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by skore 13y ago
No, no they should not. You really don't want to be involved with those kinda guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading It's the sort of hyper-liberterianism that looks and sounds like a passable option
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by skore 13y ago
> When it is very clear that his motivation is his own interests and selling his car. And making more money for himself. Most businesses don't make it that obvious. You cannot possibly be saying that with a straight face. Pretty s
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by skore 13y ago
> An even bigger conflict of interest with auto dealers is that they make most of their profit from service, but electric cars require much less service than gasoline cars. There are no oil, spark plug or fuel filter changes, no tune-up
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by skore 13y ago
No matter how frowned upon straight quoting wikipedia may be, this seems appropriate: > Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since
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by skore 13y ago
Alright, ok, still - for an article that was put on cryptome, the whole thing seems pretty staged. If you buy from kinda-sorta Amazon, put your data on a device you don't want, send it back without checking you erased the data, just ki
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by skore 13y ago
> He tries but doesn't ensure his data is fully deleted, but Amazon say they'll organise that (?!) What am I missing here? Why did customer "A" put his personal data on a laptop he did not intend to use?
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by skore 13y ago
"It's like, if you — people of a certain age — would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern-day events, then your kids wouldn't have to take these drastic measures."
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by skore 13y ago
Having read Snow Crash... I'm getting used to appreciate Neal Stephensons rather heavy handed (if only at first glance) use of Sci-Fi tropes as very dry pragmatism. Yes, this is feudalism, plain and simple. They're simply abusing
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by skore 13y ago
At the very least, maybe this overly clever joke of showing off that you know the original name of the service will finally die with it.
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by skore 13y ago
This is, as always, the elephant in the room. A lot of people are seeing their internet use throttled for certain services lately, so even the supposedly "simple and fast" alternatives are taking a beating in the race these days.
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by skore 13y ago
What it comes down to, for me, is the question of trust. If there are 30 messaging applications, I will use the one that somebody I trust uses or recommends. Otherwise, I would have to spend a lot of time searching through the options (&quo
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by skore 13y ago
The problem with "apps" is fundamentally one of curation which IMHO is, in turn, a problem of centralization. If you set out to build "the one big marketplace", you inevitably get to a place where mostly what your market
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by skore 13y ago
In Linus Torvalds' talk on git at google[0], he mentions that the reason why he did not choose SVN (one of the reasons why he saw no other way but to build GIT) was that SVNs mission statement read "To create a compelling replacem
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by skore 13y ago
Absolutely their right. Pretty sure they would have made a very good deal with the film author and everybody would have benefited. > We don't allow half a million kickstarters based on our ip without any deals in place. :/ Usin
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by skore 13y ago
The other day, I was talking to a friend in England and the topic of The Second came up. I told her that even though I have no first hand knowledge, I still find it deeply, deeply disturbing and humbling to ponder what happened during that
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by skore 13y ago
> I can't wait until they start producing TV shows http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/4/5379520/amazon-studios-the-... Maybe you can... wait a little longer?
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by skore 13y ago
> Not one American has been found who has been demonstrably harmed by any NSA program. First they came for some foreigners and I did not speak out - because I was an American.
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by skore 13y ago
Interesting. Couldn't they just run a tracert and, through broad data comparisons, prove quite elegantly what the holdups in the chain are?
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by skore 13y ago
Reinforces one of my golden rules for internet discussions: Gender Discussions on the Internet - Not even once.
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by skore 13y ago
And there I was, thinking I had an original thought. Then again, this just moves it from clever joke to irony. I'll take it.
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by skore 13y ago
Given enough eyeballs, all jokes are shallow.
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by skore 13y ago
Very happy to see these cases be increasingly either laughed out of court or used to punish trolls.
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by skore 13y ago
> naturally emergent nanobots That's an astonishing thought. "Look at all those bacteria that we cannot possibly eliminate with conventional means!" - "Well, maybe in the future, we could build nanobots that kill them
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by skore 13y ago
I was pondering whether I should put in a "or husbands" qualifier. Seems like I should have! I also fixed the spelling.
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by skore 13y ago
> My wife is not well and was recently hospitalized, but her birthday is coming up. I think it would make her happy to receive a lot of birthday cards. Could you please send her a birthday card? Wait, so your wife is sick and you think a
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by skore 13y ago
If you want to check out the games so far: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=81142 Phew, game #2 is a real blood bath: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1736633
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by skore 13y ago
> a diet rich in extra-virgin olive oil, grass-fed beef and wild fish provides “life-sustaining fat that modern American diets are so desperate for.” So a diet completely unsustainable when considering a human population of 7 billion?
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by skore 13y ago
Indeed! Did the same for my own youtube thingie: https://github.com/daviddeutsch/yt-sanegrid/
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by skore 13y ago
Careful, though - Google is fighting back against this and in many cases, you don't get all resolutions when disabling dash.
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by skore 13y ago
Pro Tip: Just use github pages to instantly give people a demo. All you need for that is to make a gh-pages branch and rename your main file to index.html.

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