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by robotrout 8y ago
Blockchains have been getting the lions share of attention for several years. PARSEC enabled networks, SAFE (MAIDSAFE) in particular, could change that. Blockchains have been battling energy usage, centralization and speed for awhile. N
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by robotrout 8y ago
I do not want to set up this feature on my Alexa for precisely this reason and I am finding Amazon to be really aggressive about forcing me to enable this feature and harvest my contact information. The Alexa phone app is almost unusable f
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by robotrout 8y ago
Nope, you shouldn't have to. I really wasn't attacking you, but on the contrary, was trying to be helpful, since you had expressed desire to have kids, and then were deciding not to. It seemed necessary for me to qualify my encou
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by robotrout 8y ago
You are correct that it does not take $60K a year to raise a kid (or two or three). There has been a meme for a couple decades now, that kids are so expensive and will cost millions of dollars to raise, etc. This meme is doubtless responsi
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by robotrout 8y ago
Right now, children is sort of theoretical for you. That's fine, as it's like that for everybody. Once you have them and have fallen in love with them, you'll find that their happiness is worth working things out with their
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by robotrout 8y ago
I would be interested in your estimates of how much you believe produce prices would actually rise if farm workers were paid non-exploitative wages. I would also remind you that many of these poor people would be the ones receiving that h
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by robotrout 8y ago
The idea that a population must expand in perpetuity is an idea that is obviously flawed to apply to any finite nation. Given the oncoming tide of automation, it seems doubly flawed. It should be acceptable for any population to ebb and f
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by robotrout 8y ago
If we decide that we are no longer able to exploit desperate immigrants to pick our crops, than the price those crops are sold at will rise until such time as the next Eli Whitney, who is probably an HN reader, invents a machine to harvest
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by robotrout 8y ago
It's not just Ethereum. I have seen this scam aimed at DGB and MAID folks as well, and those are just two that I pay attention to, so there are doubtless many more.
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by robotrout 8y ago
Dude, take a breath. You're really pushing your own narrative here. Why so many posts that say the same thing? Seems like you have a point of view that you REALLY want others to share, which seems a little inappropriate in this cont
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by robotrout 8y ago
Now that there are actually investigators on the ground, we can begin to answer those questions. Until the OPCW releases their report, we don't know that their was any gas released there at all. If there was, we won't know who r
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by robotrout 8y ago
I'm sure you have used reputation a thousand times in your life to decide whether or not to dine in a restaurant, take a class from a professor, or stay in a hotel.
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by robotrout 8y ago
What does that mean? That my camera will embed a cryptographic certification into the video? I suspect people would be able to disassemble a camera and cause it to certify video that originated in a fake news studio.
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by robotrout 9y ago
Yes. I believe the problem is that they negotiate the prices with the insurance companies. They have to start high, so they can negotiate down. They actually do have a price list, that you can sometimes bully them into giving you, which
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by robotrout 9y ago
Fingerprints are also not that reliable. Some gun safes that use fingerprints are notorious for opening too easily with wrong fingerprints. On the other end of the spectrum, India is struggling with their fingerprint authentication system
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by robotrout 9y ago
You and I would never agree on "racist policies". One mans border control is another mans racist, apparently. I am curious about these "misogynistic policies" though. What policy is that, exactly? I suspect I'll
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by robotrout 9y ago
Not sure I ever had flagging power. I have never desired to flag anybody before now. If you want HN to degrade into rabid political name-calling, don't flag the people who do it. This person took the opportunity to level multiple re
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by robotrout 9y ago
If you watched the state of the union, you know that Trump made a proposal about DACA that was such a huge compromise to the left, that much of his base raised hell. The left refused that compromise, and refused again, when he asked for DA
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by robotrout 9y ago
Cite it? Fake News has been his mantra for awhile. I think you'll find it.
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by robotrout 9y ago
I agree. 232 people control the news that 277 million americans are allowed to see. ([1] from 2012). Many of us have been pounding this drum for a long time, including Trump himself. I think it is this control at a national level that t
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by robotrout 9y ago
Local stations are the least of our problems. 232 executives control news to 277 million Americans (from 2012). This was what I hoped the article was about. http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-...
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by robotrout 9y ago
Voice assistants are difficult, both electro-acoustically to get a good clean voice signal from the ambient room noise and voice-assistant generated audio (this is called barge-in), as well as the software to actually parse that speech. A
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by robotrout 9y ago
You got down-voted because you dared to say that tax money gets wasted by bureaucrats. HN people worship government wealth redistribution programs and will never admit that they are often corrupt and wasteful.
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by robotrout 9y ago
Free things are abused. Non-homeless people will swamp a free network with video streaming. Bandwidth limiting would need implemented, which make make the network useless for VoIP or streaming. But sure, if it's possible, I would lo
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by robotrout 9y ago
I would love to see some sort of city-wide wifi, that would allow people to buy small amounts of data with bitcoin. You would connect to the access point, send bitcoin/altcoin to the address generated, and get access to the internet u
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by robotrout 9y ago
I think you have never met any eight year olds, if you think they are really that stupid that it would be a problem. Unless you sheltered the poor kid to the point of making him a mushroom, he's more than rational enough to understan
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by robotrout 9y ago
I have been paranoid about this for years, and I still use a bristle brush. But I was very selective when I went shopping for my new brush. It has very large bristles that are not likely to come off, and if they do, will be very obvious w
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by robotrout 9y ago
You don't die instantly. You are able to take exactly 5 steps before you die.
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by robotrout 9y ago
Max Keiser also must be a Russian agent.
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by robotrout 9y ago
Sure, I support BBC which has a very strong propaganda to news ratio. I also support RT and Al Jazeera. I do not support CNN, because it's ratio is so high it's offensive to me.

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