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by kinsomo 8y ago
I'm not so sure: the Wikipedia article quotes Justice Sotomayor: > "More fundamentally, it may be necessary to reconsider the premise that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information voluntarily disclo
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by kinsomo 8y ago
I'd love to have a desktop like this, but I wonder how loud they are. I'd expect that POWER9 Heatsink/Fan assemblies are made more for data center use, where noise is an afterthought. It's be awesome if they had heatsin
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> My biggest complain is that it looks too much like a PC by default. I remember the distinctive looks of the beige-and-purple Sun and always colorful SGI boxes. You could always spray-paint the case Indigo :)
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> There are way too few safeguards in the system and the Bill of Rights does not seem to be adequate in dealing with the new reality that private companies can acquire a vast amount of information on us and thereby sell it to law enforc
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by kinsomo 8y ago
I can't read most of the article because of the paywall, but I'm glad Oracle's greed is catching up to it. Besides its database and Java (which is still really Sun), every of their products I've been forced to use have
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by kinsomo 8y ago
IIRC, Swedish military doctrine assumes that much of their main military infrastructure will be quickly destroyed in an attack, so their forces are designed to disperse and operate from with minimal resources in difficult conditions. For i
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I also find it pretty amusing that people always mention the Winter war but not what came after I guess the time when Finland sided with the Germans, providing support and logistics including naval and air bases to the Germans and inva
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> If what Uber is doing is illegal, why are they allowed to continue operating? Because the set of things that are wrong is a subset of the things that are illegal. Uber also has a documented history of doing actual illegal things. It e
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by kinsomo 8y ago
>> In some areas where parking or insurance is expensive, this could mean large savings. In my area (Austin, TX), the all-in cost of owning a car with insurance is minimally more than this figure. You could lease one brand new, moder
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> When was the last time Congress did something for the people against corporations? It's certainly not going to do anything if the people assume advocacy is a lost cause and give up without even trying.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> None of this makes any sense, I simply don't believe it. Something similar happened to Josh Marshall, who wrote an article about it: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-serf-on-googles-farm : > So let’s
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> You might be right, but a company’s abuse of dominant position isn’t defined by the quality of their competitor’s offer. And the assumption that Yelp's offer is of poorer quality is debatable. Google's own algorithm apparent