orly_bookz

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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Not-Reddit indeed. Just signed into it. It's busy as hell. Horrible layout. I doubt many will make the jump.
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Counterpoint: maybe we become the Klingon empire?
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Interesting, thank you.
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
It's not one of the reasons you'll read about in the news, no.
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
You're like a living version of this comic but for IT nerds... https://xkcd.com/435/ (Just to be clear, in the IT version, you're not standing where the mathematician is.)
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Ad revenue and tricking others into thinking that all that data is inherently valuable. Don't forget that last part.
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Or the fact that it has been a spam-riddled POS for about a decade now?
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Surely you mean non-whites and non-asians. Caucasians are still a huge portion of the Silicon Valley work force. It's women, hispanics, and african americans who make up some tiny percentage...
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Aren't there still about twenty other English-language *chans out there these days? One might die but the idea and format will never go away.
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
"The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement same functionality with data-mining algorithms." -Morpheus, Deus Ex.
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
1984's technology has pretty much become a joke at this point. Who cares about your TV watching you when you broadcast your every move all day long, your spending habits are tracked and analyzed, and a passive global actor could turn y
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Is that the guy that set up scroogle? I suppose DuckDuckGo with !g is a better version of that now anyway but it was always an interesting concept...
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
1) "How do I use microsoft sql to do a regex on a table?" 2) "ms sql regex" I'm sure google is moving towards the first working just fine but for a very long time only the second didn't give you a bunch of garb
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Creepy.
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
I assume it's possible. They can't really become resistant to high concentrations of cleaning products like chlorine bleach because they just physically ruin the organism - the best explanation I've heard is that that would b
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Or a clerk who made fifty bucks or more off of a gullible tourist...
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
That little "and internet" presupposes such a mountainous pile of infrastructure beneath it to be working that you might as well list out hundreds of things before it. You can't just throw it in there like it's an easy t
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
You just know that somewhere in a bunker outside of Ft. Meade some middle-aged guy was going through intercepts, shaking his head, and going "goddamn kids..."
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Really? TOR interests me but I'd never run an exit node because I'm assuming one of three things is gonna come out of it: dissidents, criminal activity, or spook traffic (it was literally made by and for naval intelligence /t
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
And then the fun part is that every time you remember a memory, you re-encode it and (probably) slightly alter it. When you vividly remember an event from a decade ago it most likely did not happen like you remember. They've done longi
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Wouldn't the point be about being "plugged in" while actually working? Nobody says you have to read email during your off-hours but if you're working in, say, IT and you're not taking advantage of google, stackoverf
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Doesn't that completely ignore the fact that Snowden got caught in Russia in the first place because his passport got revoked?
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
They did that one time in Night Vale... "Listeners, we are currently fielding numerous reports that books have stopped working. It seems that all over Night Vale, books have simply ceased functioning. The scientists are studying one of
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by orly_bookz 10y ago
Charles Stross might not have been far off with the lobsters in Accelerando...