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by olefoo 14y ago
In a rational world where declaring that government should be responsible for the foundational services that enable civil society the universal payment transaction service would be operated by the government as a public utility. In this hyp
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by olefoo 14y ago
> They are great utilities to have but some of the applications on them people can't help but be addicted to It's worth remembering that much of the addictiveness of consumer oriented services is informed by the work of BJ Fogg, a profe
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by olefoo 14y ago
The worst thing about that quote is the sense that it will make Elon Musk even more of a role model to the thousand or so insecure boys who seem to show up to every internet discussion about gender roles. Mr. Musk may be admirable in the a
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by olefoo 14y ago
Actually I sort of assume that they are running the servers in a jurisdiction that is less than cooperative with US authorities. But at some point that becomes immaterial. If the operators are ID'd that's when they get in difficulties. If t
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by olefoo 14y ago
Your options are: 1. A layer of indirection a.k.a. finding someone who will receive mail for you without giving up your name. 2. Owning the distribution channel, and using addresses that are downstream of you while diverting your packages t
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by olefoo 14y ago
There is a certain point where their bandwidth will exceed the noise threshold and it will be trivial to trace the location of their servers and of their offices, tor or no tor. And if they are simultaneously the subject of renewed enforcem
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by olefoo 14y ago
No, but at this point the prison and incarceration industry is large enough that it has a lobby dedicated to pushing its viewpoint.
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by olefoo 14y ago
> collateral damage in an internal power struggle Why I'm leery of Windows Azure, even though it seems to be doing mostly the right thng.
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by olefoo 14y ago
So the real WTF here is why Twitter doesn't support TFA, at the very least for verified accounts; and definitely for anyone spending money on promoted tweets or trends. It's certainly something they could add for select accounts, and it's s
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by olefoo 14y ago
That is some genius marketing move; although an extremely risky one. How much earned media did Maker's Mark get over this? How many people will be buying their bourbon rather than a competitors' because they "decided to do the right thing"?
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by olefoo 14y ago
The regulatory capture of pretty much every national government by the global financial superorganism[1] is an existential threat to humanity in ways that we are barely equipped to comprehend. Some of the more pure examples of this evil ( f
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by olefoo 14y ago
Microsoft, Adobe, Amazon; all have or had their headquarters near Seattle. Puget sound metro is just as big and bad as Silicon Valley. It's also subject to more indoor weather, which is why engineers who live there are more productive...
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by olefoo 14y ago
> It doesn't surprise me that a big media columnist on a topic is so in-bed with the industry he covers that he goes out of his way to defend incumbents from newcomers. More likely his thinking has been formed by years of contact with t
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by olefoo 14y ago
He does have a valid point in that both the reporter and Mr. Musk may earnestly believe they are telling the truth. For instance if you look at the cabin temperature graph, it's clear that it was uncomfortably cold for nearly 50 miles; but
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by olefoo 14y ago
But the second law of thermodynamics means that you can't get as much out of regenerative braking as you put in to the cars potential energy. It's not going to magically allow your car to recharge itself from braking; all it does is recaptu
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by olefoo 14y ago
I'm partial to SQL-mode in emacs which allows you to start psql in a comint style buffer, send queries from an edit buffer and capture them to output buffers; it used to be a pain to set up but these days it mostly just works. And by accide
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by olefoo 14y ago
37Signals, &yet, ColourLovers; just to pick a few examples from those that might be familiar to HN readers. The Googles and the Facebooks, the Yammers and the Zappos's are outliers in terms of scale. That's what makes them interesting.
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by olefoo 14y ago
You live in Eugene Oregon?
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by olefoo 14y ago
One important distinction that this article misses completely is that Mr. Heymann is a civil service employee whereas Ms. Ortiz (his boss and supervisor) is a political appointee. The Executive branch is perfectly within it's rights to fire
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by olefoo 14y ago
just because patents are the regulatory regime that exist at this time, in this place does not mean that that is the only way to regulate and encourage research in any given field of endeavor. Given the extremity of the consequences and the
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by olefoo 14y ago
Having been involved with several open government initiatives in the past five years, both as a consumer and as a consultant to municipal governments trying to to take positive action. I can understand the frustration and anger that such in
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by olefoo 14y ago
> No, you're paying Elsevier to digitize, index, catalogue, and host publicly funded research. None of that is free. So why aren't those services let out for competitive bid? The agreements that were made in the past have severe negativ
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Amazon Coins as economic stimulus for Kindle App ecosystem.(slate.com)
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by olefoo 14y ago
No. I was asking what the standards were for being declared an allied force of al-Qa'ida and whether Wikileaks the organization would be considered one by this administration.
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by olefoo 14y ago
I upvoted you even though I disagree heartily with what you are saying; and I would like to point people to pg's essay http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html to remind them that this site is not reddit, and that the downvote should be us
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by olefoo 14y ago
The indictment against Bradley Manning states that he is being charged with knowingly giving information to the enemy. Since he gave the cables to Wikileaks, is Wikileaks "the enemy"? It's a valid question.
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by olefoo 14y ago
In the particular case I referenced, he was, Abdulrahman al-Alauqi was born in Denver and was aged 16 when he was killed. Coughlin could have faced the death penalty for sedition; but he was silenced by his bishop before that was necessary.
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by olefoo 14y ago
The following questions come to mind. 1. What is "an informed, high-level official of the US government"; is it the President only, or does it include Cabinet Members? Is it restricted to political appointees, or does it extend into civil
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by olefoo 14y ago
Well, the OIC for Abu Ghraib didn't get court-martialed or relieved for dereliction of duty; did they? It was a case where a systematized culture of impunity for bad acts was condoned until it became a public relations issue; at which time
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by olefoo 14y ago
Full Service Blogger sounds ever so slightly shady; like someone who would write pay-for-play stories and not care about the reputation they'd be burning. I realize that's not the intent here, but it seems like that would be a natural equil

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