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by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
People who were losing their shit over Y2K had no idea what normal life would become.
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by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
You forgot the part where layers upon layers of Chinese managers and bureaucrats cook their books to a crisp to keep their careers in motion.
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by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
As far as I am concerned, Governor Cuomo is a saint for banning fracking in New York. Eventually the ground will run out of muck or people will stop buying it, but every year brings more wine from the Finger Lakes.
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by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
Hell yeah Snoop should run Twitter. Honestly, what's the worst he could do? Twitter owns scale but their vision has been woefully lacking for years. And I bet with a figure like Snoop in charge people would be more engaged with the di
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by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
That is precisely what is necessary. Businesses have to continually cut complexity to keep costs down and stay competitive, but for a government, especially the federal government of the richest nation in history, the costs of steadily risi
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by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
I suppose if I want good health it's worth listening to the guy who made it to 100.
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by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
Huh, so apparently processed foods will be harder to make. What a shame.
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by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
And of our era, 9/11, the beginning of the end of the Westphalian state-based order and signaling a new world order of overlapping authorities and loyalties, from multinational corporations to terrorist organizations. "The Modern
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by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
I can't be bothered to help this poor woman, but I can keep myself from ever purchasing an LG product again.
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by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
A while back I could talk about working in tech with locals and it would drive good conversation. Recently when I brought up my work I was met with reactions of annoyance for being one of many newcomers pricing locals' favorite kinderg
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by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
I wonder if the irony has been lost on the young men in Silicon Valley reading this article and teasing central planning before they go back to the grind so that someday they too can impress the Bay Area's few women who still don'
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by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
Tech we take for granted like televisions, microwave ovens, and the Internet, all have significant roots in university research, where the benefits are lately available to the public, whereas private research also privatizes profits. As the
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by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
Consolidated monopolies like oil and telecoms make sense because they require huge infrastructure investments. In all reality, the cost of cloning uber in any city with enough cars and smartphones is not out of reach. Personally, I prefer t
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by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
Uber does not seem to care much about its reputation in its rush to own autonomous transport. When self-driving cars are ubiquitous in a decade or two, I wonder, will decent folks still opt for the biggest bully in a crowded room?
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by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
My best friendships are maintained by calling by phone or Skype, calling regularly when it comes to closer friends. I keep in touch with important people in my life using technology available to my parents when they were my age, and I feel
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by rm_-rf_slash 12y ago
Presumably this is the kind of boldfaced rhetoric meant to inflame the "if you do nothing wrong you have nothing to hide" crowd.
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by rm_-rf_slash 12y ago
The author is doing good work and I commend him. It's a million more times easy to complain about a problem or prescribe a solution than it is to roll up your sleeves and do the hard work. We need more people like him.
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by rm_-rf_slash 12y ago
I may have "nothing to hide" but I sometimes send and receive sensitive information I wouldn't want leaked by an incompetent/malicious intelligence agent or hacked from their databases by a third party.
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by rm_-rf_slash 12y ago
The more likely limitation is the human body. We can only take so much acceleration until we lose consciousness or worse. This would necessitate a much longer "runway" for people to use safely. No comment on unmanned use.
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by rm_-rf_slash 13y ago
4chan is unique in that it's a flat discussion/image board that keeps all users anonymous and their posts only alive as long as they need to be. This removes the incentive structures of similar discussion sites like reddit, which,