losteric

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by losteric 8y ago
That, and decades of world-leading scientific research.
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by losteric 8y ago
Some additional root-causes: * Ex-engineer managers pointing out that technology, then either brown-nosing or incompetent engineers running with it * Tech debt: throw-away prototypes / experiments forced to production products * Engi
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by losteric 8y ago
It's equally important to question your "team". In the developed world, hatred is often manufactured to gain power... The leaders of a nation can cause more harm in their quest for glory than the average citizen of an opposin
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by losteric 8y ago
If the public knows the IRS has less funding to enforce the law, wouldn't more rich people gamble on tax evasion?
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by losteric 8y ago
Update the protocol to securely track who uploaded what, to whom, and you've got a market just like private solar panel owners and the energy grid. Pay the 1mbps and gigabit civilians proportional to how much they share. It's ente
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by losteric 8y ago
BitTorrent doesn't necessarily mean everyone seeds, nor that access is free. If there was some kind of micropayments infrastructure for seeders/leechers/content owners, I would happily seed arbitrary-but-legal torrents with m
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by losteric 8y ago
> Facebook doesn't actively try to manipulate you into believing that they're the "good guys" and "not evil" Hah, good one! But just in case you're serious: Did you see Zuckerberg's Senate hearing?
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by losteric 8y ago
> People expect saints when saints are imaginary. The baseline to measure cannot be "perfection". You're putting up a strawman. The baseline is other big tech companies (MS/GOOG/AMZN/AAPL) - companies that a
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by losteric 8y ago
Gasping for breath != dead; Intel is stumbling here, AMD will start eating into those numbers unless Intel can regain their pace.
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by losteric 8y ago
Free markets rely on educated consumers operating in a transparent market. Ubers model works because they externalize a lot of operating costs to ignorant (under-informed) "contractors", and obscuring the economic realities from c
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by losteric 8y ago
So we're all perpetually carrying around weapons, by virtue of having hands/legs/clothing/cellphone batteries/bags/etc?
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by losteric 8y ago
No, state-sponsored poison attacks are still acts of war.
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by losteric 8y ago
Poison can also be deployed by untrained individuals coerced into service, and bypass metal detectors as well as bullet-proof vests used by paranoid targets.
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by losteric 8y ago
Scarcity is an important factor. Today, primitive societies (mostly) safe from Western conquest because they simply don't have anything we want.
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by losteric 8y ago
The public is always reluctant to change established behavior and expectations... mass adoption requires revolutionary change that overcomes perceived functional and financial costs of switching, or evolutionary change with no perceived cos
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by losteric 8y ago
Police departments are made of individuals with friends and families. Factor in all the bureaucracy and pension cuts, you'll find they are more of a wild-card that will backfire against the elite in many areas.
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by losteric 8y ago
The general public bailed out banks that profited off financial recklessness - banks that simply were not doing their job of managing risk.
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by losteric 8y ago
I think you're describing a pull workflow... which more apps ought to be using, but does fill a different role than pushes.
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by losteric 8y ago
For the past 3 years, every yellow cab I have ridden has had an always-on camera. I like it. If I wanted privacy I would call a friend or drive myself... cabs are for convenience. Security footage protects both drivers and riders from abuse
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by losteric 8y ago
I think some form of government-backed authentication is inevitable for the commercial web... digital drivers licenses. Maybe that'll finally get us off social security numbers too. Not something I want to see or use, but I think it&#x
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by losteric 8y ago
Competent dealers will work around your schedule, they want your money. Otherwise it's a sales-focused dealership that can't be trusted with your car anyway.
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by losteric 8y ago
You aren't thinking about AI drones, other people are. Project Maven was a first step towards securing broader DoD contracts. Pretending drones were not part of the picture is either naive or disingenuous.
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by losteric 8y ago
> Do people really think that fewer people would die if we could somehow roll weapons technology back to 1914? Nope, that's a red herring.
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by losteric 8y ago
I think AI drones make us more willing to kill indiscriminately. When our people are also at risk, we pay more attention to whether there is sufficient information to safely operate with minimal casualties on either side. Drones invite &quo
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by losteric 8y ago
Or pay cash!
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by losteric 8y ago
Hey at least the credit card companies are fully transparent - all that is clearly outlined in the 20-page size-3 font terms and conditions you signed up with! /s It's ridiculous that credit cards, the primary mode of online purch
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by losteric 8y ago
> Consumers wouldn't be spending if they didn't have extra cash in their pocket, and they expect the economy to stagnate/decline Cash... or credit. Americans currently hold around $3.6 trillion in credit cards and auto&#x2
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by losteric 8y ago
Most people find salad very boring and "uncompetitive" compared to ice cream or potato chips... but that's not the point . We need to keep our diets diverse and healthy, otherwise our lives degrade or end prematurely. Hedon
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by losteric 8y ago
> Everything else, like e-mail, depends on a chain of service providers and accounts to deliver and store content reliably over the network In your proposal, how do the packets get from point A to B?
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by losteric 8y ago
Given that package delivery is where USPS can profit, I wonder why Amazon/Walmart don't lobby to modernize USPS so it can cover the use-cases - why not deliver multiple times per day? There's no greater economy of scale than

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