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by mmaro 16y ago
The initial setup is a horror show, but it isn't bad after you get it set up. FWIW: (un)installers that say you must restart are usually lying. And when they're not, you can often avoid it by killing a lot of processes first.
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by mmaro 16y ago
No surprise that it's mentioned in the book: http://books.google.com/books?id=afCxg5sogvAC&lpg=PT316&...
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by mmaro 16y ago
You can't even send private messages that have a lamebook URL. At least Facebook makes it obvious that we shouldn't trust them with private communication / Facebook Messages.
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by mmaro 16y ago
There are some ways to mitigate the problem during the transition: showering more frequently, furious manual hair-cleaning in shower, natural shampoos, washing with just conditioner.
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by mmaro 16y ago
Most people are used to putting copious amounts of detergent in their hair every day. This makes the scalp's oil production go into overdrive. Stop shampooing and your hair is like an oil slick. This effect takes many months to go away,
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by mmaro 16y ago
I didn't say I'm not worried, I just think it's counterproductive to promote environmentalism in emotional ways. If people think of nearly everything we do as bad, they'll make decisions based on good intentions instead of rational analysi
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by mmaro 16y ago
Thanks for those numbers. Singapore's (official) homicide rate has gone down even further in recent years, but maybe the others have too. (edit: never mind; my memory/googlefu is failing me) A nitpick: Germany (and many other countries) do
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by mmaro 16y ago
Let's try to take apart this muck, which I seem to have read a hundred times before: > we’re becoming disconnected from nature and that we are on a precipice. Why is it bad to be disconnected from nature? What's wrong with going in the
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by mmaro 16y ago
It's not possible to guarantee that nothing bad will ever happen to someone. But I am definitely more free if the government actually prevents (ex-?)criminals from harming me. A sovereign is responsible when criminals harm people; they ha
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by mmaro 16y ago
Things to consider: 1) If you drop out (to work on a business), nobody's making you jump through hoops every day any more. It can take about a year to adjust to this. You'll probably be doing nothing useful for a while. 2) Doing real thin
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by mmaro 16y ago
This is a famous article from 1993 , notable enough to have its own Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Penal... What I find interesting is that this piece doesn't include the words "crime" or "murder"
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by mmaro 16y ago
Someone is eventually going to go to prison after stupidly uploading evidence of themselves wiretapping a wireless network they don't own. There's also an interesting double standard here: would it be quite so acceptable to casually listen
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by mmaro 16y ago
There are antennas[1] that let you sniff wifi from ~4 miles way. Some routers can be configured to drop clients more than N meters away, though. [1] http://www.radiolabs.com/products/antennas/2.4gig/long-range...
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Don Colacho’s Aphorisms(don-colacho.blogspot.com)
1 points by mmaro 16y ago|0 comments
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by mmaro 16y ago
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what tax rates looked like in the 1800s? Zweig's 'The World of Yesterday' says it was in the single-digits in Vienna, but I'd like to have better numbers for more places.
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by mmaro 16y ago
If you're trying to extract the maximum value out of a resource you own, why would you not preserve it?
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by mmaro 16y ago
This entire story smells fake. If TrueCrypt just saved your life, would you really go tell reddit? The dialogue feels constructed; there's no insight about the experience. It's more likely that it's a fabrication by a district attorney, to
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by mmaro 16y ago
There's a big difference between being a subject and being owned . Only a really dysfunctional government would act as if they owned their citizens. Some ways to determine whether you're owned: do you-the-asset-itself appear on a balance
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by mmaro 16y ago
Schmidt compares China to a business but then shies away and says he doesn't mean it literally. This analogy/truth is far more important than he admits. Anyone interested might enjoy: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/ro
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by mmaro 16y ago
> democracy is the worst possible system for running a country, except for all the others. This is one of those chants that everyone keeps repeating for fear of looking at the alternatives, or to excuse the horrors. Keep repeating the c
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by mmaro 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_Un... http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14... I wish most of the incidents linked to primary sources, but assume X% are lies and it's still awful.
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by mmaro 16y ago
I'm pretty sure I stole that interpretation from this guy: http://moldbuggery.blogspot.com/ - I spent a while looking for the exact article, but didn't find it. Most of them are very interesting anyway. He's a fascinating character, and e
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by mmaro 16y ago
It's important to remember that neither Bush nor Obama are king of the U.S. government. Our newspapers, universities, and civil servants turned on Bush because of his entry to Iraq, acting out of step with the rest of the government (which
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by mmaro 16y ago
Things I have learned from this and past articles (only slightly exaggerated): 1. Greenspan is unlucky and unhappy. If you have even a remote chance of success, make sure you never even have a conversation with him. If you do, you might suf
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by mmaro 16y ago
http://www.halfbakery.com/
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by mmaro 16y ago
A keylogger, recording all keystrokes.
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by mmaro 16y ago
pdf: http://s3.amazonaws.com/ppt-download/atti-ps-graphs-10072510...
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by mmaro 16y ago
Nearly all institutions are run primarily for their own benefit. We often forget this when we receive their products/information/services. Sometimes, we're lucky enough to receive correct information or things that don't harm us. Trusting a
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by mmaro 16y ago
They have succeeded in securing "superplugs" before; see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181392
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The Collected Writings of Mencius Moldbug(moldbuggery.blogspot.com)
1 points by mmaro 16y ago|0 comments

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