reginaldjcooper

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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
LOL your argument against black people being targeted for arrests is percent of arrests as proof of black people "committing more crimes"? Holy shit it's like an Onion article came to comment.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Yes, what I got from it was that they were irritated by this journalist for wasting their time when they could have been wasting their time targeting other innocent people. At least this way we got some investigative journalism out of it.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
One significant reason I don't want the government collecting all of my data is because they seem totally incapable of creating a secure system or even a system that operates properly.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
It sure did; http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/fbi-kansas-suic...
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
You have a fair point, but I claim for a proof-of-work computation it might be good for it to be a bit unpractical. (Depending on the parameters, this paper is on my reading list but I haven't gone through it yet.) I think it's in
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
If the cost of covering everyone is less than or equal to the current cost, why not? BI is supposed to cover food and simple housing, people that want to travel, have a large house, or have hobbies will probably need at least part-time jobs
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Unless I am mistaken, you can verify arbitrary computations[0]. [0] http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2003
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Incredible post.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Yes, yes, no because clothing is affordable and not gone after a single use, yes, no but internet should be a utility and libraries should have computers available. Am I too socialist?
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
I don't think poor people steal from rich people, they seem to steal from other poor people.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Those people are already not working. So, instead of spending more on officials and offices and paperwork determining if they can have welfare or not, let's just give them the money directly.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Oh I like this logical exercise. How about, "there used to be a feudal system, and men and women didn't fall dead in the streets of hunger in droves." Did I do that right?
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
If you specifically choose definitions of words that don't agree with the typical usage and act like those were the definitions that were used when you were asked a question, you are, in fact, a big fat liar.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
If you need to compare Android devices to the previous market in order to make it look consistent, it is in fact fragmented. It's not like you need a new binary for each platform, but the screen sizes, device capabilities, and whether
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
That is one of the more shortsighted laws I have ever read. Or farsighted, depending on your cynicism about surveillance. I wonder if I generate a UUID on your phone in my app, if you delete the app data does that run afoul of this law?
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Android's permissions are not granular enough and forcing the user to accept them all or not use the app is a security/privacy fail. I love that Android apps can access the telephony API but the permissions for that need to be mor
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
I beg to differ, Bricklayer B would reject the job on account of being too busy doing work that paid a sum reflecting the value provided rather than reflecting the sociopathy of the employer.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
In cities, companies are not allowed to freely lay cable wherever and so they must regulate some way to share in order to make it a free market.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
I haven't done one because a. what are they going to give me that I don't already suspect b. it's another data point for them to use in modeling. I don't turn on DNT in browsers either but I still run AdBlock and restric
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
That's a big let down. I had the impression Germany basically as a whole was against the NSA stuff all along. Thanks for informing me, I'd rather be disappointed than wrong.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Right on. I literally believe the United States government is doing more harm to the United States than the terrorists are, but they are not themselves terrorists by any stretch of the imagination.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
I wonder if you can predict HN comments about Bitcoin depending on time of day. Sometimes it seems like they're entirely "can't you see it's all tulips", other times, "all fiat is obsolete."
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Just FYI, If it was a free-market enterprise, you would have reasonable prices and services. As proof I submit certain areas of Europe where companies are required by law to lease the last mile of wires to competitors at reasonable rates. A
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
What is this hygiene add-on?
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
This is a polished and wonderful add-on.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
> Still, I'd like everyone else to join me so that I can get lost in the crowd. The untracked, encrypted, well-rested crowd. There's this add-on called Blender that is supposed to make your browser send headers like the average
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
I use a RefControl and just don't send the header, although I feel that's close to being the least of my worries. I just thought I'm already using NoScript, AdBlock, RequestPolicy, BetterPrivacy, Cookie Monster, Blender, and
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
The argument is not that surveillance is evil or causes totalitarianism, the argument is that given a legal system wherein anything one does can be interpreted as a crime and a panopticon, the laws will be selectively applied to individuals
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
When your company's devices are catching fire, you'd better send out replacements for free and without terms, because if you don't someone else will.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
I would abandon the US market until I had the funding to fight trolls or they get responsible legislation going. Once foreign corp. X have got the funding I don't know what would stop a mysterious new US corp. Z from buying access to t

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