pi18n

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by pi18n 14y ago
I think it's the computers. Most of the ghosts I see weren't trolls, just young accounts going far enough against the grain to get downvotes. If it's humans doing it, they are absurdly harsh.
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by pi18n 14y ago
It absolutely should be illegal to delete files from a device that is currently rented or owned by another party unless they give explicit permission. It should be wire fraud, just like hacking a server and forcing it to act in a way the ow
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by pi18n 14y ago
There are a lot of us that want a third party, but IMO it's just not going to happen without changing the voting system.
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by pi18n 14y ago
When they try, the monopoly lowers its prices until the competitors are out of business.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Because the theoretical government was too small to force even a duopoly, so one provider has bought all the wires.
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by pi18n 14y ago
This looks cool and now I want to mess around with it. I wish there was a torrent for that dataset.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Yeah! I don't want to trivialize it (a lot), because I understand it would be intimidating to live out, but I'd love to be in a situation that person is complaining about. "Help me, I'm learning too much too quickly!" Instead I feel like I'
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by pi18n 14y ago
According to the redshift and mass measurements of distant galaxies, it seems like the universe is expanding faster than gravity would keep it together.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I think it is completely absurd that tablet OS's would ever allow a website to disable zooming. It's like a usability nightmare. Permanent solutions... maybe email the websites that do it?
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by pi18n 14y ago
What an absurd thing to spend time debating. For anyone else that thought this was going to be about working spaces, it's actually about why double-spacing after a period is superior. The arguments amount to "because I like it" and "because
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by pi18n 14y ago
I heard there's one state where you need a license to do interior design, how is that for bullshit legislation?
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by pi18n 14y ago
I think it's pretty easy to get flamed on IRC; pick a channel and then pick an opinion that differs from the majority. I've been told I was stupid and irrational for preferring the wrong code editor before. It's admittedly infuriating whe
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by pi18n 14y ago
If your company's "most precious resource" is capital and not equity, that's indicating that you are expecting to fail. Equity is already far more risky than a salary in companies that think they'll succeed. I hope you are successful, but I
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by pi18n 14y ago
Perhaps people will get clued in and protest. I'm hoping for a grassroots org to use handheld devices and, in aggregate, constantly monitor all police and lawmakers, posting their every move online.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Oh, I mean in the sense that it is manipulating players into continuing, I think it's ethically questionable.
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by pi18n 14y ago
WoW is ethically worse than, say, Mario, but better than a slot machine, which is in turn better than everything from Zynga.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I'm sure you'd get the stigma from atheism as well since the game is full of goblins etc.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Don't worry about that post, you are being rational. Apple is increasingly unfriendly to developers and power users. Choosing Android or Linux at this point makes a ton of sense.
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by pi18n 14y ago
> People are building Tor concepts, non-Zynga collaborative games, new messaging protocols, etc in App.net ... beyond twitter is easy. I don't get it. What's the advantage of this over regular internet? You use someone else's servers?
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by pi18n 14y ago
Yes, this is exactly how I feel. The law was horrible, but it had a majority. The only explanation is that the legislators are voting about something they don't understand or are flat-out corrupt. The fact that SOPA wasn't passed after Wiki
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by pi18n 14y ago
When you look at a bill like SOPA, there's no reasonable conclusion other than the majority is corrupt or the majority is willing to vote on something they do not understand. Both situations are fairly disturbing.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Not to burst your bubble, but adding a keyboard to a tablet makes it a touchscreen laptop. It's perfectly fine if that's what you enjoy, but you're not really obsoleting laptops if the alternative is a smaller laptop.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Two guys agree on it, so it must be correct! Well, time to chuck this inconvenient clamshell POS and get an Android tablet to do some actual work on.
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by pi18n 14y ago
You are incorrect, it was a dig at Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Well, there are no advertisements on your desktop and nobody's replaced normal search with sponsored search, so that's two things.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I'd like to see what instructions are available on the co-processors. It seems like it would be great for physical simulations and other embarrassingly parallel things. I guess there's some need for things in between regular CPUs and expens
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by pi18n 14y ago
I was also told Somalia might be a good choice for me when I was arguing against widespread government surveillance. It's a strawman used by the intellectually lazy to posit that anyone who disagrees with sprawling government that has its f
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by pi18n 14y ago
But that's exactly the problem, that there is no way to securely verify over an insecure connection that the keys you've associated with A are actually A's keys.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Diffie-Hellman is fine if there is no one between you and Alice, otherwise if you read the protocol you will see it is easy for Eve to do the protocol with both ends and just act as a conduit for messages after reading/altering them. SSL/TL
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by pi18n 14y ago
That's why I got Apple. But getting siloed apps wasn't part of my game plan so I might switch back for my next machine. Especially if I can get a laptop to work after a mere hours of fiddling rather than days :)

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