rthomas6

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by rthomas6 10y ago
How interesting that this post comes out right as the dollar value of Bitcoins is skyrocketing. What a 'coincidence'.
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by rthomas6 10y ago
I've used them for baby equipment, for mattresses, and for cars. They were spot on with cars, baby car seats and cribs, but their mattress ratings could have been better at the time. Overall, I've found them to be pretty high qual
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by rthomas6 10y ago
On a related note, I'm looking to start taking digital privacy/security more seriously. Not because I'm worried about anything in particular, but because I'd like to not enable purposeful tracking or collection of my inf
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by rthomas6 10y ago
But OSX, Windows, and full-blown Linux aren't used as embedded OSes either. Linux is a bit, but there are a lot of other choices.
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by rthomas6 10y ago
Pleb. You're not truly doing things right until you've build custom servers using the CPUs that use Forth as their instruction set.
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by rthomas6 10y ago
Why are you avoiding Android in favor of OpenMoko?
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by rthomas6 10y ago
Why are optimistic asymmetry and pessimistic asymmetry presented as the only two choices? Why not a third, symmetric choice where everything is viewed as specific, impersonal, and impermanent? I think this world view is the closest to rea
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by rthomas6 10y ago
Why do they have to succeed outside of China right now? That market is so large that they don't have to until they are already huge.
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by rthomas6 10y ago
Though when the NSA has done things like this in the past, we've found their choices prevented implementation weaknesses that weren't found (by anyone else) for several more years.
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by rthomas6 10y ago
For much the same reason that it's not against the fifth amendment to ask a suspect to unlock a safe. http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2897
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by rthomas6 10y ago
Could Netflix start a new TCP connection every 5 minutes?
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by rthomas6 11y ago
It's more alarming to me that, apparently, critical infrastructure in a nuclear plant is running old versions of Windows.
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by rthomas6 11y ago
Sounds like a sales rep.
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by rthomas6 11y ago
I like Hubski ( https://www.hubski.com ). It's self-moderating in a cool way. Each user decides exactly who and what they want to see.
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by rthomas6 11y ago
Hubski. An intelligent community that is designed in a novel way where spam is pretty much impossible. Each user follows other users, tags, and domains that they like, and can block tags, users, and domains that they don't want to see.
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by rthomas6 11y ago
Really? That's your answer for people in Haiti with no electricity? Borrow from the blockchain? They live on less than a dollar a day and have no access to computers, let alone internet.
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What's deadly dull and can save the world? (Hint: We can't stand it)(decorrespondent.nl)
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by rthomas6 11y ago
That's not authentic and not really what I want. There is zero chance that a single reporter reporting to a mothership in another city could generate better content than a local paper. After thinking about it, what I want already exist
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by rthomas6 11y ago
That makes a lot of sense. It follows, then, that the way forward is to hyperlocalize, either geographically or in a particular subject matter. And come to think of it, I would find much greater value in a detailed news site about my city
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by rthomas6 11y ago
I went to the Atlantic to read some sponsored content, only to discover that uBlock Origin filters it out for me.
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by rthomas6 11y ago
>I don't think it's possible for the average person to fast in any of the ways suggested here. Really? I did a form of time restricted feeding and it was the easiest thing ever. It seems hard to consume all your calories in an
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by rthomas6 11y ago
Have you looked into Stoicism? It's got a lot of the Buddhist elements of learning to accept the present while also focusing on achievement. I think of it in some ways as a Western-friendly mindfulness approach. A Guide to the Good Lif
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by rthomas6 11y ago
I have a pet theory that people had longer attention spans back then and didn't need constant entertainment to distract them from the present moment. Also they listened to the radio and enjoyed not being out in the cold.
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by rthomas6 11y ago
You know, in the same vein... Salieri was a pretty decent composer. He got some fame and recognition. Maybe it's not so bad to be a Salieri and not Mozart, because he's still a hell of a lot better than most.
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by rthomas6 11y ago
My point was that humans can pass acquired knowledge to future generations. Given enough time, we can figure out things that would take too long for any one generation to understand on their own.
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by rthomas6 11y ago
Here are some. Note that I do not necessarily believe these ideas, just that they are considered taboo to the point that they cannot be tolerated or seriously discussed in certain circles. * The USA is a moral country. * The USA is morally
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by rthomas6 11y ago
Dissociative identity disorder makes me wonder about the nature of our identity. Which personality is the real person? Clearly at least some of these personalities are not central to the identify of the person -- clearly not the teenage b
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by rthomas6 11y ago
That depends on how long the mouse has to be taught. If we had 1,000 years I bet we could do it.
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by rthomas6 11y ago
What about geostationary orbit wrt balloons? Do the balloons slow down horizontally a lot during the ascent? If not, what if we floated a rocket up most of the way and let the rocket do the rest?
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by rthomas6 11y ago
Easy: Just build a PC! It's not hard and it can be dirt cheap. Look at this: http://choosemypc.net/build/?budget=400&oc=false&options=,os

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