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by smolder 8y ago
I'll take a stab. People don't trust their government or their justice system to fairly enforce the law or to draft a law that, all legalese deconstructed, is fair in the first place.
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by smolder 8y ago
Good points. Performance not being a primary concern is a meme that really has grown beyond its place. Performance is absolutely a primary concern in very hot code, at execution scales where it means big differences in aggregate hardware&#x
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by smolder 8y ago
If there is a hierarchical structure to the brain wherein some highly influential neurons direct the rest of the brain toward the immoral behavior, you can at least assign the lions share to them. I do agree that carefully structured incent
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by smolder 8y ago
agreed, I appreciate the link.
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by smolder 8y ago
Just because you can't easily put the blame on individuals doesn't mean they're not responsible. Our "system" is great at "blame laundering" or obfuscating ethical implications of decisions through diffusi
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by smolder 8y ago
Subtle reasons why P2P technologies are squashed likely include the difficulty of subversion by authorities and the threat that private communications represent to the copyright lobby.
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by smolder 8y ago
The lack of upstream bandwidth offered by cable providers almost seems deliberate. (I.e. a disinterest in improving the upstream capabilities of docsis standards, as well as offering pitiful upstream bandwidth in their plans.)
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by smolder 8y ago
The trailer is overflowing with bait akin to "learn more after this commercial break!!" on the news. That technique generally correlates with nothing of substance coming later. Is the MH in your username for Mark Hyman?
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by smolder 8y ago
You'll just go back to snail mail or satellite internet with 500ms+ latency, eh?
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by smolder 8y ago
And unlike with tv in the old days having only a few channels, the limitation of internet access is almost entirely non-technical and artificial. Aside from a little caching efficiency, it's pure market manipulation.
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by smolder 8y ago
My feeling is that "lie" and "creation" go together. Similar to "he made that up". Something is a fabrication (in the lie sense) when it's created by the person saying it and not drawn from evidence or obs
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by smolder 8y ago
It may be worth pointing out here that with substance abuse, people often end up substituting one dangerous thing for another. Just because someone's a recovered heroin or cocaine user and not an alcoholic doesn't mean alcohol&#x2
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by smolder 8y ago
Everyone points to mental Illness. You can't want to die if you're not mentally ill right? But "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" -Jiddu Krishnamurti The illness is not all in t
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by smolder 8y ago
Yes, obamacare is trivially different from romneycare. It's villified for political reasons by the right but it's what their mutual benefactors wanted. (Continued inefficiency and profitability; upward wealth redistribution)
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by smolder 8y ago
So, a history of bugs that increase permissiveness. Were there ever any bugs that set things more restrictively? Or are these "bugs" a reflection of their priorities, i.e. willful neglect.
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by smolder 8y ago
https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted#project-manag... I posted this before one of the GitHub acquisition threads.
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by smolder 8y ago
Capitalism primarily benefits capital holders, and you don't think one of its central constructs serves that purpose? You don't think people with [absurdly concentrated] power exercise it to help themselves, as rational actors? My
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by smolder 8y ago
Are you not familiar with the rampant regulatory capture in the US? Changing law and manipulating markets often go hand in hand. Corporations exist to benefit the wealthy mostly. Schools are absurdly expensive and result in something like
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by smolder 8y ago
Short answer is no. It's one broken measure against other broken measures. Taxes get raised because the budget goes up, but the budget goes up for more stupid reasons (greed and corruption) than good ones, and spending is woefully misa
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by smolder 8y ago
Can it power tumors? More seriously, though, nanotech or relatively small implantables/injectables powered by radio or induction could do a lot for medicine... If anyone could afford it.
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by smolder 8y ago
This isn't even about free software... github is closed. It's SaaS. It just became a defacto standard interface, a sort of facebook for git. git is free and will stay that way.
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by smolder 8y ago
I hope this encourages people to fight vendor lock-in a bit and move to self-hosted git portals. With SaaS there is always the danger of acquisitions and degradation of service. The solution is open software, self hosted and portable. Git i
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by smolder 8y ago
Yes, particularly because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...