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by nemo 12y ago
"Shouldn't journalists be open about what they are investigating?" To whom? Nobody besides the government could serve the role you suggest. Should reporters register with the government to ensure they are only investigating
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by nemo 12y ago
"The politician who rewards campaign contributors at the expense of voters is thrown out the next election." [citation needed]
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by nemo 12y ago
Many people have various political views. Allowing people with huge buckets of cash to use that cash to gain increased representation is fundamentally wrong. A representative government is supposed represent all of its constituents equall
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You can see this in action with Soros and the Koch brothers, both of whom have invested a lot of wealth to directly influence politics and social movements that further their political ideas. Even if you agree with one or the other's
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by nemo 12y ago
"Linux can turn any song into death metal because all you'll be hearing is your own screaming." - Infosec Taylor Swift my other favorite of her's: "Mommy, what's Linux?" "That's what systemd used
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by nemo 12y ago
"I don't think we can have a rational discussion about this." That might be, but it's not because the person you were replying to was wrong.
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by nemo 12y ago
I was responding to someone who had been praising Ulbricht (who really looks like an awful person), so in that context I was questioning how one would compare him to Aaron Swartz (who I admire). I think I was incorrect about the child porno
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by nemo 12y ago
Yeah, I've seen them claiming that the captcha wasn't leaky, which well could be the case. Having looked at the config files and logs now, the Feds account seems somewhat shaky. They were hitting the PHPMyAdmin page and authenti
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by nemo 12y ago
While I have never been on the site I'd seen it mentioned as being one of the things that was trafficked, and the wikipedia article lists it. Looking into it, that might just be articles using sensationalism, though. Looking into the
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by nemo 12y ago
"subverting controls that inhibit free consensual activity between adults is virtuous." It depends entirely on what that consensual activity is. If the activity is selling stolen credit card numbers, then it's facilitating t
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by nemo 12y ago
While I have a lot of sympathy for aaronsw, and admired a lot of the work he did, I don't see a lot in common between the two. The Feds. charged both, but the thing is that the charges brought against aaronsw were largely absurd. He a
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by nemo 12y ago
'I find it highly dubious that the FBI has legal authority to access that server without the permission of its "owner" or a warrant.' The server was public, the Feds don't need a warrant to investigate public facing
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by nemo 12y ago
Putting aside the accusation that he tried to put a hit on someone, do you think he's innocent person and wasn't running the Silk Road, or that he was a nice guy who just happened to be flagrantly flouting the law in running an il
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by nemo 12y ago
It's a practice more than an analysis, so to do it you practice Zen exercises. The central exercise is meditation. Thinking about meditation is like thinking about push-ups. A little analysis helps to refine the form, but it's
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by nemo 12y ago
African or European?
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by nemo 12y ago
I think growing out of it is a big part, though. I knew a number of people who shot up in their late teens/early 20s who quit when they got older. The methheads I knew had a harder time, but a lot of them quit too. Of the people I k
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by nemo 12y ago
Unfortunately 12-step dogma has persuaded a lot of people that addiction is an inescapable fate, an innate disease/magical curse that can only be managed by joining their religious program for life. The worst part of this is that the
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by nemo 12y ago
I don't think Biosphere 2 is a great example. In Mission 1 there were huge problems regulating CO2 and O2, their pollinators died, invasive insects took over, and they had continually increasing NO2 and CH4 gases. They eventually inj
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by nemo 12y ago
No, I don't know, just imagine it would be different than how they imagine it. I don't see living there through the lens of science fiction so much as biology.
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by nemo 12y ago
Alaska is relatively inhospitable, cold, distant from main human cultural centers. Mars is vastly more so. While science fiction might give an imaginary fantasy of life on Mars appeal, if there were somehow a fact rather than a fantasy of
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by nemo 12y ago
Dim light is lovely at the beginning or end of the day, but it's not something that's great to live in full time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder Colonists could use energy to get art
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by nemo 12y ago
I'm not so certain self-sufficiency is possible. Humans are an animal in an ecosystem that sustains it, no matter how much we might kid ourselves otherwise. We aren't self-sufficient on Earth, but deeply dependent on our environ
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by nemo 12y ago
Martian colonies would in all likelihood be dependent on Earth for a very, very long time, if not forever. There are a lot of Earth resources they'd never have access to. If life on Earth was wiped, there would be a fair chance than
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by nemo 12y ago
There are enough places on Earth that was can barely manage to survive without major supporting infrastructure. Those places have the benefit of a breathable atmosphere and Earth gravity. Mars has a far more brutal climate (with a more el
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by nemo 12y ago
Since I illuminate an aquarium with plants in it I kind of obsess on various types of lamps, their lumen output, and color temp. I checked my notes - I had a 40 watt CFL as an experiment in lighting a tank (I don't think they make 35
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by nemo 12y ago
You can still buy incandescents. 100 watt bulbs are phased out currently (though still available), but only those. 100 watt bulbs are incredibly wasteful, I never used them due to the fact that they convert most of their energy to heat an
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by nemo 12y ago
Interesting, today I learned they did ban manufacturing of them. Can't say I mourn the loss of them, given their costs to society and the environment. If an irrational consumer choice harms everyone then regulation seems appropriate.
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by nemo 12y ago
It's hard to say why it happened, though I'd guess it was in part that the selection of Senators by state legislatures made them more beholden to those bodies than the people of the state or the country. Since state legislatures
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by nemo 12y ago
"if it really was that" What definition of the word 'cartel' are you using where the group of bulb manufacturers secretly conspiring to keep bulb prices up for their profit doesn't fit perfectly? "Compare that
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by nemo 12y ago
"You cannot purchase a 100 watt bulb anymore, because the government says so." You can purchase them here: http://www.amazon.com/GE-41036-100A-Light-bulbs/dp/B000U7Q7P...

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