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by mmjaa 9y ago
The carriers are only "not being attacked" because they are backed by a fuck-ton of nuclear weapons. MAD, 101.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>Isn't this open for everyone to see though? Once the scale problem starts to be solved, the question becomes discoverability. And the answer to that is, there is an infinite namespace of things - one might suggest it up to the dis
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by mmjaa 9y ago
My systems can certainly handle the load I would impose upon them by sharing content to my personal social network. What they can't handle is the load imposed on them by the farming of data by third-parties from my feed. But thats oka
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by mmjaa 9y ago
We have not done that in North Korea. The argument "food doesn't work, so we'll just kill them" is heinous. Not gonna bother with your other points for that reason.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I want to have IPFS services built up to the point that I can rely upon it so I can .. take the 100 or so of my peer group, and give them access to Content I Create. I think I can have a machine up and running in my life that serves the pri
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by mmjaa 9y ago
IPFS should be enabled and treated as a first-class service by my distro. I install said distro, it comes with a folder - and a basic service - upon which I can replace Dropbox, Facebook, and Instagram - for my target peer group, i.e. any
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by mmjaa 9y ago
There are no good reasons I couldn't host my own files, with my own bandwidth, on my perfectly cromulant server/mobile device. The only issue is, it hasn't been considered of any importance to maintain user agency; better we
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>carrier strike groups are lethal enough to topple a small country. The carriers are deterrents, not weapons. They will be among the first major casualties of any true, open warfare. Carrier-defeating tech has been out for years; there
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>>Eagerly waiting for the first combat engagement of F-35 with current gen Russian/Chinese SAMS or fighters. It could cement lockheeds future for the next 50 years, or put them in hot water. Its equally disturbing to those of us
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Dropbox should've been a feature of the operating system, but it isn't, because OS vendors have convinced themselves there's nothing left to do since the Internet is just going to solve all the hard problems now. Seriously, I
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Until its adopted as a first-order service on the iPhone XI, nobody cares. Consumers find these things irrelevant to their swipe-right lifestyle needs...
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I challenge you to sit through the Space:1999 "Dragons Domain" episode and not come away impressed! And then, afterwards, calm down with a little retro fun: http://www.defence-force.org/index.php?page=games&gam
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Oddly enough, this code is pretty much completely paste- compatible with Lua, too. (Except the ; of course ..)
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by mmjaa 9y ago
> clamor for bidirectional parsing I get this from Lua. "Everything to a bytecode and back again" ..
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I dunno, I don't think its that cynical - they grew up, after all, with friends and peers who actually talk to each other, engage each other with play projects, do stuff outside with each other. I think its more that the situation is
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Its not about making big lumps of evil. Its about having a productive attitude about technology. My kids do have access to technology - they have laptops, and a small collection of video games. But they're not allowed to just zone ou
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Totally. (Parent here, checking in..) My kids get very limited screen time, and are expected to fill their life with art and activity that does not involve, at least not directly, cheap electrons. Expected, because its what we, their pare
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I think you need to take a closer look at the Coalition - Five Eyes nations, plus a few lap dogs - and see just how nefarious the relationship has become. Australian Defence Force troops, for example, are a puppet military force deployed in
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Just like society gets the politicians it deserves, too. Its surprising how little we take responsibility for the collective failings that our group intelligence often delivers... or, maybe its not surprising, actually. Just, disappointing
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Special Forces are still way, way further up the line than you think. Those that are calling in the airstrikes are, typically, within a few hundred meters of the target even still, today. Not every square inch of war ground can be targete
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by mmjaa 9y ago
A good friend of mine (kallaballa - * ) just finished the first version of his No-Fit Polygon implementation, as a single-header library which aims to solve the Irregular Stock Cutting problem, common to manufacturing (and in this particula
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Show HN: Implementation of a robust no-fit polygon generation in a C++ library(github.com)
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I kind of wish the OS Vendors were not asleep at the wheel, and had features to address these issues as a 'built-in' value proposition for their products. I mean, it seems to me the sort of thing that a computer ought to know how
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Clearly we'll work out how to deliver through the atmosphere.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Not to mention that the idea of things just falling out of the sky when we need them sounds great to me. Seriously, not kidding. Lets push 3D printing so hard all we need to do is send a few drones worth "up there", and oila .. f
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Every word is a story and civilisation seems to be mostly motivated, right now, by the constant creation of new words. Meme's are a consequence of the nature of our collective consciousness, wrapping up a big story into a simple, easil
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Also a pro developer here, also a non Touch Bar-user - in my point of view its a piece of junk and not worth the effort. So I'm curious how you find it so useful?
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by mmjaa 9y ago
German still suffer under the 'war shock' that has reverberated through their culture for at least 3 generations.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Drugs have been weaponised in the West. Both 'legal' and 'illegal' forms. Drugs are one of the principle means of social control used by the power elite to keep society malleable and repressed - truly. Both illegal - a
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by mmjaa 9y ago
This is something that has always fascinated me - just how do the processes which cover a landscape with, say, layers and layers of sediment - or jungle cover - really work? I mean, I get it - you leave something out, a few weeks later its

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