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by negativity 13y ago
Good. I don't really enjoy living anyway.
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Orwell's List(en.wikipedia.org)
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by negativity 13y ago
Are you referring to the SMBC comic? http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2535
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I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility(qntm.org)
226 points by negativity 13y ago|112 comments
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by negativity 13y ago
Defense network computers. New... powerful... hooked into everything. Trusted to run it all. They say it got smart... A new order of intelligence. Then it saw ALL people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. De
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by negativity 13y ago
I expect the militarization of space to follow the same approximate trajectory as all this internet skulduggery.
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Reports of Cheating Prompt Review of U.S. Nuclear Launch Crews(nytimes.com)
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by negativity 13y ago
I think it's exactly the same thing as coffee, and it's not a medical condition at all. Coding really IS naturally boring and mind numbing. That's neither your imagination nor subjective experience. No one ever steps throug
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by negativity 13y ago
I don't suffer from ADD/ADHD but I grew up during the 90's, when lots of kids in school, around me, were being put on all kinds of prescription medication, but most prevalent were the ADD/ADHD prescriptions. Of the rough
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by negativity 13y ago
Ah, Wesley Willis... Rock over London! Rock on Chicago!
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The End of 5Pointz(nytimes.com)
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5Pointz, a Graffiti Mecca in Queens, Is Wiped Clean Overnight(nytimes.com)
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by negativity 13y ago
I take issue with all of the following selection criteria: > myopia > alcoholism > addictive susceptibility > propensity for violence > obesity > Low Risk of Colorectal Cancer > Longest Expected Life Sp
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by negativity 13y ago
...oh, and let's not leave out the fact that these are private companies. This is not Socialism. This is not INGSOC. Even without the totalitarianism, the very same oppression crops up. Instead of the single Big Brother brand name, it&
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by negativity 13y ago
There's a certain sort of "figure head" status that the pilot may assume, when degrees of control are acquiesced to external factors beyond the capacity for a mortal human's situational awareness. The global awareness of
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by negativity 13y ago
Here's my line of thinking: Right now, we're essentially conditioned to the premise that when something is sailing through the air, the general gut instinct for what that UFO might be is usually limited and pretty reliable. There&
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by negativity 13y ago
I would rather be on a flight, where I know that the pilots dies with me, should they fail in their appointed task of controlling the aircraft strapped to their bodies. Similarly, if an aircraft suddenly falls from the sky and lands on my h
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by negativity 13y ago
For those who don't know what "EME" means: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_Media_Extensions
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by negativity 13y ago
Yeah, a lot of this is about personal preferences, and preserving them across time and space. It's not always a bad thing. There's always a trade-off between convenience, automation, predictability and security. Another good point
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by negativity 13y ago
Nope. Total power down. Not standby or hibernate. And, that rotten "Reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox on Macs really grinds my gears. (...maybe I'm just a control freak)
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by negativity 13y ago
Today, our computers are always on, never restarted, always connected. This is a bad thing, not a good thing. My personal machines and devices are not high-availability servers, and don't need to be powered on all the time.
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by negativity 13y ago
...more to the point, there are certainly some unusual VC firms investing in "startups", aren't there?
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by negativity 13y ago
"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." -George Orwell
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by negativity 13y ago
But then again... Is there really a difference between the two? http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia...
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by negativity 13y ago
Cue the Arthur C. Clark quote: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
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by negativity 13y ago
Rust is still a problem with those little ferrite rings, though. Depending on the environment you maintain for this device, it can actually be pretty delicate. I have some old (~25 year-old) electric motors, where the magnetic properties of
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by negativity 13y ago
Head mounted cameras aren't necessarily a bad thing, much in the same way vehicle-based dashboard cams aren't necessarily a bad thing. But Google Glass is definitely a bad thing. It's bad because the person wearing it can&#x2
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by negativity 13y ago
But maybe a "warp drive" is? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6238297 ...so then we still get to achieve an effective result of reaching a destination faster than light. ...and since the gravity warps space, a
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by negativity 13y ago
Yes, well, the concept of sandboxing is wonderful, but that's all it is. A concept. An idea. A design pattern. It's not guaranteed to be effective. Many people will go about implementing many different types of sandboxes many di
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by negativity 13y ago
It would be really awesome if the LavaBit team released all their trade secrets, including their C code for their custom daemons, and other substantial details, as an open source project. ...that is, if there's truly no hope, and they&

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