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by weland 13y ago
> Business people do it for the dollars. > But real entrepreneurs push the human race forward. And Mindvalley is doing that by selling, ugh, stuff like Chakra7? http://www.chakrahealing.com/products/academy ? I g
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by weland 13y ago
This painfully reminds me of George Carlin, who referred to the original artisans of his country -- in jest -- as "a bunch of white slaveowners who wanted to be free".
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by weland 13y ago
> You've simplified this way too much, as if each voter only has one issue that they care about. Political strategists are experts at game theory. They build political platforms based on how to get the most people off their couches
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by weland 13y ago
The NSA did not spring out of the ground, either, and the Cold War has arguably been over since 1991 or so. Indirect democracy makes it very easy to eschew responsibility in terms of "I had a choice between candidate X and candidate Y;
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by weland 13y ago
> A government that no longer represents the people, but corporations and those that benefit by it, will threaten those that question its legitimacy as that is only obvious. A government elected with a reasonable majority arguably repres
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by weland 13y ago
Many, many years ago, when words printed on dead trees were not only for hipsters, I used to work for a computer magazine (the printed kind). Our editor-in-chief was this old-school guy in his fifties, with quite a few years of journalistic
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by weland 13y ago
> I like to think of startups as research projects. You start with a hypothesis, which is usually "there is sufficient market for <idea>". Then you do the experiments to prove the hypothesis, which is the actual startup.
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by weland 13y ago
On the other hand, that comes with high charging current. This isn't an issue for pocket batteries, but for really large ones, it's not as pretty.
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by weland 13y ago
This is very interesting. It makes me wonder how it could be countered. If I understood the points of the article correctly (but, to my shame, I haven't read it very thoroughly -- I'm posting this more under the excitement of the
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by weland 13y ago
> i.e. most people don't consider the police an armed gang Give it another few years of militarizing the police force. Government-funded vigilantes with an uniform and a pack of laws to protect them from the consequences of their ow
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by weland 13y ago
While you are blindly jumping into the claws of the tiger because your man-of-action guts tell you it's a lotus, I'll stick around to grab your wallet while he devours you. Signed, The Theory Guy P.S. Spending three seconds to thi
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by weland 13y ago
> It has become a bit of a pet peeve of mine recently to see self-aggrandizing comments from users around the net about how "we should have known" and "none of this is new." I agree that "know" is a bit too
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by weland 13y ago
Unfortunately, he isn't. The world is that fucked up.
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by weland 13y ago
> Now adapt from one android-based OS to another, e.g. from the Galaxy S "Nature OS" to HTC Sense. No, no. Play fair: adapt from Samsung Galaxy 580 to the Asus Transformer Pad TF300TL, ensuring that your interface actually look
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by weland 13y ago
Being part of the "OS and Systems" community, I think I'd know :-). There are a lot of debates about whether X or Y should be a function of the operating system, but that doesn't justify OP's position. Applications
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by weland 13y ago
> How? Android is an open cross platform technology for building operating systems that are app-compatible with each other. How is that fragmenting? Situation: there are two operating systems, A and B. Someone who wants to target all the
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by weland 13y ago
> Anyone complaining about Android fragmentation should ask themselves if they would prefer if every device would go the "Apple way" and make their very own operating systems for their device. Would this really solve fragmentat
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by weland 13y ago
Engineering common sense is a good way to be certain.
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by weland 13y ago
> My question is: Why should a company make it easy for people to do exactly what it doesn't want them to do? The problem isn't when a company makes it hard for people to do exactly what it doesn't want them to do. Apple p
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by weland 13y ago
I think what OP meant was that Britan has the highest rate of violent crimes in the EU. This was all over the news a few years ago, and it's still fairly high, but it's important to note that the UK is very lax in what it consider
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by weland 13y ago
Shush, don't divulge their secret!
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by weland 13y ago
On the other hand, it could provide some degree of plausabile deniability, wouldn't it? "Sure, I talked to X several times. I also talked to Y, Z and <a gazillion of other people who look important, but aren't>. But I
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by weland 13y ago
This is hardly the ultimate go library collection, seeing how it hardly touches anything besides web-related stuff.
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by weland 13y ago
> now email providers are sending us spam Mine isn't. Get used to it: if you aren't paying for the service, you're not their client and they are not your provider. You're their product. It's not pretty, but sadly
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by weland 13y ago
This has been my experience as well. That's why I mentioned malformed meritocracy: when you lead a technical project based on non-technical values, projects have a higher chance of failing precisely on the technical side. Which, despit
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by weland 13y ago
I don't fundamentally disagree with the author's conclusion (I think it is correct, but only for some organizations, and for different reasons), but it seems to me like he doesn't actually grasp the act of programming. First
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by weland 13y ago
This has to be the awesomest reply ever: > MS. PSAKI: Well, Matt, I think we broadly believe in free speech, as you know. Broadly believing in free speech tends to be a trait of regimes that are, well, broadly speaking, democratic...
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by weland 13y ago
> If we want most mail to be encrypted we need 70% of people to use encryption. This means it has to be REALLY EASY TO SET UP AND USE. Given most users' utter ignorance about any technical matter (a consequence of the intellectual l
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by weland 13y ago
> I keep hearing this FUD, but I have no idea where it's coming from. I've never had any problems with the Android documentation. Let's take just one example from literally hundreds that are scattered all over the API refe
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by weland 13y ago
Objective-C is really nice. I don't like Apple, but their development tools are actually fairly good, and the whole API in iOS is, if not necessarily a beautiful piece of engineering (which is subjective), at least thoroughly-documente

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