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by slang800 7y ago
> If advertisers want to advertise to me, that's fine. I understand they need to make money. I feel sad just reading that. Advertisers are paid to deliver targeted psychological manipulation to you, and yet you feel ashamed for maki
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by slang800 7y ago
There's a browser extension that does that: https://adnauseam.io
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by slang800 7y ago
> gives the government the authority Not authority, the article just claims that Hughes is giving them information to use when building their case.
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by slang800 7y ago
I get the impression that the author vastly overestimates the capabilities of modern software. We don't even have reliable self-driving cars, yet they are hoping for reliable self-flying planes that can decide when and how to kill? Eve
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by slang800 7y ago
You can also do it by using the web page here: https://snowflake.torproject.org/
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by slang800 7y ago
Given the lengths that Aaron Swartz was willing to go to liberate JSTOR journals, I would assume that there is a decent number of people who are willing to provide access to Scihub voluntarily. There's clearly a culture in universities
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by slang800 7y ago
HVAC-technicians could become a privileged group too, if they had more friends working in journalism.
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by slang800 7y ago
Renting property sucks and comes with a lot of risk.
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by slang800 7y ago
Why should localhost be different from any other server on the web?
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by slang800 7y ago
I hope not. The whole point of the web is that you can link to anything and make requests to any service. Forcing websites to be walled off from each other just because some servers aren't secure would suck.
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by slang800 7y ago
On a similar note, tools like [grabsite]( https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site ) wisely use robots.txt as a method of finding additional paths to archive when crawling sites.
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by slang800 7y ago
This is hardly unique to young people. People have been panhandling on the internet for decades. Here's an example from 10 years ago mentioning some of the sites that people used: https://web.archive.org/web/200911
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by slang800 7y ago
> can and does prosecute if you lie on the form The government has no incentive to reduce or even investigate this type of fraud. Enforcement is selective at best.
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by slang800 7y ago
> I have little doubt they exist. One well known incident involved 91-272 kg of enriched Uranium going missing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apollo_Affair
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by slang800 7y ago
I obviously can't speak for all of HN, but I'm annoyed by the number of projects that include blockchain technology for no good reason.
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by slang800 7y ago
This isn't "artificial gravity", this is just a centrifuge, and those have been used for decades in High-G training. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-G_training
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by slang800 7y ago
> all government IOT devices must use this processor and this software stack and you can see a global standard emerge from the open standards Why would India-specific anti-competitive restrictions result in other countries around the wor
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by slang800 7y ago
It's not commercially available yet.
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by slang800 7y ago
Oh, that's cool. I've never worked in a building big enough to need more than a couple people in a mailroom to handle that. Also, I guess I've never had my mail screened for sarin.
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by slang800 7y ago
What does Facebook have a mailing facility for? I wasn't aware that they sent or received a large volume of packages.
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by slang800 7y ago
> What more can he do that would be considered "setting an example?" Eli can take his money and send it as a gift directly to the US government. > He devotes himself full-time to philanthropy. Giving money to private charity
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by slang800 7y ago
You are presenting a false dichotomy. Eli could dump his money into the US government and advocate for increased taxes for the rich. In fact, if he did that then he would be arguing from an even stronger position since it's obvious t
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by slang800 7y ago
> The problem is it'd vanish into a black hole It doesn't just vanish, it reduces inflation which allows more money to be spent by congress. It would only be able to "vanish" if you were paying your taxes with a non-f
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by slang800 7y ago
I'd love to see politicians who voted for overseas wars have to fight in those wars, especially if it was impractical.
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by slang800 7y ago
That's not a reason why he can't do it, he's just saying that other people will need to do it too. I completely agree with him on that, he certainly can't do it alone. However, I think that he should set an example witho
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by slang800 7y ago
That's not true. There's a system for sending gifts to the treasury right here: https://fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html
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by slang800 7y ago
Sure, but why does he need to wait for everyone else to support it? He should set a positive example by dumping his own money into the treasury first. After all, he really does believe in this and it's not just virtue-signaling.
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by slang800 7y ago
This is a great idea, but Eli doesn't need to wait for the law to be changed. He can donate as much as he wants directly to the US government right now. https://fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html
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by slang800 7y ago
Who decided that b:// and c:// should represent Bitcoin-stored files? I can't imagine that this is standardized by the IETF or IANA.
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by slang800 7y ago
Except suffrage is not limited to taxpayers.

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