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by maeon3 13y ago
This is reminiscent of Gnu's "Right to read". http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html What is the solution if a person uses a printer to print devices that are used for what most people consider criminal behavior? For example, s
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by maeon3 13y ago
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/caleatwo The government is going to get its backdoor into cloud computing platforms one way or the other, because of child porn, the terrorists, and corruption. The segmenting idea is a dumb one beca
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by maeon3 13y ago
This is an opportunity where they could usher in a new glorious era of personal cloud computing that solves the problem of the government basically owning your hardware, software, and the usage of your software if the government catches you
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by maeon3 13y ago
Are there any schematics anywhere for how quantum forces could be used to add together two integers represented in binary? Does D-Wave have any top secret schematics or diagrams we could look over?
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by maeon3 13y ago
Sometimes I bring my disk from my XBox to a friends house, and play the game on their XBox. With this new "XBox One" console, I will be completely unable to do this. I'll have to tote my xbox around. Of course they will be calling it "bu
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by maeon3 13y ago
Will Elon Musk fold under the pressure and cooperate with the dealer network when they offer to sell at low to no markup to bring him into the extortion racket of Car Dealers? I loathe buying cars so much because of the snakes that run thos
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by maeon3 13y ago
I've been working through the following book: http://www.amazon.com/How-Create-Mind-Thought-Revealed/dp/06... And it has a chapter (2 and 3) on stepping through exactly what algorithms and data structures Einstein used to figure out that
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by maeon3 13y ago
This article is exactly what I needed, I've been trying to understand the unification of Gravity, Inertia and Centrifugal force for years now, couldn't fathom it, now I can. The best I can describe it is: "Matter is like water through a dra
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by maeon3 13y ago
I'm playing a cat and mouse with ideas a few layers deeper than your logic structures are outlining. (perhaps getting lost in the weeds and losing the main point as a result). Potatolicious is right, that the system is partially responsibl
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by maeon3 13y ago
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. I blame the confusion around the word fascism on polarizing concepts from movies like "Freedom to Fascism" by Aaron Russo. The forces in this world to mis-inform the general population on the
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by maeon3 13y ago
If Oppositional Defiant Disorder gets a spot in the mental illness book to be medicated, than Excessive Cooperation to your own detriment should also be medicated. I believe women suffer from this mental illness a lot more than men. The fa
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by maeon3 13y ago
I think the key to solving the root of the problem here is understanding that there is such a thing as: "Cooperative compliance disorder", which is the other end of the spectrum of "Oppositional defiant disorder". So the question becomes: H
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by maeon3 13y ago
I think there is a flag where you can turn it on. In the flight simulator you can crash into buildings. Also, try the grand canyon with the monster milktruck, set aside 5 hours for this.
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by maeon3 13y ago
Actually that doesn't quite work, because you can create an image, and use a significant amount of color that's been copyrighted, I think motorola's pinkish purple is pretty much off limits. So no, try again... Also, I didn't authorize that
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by maeon3 13y ago
You can code your own applications that interface with Google Earth as illustrated with these interactive demos: https://developers.google.com/earth/documentation/demogaller... Warning, "monster milktruck demo" and "flight simulator" will
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by maeon3 13y ago
Can India Extradite a US Citizen for violating webpage and internet data consumption/viewing related crimes defined in India and convict them and get some fraction of that billion dollars? Could the Taliban do the same thing if some America
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by maeon3 13y ago
I didn't give you authorization to read my comment. You'll be hearing from my lawyer.
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by maeon3 13y ago
How much, and in what ways do I have to modify an image (add features, delete features, change aspect) in order to make sure I don't get sued because I am using an image I found on the internet to create something useful for others? If I ca
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by maeon3 13y ago
It's as if the money we earn is written on paper with disappearing ink. You better consume it quickly, or else it will have no value soon. This planet is in desperate need of a currency that can't be inflated by a select group of people no
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by maeon3 13y ago
The government wants to suppress hackers from distributing identity theft information out and about so that ATM harvesting (an exploding business) continues to be out-of-control. But the problem is, the government is doing it exactly backwa
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by maeon3 13y ago
But if I earn only bitcoins. The government wants their stake. I guess I would be forced to exchange some of my bitcoins for US Dollar and then give them that? I suppose that's actually good! As the government inflates the Dollars I don
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by maeon3 13y ago
If I get paid in Bitcoins and only spend bitcoins, can I still report that I earned zero Monopoly Money-US dollars this year? Does that mean when this takes off I can earn, exchange and sell units of future human labor without the friction
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by maeon3 13y ago
We need an off-planet backup of all data contained on the internet in anticipation of an apocalyptic event sending humanity back into survival hunter-gatherer mode for a few decades. Then several generations later when the intellectual educ
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by maeon3 13y ago
The people who should suffer and eat this loss are the people responsible for letting it happen. Sadly, this will not happen, and the loss will be socialized (and profits capitalized) across the entire people through the form of raised ins
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by maeon3 13y ago
Why are there not more Elon Musk's in America and how can we create more of them? Answer here: http://home.bresnan.net/~cabreras/theboy.htm
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by maeon3 13y ago
I hope the 3d Printing Industry isn't as hobbled and corruptionized as the present day 2d printer market.
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by maeon3 13y ago
They just want people to start pumping all their life savings into a stock market bubble happening right now that's about to pop, so goldman sachs can get other people to take the wrong end of the trade in 9..8..7...
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by maeon3 13y ago
Pair programming is like treating the other mind as an extension of yours. You have to force each mind to be on the same thought and same problem. If one side wanders off, they have to be brought back. When one decides to go in a wild new
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by maeon3 13y ago
In 50 years, the machine will be able to outperform the bottom 50% of the human population in any conceivable endeavor or task behind a keyboard/monitor. So CAPTCHAS will eventually be useless. So it's an intelligence race. The more intel
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by maeon3 13y ago
By the time we achieve technology where it is feasible for our species to utilize these exoplanets we will have sufficient technology for humanity to live normal lives without planets altogether. The future of our species is huddling around

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