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by problems 9y ago
But we don't do the same thing for things which have full dependence, fetuses for example. Your dependence defines your right to life, if you depend on someone else's hardware entirely to simply live, you have no right to life as
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by problems 9y ago
It differs a on a per-service basis. In the case of Sia, existing services are unable to take advantage of unused disk on other people's machines that is of little value to them, but more value to someone else - making storage extremel
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by problems 9y ago
You're making a false equivalence of bits and atoms. An individual owns the bits on their hardware - no one owns all atoms or atoms comprising another individual. If someone has ultimate control over all the atoms in the universe, then
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by problems 9y ago
There's no moral grey area. It's my hardware, I decide what it does. Plain and simple. I own it, I own all contents of it. The only "grey area" you're creating is by copying existing humans - that's confusing t
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by problems 9y ago
It's always okay to kill a virtual copy of any person on the basis that they're not real as they can simply be duplicated and manipulated in the same way as any other data or software on a machine - a machine which I own. Because
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by problems 9y ago
Look at Namecoin or Sia for example - Namecoin makes the ability to buy NS records scarce. Sia makes it possible to buy and sell digital storage. This only applies to a few things for which ownership of the content is not the content itself
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by problems 9y ago
Bits are bits, regardless of how "advanced" they are, they're still bits. "Killing" them (if you can call it that) is fine. If your life depends on someone else's hardware, their rights trump yours. Of course,
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by problems 9y ago
I think what he's more talking about is something more akin to a distributed search system than a blockchain - you could make the magnet links last forever in a blockchain, but that doesn't really make sense if no one holds the fi
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by problems 9y ago
There's no reason this exact same method won't work given their current practice though.
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by problems 9y ago
Sounds like the plot for a new shitty Fast and the Furious movie. For the record I also look forward to that.
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by problems 9y ago
If you look at the post they're just talking about price discrimination tactics employed by big data companies. Crypto-currencies have nothing to do with this and no role to play. Deal and comparison sites are the solution here basical
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by problems 9y ago
So what - will companies stop producing non-self-driving cars? Will regulators force that action? I can't see either happening if self-driving cars have major limiting factors like that. The alternative to self-driving cars that behave
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by problems 9y ago
If the future of self-driving cars involves trapping them to reverse engineer them, I for one am really excited for that future.
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by problems 9y ago
Do people shop this way? I haven't bought anything blindly like that in years, I've had too many experiences going "oh shit, I just got ripped off" to do that. Particularly on Amazon, where many people are selling re-br
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by problems 9y ago
Exactly, noticing things like this is just too easy - Friends and I frequently discuss it when comparing prices, usually it turns out to be that one of us found a product from a vendor via the search and one found it via a sale page. You&#x
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by problems 9y ago
Probably just more mental overhead people don't want to deal with. No one wants to remember to do more stuff. If you're comparing 2 trucks, one with a DEF system and one without, chances are as an average consumer, you're goi
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by problems 9y ago
That definitely sounds wrong - if you're leaving unburnt fuel in your exhaust, that is wasted fuel, you could burn it further and get more energy out of it - they seem exactly in line with eachother as goals. Do you have any source for
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by problems 9y ago
I've heard this and avoid it in many places, but I think their arguments are sound here. The maintenance effort and unexpected rebuilds needed to upkeep forward declarations is something I'm not interested in doing. I'm not g
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by problems 9y ago
We use Embarcadero at work for our older stuff and have moved to Qt. It's a clunky piece of crap, built around what used to be a big community due to Delphi in the Borland era. Their standard library is awful, support for 3rd party lib
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by problems 9y ago
It's interesting, I used Qt Creator for a few years, overall I quite enjoyed it, the refactoring features builtin to it were much better than the VS builtin ones IMO. The code completion was brutally slow sometimes though, especially i
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by problems 9y ago
That's awesome, wish my city would do something like this - you're lucky to get updates once per 2 or 3 minutes on their service.
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by problems 9y ago
Yeah, I can definitely see using it more if I were out of town or if the couriers actually bothered delivering things instead of trying once and dropping it at their warehouse because signature is required on everything - or the federal pos
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by problems 9y ago
Local stores (Active Electronics, Canada Computers) have comparable prices to online and often even beat Newegg prices - even without shipping. And even when they're a bit more, I'll pay an extra $20 to have that graphics card tod
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by problems 9y ago
Because governments and forensic companies buy their tools. "Completely outdated" you may say - but most people still don't use these things. Most people won't go out of their way to take anything more than the most basi
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by problems 9y ago
So maybe that's true of books, music and computer software - but those things are often best experienced digitally anyways, many people consume them solely as digital goods. But when I need clothes, car parts, electronic components, co
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by problems 9y ago
This is exactly the way I've gone - I have a "projects" folder full of shit that just solves a problem for me in the quickest and mentally easiest way possible. I go learn new technologies only when they improve my ability to
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by problems 9y ago
Self-hosted Gitlab+Mattermost has been a very good bet for us so far. JIRA was on the table too as it's more feature rich, but the costs were several times higher (especially when you start tacking on their CI tooling and stuff). GitHu
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by problems 9y ago
There's been several cases in history of "Fixer" worms. Welchia is probably the best known example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welchia
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by problems 9y ago
Salon is a very left-wing site, heavily opinion-based. You get about the same kind of thing when looking at opinion sites from any part of the political spectrum. It's glorified trash talking really.
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by problems 9y ago
> Well, that's kind of the point. If you can download something that's 3GB in two minutes, it fundamentally changes how you deal with media. Not really in my experience. I'm a big usenet guy, but I still horde a local coll

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