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by tedks 12y ago
Dealing McDonald's food is more addictive (look at all the people it hooks compared to meth) and far more physically damaging.
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by tedks 12y ago
>Could we imagine calling in a drone strike on a black panther activist, because he was in a "part of town sympathetic to his cause" and the number of non-adult-male people in the kill zone constituted "acceptable collater
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by tedks 12y ago
>Was Malcom X a "terrorist"? Almost assuredly yes, though the Black Panther Party would be a better example. >Are the looters in the Ferguson riots "terrorists"? Yes. >Are the countless people who are in prison
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by tedks 12y ago
That approach doesn't scale. Does mildly appreciating a skim of an archery blog post and clicking through a video mean that I need to skim EVERY archery related blog post and video? Where does it end? If someone links an engaging blog
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by tedks 12y ago
Ugh. Why is this on hacker news? I can see the original video being an intellectual curiosity. But commentary and more commentary on top of that? What does this add? I really could not care less about this entire thing. I didn't even w
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by tedks 12y ago
You're quite welcome. It was great to have an opportunity to evangelize a subject quite near and dear to me, namely Windows 3.1. Hopefully my comments motivate you to try it out sometime, or do a "bind use test" between it an
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by tedks 12y ago
That can be your opinion, but computer usage is a subjective experience and I'm entitled to my opinion as well. I find Windows 3.1 to be a superior computing experience; it has a charm and novelty about it that later Windows versions h
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by tedks 12y ago
Windows 3.1 is on DOS, so it is lossless. There's no intermediary between any program and any other program. Everything runs in pure, unadulterated Ring 0, raw, unprocessed 16 bits.
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by tedks 12y ago
On the other other hand, Windows 3.1 has some upsides. Running Windows 3.1 is an experience, plus it's on DOS, and having a Windows 3.1 install on your laptop is cool/makes good art/conversations pieces. Vinyl would be intere
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by tedks 12y ago
This is a very good example of male privilege. What comes to mind as the first thing that would happen as a result of this? Most women are smaller than the men that hit on them, and are constantly told they need to be vigilant against assau
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by tedks 12y ago
>If it's unlikely to have happened here, why was it brought up in the first place? What's the relevance to this thread? I don't care about that. I just thought your assessment of an earlier statement as unfalsifiable was w
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by tedks 12y ago
>Now what? What does that have to do with Barrett Brown? Governments are seen as evil when they are seen as the large bullying the small. This is an example of that pattern.
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> First, an argument that can only be falsified by running an experiment that involves the armed overthrow of the government is not really in the spirit of "falsifiability". I disagree entirely. Ideas are either falsifiable or
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by tedks 12y ago
I didn't read it that way, and I don't see why someone would. In fact, I don't see any critique of your views in this comment. The comment is entirely a rewording and expansion of the original comment. I think you're con
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by tedks 12y ago
Sure it's falsifiable. The falsification test is that when the NSA/DEA/FBI are stormed by the citizenry in the same manner as their moral and spiritual predecessor, the Statsi, if those files contain no mention of doing such
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by tedks 12y ago
It's striking that someone as intelligent as the comment parent could not see this. Saying "the US justice system seems only to protect the status quo because it vigorously enforces email leaks out of shady private spying companie
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by tedks 12y ago
Do you know anyone who votes republican and goes to church every Sunday? Because that's a plurality and sometimes majority of the United States and I'd bet they're substantially different than the people you know.
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by tedks 12y ago
It's pathetic that this is downvoted. Child sex abuse is certainly underreported, but I would have a hard time believing that incidence is over half, whereas about half of parents spank their children. Corporal punishment is known to
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by tedks 12y ago
The Blue Ant/Bigend trilogy is basically the Sprawl trilogy rewritten in the present day.
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by tedks 12y ago
I really wonder what Aeon's ax to grind is with science, rationalism, etc.. It obviously has an ideological slant, but I can't really guess what it would be.
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by tedks 12y ago
That's a different criticism than that their medical advice is unsound.
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by tedks 12y ago
Yes, the "quality" referred to in the book is a spiritual, metaphysical quality that does not exist in reality, but makes for decent reading. I've read the book and I think it was crap. It didn't have a good story and it
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by tedks 12y ago
The certainty is that you will feel nice, deep feelings of enlightenment, but that has very little to do with the content of the book used in your enlightenment-ritual.
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Their core competency is building sensor systems, not delivering medical advice. If you know you're more inflamed, that's useful information in itself.
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by tedks 12y ago
>The only racist person in this thread is you >progressivism is a morally bankrupt enterprise ...
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by tedks 12y ago
That is not a minor tweak, it changes the entire meaning of that statement. It's also factually wrong, because Uber has launched in Detroit, plenty of other apps have launched in Detroit, and Detroit is a cultural nexus. Virtually all
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by tedks 12y ago
It's funny you read 'hate' into my comment. I certainly don't like living in a place where people who are actively trying to perpetuate a society of domination along class, race, and gender divides dictate the culture, b
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by tedks 12y ago
By "hack", you mean "discover the userIDs of users launching the app in your {office/home/coffee shop}." But this does not equate to a deanonymization of ANY past posts necessarily. userIDs are generated on app
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by tedks 12y ago
This assumes that Edward Snowden continues posting in the same geofence as well. Using a GPS spoofer, you can just pick a random geofence each time. Further, you can obtain a new userID just by reinstalling the app, so the information can
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by tedks 12y ago
This is irrelevant in the 1%'s endgame, where everyone but them is living either at subsistence or better yet in debt. Even if you try to go for a long tail by way of say Kickstarter, the people who buy your top-tiers are going to domi

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