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by sroerick 13y ago
Google drive is very integral to chromebook use. If they dropped drive it would mean millions of chromebooks would be made almost useless.
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by sroerick 13y ago
Yeah. I'm with you there. Production quality, too. One of the hardest parts of trying to boycott conventional Hollywood culture is making the aesthetic leap to public domain.
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I was in error, I repeated this without confirming and looking at "market cap" pages led me to believe it was true.
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by sroerick 13y ago
It stops automated IP tracking from watchdog lawyer orgs. That's about it, but that's a whole lot right there.
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by sroerick 13y ago
I wish there was actually a feature to show only public domain or CC movies.
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by sroerick 13y ago
I think bitcoin is probably the closest thing we truly have to a "cloud". P2P requires seeds and peers. The structure of the Bitcoin network means that as long as there are miners, any information stored on the blockchain will con
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by sroerick 13y ago
They also put billions of dollars of venture capital into it. Ripple wouldn't be worth what it is today without that.
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by sroerick 13y ago
Or, perhaps more realistically, any app running on the bitcoin protocol will be incentivised to use proof of stake.
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2. Parent was simply comparing the infrastructure supporting the bitcoin netwrok with the infrastructure supporting credit card processing. The question isn't "is Bitcoin wasteful?", the question is "Is Bitcoin more or l
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by sroerick 13y ago
She said on twitter that if she was going, she was going to build her own network up first and not rely on RT contacts.
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by sroerick 13y ago
The best any US company can say is that they will only turn your information when they obtain a legally binding gag order. Until our culture changes, US companies can't get that faith back.
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by sroerick 13y ago
I agree with you. I think the most useful subreddits by far are heavily moderated subreddits like /r/AskHistorians or /r/Standup. I think the subreddit idea is brilliant. If reddit is going to survive, it will need to in
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by sroerick 13y ago
I don't think that anyone got censored here, and I'm a big Greenwald supporter. I think reddit needs to reform their moderator system immediately. Whether it's issues like this one, or the /r/standupshots fiasco, co
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by sroerick 13y ago
Isn't this the point of the coin? Iceland's government made it illegal to use Bitcoin, so nobody can buy into the currency. By giving the premined coins to Icelandic citizens, they are trying to create a stable crypto ecosystem an
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https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg03554....
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How does coinbase operate?
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Donttrack.us Dontbubble.us
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David Bowie is also named after Dave Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which heavily influenced Moon.
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by sroerick 13y ago
This is probably their strategy. They built an app store for android. They want to build custom content for a steam box.
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by sroerick 13y ago
Netflix's goals run much deeper than this. The article touches on this briefly. The goal of becoming HBO has been completed. Take a look at the list of Netflix Original Programming. They've succeeded at becoming a content generato
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by sroerick 13y ago
Dr Strangelove started as a drama. Then Kubrick was reportedly overwhelmed by it all one day and realized it was a comedy.
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by sroerick 13y ago
Maybe most people's first reaction to the man command is that it refers to men. Maybe the man in manual is interpreted in early programmers heads as meaning men. Maybe it's part of the nomenclature that is the fabric of the curren
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by sroerick 13y ago
I think we're well overdue for a surveillance DrStrangelove. Is it impotence that causes people to surveil? Some other voyeuristic impulse? Could be fun to explore.
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by sroerick 13y ago
Artists have had their work paid for by patrons they didn't like for a long time. Protesting silently is an old phenomenon. Frankly, if an artist was enthusiastic about every person who financed their work, I wouldn't consider the
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by sroerick 13y ago
I have been having this trouble with all Tv shows lately. It's supposed to be the Golden Age of TV, and I have loved shows like Breaking Bad and Lost, but I can't shake the fact that the people producing the shows have no interest
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Community also had a funny product placement: the Subway guy who's contractual goodbye is "Eat Fresh". I also like the Archer where Archer gets the spy car: "thanks, Dodge!" " So how much did Dodge kick in?&quo
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by sroerick 13y ago
No -- the FISC has ruled that the third party doctrine makes NSA spying legal. The Supreme Court has not ruled on mass metadata collection.
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What do you think about Greenwald's opinion that it's the goal of the NSA to intercept and record all information or communications? If this is true, than releasing this information may be seen in a different context.
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What if there was a paradigm shift in the way people treated their personal data. Wouldn't most of these companies today be hugely affected? Before you say consumers are lazy and this could never happen, consider the following hypothet
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Yes, this point cannot be made enough. Technology will probably eliminate privacy. But the same organizations who belabor this point also claim they need total secrecy to operate. The sword cuts both ways. And it should cut their way first.

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