we were during the height of the cold war. Maybe we are, but I really don't see it.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
So to be clear, do you oppose this because of what it facilitates, or do you oppose it because of what the author indents it to facilitate? If the author gave it all of the same properties and abilities, claimed that he intended it to share
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Drugs are a canary in the coal mine. If you lack the ability to share drugs over a medium without surveillance, then you know that you lack the ability to share information over a medium without surveillance. If you can't say "
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Will this system hinder our enforcement of slave trafficking and murder for hire laws? What are people going to do, stick a person in a box with a bunch of laundry detergent to mask the smell, then drop the box in the mail? Is an assassin
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Do you really think that this system will hinder the governments ability to do those positive things that you've mentioned? This is a system for facilitating voluntary transactions between individuals. That should not frighten you.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
So the purpose isn't the problem, just the name? If Tor were instead named "Thing-to-subvert-the-state-omatic" , would you then oppose efforts to popularize it?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The pixels have fantastic screens, the other chromebooks are fantastically cheap. The hardware on regular chromebooks is apparently great for the price , the hardware on the pixel is not great except for the screen . If neither of thos
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I think the problem is many people mistake CS programs for some sort of vocational education.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Such an elevator system might allow the formation of tight-knit safe and trusting communities on each floor, but I suspect that the common areas (lobby, and the elevator itself) would rapidly become as trashed as your stereotypical subway
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If it wasn't the rich, it would be the "yuppies" out-bidding the grunge and punk. One scape-goat or another, when really all it boils down to is that they don't have enough money to live wherever they want to. Welcome
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Taxing rich people more for having multiple homes isn't going to make them give up those homes (we are talking about "1%"ers, right?), all it is going to do is increase your tax revenue. If you plan is to use that addition
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "boring rich" This anti-rich "occupy" shit is getting real old. We get it, you don't like people who have more than you; give it a rest already. > Taking away money isn't the plot of Harrison Berger
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I agree entirely, embracing the 1% is the way to go. Without them you can only see progress measured in decades, not years.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If the objective is just to raise more money for subsidized housing, there are more ways to do that than just whining about rich people having underused apartments. Hell, tax caviar; a tax for cheap housing doesn't have to attack rich
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Chicago and LA perhaps, but there is no way in hell Philadelphia is in the same basket as Detroit. Philadelphia is improving (slowly), Detroit is rapidly decaying. I'm not accusing Philadelphia of being clean or safe, I am asserting
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by jlgreco 13y ago
People over 40 are perfectly capable of using their legs. If they used them more often, instead of hopping in the car every time they needed to go a mile or two, maybe they would remain healthy longer. Cities typically have transportation
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Would such tax penalties stop the rich from renting/owning in NYC? I doubt it, they are rich after all. Would those tax penalties convince them to declare those homes their primary residence? Maybe, if they were American. But wou
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Being a desirable place to live isn't a "problem" it is a feature. Being the only desirable place to live might be problematic to some people who want to live in that desirable place cheaply, but the solution to that is not
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Philly is way better than it use to be, it just hasn't improved nearly as rapidly or dramatically as NYC has. The blight of urban decay is being pushed back, but that push isn't driven so much by the ultra-rich as it is by coll
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Barring handicaps, I think a 15-30 minute walk is reasonable for most people, particularly the sort of people who might be looking to live in a car-lite city. 30 minutes at a leisurely pace is only 2 miles, I do that twice a day and I li
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by jlgreco 13y ago
A hyperbolic call to action is more useful than no call to action at all. This sort of article really rubs me the wrong way, I apologize for my overly abrasive tone.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Does that terminal emulator handle all control sequences that xterm would allow? When I tried ChromeOS, whatever terminal emulator I was using was largely worthless for me because Chrome was intercepting certain control sequences and not a
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I recommend nuking ChromeOS entirely and installing your distro of choice (don't bother with crouton or whatever). Then you use it like you normally would. The main attraction with Chromebooks is the hardware, not ChromeOS.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
What's he want, more rent control? To put "the 1%" 'up against a wall'? What is this article other than a whiny complaint, pandering to the envious masses?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It would legitimize the (uncontroversial) assertion that cars have worth.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Google has been working on question answering for years now, but only exposes it when it is sure of the answers. I find this only works for very particular, seemingly whitelisted, cases. For example, it does date of death well, bu
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by jlgreco 13y ago
"That movie with the living car" came close for me the other day, giving me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine instead of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_(1983_film)
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Link seems to be dead and I can't find a cache.. is this article just about 4b825...?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I'm not sure how you think "counting" works... As described , the Ethiopian Method would take far more stones and far more time. The larger the numbers you are working with, the larger the discrepancy.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
So what we are saying here is that there might be actual modern burried pirate treasure somewhere. Awesome.

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