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by strgrd 10y ago
Link to this post in three years and ponder in its prescients... Web 3.0 will be born in the death of the heavily botted social networks. Reddit, Facebook & Instagram, Twitter... are all basically pay-to-win schemes at this point, benef
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by strgrd 10y ago
What is this mythical "appropriate conversation" you are alluding to? That Facebook's primary incentive is to create as much detailed information about the individual as possible, in order to broker that information to advert
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by strgrd 10y ago
> I'm a Google employee > Google really cares about privacy Is there any skepticism of Google from within Google? Because from the outside, it seems like the hiring process is designed to accept only the most loyal, desperate Yes
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by strgrd 10y ago
Well, for starters, more than half of that "life" doesn't even have thumbs, so even if that life were sentient beyond eat/fuck/kill, it couldn't pick up rocks or anything. I would say the majority of "life
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by strgrd 10y ago
> (I didn't read the article yet, but) reddit.com is that way --->
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by strgrd 10y ago
But he didn't read the article in full, and made an uninformed opinion that is now at the top of the comment section... Bad comments need to be put on blast. Save your rule book for something more inane.
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by strgrd 10y ago
This comment does a fine job of opining on the incompleteness of a comment that the commenter has clearly not read in full. This is a great example of irony, I think, because your point about not pointing out where in the article the questi
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by strgrd 10y ago
Did you want an opinion piece, or a news article about a phenomenon? Because you got the latter. You got examples presented without narrative or opinion. It's up to the reader to connect the dots. When I was in grade school, this .pdf
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by strgrd 10y ago
This comment does a fine job of opining on the incompleteness of an article that the commenter has clearly not read in full. This is a great example of irony, I think, because your point about the irony of a black man inventing a machine th
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by strgrd 10y ago
I'm still trying to get BoHN off the ground... reddit.com/r/BoHN
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by strgrd 10y ago
It was also a known gateway for terrorists, and terrorist recruiting cells. The relative obscurity of the game and the assumed anonymity made it a breeding ground for black market crimes.
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by strgrd 10y ago
Layout the keyboard here: http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/ Convert to PCB here: http://kalerator.clueboard.co/
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by strgrd 10y ago
Maybe you should state that you skimmed the article before declaring something so assertively. Did you even read the parent comment, or did you see "transfer files, Redstar OS" and jump at the chance to espouse your little NK fact
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by strgrd 10y ago
Wow, the latency looks really bad. You would think that by August 2017 we would be down to sub-frame latency for stylus input. At this point, I would rather use a stylus with a cord if it meant shaving off 10ms. As is, it's just unusab
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by strgrd 10y ago
Laugh out loud
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by strgrd 10y ago
VR version of WordsEye? http://www.wordseye.com/
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by strgrd 10y ago
:)
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by strgrd 10y ago
I wonder if blockchain technology could fix this paradox?
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by strgrd 10y ago
Blockchain
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by strgrd 10y ago
Try a touchscreen Chromebook. After a while you stop using the trackpad for a lot of interactions. It's a lot easier in a lot of cases to point-and-press than to have to move your cursor to the opposite corner.
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by strgrd 10y ago
This is now a thread about lucid dreams and the galantamine/choline stack. Galantamine is marketed as an Alzheimer treatment, and although me and others are weary of pharmaceuticals (side effects? cancer? higher-morality rates in clini
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by strgrd 10y ago
Great to see Google splintering off into single duty compartments instead of spreading itself so thin that nothing gets done with the same amount of focus. Alphabet was a true design decision, and a mature one at that. One thing that crosse
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by strgrd 10y ago
Make money out of oil, what could go wrong? Polymer notes are also better for the environment. This is because they last longer and so we have to print fewer notes, which means less energy is used in manufacturing and cash transportation.
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by strgrd 10y ago
The first question you should ask in evaluating any encryption or privacy-based software is, 'do I trust the provider?' What sane person would ever trust Facebook to keep something private? If anything, the addition of "secre
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by strgrd 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8063192
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by strgrd 10y ago
I couldn't find your email. How should I contact you?
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by strgrd 10y ago
Is there a resource you have been using to learn how to format and submit FOIA requests?
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by strgrd 10y ago
I think the mindset change that needs to happen is this: Operating systems are a service. I would actually prefer to pay developers of operating systems that are truly useful to me a monthly amount so I know they can continue to update and
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by strgrd 10y ago
> people mostly wilfully accept to be tracked by companies Most people accept this because they do not know the extent to which they are being tracked, and because they assume their data isn't being widely shared for purposes beyond
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by strgrd 10y ago
> Each DAO Token Holder is granted voting rights and complete control over The DAO's digtal assets (ETH to begin with) proportional to the amount of DAO tokens they hold. It seems like they're going to raise a bunch of money, a

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