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by olefoo 14y ago
A big part of the semantic confusion is that we have been subjected to a concerted campaign going on for at least a century now; that is specifically designed to render some thoughts unsayable, if not literally unthinkable.. If you want an
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by olefoo 14y ago
May I say, Aaeaarrghhhhhhhhh! This was ( I speak in the past tense, even though death does not happen until July 1st ) one of the few reliable guideposts about the internet. Google reader,of the RSS readers, you were the best, reliable, une
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by olefoo 14y ago
Generally, requiring an NDA before even talking about the product you would presumably be building; seems like an amateur move. It would make perfect sense for one to be part of your employment agreement though. If the people you're talking
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by olefoo 14y ago
It's a symptom, not a cause. Like the way a bridge will start singing in the wind long before the retaining bolts crack.[1] Certainly on a day to day level it seems stable. But if you look beneath the surface, if you ask the people around y
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by olefoo 14y ago
I would trace this to the same root as the reason the largest banks are allowed to walk away from open corruption and money-laundering. We have inculcated into our society a servile deference to power. Nobody of any importance is held accou
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by olefoo 14y ago
First off, you probably wouldn't be working in your precise specialty but in one where you had a foundational knowledge that would let you be cross-trained. Second, as I envision it, it might be more along the lines a national or global sca
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by olefoo 14y ago
So if you had fair universal taxation ( what a progressive tax plan is ) with universal education, universal health care and minimum standard housing you would be relieved of the burden of educating your kids and of housing them until their
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by olefoo 14y ago
Wait a second, who are you getting feature requests from? It sounds to me like you need to examine your market and talk to the people who are asking for things and figure out what problem you're solving for them . If people care enough to
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by olefoo 14y ago
Well. I am an American and we are the world, right....? // I jest. But if your colas are still made from sugar you are having the last laugh.
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by olefoo 14y ago
If the DHS gets into cybersecurity, that's about the level of the people they hire for airport security...
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by olefoo 14y ago
It's not even the Paleolithic that had a 'better' diet; sugar production in industrial quantities didn't happen until the 19th century and High Fructose Corn Syrup [1] didn't become a staple of the human diet until the second half of the 20
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by olefoo 14y ago
This article should be read by anyone who wants to understand why things are the way they are now.
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by olefoo 14y ago
That's only one of several signals they are tracking. There's also what you're ordering, where you're coming from, if you have a history on the site or not. Each one of those getting a pair of scores (likely_fraud, likely_legit) and the dec
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by olefoo 14y ago
The point I was making is that we have a two tiered system of justice in this country; and while it used to be the case that the tiers were divided exclusively by race; they are now divided along the lines of class, and political opinion. T
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by olefoo 14y ago
This is the same attorney general who refuses to disclose the legal reasoning behind the presumption that the president is entitled to kill American Citizens at home or abroad without due process of law. Also the same attorney general who h
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by olefoo 14y ago
> does anybody think anyone will actually get a 25 year sentence for a little bar fight. Let's switch it up and say that the guy you decked was the son of the prosecutors best buddy from high school. And that you are a minority, high sc
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by olefoo 14y ago
What if the questions being asked are more along the lines of, please give us the full account archive of everyone who's ever emailed an address in a .ir domain? Or, here is a semantic filter that you must apply to all mail that transits yo
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by olefoo 14y ago
Because public debate and allowing multiple points of view to be heard is slow. Because educating the public is difficult and takes time. Because crafting the rules by which people are governed is an inherently political process. Because
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by olefoo 14y ago
Why is the global government being built behind closed doors? Because only a miniscule minority would be in favor of what is being constructed.
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by olefoo 14y ago
To take an analogy from another field that, this is like a cinematographer getting bent out of shape and angry at the camera leasing company because he used a film stock his camera wasn't correctly calibrated for. From what I've read about
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by olefoo 14y ago
I'm not Heroku's biggest fan, and haven't used it for more than a couple of one-off fiddles to play with the platform. But, my sympathy is going to them, because what I see coming from Rap Genius looks like classic blame-game. So a vendors
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by olefoo 14y ago
If you want to know pain, buy a domain or two from Yahoo! you will discover that it's worse than GoDaddy as a registrar. But yeah, if you're a paying customer you should at the very least be able to get someone on the phone in the event of
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by olefoo 14y ago
A FELONY CONVICTION and three months in jail. If you take the law and legal status seriously, you don't just accept being disenfranchised lying down. nb. disenfranchised both literally and figuratively in this case.
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Recovery Oriented Computing(armandofox.com)
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by olefoo 14y ago
> I have never ever ever had anyone look into my background to see if I was a felon. That you know of. But it is the sort of thing that some people do check up on quietly.
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by olefoo 14y ago
I think Ms. Mayer is doing the right thing for Yahoo! at _this_ time. Yahoo! needs to be in high-contact mode for a time while it gets its company culture sorted out. There is no room for people who aren't willing to commit to full partic
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by olefoo 14y ago
> Didn't the data pulled from the car indicate that the reviewer was almost certainly trying to fabricate a bad review? No, in fact several people who are prominent in the field of the use of data in journalism have written long essays
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by olefoo 14y ago
Short answer: Physics and Economics. Any new entrant has to build out a cable plant to reach subscribers and capture enough subscribers at a high enough density to make it worthwhile. The only company that's even trying at this point is Goo
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by olefoo 14y ago
Enterprise software is a game; corporations are just really boring LARPs. pro-tip: 5th level marketing droids can be defeated if you ask them to sell something to themselves...
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by olefoo 14y ago
That's one of the points I was alluding to. the .gov already does this in the physical world; why have they allowed a layer of private interests to insert themselves into the process when it is performed electronically?

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