sroerick

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by sroerick 12y ago
Whoops, thanks.
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by sroerick 12y ago
His point, and something I agree with, is that the easier gamification becomes, the less useful a search engine becomes. I don't know if this is true for everyone. It probably isn't. (at least it isn't immediately obvious.) B
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by sroerick 12y ago
His point is that Best Buy pays for that spot. If users truly wanted Best Buy at the top of their results and that happened organically, then great. That'd be great. Instead, what has happened is that big brands are the only ones who c
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by sroerick 12y ago
He's raising the observation that the easier it is to game Google, the less useful Google becomes. He's not prescribing a solution. Much less the solution of Google becoming a "far-left government." But screw equality an
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by sroerick 12y ago
I don't think that's an accurate TL;DR. He's saying that Google is a plutocracy, not a democracy. I have an joke/axiom for social networks: "It's not really a social network if you can buy your way onto it.&quo
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by sroerick 12y ago
This is really awesome.
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by sroerick 12y ago
What do you think about the open intelligence movement?
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by sroerick 12y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=snowden+treason
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by sroerick 12y ago
Bandcamp.com is great. But I also support artists who are releasing work into the Creative Commons or the public domain. I've also been doing experiments with practice recording and one-off sound files in the vein of Cory Doctorow&#x27
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by sroerick 12y ago
Facebook thinks "Privacy" is controlling what your friends see. Controlling what my friends see is the least of my concerns on Facebook.
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by sroerick 12y ago
You know, I'm increasingly becoming very disenchanted with Godwin's law. I think that Nazis are a great study and we should compare as many things as possible to them, as a cautionary tale. I understand that "Nazi!" gets
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by sroerick 12y ago
I'd like music to get distributed via BitTorrent, monetized with Bitcoin, licensed under the Creative Commons, and formatted using open formats without DRM. That'd be hugely valuable to me. That means I can pay for music that I ha
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by sroerick 12y ago
I mean, I grew up pirating music and movies. I haven't for years now, because the vast majority of what I listen to is free mixtapes and CC movies. But I used to download discographies -- an artist's entire catalog. Or I would go
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by sroerick 12y ago
I would maybe say he missed the point. Her point isn't one about economics. It's about how many fans, it's about what your fans will do for you.
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by sroerick 12y ago
I think the point that Swift fails to make is that music should be treated as a service, not as a good. The point she does make, though, is that art IS rare, and I agree with her. Sure, there's lots of art. But the moment when you find
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by sroerick 12y ago
Turns out it's more profitable to do R&D using VC than it is to do it in house.
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by sroerick 12y ago
Wow. Fascinating. Thaks for the read.
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by sroerick 12y ago
Could you explain what you mean by security primitive?
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by sroerick 12y ago
This is something that I've thought about extensively. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. My thesis is thus: In the Information Age, data is subject to a kind of reverse economies of scale. That is to say, the more data you
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by sroerick 12y ago
http://cryptome.org/2013/12/Full-Disclosure.pdf
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by sroerick 12y ago
Can I ask you, what category was Tor put into? Could you provide disclosure regarding how this categorization system works?
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by sroerick 12y ago
My facebook habits have shifted to posting almost exclusively NSA related materials. I've run into errors like this three times before. I don't know what the issue is.
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by sroerick 12y ago
Something worth considering is the conditions necessary for having both subjective and objective expectation of privacy. If nobody expects to be able to avoid the NSA, nobody can expect to have subjective expectation of privacy. NSA will ce
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by sroerick 12y ago
Wait, what? Are you being facetious? This is so oddly specific.
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by sroerick 12y ago
Or maybe you should read what you want, and fight for your right to do so.
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by sroerick 12y ago
This is a great feature. It's a shame our internet infrastructure isn't up to snuff.
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by sroerick 12y ago
OK, that's a great point. My response is that I'm not really trying to not be marketed to, I'm just trying to be not surveilled. If a company wants to market to people who are trying to avoid surveillance, I'll support t
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by sroerick 12y ago
Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly. I was having a discussion earlier today. It seems like a choice between the publishing cartel and Amazon. Amazon is probably better for just books, but for everything else, I'm uncomfortable with the poten
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by sroerick 12y ago
Under the DMCA, circumvention of DRM is a violation of the law. You may as well just pirate everything. You can address this concern technologically, but can you do it culturally? Not to mention, what happens when you forget to strip out th
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by sroerick 12y ago
I'm a huge supporter of piracy but I personally prefer to boycott any non-free ebooks or movies instead. It's easy to break the technological norms that protect books. It's a lot tougher to break the cultural ones.

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