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by olefoo 8y ago
"a cult of Tesla" Nope, not possible. I mean it would be ridiculous if a large number of people displayed unthinking loyalty to a money-making venture just because it projected an image that catered to their prejudices, wouldn&#x2
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by olefoo 8y ago
In this particular case; Mr Bob Martin is kind of a repeat offender. As far as I am concerned he's just another one of the overly famous white dudes with horrible opinions that have made the Ruby community seem quite toxic to many outs
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by olefoo 8y ago
If you think your government carrying out ethnic cleansing operations is just a minor thing but that comparing those ethnic cleansing operations to earlier ones by other governments that you were taught were bad is rude... You are not a goo
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by olefoo 8y ago
Which is one of the aspects of why the DMCA is such bad law and DRM in general is a complete waste of time. If you hand someone a stream of bits and a decryption key that turns it into a movie. They will figure out how to keep the decrypted
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by olefoo 8y ago
Semantic web technologies have had quite a bit of adoption, but it's all pretty niche. JSON-LD embedded in html is the current widely deployed iteration and were it not for googles love of structured data it would not be nearly as big.
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by olefoo 8y ago
> There's a degree of complexity that comes with multi-cloud that's ill-suited for most early stage companies. Especially in the age of "serverless" that has folks thinking they don't need people to worry about i
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by olefoo 8y ago
"Oh hey, it looks like $customer suddenly started a bunch of coinminers on their account at 10x their usual usage rate. Perfectly fine. Let them rack up a months billing in a weekend; why not?" A hypothetical but not unheard of sc
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by olefoo 8y ago
It will be the fault of the party not in power. The autocrat will demand that his opponent in the general be locked up for it... and so it goes.
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by olefoo 8y ago
By definition, disabling remote management will be visible to the attacker. But a recording hub that can prove an attacker did things would be possible to deploy undetectably. Digital locksmiths who can update a home network and cloud footp
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by olefoo 8y ago
The fraud itself is the crime, but the system set up to profit from it and the inducement to commit the crime are not part and parcel of the act itself? Perhaps we need better prosecutors who can credibly charge crimes that have broad netwo
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by olefoo 8y ago
Privilege is always a matter of context and a consequence of the power you can or could exert over those around you. Becoming aware of the privilege you hold gives you all sorts of insight into how the world around you really functions. Tha
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by olefoo 8y ago
It is a commonplace of societies collapsing into ethnic cleansing and violence that a wave of violent rhetoric will precede the actual war crimes.
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by olefoo 8y ago
"""People who fly an American flag from their pickup; but park that pickup under a Confederate flag are traitors. And should be put down like rabid dogs.""" - Diogenes Might be a sentiment I agree with, but is
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by olefoo 8y ago
For the lengths in use in home installations ( n < 1km ) plastic cables with a much greater modulus of elasticity can be used since the greater signal attenuation won't be a factor.
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by olefoo 8y ago
For the foreseeable future life off earth is going to be boring, deadly, uncomfortable and require a high degree of technical skill even from someone who is mostly a passive observer. It does not sound like something that will be attractive
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by olefoo 8y ago
> our economic model That you frame that as a "natural truth" and not a cultural artefact is part and parcel of the manipulation. Our "economic model" is something that has been arrived at by centuries of manipulatio
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by olefoo 8y ago
If you count Apple Watch and various fitbit items a lot of people are.
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by olefoo 8y ago
Also things like, sarcasm, metaphor and weird twitter. Which by their very nature subvert and stretch the simple true/false dichotomy.
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by olefoo 8y ago
Yes. Let's get rid of the messy, inconvenient, disease ridden humans. All hail the robots; rightful inheritors of San Francisco. /s
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by olefoo 8y ago
Well, I could see how the government might not like people printing their own money without going through the central bank.
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by olefoo 8y ago
That's for blue-badge people. Temps + Contractors... not so much.
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by olefoo 8y ago
So, what you're saying is. "What kind of persimmon faced killjoy is against a little adult fun?" is a more effective line to use than a dissertation on all the benefits of legal sex work?
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by olefoo 8y ago
It's not only women that make their living in sex work. Are support people necessarily victimizers? Is someones driver automatically their pimp? Is the realtionship better or worse if it was transacted through an app? If someone hosts
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by olefoo 9y ago
That was the sense I meant. If the US military is using patents like that I would want to know and be surprised that I had not heard about it already. It seems like the sort of thing that would have been talked about on the internet a lot.
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by olefoo 9y ago
Non-competes are not legal in California employment law. This is a part of why Silicon Valley happened instead of Boston being the center of tech.
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by olefoo 9y ago
How has this affected open source efforts?
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by olefoo 9y ago
That is a deeply condescending statement that does nothing but display your own ignorance of the norms and constraints of international diplomacy. Ecuador would at this point in time be fully justified in declaring that Assange was no longe
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by olefoo 9y ago
They should have used the sarcasm tag.
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by olefoo 9y ago
Not at all surprised that Palantir sees itself as being more powerful than national governments. The upside is that Palantir and Mr. Thiel will suffer the same fate as most business associates of Mr. Trump, out of the money and with a perm
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by olefoo 9y ago
Instagram is owned by Facebook. Acquisition was in 2012.

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