perpetualcrayon

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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
Maybe I'm just too paranoid, but first thing that popped into my head is there are a lot of predators out there looking for weak prey. Maybe I need a support group to help with that :)
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
Regarding "rerunning the election". As long as the process has integrity there will be a statistically insignificant number of people blaming the system for incorrectly tallying their votes. We have that today even though we can
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
Of course I'm not thinking we should make a voter's ballot public. Through public key cryptography a voter should be able to secretly retrieve and confirm their votes. And like with any other system there would be a small handfu
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
The way I look at it fabrication would be impossible if done right. 1) precinct has record of every eligible voter 2) voter can (via encrypted means) retrieve their vote so it's still "private", but the voter can view it afte
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
I think it's probably still a little too far outside most peoples' comfort zone, but I think the future of voting will be 100% electronic with the capability of being instantly recallable. The voting system will allow me to see e
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Why a random federal agency gets to decide which devices we tinker with(arstechnica.com)
2 points by perpetualcrayon 8y ago|0 comments
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About Tizen(tizen.org)
2 points by perpetualcrayon 8y ago|0 comments
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
I think there are probably a number of reasons it's different. 1) 1000 5-star reviews with maybe a handful of 3,2,1 star reviews trickling in as actual consumers realize their mistake is less of a signal not to buy than if I see anothe
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
I'd say by slow dripping the reviews won't they have to contend more with the "real" reviews? After all by pushing a bunch of 5 stars quickly the average will be bumped up substantially and be unaffected by real reviews
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
"there should be 'compensating upside' for the few drugs that do make it to market to ensure investors continue to fund companies’ uncertain R&D efforts" Ok, then open your books so we can see why you're pricing
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
*-star reviews on all of the major review sites are 2-dimensional. They should be 3 dimensional (0-x stars) + time. This way if clusters of 5-star reviews show up in an extremely short period of time it's a red flag. Instead of seei
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
One of the problems here is: are the venture capitalists, who are willing to expose who their investors are, able to take on most of the businesses that will one day be successful? There will always be entrepreneurs unwilling to give up on
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
I guess I will take it that this (or this sort of thing) is what you're all using to base your negative opinions of Assange on?
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
I am genuinely interested to know why you think this about Assange. References?
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
Was it intentional that you refer to Snowden in the past tense and Assange in the present?
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
Sadly I think the legacy of this generation will be how little we will (historically) have appeared to care about Assange and Snowden.
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
Does anyone else think it's categorically wrong for a government to incentivize greed?
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
My worry. As was mentioned in the article these billionaires have teams of lawyers / accountants working to ensure the money stays in their hands. What's keeping them from having those teams of lawyers concocting vapor-corps in
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
I think attacking a widely used open source piece of software rather than trying to help improve it behind the scenes without drawing attention to yourself will always be less work.
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
I recognize that Stripe was maybe the first to create a modern JSON-based API for financial transactions. At least maybe the first of that kind that gained traction. But to say they "reshaped the digital economy"? I would say re
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
On further exploration of this topic, I'm also noticing that maybe I could put a certain spin on this blog post by the following logic. The age we're living in we're seeing a lot of boundaries become far less rigid. Class a
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
I think sure, there might have been a better deal between GM and Honda, but I think at a deeper level it's probably different industries trying to "circle the wagons" so to speak. My guess is only outsiders in the auto indust
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
I think sure there is bragging in the world, but in my experience I have come to learn that most of it is in the head of the person judging you, or you judging the other person's intention. I'd say probably 90% of what people thi
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
I've seen enough cases to be worried where their prices are substantially marked higher than other sites. I used to be able to safely assume Amazon was the best price. Now I don't feel it's safe to do that. You really do n
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
I think there are a number of variables that should be controlled for on probably separate studies. 1) how likely can renowned academic get published with gibberish 2) compare #1 to how likely can an unknown get published with gibberish. 3)
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
I had considered that also. For some reason, though, I tend to see reproduction as less primitive to survival than digestion. EDIT: Less primitive to survival of the animal itself, not of its species. In fact I'm not 100% sure that
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
I was thinking about this (sort of) the other day. Trying to think generally about the first animal life and how that translated to what we are today. Basically the insight I had was that we're just stomachs with arms and legs and br
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How the Hydraulics Machine Works(youtube.com)
4 points by perpetualcrayon 8y ago|0 comments
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
Not knowledgeable in this area, but very curious. I know it would be extremely expensive to be concerned with extracting "waste" systems of every insect we consume as we do with other species. What does insect "waste"
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by perpetualcrayon 8y ago
The companies who are advertising the protein content are probably doing very little if anything to "bump up" their protein content. It's probably all about marketing what is currently selling things. Kind of like how veget

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