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by woodman 12y ago
In the 70s maybe, but in the late 90s? No, it has been a potential hobby project for a long time now.
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by woodman 12y ago
How could you possibly arrive at that conclusion?
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by woodman 12y ago
Development? The technique has been well known for a long time, I remember hearing about it in the late 90s. It isn't widely used because it isn't practical. Also, your countermeasure doesn't work if there is another refle
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by woodman 12y ago
cbd1984 specifically mentions tax, so yeah - it is tax code. In absence of tax the cost would naturally be higher, and that is the price you pay for living in a remote location - but that is a real economic cost of moving the resources. T
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by woodman 12y ago
Tax code artificially makes for "terrible geographic selections". You aren't very far from "Well of course you got raped, look at what you're wearing" logic.
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by woodman 12y ago
lol, imagine what you just described in a state machine. The hypothetical program is billed as an anti-terrorism measure, with a stealth payload to reduce irrational fear of terrorism. Those without the irrational fear will resist program
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by woodman 12y ago
No, I've set no constraints on private efforts. Things of low cost quickly become very expensive (in both time and money) when multiplied by the size of the population, or the number of cities, or whatever other base you're imagi
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by woodman 12y ago
No doubt this sense of entitlement to the service of others is due to some sort of social contract the site operators implicitly agreed to by breathing oxygen, right?
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by woodman 12y ago
The comment section of the page is predictably full of hand wringing over how this can turn anybody into a sniper. While it is an interesting setup (I'd love to know more about the image processing on board), this device would really
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by woodman 12y ago
> ...government is one kind of collective effort. Why duplicate effort? It isn't as if competition in the effort would improve state service, as it is impossible to compete against the state - it really doesn't like it. > .
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by woodman 12y ago
It is. Offshore telemarketing - no more fake localized names and accents, just hire a person who understands spoken english and install the MidwestFemale 3.68 module.
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by woodman 12y ago
It isn't really complicated as all that, it helps to define terms. Problem: Reduce terrorism to zero while maximizing individual freedom. So we'd have to define "terrorism" and "freedom". That is going to be
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by woodman 12y ago
That statement is wrong regardless of how you feel about the state, which is an impressive achievement. If you are of the "consent of the governed" mindset, then the government is the "collective effort". If you recogn
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by woodman 12y ago
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by woodman 12y ago
Thankfully I am a programmer and not a social worker, because that perspective seems totally unacceptable to me. It feels like the Windows 98 solution - instead of figuring out the cause of infrequent bluescreens, just reboot, save often a
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by woodman 12y ago
Sounds like the plan is just more bolt-ons. Unless we are converging on a universally preferable society, this is a struggle that will go on forever as society evolves. I do agree that institutions can't be destroyed, as they're
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by woodman 12y ago
The solution to institutional injustice being what? I really feel for the folks trying to address the problem, but I've yet to see a solution based on a solid root cause analysis. I completely agree with your point on the "enlig
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by woodman 12y ago
It sounds to me like your ideal situation could be implemented with the tools we already have at hand - it is just an issue of default settings and how the package maintainers set compilation and installation options. Unless you really wan
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by woodman 12y ago
Nope, circular logic. Who enforces the transparency? The state? edit: re: edit: The point is that the call for transparency as a solution presupposes the whole "consent of the governed" idea, which is laughable. Consider accide
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by woodman 12y ago
"Give us a king to judge us" :) It is an old problem [0] [0] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%208&...
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by woodman 12y ago
> Smart glasses with no way to get visual input from the environment would be a much less useful product. The only real use for Glass was a HUD + low quality camera, considering the positioning of the actual display. You don't need
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by woodman 12y ago
lol, ok lets break this down Barney style: Converting sunlight to electricity is a solved problem. The "energy crisis" remains unsolved. Jailing processes is a solved problem. Preventing users from shooting themselves in the foo
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by woodman 12y ago
Damn it. Well at least I can still trust in Plato's theory of forms.
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by woodman 12y ago
So what, your definition of a solved problem is one that never occurs again due to uniform implementation of countermeasures? That isn't realistic. That is like saying that plane geometry isn't a solved problem because people ar
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by woodman 12y ago
> Why are we still running bash scripts? Because admins gotta admin. Also, adding python to a software suite just to work on the file system... gross.
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by woodman 12y ago
You are describing a problem that has been solved several times over. Blame steam, the distro devs, or the user for not implementing one of the many long existing solutions: chroot [0]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by woodman 12y ago
> This is bizarre. I agree, people thinking other thoughts and drawing different conclusions can be unsettling. The article also touches on the idea of efficiency, which you will see is the point of my top post - before you somehow linke
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by woodman 12y ago
You understand the context of this discussion involves: WMDs, state military and private military. So we are already talking about murder - and the scales aren't even comparable. How is a murder at the hands of the state less wrong t
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by woodman 12y ago
lol, wait - how is this anything like that? This might be the most hamfisted attempt at whiteknighting I've ever seen.
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by woodman 12y ago
If you're looking for an efficient security apparatus, you'll have a hard time topping an assassination market. [0] You combine that with intelligent software agents and crypto currency to create a policy of mutual assured destru

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