kilolima

8 ms·

61.
by kilolima 3y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right? Why can't we admit that the Allies committed their own war crimes and move on?
62.
by kilolima 3y ago
I can see the value in the streaming services for this because it's easy and convenient. However, it's also fun to discover new music on your own ("pull" versus "push" for content discovery) by researching genr
63.
by kilolima 3y ago
Should we just legalize the FAANGs to engage in cyber warfare/espionage against each other? Seems like then they would have to reach a minimum of best security practice instead of relying on obscurity.
64.
by kilolima 3y ago
Women do it all the time...
65.
by kilolima 3y ago
What about a system that could encourage partial retirement into part time service industries or consulting? Or to working at non-profits, subsidized by retirement funds. Of course this is already the case, but if it was formalized it could
66.
by kilolima 3y ago
For example, Gaia Maps. It's just a navigation app using publicly funded USGS or crowd sourced base maps, but by switching over to a user account requirement, they can con people into paying a monthly subscription for map "updates
67.
by kilolima 3y ago
Google maps is a crime against cartography. The two most important elements of a map are usually absent: a north arrow and a scale.
68.
by kilolima 3y ago
He's fluent in Lisp, so that would qualify him as a programmer, unless you think that only Silicon Valley wage slaves can be "programmers". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamagical_Themas
69.
by kilolima 3y ago
The parent comment strikes me as an uninformed smear. Have you read any Hofstadter? It's hardly mass market scientific summary as you seem to think. And his career was in philosophy of mind and computer science, not just as a somewhat
70.
by kilolima 3y ago
Are they going to provide a pay raise for the lost time commuting or do they just expect their employees to take a quality of life hit without recompense?
71.
by kilolima 3y ago
Reddit expects its users to work for free.
72.
by kilolima 4y ago
You're not doing the right thing if you're helping to enforce DRM. This removes power from both authors and readers to Amazon's benefit. If you want to do the right thing, buy a physical book and then pirate the ebook.
73.
by kilolima 4y ago
So would it be fair to say that Apple built the iPod to take advantage of music piracy?
74.
by kilolima 4y ago
This article attempts to combine isolated incidents into an overall problem with aviation safety. However, having flown into OGG multiple times, I think this is another example of the typical extreme wind shear/turbulence at this airpo
75.
by kilolima 4y ago
Good question! Also why isn't there a Linux version? Maybe there is some collusion somewhere between two of the major monopolies in desktop computing?
76.
by kilolima 4y ago
Is this an advertisement for esri or a meaningful comment on using QGIS?
77.
by kilolima 4y ago
Nice maps but why do you have to share with the world a map of North Shore surf spots?
78.
by kilolima 4y ago
There's also Blackbird for making windows less of a malware vector: https://www.getblackbird.net/documentation/
79.
by kilolima 4y ago
There's no Egyptian record of Moses, Passover, or the Exodus. Religious fabrications are hardly relevant for a discussion of ancient mathematics.
80.
by kilolima 4y ago
With KeePass, the trivial solution for this situation could just be a second subset database of relevant accounts on a thumb drive, with the password known to family individuals. That seems easier than relying on a cloud provider and some s
81.
by kilolima 4y ago
Or Google could hire humans to do tech support and address these kind of problems directly. But we know that Google's profitability is in part because they have dispensed with the idea that you can phone someone to report a problem and
82.
by kilolima 4y ago
The best pirated game scenes are Russian, Valve exiting the market world mean very little. It's also a huge benefit to the rest of the world that Russian/ex Soviet culture has both very little respect for Western intellectual prop
83.
by kilolima 4y ago
Can it do X forwarding yet?
84.
by kilolima 4y ago
I like having a back button.
85.
by kilolima 4y ago
Identifying logical fallacies is a 1-pass spam removal system. Identifying and blanket dismissing arguments based on logical fallacies reduces the low-effort noise and allows the worthwhile arguments to be heard.
86.
by kilolima 4y ago
How would you explain the recent gas cap for Russian oil as the hand of the market?
87.
by kilolima 4y ago
You can share password stores locally across multiple machines using a USB drive. Or Syncthing.
88.
by kilolima 4y ago
But their stockholders are citizens!
89.
by kilolima 4y ago
This discussion has nothing to do with the Jones Act. Bot spam!
90.
by kilolima 4y ago
It's not just DRM, it's also an advertising profile and software usage monitoring application. Recording the number of hours I play a game or which game is about as invasive as when the Patriot Act tried to go after public library

More ›