scientician

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by scientician 8y ago
> If it's illegal to, say, hack into your competitors servers and steal all their intellectual property, you don't get to mail a server to somewhere with weak IP laws, and then do all the theft. Wait, why not?
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by scientician 9y ago
Not yet! My long-term plan is to travel around and staff at as many freedom schools as I can, and then bring that model back home to Toronto. I'm in the process of winding up my commitments now so I can commit all my resources to the j
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by scientician 9y ago
I definitely did not intend to make any argument supporting the standard alternative. My argument is that the standard model is harmful, and gifted programs are only slightly less harmful.
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by scientician 9y ago
As someone who has been through many forms of 'gifted' and 'enriched' and 'special' education, these articles always sadden me. Does anyone truly believe that optimizing children for their economic output r
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by scientician 9y ago
It was a research campus, no?
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by scientician 9y ago
I don't think it's fearmongering to point out facts! Self-styled supreme dictators and concentration camps seem highly correlated! Do you disagree?
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by scientician 9y ago
True names can be dangerous things, impossible to unspeak.
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by scientician 9y ago
..... Why would you think I was being sarcastic? I agree with you ...
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by scientician 9y ago
Hear hear! If you're not against racism, and you support racist policies, you're a racist!
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by scientician 9y ago
I took two years off to recover from the burnout. Our market was/is (I need a better word than corrupt) such that business couldn't continue without his relationship massaging. I tried to talk to the gatekeepers, but they wouldn&#
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by scientician 9y ago
Many replies are confused: SNITCHING means going to the authorities to out one of your comrades, especially in return for some 'deal' you're offered. That makes you scum. WHISTLEBLOWING means going to the public to out crimin
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by scientician 9y ago
I have a story: My cofounder was more Salesy than me, so he did most of the relationship management with our clients and gatekeepers. To grease these relationships, he was always ... I tried typing a few euphemisms for "LYING" the
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by scientician 9y ago
^_^ If something is patented, it will become illegal to use. Hopefully /all/ proprietary patterns become patented, and then perhaps only good patterns will be left :P
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by scientician 9y ago
That video is really disturbing. Delivered with a smile! "Yup, all these thousands will surely be slaughtered!" I'm not a vegetarian, but...
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by scientician 9y ago
I would love to simulate the Cosmographic Comparator! Anyone into it?
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by scientician 9y ago
I volunteer myself and some of my servers to run software to support Wikipedia, Sci-Hub, The Pirate Bay etc if I can do it and have some safeties in place: - Everything encrypted all the time, I have none of the keys - ... I guess I'
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by scientician 9y ago
Cried proud human tears today. Even if the droneship didn't work out...
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by scientician 9y ago
Can I offer my computer to Sci-Hub to store and retransmit encrypted content for them? If I could run software that would assist Sci-Hub, I would. Is anyone else doing something similar? Sci-Hub is important - it's one of the most impo