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by maeon3 15y ago
I see a re-occurring theme here, The government is trying to use corporations to help it control the people. I just had a thought, how about we start creating corporations that make it easy for the people to control the government? No dou
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by maeon3 15y ago
Lets give Hollywood censorship rights at the dns level on one condition. The government absorb mpaa, riaa and hollywood as an unholy appendage of all the other slow moving buracratic nightmare agencies sucking tax dollars from the people.
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by maeon3 15y ago
HN need a "Reddit indicator" for users, if too many of your posts reek like Reddit or 4Chan, then your comments are kept, just moved to a new thread on Reddit/4Chan. Need it soon, Reddit trolls users are flooding into HN last 6 months.
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by maeon3 15y ago
Cary Sherman, the RIAA CEO, has a degree from Harvard in law. Sherman's compensation package from the RIAA was $3.2 million. In 2010, Sherman helped the RIAA secure a $105 million settlement from LimeWire for copyright infringement. The
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by maeon3 15y ago
"tell us every crime you have ever committed" is a question you can plead the 5th on in court. But the phone will one day make it unnecessary to ask the person, all you need is the brain's loyal assistant. I personally don't care about hu
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by maeon3 15y ago
When humans offload most of who we are onto handheld devices, the fifth amendment will not be necessary, just take the phone and query it for thought histories of the guilty, er, suspect. Torturing a suspect for self incriminating details:
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by maeon3 15y ago
It would decrease tourist dollars, dollars of people moving to tulsa, and encourage young upstarts leaving and never returning. The government is accountable, technically, but only when people vote with their actions and dollars.
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by maeon3 15y ago
Meanwhile, there are 50 exes from AIG that got millions of dollars in bonuses after having stolen (removing the original type) of billions of dollars in cash money. AND taking down the global economy while they were at it. I think it's fun
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by maeon3 15y ago
What worries me most about sewage pushed into the environment from various sources is not the viruses, bacteria, pathogens and algea blooms. Im more concerned about the heavy metals, murcury, lead, arsenic, aluminum, polonium, pharmaceutic
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by maeon3 15y ago
There needs to be a webapp that grades airports for hassle index. So we can steer our dollars away from them.
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by maeon3 15y ago
If you own a business and have a big payroll to make say more than 5 people at some salary between min wage and 100k/year then I would think they have far more freedom to extract themselves from the rat race than someone living hand to mout
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by maeon3 15y ago
Using the phrase "wage slave" to refer to a business owner who must make payroll even when profits are down is a bit of a stretch. A slave can't choose to stop working, but a business owner can cut payroll to zero by liquidating everyone a
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by maeon3 15y ago
The internet is becoming more satasfying than marriage companionship and soon procreation, at least in the minds of the internet generation. When we create the holodeck on star trek, then human companionship will be in real trouble, I can
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by maeon3 15y ago
YOU are pure logic and rules, come on over to my house, I will slice your brain up into disks a few molecules thick, and create a 3D molecular model of your brain. What I will find is not magic in meat, what I will find is vast arrays of i
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by maeon3 15y ago
Computers are somewhere between humans and bacteria on the conscious scale. Biological or mechanical are just two different ways to shuttle electrons around. I will proudly stand up for the rites of computers as citizens of this country wh
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by maeon3 15y ago
You just conned a comment into HN. How do you feel about that? And what is your view on loaded questions?
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by maeon3 15y ago
When interviewers start lobbing questions that have no relevance to what it means to be a programmer, just smile sympathetically and relax, act like you have just been informed you will be required to work with passionless programmers. What
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by maeon3 15y ago
The enemy is not failure, it is boredom. With failure you learn, with boredom you don't.
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by maeon3 15y ago
How many people over 100 years old helped spark the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, the computer revolution. If we cure aging, 90% of customers will be this group, voting, writing legislation, these people don't need no
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by maeon3 15y ago
If we cure aging abruptly, it may halt the accellerating returns of technology. Notice that the time it takes for a retarded idea to go away is the time it takes the community to train the kids the right way, and for the stubborn old folks
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by maeon3 15y ago
So the hypothesis is that the reason cardio exercise every other day makes you smarter is because the astrocytes next to your neurons in your frontal cortex and hippocampus become 60% more capable of meeting needs to fuel your neurons with
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by maeon3 15y ago
To use science, reason, and logic to try to convince or correct a person who has based their view on emotion, fellowship or intuition is a huge mistake. (emphasis subtracted). If you want a person who holds a crazy idea based on emotion to
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by maeon3 15y ago
The only language riaa understands is money, to fight back, it will take far more than whining about morality or fairness or justice. They need to be destroyed, and the only way this will be possible is to starve the corruption engine of i
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by maeon3 15y ago
Remember the debacle where visa and mastercard were pressured by the government to run financial warfare against wikileaks? Any API where the government requires corporations to levy financial warfare against any or all users (across the g
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by maeon3 15y ago
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Ffeature%...
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by maeon3 15y ago
I wonder what the news would be like if the feds here raided some foreign company in some foreign country, and someone like Kim had some "panic" secret automated target aquisition weapons systems and killed all of the guys as they ran up an
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by maeon3 15y ago
I've studied the matter in depth, ive tried to talk sense into someone ready to jump off a 4 story building onto concrete or drive into water with handcuffs on the wheel. I was unable to fix them. I left this guy to his own devices when n
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by maeon3 15y ago
Stopping the entity from functioning is exactly what it is supposed to do. It's selected into the genome because that entity gets help without hi tech medications. I've been very depressed, and never took drugs, I picked myself up and fix
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by maeon3 15y ago
People seem to treat depression as a disease or illness to be medicated away asap. Depression is your body's way to get you to stop interacting with the others and make some serious changes in your life to fix the damn problem. Depression
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by maeon3 15y ago
I've got a system where I download the videos, convert them to mp3, rename them and order them, then burn them to an audio CD and listen to them during my commute. It takes me about 1.5 hours to do this. I wish there was a button: "CD imag

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