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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I don't think it will have that big an impact. The thing is that the grassroots organizers in other countries who care most about government spying tend to live in countries with much more meddling than that which the US government h
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
On the other hand, there are relatively few governments worldwide that I would trust more (or distrust less, I guess) than that of the US to abuse this kind of information. The US isn't perfect, but a lot of places out there are worse
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Depends on your metaphor. If you think of software distribution like manufacturing, then writing the library is more like re-tooling an assembly line for production. This metaphor makes sense to me because both are significant one-time in
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I'm interested in how technology can bridge the gap between the developed-world latent willingness to give and developing-world needs. There are a lot of people out there who are looking for a more meaningful purpose in life. The problem w
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Just an observation: it is possible for the data to be normally distributed with a mean higher than 3, that just means that the distribution is truncated closer to the median on the upper tail than the lower one. However, just from eyeballi
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Many of the changes you propose -- all of them, actually -- would tend to make me less happy and less satisfied with my life than I am currently. We may have the capability to do all of these things within 50 years, and some of them much ea
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I think the connotation of "silver bullet" in this post is an extraordinary idea that solves the problem definitively by changing the rules. A lead bullet, by contrast, acknowledges the current field of play and just plays it better. Less
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Yes. Preferably with contribution from people who have been doing this long enough that they really <i>can</i> call it a lifestyle business, not just something they tried for six months between jobs. I'd also be interested
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I think you're missing his point. In a lot of parts of the world, including mine, this would be rather offensive behavior. The problem comes when you automatically generalize what happens to be offensive in your part of the world to the w
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This is a great point. Even if absolute revenue is lower, companies that deal mostly with information, rather than physical stuff, tend to have much, much higher return on investment when compared with capital-intensive alternatives like m
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I got several paragraphs into this writeup before I realized it wasn't just an Onion spoof of the once-a-day "anatomy of a hack" articles that come through here. :P
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Actually, the more free a market is the less of a problem this becomes. For every Blockbuster Inc. out there perfectly happy with the way things are now, the free market tends to produce three or four Nexflixes who are more than happy to c
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by kcorbitt 14y ago
This is a profoundly bad idea, and will likely never happen. The OP makes the assertion that quality of life is directly proportional to energy usage, so creating more energy is the primary way to grow an economy. While this is true to a l
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by kcorbitt 14y ago
There is no way in the world that North Korea developed the expertise to affect this kind of attack in-house, even if it is a relatively simple piece of malware. My guess is that the Chinese have been supporting them in a limited way. Chin