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by milfot 13y ago
That's curious, my need for instantaneous news has been waning. This past few weeks events (local and international) have really been the proverbial straw. I now wait. For news, I want truth not action.
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by milfot 14y ago
First, my comment was facetiously poking fun at the idea of some benign first-world annoyance being evil.. lighten up eh? Second, the argument about GMO (or any other high-tech way to increase farming yields) being a 'solution' to food supp
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by milfot 14y ago
What exactly is it do you think the main functions of gov. are? How do you achieve these without money?
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by milfot 14y ago
If the pop-ups infect your computer and write spurious code into all your saved work thereby taking ownership of them and then sue your sorry arse into the ground for theft.. then yes, pop-ups are equally evil.
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by milfot 14y ago
I just don't understand your analogy. What exactly is it, do you think, that makes government valuable?
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by milfot 14y ago
Go on then..
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by milfot 14y ago
Really good point about symptoms / causes (I do not entirely agree that it is automatically follows to make the gov not worth buying.. a bit like smashing up your car so no-one steals it). And I do not disagree with your comments about the
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by milfot 14y ago
1. The issue here is not broadening or weakening or diluting the term corrupt. US government corruption is concentrated at the top. The other examples you gave have low level and high level corruption, but they are different things. Washing
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by milfot 14y ago
This illustrates the core argument for conservatism (in the burkean sense.. as commented below). You have to move slow to make sure you don't break things that were working (as in.. if it ain't broke). There is no such thing as tight deadli
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by milfot 14y ago
Wow! That is so fucked up. (the situation, not the reaction.. I would have asked him to leave (and have in similar situations), though I realise not everyone is as comfortable as with confrontation as I ;) I would encourage people to name n
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by milfot 14y ago
"Of course the important policy point here is that we have no idea how much more flourishing of human developed talent there could be if only all young learners had full opportunity to develop their abilities." This is a very positive way o
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by milfot 14y ago
That sounds really interesting. I deliberately avoid high volume RSS feeds due to the difficulty of finding the things I actually want to read. I get the feeling though that the issue with RSS was not altogether an issue of uptake or ux.. b
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by milfot 14y ago
They sold them off partly because they had been poorly built and maintained. They were essentially outsourcing the maintenance costs to the residents and making them pay for the privelege. The units are mostly valued well below the surround
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by milfot 14y ago
Hackers (by my own definition) make this thing here work now. A master of his art has the time to design not just his solution, but the task itself, and the experience to understand all the implications of a given solution.
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by milfot 14y ago
This idea cuts straight to the heart of the argument. If you view your employer as a master who gets to tell you how and where and when to work, for the pittance he affords you so you can live to work another day, and so he can take all you
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by milfot 14y ago
Just because they are stupid, does not mean they are not malicious.. in my experience the two are common bedfellows. Though in this case I think maybe there is a third option.. ignorance maybe?
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by milfot 14y ago
Cool, thanks.. faith in humanity restored. I am in the bad habit of reading HN on my old phone (CM7). The comments load much quicker than the articles, and sometimes they lead me astray.
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by milfot 14y ago
More to the point, algorithms aren't buying these shirts.. what kind of sick fuck is?
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by milfot 14y ago
What (good) purpose do shell companies serve? LLC is limits liability doesn't it? Its not no liability. Surely a more effective and wide ranging measure would be to enforce limits on the limitations. If no one wants to take some small amou
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by milfot 14y ago
This is really insightful. Productivity is usually a relative measure to gauge the profit margin of a nation / company ie. hours worked against earnings. But as you say, a relative measure will not catch any across the board increase. The c
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by milfot 14y ago
Plausible deniability.. (for those situations when a conspiracy might be necessary)
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by milfot 14y ago
It is not disingenuous, it is feigned. A subtle but important difference. She points out in the first 30 seconds of that clip why it is important that they SHOULD occasionally sue - leverage. You can't just count the cost of one suit agains
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by milfot 14y ago
"If bias is wrong, being biased in favour of a minority group is still wrong, in this view." Another way to look at this is that the exception proves the rule. These sorts of deliberately perverse inversions of discrimination really offend.
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by milfot 14y ago
Cheating == business
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by milfot 14y ago
Absolutely! I agree with your whole post. I was meaning 'usually' in the sense of usual employer / employee relationships. Most employee's do not know, nor know how to find out, their net worth to the company. They definitely do not get off
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by milfot 14y ago
The thing is, you are actually assuming the risk that your work is not profitable.. if the work is your personal work, your employer may sack you or withhold a raise. if the work is your team's then you share the risk, unless your team is t
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by milfot 14y ago
An S3 would make an awesome (and interactive) belt buckle!
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by milfot 14y ago
Yes, it is amazing how quickly some Americans shift from a discussion on whether it is justified to recognise the rights of non Americans to whether it is justified to not murder them.
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by milfot 14y ago
..and who wins at life? in all seriousness.
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by milfot 14y ago
I really like this idea. It seems to me to be one of the central aspects to design, of any persuasion. It is a deliberate, thoughtful act which requires understanding rather than 'just' knowledge. It is a process of questioning and revision

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