motters

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by motters 16y ago
You can call me a paranoid, tin foil hat wearing purveyor of bulldada if you like, but unless this is open source it could just be an efficient way for undercover police of the kind recently highlighted amongst environmental campaigners to
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by motters 16y ago
How to fund software development, without the problems of proprietaryness or antifeatures, is the perpetual quandary of our time. A possible method might be what I'd call "code shares". Here the author of some code might receive payment fo
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by motters 16y ago
I'm not sure that this is really going to work very well. A better approach might be a bounty system. Another approach might be a method by which you can buy support for specific code bases, but this may not scale well and suffer from the
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by motters 16y ago
In my opinion this sort of leaderless organisation based upon rapid electronic communication is an early precursor to automated governance. Recent tax evasion protests in the UK have also drawn similar complaints about being leaderless, bu
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by motters 16y ago
Facebook is not necessarily bad, provided that you don't hold any false beliefs about the nature of this particular beast. Like everything which has a slightly competitive or sociable element to it, it can be abused and folks can become ad
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Antifeatures(campus.ftacademy.org)
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How computers should be(independent.co.uk)
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Different terms for software developers(ngrams.googlelabs.com)
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by motters 16y ago
Well I could give anecdotal accounts about the precarious nature of life on "sink estates". Precarious means that you have no savings, if you're working there is perpetual job uncertainty but in most cases in these areas there is what's kn
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by motters 16y ago
I've seen life in a fair amount of detail in some of the poorest areas of cities in the north of England. In these areas life is very precarious indeed, crime and vandalism are a daily phenomena and educational opportunities are minimal.
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by motters 16y ago
It was often said when the National Lottery was first introduced that it's a "tax on the stupid". It's easy to see how it preys on the poor, and I've seen this first hand. When you're poor life is mostly an unhappy slog from one highly pr
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by motters 16y ago
This doesn't seem like a terribly convincing response from Bing. The "honeypot" test seems like a pretty conclusive result to me.
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by motters 16y ago
I'm not seeing any signs of bubblenomics going on around here. Where's the beef?
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by motters 16y ago
Absolutely terrible reporting from the Daily Fail, as usual.
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Facebook censors paintings of nudes(artbabel.blogspot.com)
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Making file systems scale(phoronix.com)
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by motters 16y ago
I thought that cyber-utopianism died in the 1990s. If any utopians still remain then the Egyptian shutdown should be a massive wakeup call, demonstrating that the internet is far less resilient than many had been led to believe. In the Eg
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by motters 16y ago
And you can be sure that in the areas of the world where interference free internet is most needed the laws will ban the sale or ownership of any such devices.
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by motters 16y ago
The standard view is that redundant factory workers move into retail or the "knowledge economy" (such as IT workers), but these white collar jobs are going to be just as vulnerable to a combination of technological unemployment and outsourc
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by motters 16y ago
Though there are doubts expressed that anything comparable to what happened in Egypt could also occur in the US, it would be wise for Americans to reject giving the president such powers. The idea that one person can block the communicatio
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On the beliefs of econs(youtube.com)
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by motters 16y ago
The rich and their tax situation is really only part of the wider picture of how to govern an economy in a sustainable manner. It's my opinion that we need to take more of a systems approach, making use of lessons from cybernetics. It's pr
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by motters 16y ago
Shutting off the large majority of the internet is a dumb move, because all those people who weren't especially interested in politics and who were just doing their own thing are suddenly politicised and angry at the government for cutting
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by motters 16y ago
I only really use gmail as a spam filter anyway, forwarding mail to another account, so I avoid seeing any banner ads or other nonsense. My advice to any Google people who might be reading is to keep gmail as clean looking as possible, and
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by motters 16y ago
No, there have often been claims made by politicians and tabloid hacks along the lines of "the poor/unemployed are breeding too much".
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by motters 16y ago
In some other realm Gödel is laughing.
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by motters 16y ago
> anyone who conflates 'unemployment' with party time has never been on unemployment or known anyone close who has Totally agree. Being unemployed is not much fun, but it seems that there has always existed a myth, typically promulgate
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by motters 16y ago
Maybe it just needs a high score table for functions based upon their cyclomatic complexity.
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by motters 16y ago
The social business model http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C3XQ3BTd4o
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by motters 16y ago
Well speaking as a hardened recessionista the appeal is that I have all my data under my control, where I can easily back it up, am not subject to any whimsical "terms and conditions", and pay ~$0/year in hosting fees. From my point of vie

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