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by olefoo 11y ago
We'll know the American government has truly gone sour if an earnest attempt on his life is traced to the "Intelligence Community". Until then, he is our beloved revolutionary sweetheart telepresent in our thoughts.
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by olefoo 11y ago
Intellectual property is ideal theft. It exists mainly to employ lawyers and enrich middlemen. That some creators are accidentally rewarded is a byproduct that is used to justify the rest of it.
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by olefoo 11y ago
6 Trillion dollars worth of bicycle infrastructure would bring the entire continental US up to Dutch standards. And bring healthcare up to French standards.
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by olefoo 11y ago
E-Gold™ is back.[0] Now with added cryptocurrency. Having a blockchain registry to track ownership of precious metals is not a bad idea. But as the ultimate capitalists over at ZeroHedge [1] point out it's a centralized system and vuln
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by olefoo 11y ago
Well, anyone picking this up for anything other than intellectual curiosity is probably not a good actor. I imagine that if you were serious about something like this you'd probably recruit a number of intermediaries to receive payment
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by olefoo 11y ago
Well, we are talking personal preference here. But I've been thinking of ditching Apple anyhow. So I'll be looking into decent Android phones. Or dig the old Nokia brick out of storage and go caveman.
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by olefoo 11y ago
If you want a fun summer project that will get you your very own casefile with various law enforcement and financial regulators: Come up with a program that lets users manage multi-currency transactions with a basket of currencies ( game cu
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by olefoo 11y ago
I actually wish I could purchase an iPhone 6 in an iPhone 4s form factor. I like being able to hold the phone with one hand and do everything I need with my thumb. This seems like one of those trends thats driven by the manufacturers need t
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by olefoo 11y ago
It does mean you need to treat your data schema and functions as code. My short checklist for doing database centric development (postgresql centered): * Database schema is kept under version control ( essentially all the DDL for a given da
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by olefoo 11y ago
We may not be able to move the DOJ on prosecuting Addington, Wu and the other architects of the torture program. But the APA has an ethics committee http://www.apa.org/about/governance/bdcmte/ethics-committee.
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by olefoo 11y ago
Just an FYI a confederate flag is as offensive to most thinking Americans as a Swastika flag would be to most thinking Germans. For various reasons we don't currently ban their display. But it is and should be a quick route to politica
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by olefoo 11y ago
My gut reaction ( being an anglo, American, redneck, privileged, don't tread on me kind of person ) is that this is horrible. But thinking deeper on it I wonder if this is what Chinese Democracy looks like. The goal being maximal harmo
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by olefoo 11y ago
Clearly you don't have any experience with people you know struggling with mental illness ( which by the is very prevalent amongst the homeless ). It's not a choice to be so depressed you can't show up for work; or so manic y
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by olefoo 11y ago
You are wrong. Using ggautoblocker and tools like it is people reclaiming their lives from parasites. The only possible reason to claim that others need to pay attention to those who would spam them with threats of death rape and worse is c
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by olefoo 11y ago
I have a pretty strong opinion that The Shockwave Rider does not suck, even if the protagonist is a bit of a Mary-Sue. In terms of prescient details it gets some things wrong. But it gets a lot of the subtleties of a dystopian dataveillan
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by olefoo 11y ago
The gentleman to whom I was replying made a reference to shared blocklists as censorship. Having had to support a couple of friends through the showers of verbal excrement that get thrown their way by a group that call itself "Gamergat
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by olefoo 11y ago
> Do people that can't spell very well deserve to have their opinions ignored? Yes. Indeed they do. Good spelling is a mark of conscientiousness and attention to detail. Bad spelling is indicative of loose morals and an addiction to
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by olefoo 11y ago
Apple doesn't necessarily want to solve that problem. Apple is working hard to commoditize the complements to their hardware [0]; namely the software, games and media that make their hardware useful. Software in the app store is a vici
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by olefoo 11y ago
We need to start having key signing parties. And we need better software to manage and run them. No key escrow proposal (which the multi-party proposal in this article is) will ever be safe. If the key can be assembled, it can be cached; an
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by olefoo 11y ago
In my case Linux. Ubuntu on a macbook pro is reasonably comparable. And the Dell offerings are looking damn good. It would be nice to have a tiling window manager too.
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by olefoo 11y ago
While this makes for a great piece of speculative fiction; I think you underestimate the violence that the powers that be are willing to deploy to defend the present arrangement.
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by olefoo 11y ago
That's how I read it. And that's why I'm making plans to migrate away from Apple Desktop.
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The corruption of anti-money-laundering(financialcryptography.com)
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by olefoo 12y ago
On a related note Ian Griggs just posted an excellent blog post ( http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001554.html ) about the corruption inherent in allowing agencies to seize funds for their own use. It&
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by olefoo 12y ago
WIG vehicles are pretty damn cool. Unfortunately they are rather vulnerable to weather. I am disappointed that Russia hasn't made regular Ekranoplan service a thing, both across the polar areas and on the black sea.
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by olefoo 12y ago
Depends on the load factor ( # of kilos/m2 ) that applies to the plane. You could increase the cabin size by 20% but only increase max load by 5% and then you'd have 15% more space into which to put passengers and luggage. I mysel
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by olefoo 12y ago
Whether you work or not doesn't cost me anything. But if you're hoarding a natural resource and playing games with the supply then you're costing me in increased rents; not just for me but for everyone around me. Your actions
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by olefoo 12y ago
This only allows you to stay anonymous if you can get your money out of bitcoin anonymously. Whether by buying dollars/yen/whatever on an exchange or purchasing goods and services. And it's damn hard to buy a yacht anonymousl
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by olefoo 12y ago
So, reversion to the mean.
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by olefoo 12y ago
I try to use 'primary' and 'replica'; but depending on who I'm talking to I find myself slipping back to the Master/Slave terminology. And to the OP, replication is a complex process fraught with security risks

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