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by pkinsky 11y ago
I was very surprised to learn that everything referenced here is real and that this is not an excerpt from an unpublished William Gibson novel. Have you considered a sideline writing cypberpunk fiction?
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by pkinsky 11y ago
I always pictured him a Peter Capaldi myself.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
You sound just like the kind of person that refuses to read any article published in Al Jazeera.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
>On reflection, I also think there's a relevant difference between judging a news outlet by the worst opinion piece they've ever published and judging a news outlet by the average opinion piece they publish. The latter action i
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Thanks for the response, but I'm not sure how this is relevant: yes, this guy is a bad person. You have produced quotes in which he advocates doing evil things. Surely you can agree that, say, defending CIA torture programs is also a b
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by pkinsky 11y ago
If we're going to be judging news outlets by the worst opinion piece they've ever published, then let's be consistent: most if not all American newspapers have published torture apologia. Would you condemn someone published o
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by pkinsky 11y ago
I keep hearing this, but the fact is that both companies continue to use Scala for core functions. There are plenty of Scala jobs out there.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
>Yeah, I remember reading news stories all the time about how Canadians overdose on maple syrup or how Egyptians overdose on water. Truly, all drugs are just as innocuous as air and puppies. Maple syrup may not have been a good example
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by pkinsky 11y ago
The ethereum white paper starts with an excellent explanation of Bitcoin. https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper
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by pkinsky 11y ago
I wonder what the working conditions of the technologists building Singapore's smart nation or e-Estonia are like.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
>twister is the fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform leveraging from the free software implementations of Bitcoin and BitTorrent protocols. I'm guessing that filter is keyword based
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by pkinsky 12y ago
They could be attempting to demo their 3d-printing technology with the smallest launch system possible. I imagine their competitive edge is in manufacturing, and they could be looking for an eventual partnership with a bigger player.
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by pkinsky 12y ago
>If we weren't talking about something as hot-button a topic as sexism in tech, but someone was all "tiny invisible biting demons? I just don't know about this so-called germ theory...", wouldn't it be fair to as
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by pkinsky 12y ago
>Make no mistake, any company that does not behave as the organisers of this hackathon here - not actively displaying an organised, certainly biased, effort to promote the "Women in Tech" narrative - are open to being squatted
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by pkinsky 12y ago
NixOS isn't quite clean slate, but it does completely reimagine package management.
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by pkinsky 12y ago
I'm a bit of an edge case here, as I'm more-or-less triggered by certain comments on Christianity. Let me explain: I'm Assyrian, a member of a middle eastern minority Christian ethnic group. Fortunately my grandparents emigra
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by pkinsky 12y ago
I've read antirez's post on this, but has anyone written up a summary of Matt Stancliff's original presentation?
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by pkinsky 12y ago
502 bad gateway :( That said, I would pay money for a license to run a personal instance of this. The data aggregation you need to make it work would be much less scary that way.
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by pkinsky 12y ago
They've raised 40m from Sequoia, so it's reasonable to conclude there's been some degree of vetting. Given that they show video of a working prototype it's very likely this vetting included independent observation of the
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by pkinsky 12y ago
It's like they're trying to create an unregulated grey-market drone economy. Not the best idea from a national security standpoint.
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by pkinsky 12y ago
I really like vim but until neovim is ready (to support ensime on vim) I'm going to stick with IntelliJ.
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by pkinsky 12y ago
I understood you, but your analogy doesn't work. Viruses are replicators, they infect cells to spawn new generations. EA is a monolithic entity that consumes studios to sustain itself, all without creating a single copy of itself. Mone
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by pkinsky 12y ago
Not really: in this case the games sold by an infected game studio aren't copies of the original entity that go on to infect other game studios. They're more of a waste product. EA consumes game studios for sustenance and excretes
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by pkinsky 12y ago
Scala. You get to leverage the JVM and existing Java libraries, without losing access to modern language features like type inference, for comprehensions, typeclasses, etc.
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by pkinsky 12y ago
People also mumble when they're deliberately talking around something. For example, see this section from the audio recordings that brought down Nixon. There's no doubt that both parties knew exactly what they were referring to an
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by pkinsky 12y ago
I was considering getting a Lenovo X1 Carbon to run linux on. I'd be installing a clean image, so no Superfish, but I still don't want to give money to Lenovo right now. What alternative linux laptops are there? (aside from macs)
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by pkinsky 12y ago
>adding backdoors Aka give us access to the backdoors you were already compelled to insert by USG.
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Scraping Reddit with Akka Streams 1.0M2(github.com)
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by pkinsky 12y ago
It's also Creative Commons licensed on his website, despite some commercial success: http://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
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by pkinsky 12y ago
>Eh, this isn't isolated to the gas industry. The whole premise of CISPA is the sharing of intelligence in a bidirectional manner. Hell, Intelligence Sharing is part of the name! I remember the news about CISPA making it sound like

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