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by sukilot 6y ago
EU has their unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. US has their unelected oligarchs in Seattle Palo Alto, and New York.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Instead of donating to existing public health (and education) organizations, OS programmer Gates created his own so that his personal biases wouldn't be challenged.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Gates has been at the forefront of antiviral research since 1991 when Linux was published under the "viral" GPL :-)
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by sukilot 6y ago
Zuckerberg and Musk and Trump are billionaires and no one wants to hear their ramblings. Gates has run a huge public health organization for over a decade.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Right, that's no one, statistically speaking. In particular, the people calling for Fauci's family to be harmed are not in the group you mentioned.
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by sukilot 6y ago
It's not corporate in the sense of a successful business. It's a self-funded personal project with nothing to hold it accountable for competency. This is one of the major criticism of Gates in the NGO world.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Why do we want to hear from Fauci instead of Trump? Why get information thirdhand from the money guy?
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by sukilot 6y ago
That's totalitarian not utilitarian.
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by sukilot 6y ago
#2 how?
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by sukilot 6y ago
Then why did he mention encryption? > (I wouldn't see a problem with it personally The POTUS said CNN is fake news, hundreds of times. So, as you say, people should be prevented from sharing and reading it?! There's no problem
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by sukilot 6y ago
Bill Gates was the one who linked encryption to Covid, not HN.
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by sukilot 6y ago
There's a difference between fashionable junk and fashionable quality. The difference is what Jobs and Ive call "design". Spending extra on design isn't the eco disaster that spending on throwaway fashion is.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Which parts of a Mac laptop to people buy by the part? I congratulate you for your thriftiness and ecological contribution, but surely this is an extremely niche practice.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Alternatively, this was Trump's 9/11 -- the threat the President+Cabinet knew was coming and intentionally unprotected the nation from, in order to manufacture an excuse to retaliate against a tangentially connected enemy.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Misinterprering by responding to half a sentence is rude. >> and prepared for one happening eventually
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by sukilot 6y ago
> Women have an expectation to express themselves and their personality This is not where I expected to see the "personality" euphemism today.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Has the Submarine resurfaced after 15 years? http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by sukilot 6y ago
It's more the western freedomers the imperialists.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Extensions are additions not changes except in minor but fix cases. C++ has a dozen different styles and they are all implicit not even labeled with a flag.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Quite the glass house of stone-throwing there. Haskell has braces, parens, and brackets for grouping, plus just about everything on the keyboard can be used to define an operator, with a 9-level hierarchy of operator associativity.
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by sukilot 6y ago
It's not free. They are soliciting proposals for paid contracts.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Seems normal. It just says that if they work with you then both you and they have the right to use what you give them. What's the problem? And why are you calling it an incubator? It looks like a Call For Proposals for business proposi
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by sukilot 6y ago
It's an obvious enhancement to a home monitoring product users paid money for, specifically for this purpose. https://www.blog.google/products/google-nest/5-things-know-a... Google added smoke alarm sound det
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by sukilot 6y ago
Do you want to bet your life on whether someone found that feature idea exciting enough for a promotion project at work? Even if the feature works perfectly, were still talking about (hypothetically, as this isn't a real feature yet) a
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by sukilot 6y ago
Enjoy your privilege of not being interesting or important enough to be the target of criminal activity or government opppression. Millions of people aren't so lucky, and they deserve empathy as they work to build a better world for yo
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by sukilot 6y ago
Depends where the spending went. It's fraud to agree to buy something and not pay. But who is selling anything for Eth? > Acknowledging this as "theft" kind of undermines their agenda to kill off alternative currency. Whos
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by sukilot 6y ago
It surprised me that USDS, an org specifically created to disrupt government IT, only had one "maverick".
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by sukilot 6y ago
Not necessarily. She was a talented, young, attractive, single person who was in the adventure phase of her career, hopping from job to job around the world with no expenses of note, working in government with older staid stable people.
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by sukilot 6y ago
It's like when you call the police over a noise complaint and don't expect them to roll up guns blazing.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Unless the President is willing to commute your sentence or pardon you, the FBI can still take you down.

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