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by lucker 10y ago
Seems like a lot of that can be solved by simply not moderating or censoring anythng.
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by lucker 10y ago
Yep. I think the right approach is to expose the browser's primitives and just have people write their own markup/layout/style languages if they want to. Keep HTML/CSS as a fall-back and because a lot of work has gone in
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by lucker 10y ago
>If they pardon him, they say it's alright to release national secrets based on "feelings" Ah, but the thing is, they built the domestic surveillance infrastructure based on "feelings" — after all, the real threa
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by lucker 10y ago
>maybe Trump I doubt it. Trump has praised NSA surveillance in the past and has hinted that Snowden should be executed. Unless he was just saying such things to try to get the intelligence community on his side pre-election, he's in
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by lucker 10y ago
Umm... or, I could just rotate a square a quarter-turn by iterating over the square's elements: for (x = 0; x < N; x ++) { for (y = 0; y < N; y ++) { newSquare[x][y] = oldSquare[y][N-1-x]; } } Of course, in certain repres
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by lucker 10y ago
The only retaliation I can think of that would be both proportionate and ethical would be to hack secret data of the Russian leadership and release at least part of it to the world public. The Russian government is accused of two things: ha
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by lucker 10y ago
I don't think there's a problem reconciling the brain with the mind, if by 'mind' one means problem-solving ability. The problem is in reconciling the brain with consciousness . There is, as far as I know, no theory tha
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by lucker 10y ago
Behavior? Yes. Consciousness? Maybe not. As far as I know, no-one has ever come up with an explanation of how matter can give rise to consciousness. Obviously consciousness is affected by changes in matter — if I take certain drugs, I feel
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by lucker 10y ago
I have the opposite dream right now: I've spent almost my entire life in large cities and now that I'm in my thirties, finally have a career going, and am no longer obsessed with my sex life, I'm longing to move out of the ci
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by lucker 10y ago
In many situations, it does make financial sense to live with family — however, sometimes one is simply happier and more productive when one has sufficient space that one more or less controls. Living in close proximity with others can be w
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by lucker 10y ago
Out of curiosity — how would you feel about a rural suburb if you could work remotely from it and make the same money that you could make in a big city? What other things would you need the rural suburb to provide if employment wasn't
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by lucker 10y ago
I wonder what the math is on the 0.1%'s money. If the 0.1% became significantly more generous with their money, how much would that actually benefit everyone else?
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by lucker 10y ago
Where are your friends and colleagues going, if I may ask?
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by lucker 10y ago
Bit of a conspiracy theory sort of question, but... is there any reason to believe that maybe self-driving car technology is being backed by the military-industrial complex as a way to run R&D for military automation and related technol
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by lucker 10y ago
It's interesting what a difference there is in people's perspectives. To me, Reddit seems excruciatingly polite and well-mannered, often to the point of dishonesty. This is probably because I've been to 4chan and similar plac
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by lucker 10y ago
If that someone is working for the campaign of a politician/party which supports NSA spying on Americans, he or she has no right to privacy in my eyes. The way I see it, if you want me to respect your privacy, you have to respect mine.
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by lucker 10y ago
'Secret law' is not law at all, and I consider it the duty of every American to expose and, if necessary, disobey it. Any legal professional participating in 'secret law' should be disbarred.
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by lucker 10y ago
I think tomp is pointing out that doing something equivalent to circumcision to a female baby would be illegal. Rightly so, in my opinion. I strongly believe that male circumcision should be illegal as well.
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by lucker 10y ago
There's also the issue of self-driving car hype vs. the actual progress of the technology. Despite a growing number of successes in the field, I still can't really imagine that we are anywhere close to having self-driving cars tha
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by lucker 10y ago
I'm mostly with you on this one. I like mass transit. It's a fun opportunity to people-watch. What I don't like is riding with smelly and/or loud and/or violent people. I don't care how people dress, though, as
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by lucker 10y ago
I find it more plausible that tech billionaires are just more likely, as a group, to believe in technocrat rule, etc. than are people who are not tech billionaires. Being an immigrant from Communist countries or a child of such immigrants i
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by lucker 10y ago
The charge regarding the otherwise legal research and dissemination of instructions about the use of encryption software, as well as the encrypting of a website has been brought by invoking the controversial Section 5 of the Terrorism Act
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by lucker 10y ago
I don't want it! I've never understood why an obscure modern art movement got so much traction in a field where much funding comes from the government. Wait... never mind, I guess it makes perfect sense. Consumers wouldn't bu
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by lucker 10y ago
Well, it's evolution. The locals can't compete. Given enough time, the local ecosystems will adapt. Compared to the enormous environmental impact of humans, it's ridiculous to blame cats. You really want to conserve local spe