mrschwabe

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by mrschwabe 9y ago
Fair point, but let's not paint such a bleek picture. Gag-orders are an unfair (unconstitutional?) weapon of tyrannical regimes and should be condemned as so. Aside from taking political action to remove that tool from big brother&#x
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by mrschwabe 9y ago
Companies like Intel, who are complicit in helping CIA or any intel agency (government, rogue or otherwise) infiltrate and exploit our systems - need to be held accountable by the market. Intel ME and the (assumed [0]) partnership with CIA
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by mrschwabe 9y ago
Julian Assange continues to be a beacon of freedom, accountability and hope to those who believe in a future not run by the military industrial complex. Evidence enough for me.
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by mrschwabe 9y ago
No direct experience myself, but MathJS has an API for creating new units of measurement that you might consider for prototyping/experimenting/initial development: http://mathjs.org/docs/datatypes/units.h
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by mrschwabe 9y ago
Same with advertising industry in Japan.
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by mrschwabe 9y ago
Indeed, as it seems NASA's best capability is to 'get free money from the government' (not volcano nor space exploration as many would expect).
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by mrschwabe 9y ago
Another angle is that a compromised security protocol used by a 100,000 developers is far more fruitful than having to assign a human specialist to crack & reverse engineer 100,000 uniquely thought-out implementations.
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by mrschwabe 9y ago
Well you certainly don't have the right to make me use modern medicine or take vaccinations. Just as I don't have the right to spray herbicide on your lawn. Even if there are weeds.
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by mrschwabe 9y ago
No one should have the right to play god with our biosphere.
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by mrschwabe 9y ago
Did you go to school in Edmonton in 1890 or something? I grew up near Edmonton too and while January/Feb can certainly cross the -30 mark from time to time (and barely), -40 is unheard of. Maybe with windchill, like once or twice a y
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by mrschwabe 9y ago
On a related note, there is an open source Google Analytics alternative in the works: https://github.com/vesparny/fair-analytics Hope it comes along; there is surprisingly not much else in the way of Node/JS based
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by mrschwabe 9y ago
Interesting that nathcd's comment (on this comment thread specifially) is 'dead'. Basically he explains politely and using analogy why AGPL seems just fine and then points out there seems to be a trend of anti-copyleft on H
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
In Saitama I saw an old guy on a pedal bike (not a train) who did this the other day! In fact, I made a note specifically to ask a Nihon friend just what the hell he was doing (so I'll just ask HN instead)... I understand stopping at a
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
Sunshine a washout? Sunshine is perhaps the best 3D Mario - especially in HD @ 60FPS.
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
Clutch timing! Been working on several projects amassing a multi-purpose stylesheet (currently ~600 lines) having already conceded that a tool which accomplishes exactly this would be needed. Edit: seems overkill, the theoretical solution
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
If you have been following Uber on HN since it's inception you will have noticed the trend of targeted media attacks against them long ago. Being subjected to routine attack pieces and soul-less astroturfers (who can just as easily sig
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
Reject taxation and monopolization, not capitalism.
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
It's your world bro, you can change it if you want.
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
DDG has been nailing it lately - really digging their Twitter feed too; they do not pull punches.
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
The stock market (ready for disruption). There is a new generation of investors who are not interested in the 'old stock market' but who are instead looking for equity investment that can offer the efficiency, integrity and anonym
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
High taxation and high inflation are two main contributors IMO.
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
Yes an astroturfer aka shill I would personally define as someone portraying themselves to be a neutral observer/participant when in reality they are paid/sponsored/incentivized by a state, company, or organization pushing a
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
Voat.co seems like a promising Reddit alternative. Less censorship for certain, definitely not shill-proof however. Solving the problem of shills/astroturfers is IMO the most difficult and important challenge in accommodating public on
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
Described very well - and I like the analogy. And great tips. Also, as you elude to, consider what is not being reported. I would add, look for neutral sources too. Wikileaks for example. At the end of the day, we should hopefully arrive
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
You say to grow up but in the following sentence you lob a totally unnecessary insult, shifting blame as if there is none to fall on those who supported the Clinton campaign. You say Trump won the election but lost the popular vote; ok I&#x
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
Sure but given there's no proof, this argument doesn't hold much water; these leaks not to mention other damning revelations that showed an offensive targeted smear/deception/disruption campaign against Trump is rather e
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
Thanks for your insights. It seems where we disagree is on your point of Breitbart and Drudge being 'right-biased'. To me they come across as simply more dedicated to reporting the truth and principled in their commitment to repo
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
Fair point, thank-you. That taken into consideration, would you say there is no harm in at least adding Breitbart to the basket of news media sources? Which could also include CNN, who's anchors also could all very well have been cand
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
Bookmark some more news sites so you get a wider spectrum. Smaller independent operations (ex: Breitbart, Drudge Report) are less vulnerable to being co-opted or politically motivated. Also, r/The_Donald is has been an excellent aggre
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by mrschwabe 10y ago
Mixed opinion on this because it seems there is nothing wrong with no term limits on GOOD politicians. It would have been a shame if Ron Paul would have been prevented from his hugely successful 22+ years service in office. And Americans

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