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by unimpressive 15y ago
That point makes more sense. Yes, I think that in the future privacy laws that try to differentiate between the "Digital world" and "Reality" will find the lines too blurry to draw. Were already there and were not even close to the mountain
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by unimpressive 15y ago
COPPA basically made it illegal for people under 13 to be on the Internet. (Not that they weren't anyway, but it's the precedent and expectation that counts.) Making this situation worse doesn't strike me as a particularly good idea. The
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by unimpressive 15y ago
The economics of "Spite piracy" don't make sense. If you don't make a purchase the company gets no value. However, if you pirate content the big media conglomerates get the utility value of saying that there wares are a valuable contributio
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by unimpressive 15y ago
While I can't speak for the author of that comment (And for what it's worth...) it's a well known fact that Steve Jobs had Wozniak do his job at Atari for him on multiple occasions. (Including the famous breakout incident. LINK: https://
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by unimpressive 15y ago
I at one point worked on the OLPC project fixing the laptops. Lets hope that their tablets do better. However, I doubt they will. The justification being that in my view the tablet is what the PDA tried to be fully realized. Well suited for
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by unimpressive 15y ago
What I want to see (Or make) is a system that's extensible enough to be made compatible with current package managers simply through extension modules. (Something like VLC levels of customization.) But that has a native package format so th
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by unimpressive 15y ago
Even better. All the stupid stuff you did on the Internet that you've forgotten that you did. There are no doubt numerous examples that could come to haunt me in later years. Stuff I don't even remember. Part of the problem with putting y
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by unimpressive 15y ago
I've been a lurker for a while. I understand this. When I first made the comment all the other comments were on this "MG is a hypocrite" meme, which I wanted to steer the discussion from to a broader point of "Well you know, theres a lot mo
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by unimpressive 15y ago
I was actually referring to more than just MG here. I see this on publications as prestigious as the New York Times. In an age where everyone has a voice, the roar of the crowd hurts when it's yelling at you .
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by unimpressive 15y ago
True. However, the years between childhood and adolescent are blurry. This is the reason you have the term "Jailbait" in the first place. Some people are "late bloomers" and look like children well into their teens. Others end up looking li
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by unimpressive 15y ago
I love it when blog authors have comments and then turn them off for pieces where they got slammed for bullshitting.
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by unimpressive 15y ago
If you read to the end of the article it tells you (Implies) that making Yet Another X is a bad idea, and that you should really go work on an already established project. EDIT: Or rather, skimmed to the end of the article. (Like I did beca
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by unimpressive 15y ago
The thing is, I'm not sure I really believe that companies want to have public dialogues about social issues. After all, the longer the dialogue persists the longer it sticks in the public consciousness that you "did a bad deed". One of t
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by unimpressive 15y ago
Ignoring the legality of it for a minute. The title "Jailbait" implies sexualization (My spell checker insists this is not a word, but it's meaning should be obvious to infer.) of the images within. Even if the images were all "legal" by th
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by unimpressive 15y ago
Something Awful has a reputation for Internet war campaigns. (They ARE the source of 4chan IIRC.) Anything coming from SA is expected to be so bad that it's not an uncommon occurrence for sites to change (stupid) policy simply on the hype g
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by unimpressive 15y ago
This is probably the fundamental reason that I don't just turn off my RSS reader and uninstall my web browser. Those distractions are the fuel for the fire that keeps your finger on the pulse of doing awesome things. The issue for me is jus
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by unimpressive 15y ago
I already know that I spend too much time on things like Hacker News. (Which is why I take ironic and self deprecating usernames like unimpressive.) Reading, while helpful, isn't helpful past a certain point. The problem is that reading fee
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by unimpressive 15y ago
I assume your talking about the Chinese Room? (LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room ) I actually agree, but for different reasons. I don't think human judges (That is, NORMAL human judges, non-geeks.) are a good measure of an en
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by unimpressive 15y ago
The version brought to the test had more computing power for the one conversation, and other tune-ups IIRC. EDIT: http://cleverbot.com/human "Cleverbot was given more processing power for this test than it can be online. It had two dedica
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by unimpressive 15y ago
Theres far more interesting implications for humanity riding on this bet than twenty thousand dollars going to charity.
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by unimpressive 15y ago
"Psychiatrists still have no idea how to distinguish a person with mild Asperger's from a person who is simply introverted." Classic rule of logical argument: Two things which are equal to one thing are equal to each other. Or rather: If "I