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by scandox 6y ago
Well agreed but I was thinking in more general terms of who requires augmentation.
572.
by scandox 6y ago
I think augmented noses for humans would be much better.
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Ask HN: How to generate a series of cryptographically provable pseudonyms
1 points by scandox 6y ago|1 comments
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by scandox 6y ago
I'm amazed at the aggression this comment is getting. There's a strong moral argument for not eating meat. There's a distinct but also reasonable argument for not consuming derivative products. It's a sane position and I
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by scandox 6y ago
Spondool Ltd | Senior Full Stack Developer | Dublin, Ireland | Full-Time | ONSITE Spondool develop security related software. We're looking for a full stack developer to join a small team. You'll be working on APIs and Interfaces
576.
by scandox 6y ago
I'm reading Shoshanna Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism at the moment and the thing I realized is that I don't fully grasp what privacy is. I mean I know abstractly what it is, but I don't feel it strongly. Or perhaps wha
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by scandox 6y ago
I guess Telemetry and Ads is what they're referring to? And maybe automatic updates that wipe your desktop.
578.
by scandox 6y ago
Ok so those are common tropes for people who are appealing to a particular group who interpret those phrases as "this person is on my side"? A group that presumably believes men are in some way the victims of unfair critique of th
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by scandox 6y ago
Planet married
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by scandox 6y ago
> Men, already saddled with the pressure of making the first move, Is this still the case? It is a stupid convention.
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by scandox 6y ago
You mention dog whistles. I know the concept but I obviously can't read the subtext. Can you elaborate?
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by scandox 6y ago
This also completely ignores the effect on the other pupils. It's like any form of corruption, it lowers morale and makes people view their situation in a reductive and transactional manner. Ultimately it fosters an attitude which is
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by scandox 6y ago
I went to a boarding school in the UK that followed this model. Ultimately you lose the prestige. Not necessarily quickly enough for any individual to care. But that's the path. Lots of boys sitting in their rooms smoking weed and orde
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by scandox 6y ago
How much of the Internet was academic? Reading Where the Wizards Stay Up Late one would have a strong feeling that the impetus for it's development was mostly between Arpa/DoD, Rand Corporation (well Paul Barron) and Bolt Beranek
585.
by scandox 6y ago
I have used it as my main browser for the last 3 years with zero problems. Fast. No memory issues.
586.
by scandox 6y ago
I use joker.com.
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by scandox 6y ago
Give me a multi-decade problem over dying in a ditch any day
588.
by scandox 6y ago
Too many words. Too few insights. Too little information. We're drinking from thimbles and pissing Oceans.
589.
by scandox 6y ago
My brain says human societies cannot guarantee the sort of long term management and integrity required to keep these facilities safe over extremely long lifetimes.
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by scandox 6y ago
I always found the style and imagery strongly reminiscent of some of the works of Artists included in the Prinzhorn collection (Artistry of the Mentally Ill was his major work). It has that atmosphere of a self contained mental world.
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by scandox 6y ago
What is the real appetite for privacy? It's talked about a lot and I believe in it personally. Everyone I talk to says it is important to them but are totally uninterested even in modifying settings with existing providers let alone ch
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by scandox 6y ago
> You can spend your entire career in programming, learning all sorts of goodness about things like Erlang innards, and never really understand what your job is. Sometimes I feel like my job is to protect other programmers from finding o
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by scandox 6y ago
> Champions of industry are now the bookish sort You may have missed the last 20 years in which it was conclusively proved that more cerebral leaders can be dominating bullies also. Just replace muscles with whiteboard pens.
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by scandox 6y ago
> Graeber > violent and destructive activism When? Where? What? This is something I never heard of.
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by scandox 6y ago
Most people do behave "decently" in this sense. However some do not. Under an open system, these outliers will eventually eat the decent. It strikes me this is likely the exact journey we have come on to arrive where we are. We ha
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by scandox 6y ago
And yet it is the one piece of clothing where people get to display a small amount of distinctive style. So I think there is still something to be elucidated. If one gave a shit. Which one does not.
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James Tiptree Jr(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by scandox 6y ago|0 comments
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by scandox 6y ago
The point is that in his situation we don't know how many apparently "normal" people will start sending bone-saws out into the world.
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Why admission to college should be decided by lottery, not points(irishtimes.com)
2 points by scandox 6y ago|1 comments
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by scandox 6y ago
It's a tad more complex now for sure: https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#tou

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