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by squozzer 12y ago
The situation bears a certain resemblance to a period of history in the USA between the successful bid for independence and the ratification of its constitution. During that period, the articles of confederation was the document in force an
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by squozzer 12y ago
Cartoon girls with big eyes and short skirts. Like, duh.
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by squozzer 12y ago
When the author ran off the names of those NSA projects (horsewrap, iceblock, micefur...) for some reason the REM song "it's the end of the world as we know it" popped into my head.
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by squozzer 12y ago
You may have found a calling. I hope you consider expanding the scope of your activities beyond your wife's friends. What would make it worth your while?
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by squozzer 12y ago
Not a trader certainly not forex but the blood was in the water the day the Swiss decided to peg. Certainly they had their reasons - to keep the franc from becoming too strong - but as other commenters have already explained pegs are too di
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by squozzer 12y ago
I won't pretend to know what's going on here or its implications. So far humanity has lucked out considering our capacity for building some pretty nasty weaponry. We'll probably go through a series of cyberwars before we come
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by squozzer 12y ago
The BBC has dragged Western Civilization to a new low. Certainly not the finest hour in the long history of the British Empire, is it?
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by squozzer 12y ago
In the car world, one occasionally hears the truism "There is no substitute for cubic inches." And sometimes in the tech device world there is no substitute for square inches.
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by squozzer 12y ago
It's quite possible that those who control the means of production already know everything mentioned in the CNN and like things the way they are. Salaried workers tend to be college-educated. Putting them on the treadmill reduces their
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by squozzer 12y ago
So pot is good for something - keeping people from being lifelong stooges of the FBI.
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by squozzer 12y ago
I was thinking more Wesley Willis.
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by squozzer 12y ago
Pretty good ideas, but transition fom current-state to the author's ideas will bring a lot of pain. #1 - Default Permit - if aliens arrived and hacked all of our systems to enforce "default deny" - we'd all die within a
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by squozzer 12y ago
Sometimes life DOES imitate art.
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by squozzer 12y ago
Pardon me for "going meta" but it seems that power in the internet age may be less about how much information you have than on how much information you can keep out of the hands of others. For example, just how transparent is Schm
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by squozzer 12y ago
I try not to get too deep into these literary controversies - newcomers always have to reject some of what came before to establish their sense of novelty. Every British rock band will trash-talk the Beatles a little for the same reason. Th
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by squozzer 12y ago
Cool. But are we fighting the last war?
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by squozzer 12y ago
Something that we don't mention enough - the m16 lower might be the best ergonomic piece ever made. All controls accessible without breaking cheek-stock weld. The boing-boing-boing of the buffer spring is a bit annoying. I left the ser
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by squozzer 12y ago
It may not even require a high price tag. I present as a hypothesis that exploration is a form of competition, i.e. the most competitive societies explore the most. As an example, the European Conquest of the Americas was driven by competit
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by squozzer 12y ago
Please pardon my cynicism. Maybe Saddam Hussein had WMDs after all, and the Spanish sank the Maine.
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by squozzer 12y ago
It's called distraction. You should look up the word sometime.
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by squozzer 12y ago
I'll go with lying. Blaming NK serves their political agenda for now. It's still not outside the bounds of reason to believe Sony Pictures did it themselves.
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by squozzer 12y ago
It would not surprise me if certain countries interpret the meaning of "conspiracy" to include any US citizen, as one could argue that anyone who benefits - even passively - from a criminal act can be held liable.
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by squozzer 12y ago
If you are a founder, you are a genius. If you are a genius, you can spot talent instantly or can otherwise overcome obstacles. Either way you don't need tips from TC, do you? If you need TC to tell you how to hire, then you're no
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by squozzer 12y ago
Certainly Yuri simplified his argument - he may have hired for talent first, then maybe "fit", but he also had to consider costs. After all, he probably couldn't justify paying a hire 1 billion USD per year. So cost is a cons
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by squozzer 12y ago
Not sure why the author would bother analyzing claims she has already decided were false.
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by squozzer 12y ago
"in reality, France’s 35-hour week has become largely symbolic, as employees across the country pull longer hours and work more intensely, with productivity per hour about 13 percent higher than the eurozone average. And a welter of lo
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by squozzer 12y ago
No matter what happens to RadioShack the stories were told masterfully. Stoned Craig is my hero, who reminds me of myself. Hacking the merchandise in an anti-social way is what being a RadioShack customer is all about!
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by squozzer 12y ago
About the article - too little, too late. About Uber - not a big taxi user, but their idea is intriguing. About the Fourth Estate - sensationalism and some of the other sins of the press (e.g. coziness to govt, biz) have been around a while
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by squozzer 12y ago
The notion of simplification, which I hadn't considered, might explain - if testable - certain things such as Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, i.e. limiting the precision with which one can measure a particle's position or
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by squozzer 12y ago
An equally likely solution - probably more likely, given the historical trends of governments - would be to declare half the population as "undesirables", force them to live a pre-industrial existence (if you allow them to live at

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