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by sverige 7y ago
> You're not losing anything with this approach. True, but you are adding something. And if you add things you don't really need, it becomes plain old cruft. Like the others above, I understand the urge to make some things simp
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Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, and FCC Bullying(wsj.com)
204 points by sverige 7y ago|417 comments
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another
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Hollywood investors are some of the most risk-averse types ever. If it pays x% return fairly predictably, they're going to keep making the same things over and over until it doesn't. For example, I also saw today that yet another
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by sverige 7y ago
> Where specifically did you see this argument? In this WSJ article, this is the reasoning given: >> They hoped it would save energy, help lure environmentally conscious buyers, and, maybe eventually, cost less. The attempt to save
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by sverige 7y ago
> I told him I am pretty sure they can't because the regime is not communist but instead totalitarian. Honest question: which communist government isn't / wasn't totalitarian?
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by sverige 7y ago
Twitter permanently banned Alex Jones a couple of days after the above article was published. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/06/twitter-permanently-bans-ale...
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Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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I lived in Colorado Springs in the 90s when Seymour Cray had his new company there. It always baffled me how negative the press coverage of his company and the Cray-4 was. I was rooting for him to make a practical gallium arsenide chip. I t
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I've come to the conclusion that the point of the whole 'smart home' and 5G in every neighborhood is really just to improve surveillance of a greater percentage of the population for a bigger portion of the day by whomever. I
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That's the ancestry.com business model as well.
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> Facebook first started allowing Messenger users to have their audio transcribed in 2015. “We’re always working on ways to make Messenger more useful,” David Marcus, the executive in charge of the service at the time, said in a Facebook
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by sverige 7y ago
>And let's not kid ourselves, there were many better ways for Google to prioritize and encourage speedy websites. That's not the goal, though. Better tracking of your social graph is the goal of AMP. It's like alt.test to
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by sverige 7y ago
Even if there were such laws, they would be very difficult to enforce. Monsanto certainly isn't the only company that does this. I'm sure that fake book reviews are very common. Worse, there are entire subjects that have been pu
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by sverige 7y ago
The first time I got high was when a camp counselor shared a joint with my friend and me. There were no photos, and no parents ever knew. Everything was just fine that way, too. Who knows what my parents and siblings were up to while I w
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by sverige 7y ago
That's it. I forgot they were sexually explicit. Apparently those in TFA are not.
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Why would a retainer be something we should put tax dollars toward? Why not pay them when they are needed, instead of paying them for who they are? Reminds me of Nixon trying to get rid of the Tea Tasting Board. https://www.nytim
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by sverige 7y ago
There are quite a few making a living from live-streaming in the Anglosphere as well. I'm amazed that men send money. (OK, maybe amazed is the wrong word.) I remember reading a while back about some controversy that some of the female
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by sverige 7y ago
How much does it cost to keep everyone who wants to from gathering your personal data from that $100 phone, though?
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And some color processes are basically impossible to do these days. RIP Kodachrome.
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by sverige 7y ago
>Tangent, though this is technically a rainforest, it bares little resembles to what the word is usually associated with. Odd, because I recall a plaque at Lake Quinault of some sort claiming that the term "rain forest" was coi
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by sverige 7y ago
You just reminded me of an old intention I've had for years to find and rewatch "Spetters." I remember liking it a lot when I saw it in the 80s, but I remember almost nothing about it now, which is rare for me. Edit: Also, &q
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by sverige 7y ago
Here's a tunnel built by El Chapo's people instead. Hope it helps scratch that itch. https://viceland-assets-cdn.vice.com/viceblog/64645854tunnel...
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In my experience, the difficulty is spending the time and energy to set these things up for family who might not be as willing to stray from the path of least resistance.
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Never-Googlers: Web users take the ultimate step to guard their data(thehour.com)
107 points by sverige 7y ago|110 comments
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Wait, is the claim that intelligence alone determines who is in control? I've certainly seen lots of examples where people were controlled by others, even though they were orders of magnitude more intelligent than those who had power.
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AGI would dwarf those 7 billion people because it would concentrate tremendous power into the hands of a very few. It's the dream of being one of the few who gets to control and direct that concentrated power that fuels these dreams, w
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OpenBSD is based in Canada. It ships with cryptography. It does not accept contributions to its cryptography code from Americans, specifically because of the ridiculous cryptography export ban the U.S. had in place in the 90s. https:/
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Probably Contact X is Theo, and Contact Y is Bob Beck. Or vice versa. There's no reason to think otherwise, unless of course we're going to revisit conspiracy theories like the bullshit claims about NSA backdoors from 2010. But Op
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by sverige 7y ago
So, nothing about the 2010 claims, but something maybe, not sure what, back in 2002? Only two remote holes in a heck of a long time!

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