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by krichman 13y ago
I would say centralised is easier but usually worse instead of better. Most people use some centralised middleman out of convenience. Decentralisation is universally better IMO because there is no single point of failure and no choke point
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by krichman 13y ago
My first reaction was that this is creative and interesting. Impressive that you did it in 24 hours. The validation use case for Upboat makes sense... but it seems strictly weaker than, say, Kickstarter for validation. Emails mean much less
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by krichman 13y ago
I guess Epsilon reads something like Yahoo! Answers or celebrity tweets? What do Alpha or Beta classes read?
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by krichman 13y ago
But isn't that the whole point? That we're so easily distracted by objectively useless entertainment? I spent hours this week looking at pictures of cats and viewing videos of cats jumping. It was a poor use of my time.
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by krichman 13y ago
Congress.
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by krichman 13y ago
Note that it only forces you to contribute back in the event that you not contributing back would restrict another's freedoms with their hardware or software.
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by krichman 13y ago
The protections of an "articulate suspicion" are trivially defeated: "we received an anonymous tip that...".
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by krichman 13y ago
No, their motivation is to preserve your personal freedoms with your own software and hardware.
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by krichman 13y ago
1. The exam is qualifying you to operate heavy machinery in public. 2. You can re-take the exam if you fail it the first time. 3. You can operate a bicycle or be a passenger on any bus or train without a driver's license. Your argument
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by krichman 13y ago
The App Store is openly hostile to freedom, let alone FOSS.
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by krichman 13y ago
You are right. By purposefully misinterpreting "god" to be literal, you have won the discussion of what he would write in a book. Your answer is the best. Congratulations.
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by krichman 13y ago
Well, I downvoted. This is psuedo-philosophical nonsense that seems to be saying something profound, but isn't really. Nor does it add to a discussion on interesting algorithms. We could just as easily say that nature is a poor approxi
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by krichman 13y ago
Someone has to pay for the first copy to get it, of course.
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by krichman 13y ago
But you can (on Unix) put the same file in two places using ln[1]. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ln_(Unix)
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by krichman 13y ago
I disagree that it's a revolution but think it's a much needed refresher. They also introduced some features that I think they've been lacking. It's a much better upgrade than 5 and 6 IMO.
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by krichman 13y ago
Freedom of general purpose computing is more important than a company's bottom line. Also restricting anti-competitive behaviours is not equivalent to a forced medical procedure.
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by krichman 13y ago
It's disappointing because I agree with the factual content, what little there is, but disagree with calling everyone a "fucktard".
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by krichman 13y ago
Isn't that the reason they seized Dotcom's assets? They had no legal basis for that.
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by krichman 13y ago
Before we begin this scheme, you should have yourself and/or your family waterboarded for a few hours and see if your opinion changes. Edit: I mean, even if it were useful, is is acceptable? Probably not.
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by krichman 13y ago
But consider that "it's dystopian and it doesn't even work " makes a strictly stronger argument. Pointing out that it won't work has better results than "those who would trade freedom for security..." on stodgy old republicans like my fath
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by krichman 13y ago
We definitely need a better app discovery method than Apple's.
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by krichman 13y ago
I'd like more gumroad services where the author sees more of the profit. That's what I hope the future of the internet is like, just totally cutting out egregious middlemen and leaving services that take some small percentage.
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by krichman 13y ago
I've done a small study and it turns out a combination of documenting, preparing unit tests, and cardboard boxes improve my source code quality by quite a bit.
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by krichman 13y ago
I won't read any of the claims because of triple damages. I didn't even read past the first paragraph of your comment because you appear to be listing them. Maybe some of the problem is the thoughtcrime involved forces us to react against t
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by krichman 13y ago
You are right it's more of a "should we provide medical coverage for our citizens or continue tax cuts for the wealthy?"
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by krichman 13y ago
My mistake. Carry on.
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by krichman 13y ago
This is idiotic. The requirement should be that the user can disable it entirely OR replace the private key. And it should require implementation of an optional password protection.
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by krichman 13y ago
No it's not. "True Republicans" was in quotes. Republicans are supposed to be for smaller government in theory. In practice they sometimes seem "small enough to fit in the bedroom".
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by krichman 13y ago
Probably. But we could also say you should have read the article before having a knee-jerk reaction to the title.
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by krichman 13y ago
You are just arguing against the typical meaning of those words and not how he used them. The usage was more like Good vs. Yes-man.

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