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by rogerthis 7y ago
Old domestic knitting machines had "software" in cards that were interpreted mechanically by the machine. Mom sill has an old Elgin in her house.
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by rogerthis 8y ago
Lots of laws propagate to other places, as time passes. Brazil now has its own GDPR version, which is heavily inspired by EU's GDPR. Some laws are good to be the same, others are not (this is one of the reasons people has been supporti
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by rogerthis 8y ago
Some don't even need GPS, just an inertial measurement unit onboard.
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by rogerthis 8y ago
The problem with every large scale plan is how to bring the "russians" on board (by russians I mean the people, but maybe also Russia).
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by rogerthis 8y ago
Do you want horror story in this area, look for how elections are done in Brazil. 100% digital, from voting to counting to totals.
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by rogerthis 8y ago
It remembers me a book: The Best Enemy Money Can Buy, by Antony C. Sutton.
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by rogerthis 8y ago
Brazil.
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by rogerthis 9y ago
The one method that become very popular in Brazil since the 80s is the "whole word" method. The child is supposed to memorize the form of the word instead of decoding it. No need to say that's not efficient (as the latin lett
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by rogerthis 9y ago
And I add they will have legal issues in multiple countries, each with their own rules.
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by rogerthis 9y ago
But then you have to release the module as GPL, no?
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by rogerthis 9y ago
Well, if the church concluded he is a saint, then he is alive and kicking. St Nicholas, pray for us!
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by rogerthis 9y ago
> Benefit: Likely reduces the some 30k+ firearm deaths every year to levels more inline with other countries that have gun control. . I wouldn't be so optimistic. There are counter examples, like Brazil.
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by rogerthis 9y ago
I saw it reported first in conspiracy sites citing also very doubtful news sites. The typical conspiracy theorist goes from "wow those f* commies" when such story appears, to "false flag" when it gets to big news. It has
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by rogerthis 9y ago
Conspiracies are happening all the time. The problem is that most theories about them are wrong.
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by rogerthis 9y ago
Join this to the hedonism and nihilism of post-war generations and you have the Steve Bannon's Generation Zero documentary.
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by rogerthis 9y ago
To put things in a different perspective, imagine how much information about a farmer had an ancient imperor? How fast or effectively he could move the feelings of the people? Or order his army to attack or change tactics? Or how many month
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by rogerthis 10y ago
My droplets are up (NYC1), only API down.
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by rogerthis 10y ago
More, being those tools not effective, development and maintenance is stupid spending, and certainly the tools are having other uses. My conspiracy side looks at CIA like a public sector (state owned) company in Brazil: they are not owned b
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by rogerthis 10y ago
I wonder if, supposing a legit war use, those tools would work. Maybe in taking down some enemy tech infra, but on collecting information, i really have doubts. That would be too much data to process unless they had specific targets. Human
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by rogerthis 10y ago
Maybe in Russia and China such leaks would be punishable with death penalty effectively .
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by rogerthis 10y ago
John Taylor Gato and you'll be free.
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by rogerthis 10y ago
A few points on our parse.com and migration to parse-server experience: - I didn't like it initially. Not only the name (parse what?) but also because people started using it as a relational storage, which it clearly were not. Later, I
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Parse.com shutdown reminder(blog.parse.com)
1 points by rogerthis 10y ago|0 comments
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by rogerthis 10y ago
I'll drop the name only because I am tired: Viktor Frankl. Everything from own is great.
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US Senate's Armed Services Committee on Russia's Hacking(c-span.org)
1 points by rogerthis 10y ago|1 comments
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by rogerthis 10y ago
If the 1 hypothesis were true, then the conspirator would be betting there will be no "incoming administration", not very soon, i'd say. If the 2 were true, there would be also some conspiration to keep those important infoma
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by rogerthis 10y ago
Basic sources on the total consensus?
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by rogerthis 10y ago
What about the disclaimer at the top of the document?
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by rogerthis 10y ago
Because ruby was one of the gifts given to the new born king, baby Jesus.
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by rogerthis 10y ago
Sincere question: how are such clauses enforced?

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