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by wybiral 8y ago
Ironically https://outage.report/ is down too. Edit: it's back now (8:37 PM UTC)
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by wybiral 8y ago
Look at how many service providers have increased incidents reported here: https://downdetector.com/ My bet is that people are having problems with FB/Insta and immediately assuming that the whole internet is messed up
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by wybiral 8y ago
It was a joke based on what people often say about FB. I don't use their platforms.
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by wybiral 8y ago
Can you imagine if Twitter and Google went down at the same time? People would be reactivating their Facebook accounts and having to sift through conspiracy theory posts about Hillary Clinton still just to figure out what was going on. Edit
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by wybiral 8y ago
Happy 30th birthday, Internet. Enjoy your consolidated cloud infrastructure.
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You could. But if you don't need that kind of added complexity and scale (and I don't for personal news updates or IoT device alerts) then why jump through those hoops?
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by wybiral 8y ago
Privacy? Keep in mind that not everyone intends to build a user-supporting platform on this tech. I like the concept because it's an easy way for me to push notifications from my homebrew IoT stuff and news streams without it flowing t
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by wybiral 8y ago
Awesome! I've been working on a collection of news source parsers [1] (a combination of RSS and HTML scrapers) that this will work perfect with to replace my native news app. All I have to do is pipe the lines from my parser through a
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by wybiral 8y ago
> It's not illegal to be big I never said that it was.
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by wybiral 8y ago
Laws are fluid and can change back to respond to new situations.
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by wybiral 8y ago
That really depends on how you interpret the nuance of antitrust law. In the past we've taken a harder stance on giants like this and as a matter of precedence we can do it again.
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by wybiral 8y ago
Google/Facebook/Amazon have the power to push any startup competition out of the market in ways that are hard to even enumerate. Think about all of the services, devices, and standards that they control. Watching the fanboys defen
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FEC Data Portal(fec.gov)
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by wybiral 8y ago
Yep, even the act of rooting stem cuttings is often referred to as "cloning".
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by wybiral 8y ago
This article speculates but doesn't provide any actual evidence of anything other than the fact that they probably get compensated for reporting on things that impact the market... Which makes sense considering the nature of their publ
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by wybiral 8y ago
Reporting on changes and causing changes aren't the same thing. That's like saying that climate scientists are responsible for climate change because they're reporting on it.
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by wybiral 8y ago
> Well Bloomberg reporters get bonuses based on how much the their stories move the market. Do you have any evidence of this?
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by wybiral 8y ago
Elderly people are frequently the target of scams. I'm curious what the age statistics for people who clicked on Nigerian Prince scams and viagra spam were like before social media.
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by wybiral 8y ago
With this many companies of questionable security owning the data I think it's safe to say that this data is getting leaked.
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by wybiral 8y ago
Alcohol is really easy to brew and relatively easy to distill. Now, making good alcohol is another story. But for that matter, growing good weed is another story and properly dry-curing it is too (it's not as simple as dehydrating
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by wybiral 8y ago
Having been to a legal marijuana shop and having had several pothead friends growing up I can confirm that marijuana users have all kinds of appreciation for culinary aspects of their drug. That's obviously different with pharma drugs,
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by wybiral 8y ago
Counter point: I can probably brew alcohol for cheaper than I can buy it. But the convenience, availability, and legality makes up for the cost.
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> Most technological breakthroughs are first perceived as toys and hobbies of the rich: personal computers, cellphones, mechanical carriages, Facebook. In this context, sour-grape reactionism is unfortunate but not surprising. But not ev
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by wybiral 8y ago
I love the BeagleBone boards. Some of my favorite SBC's, especially the Octavo OSD335x-based [1] PocketBeagle [2]. For anyone interested in more examples and explanation of PRU programming on BeagleBone boards this repo is really good:
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by wybiral 8y ago
I'm not saying that I agree with it, but this is an agency with leaders who have a say in the wording that their employees use in public documents. It's not censorship, it's just stupid leadership and it's from ephemeral
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by wybiral 8y ago
I don't see what any of this has to do with the original point about censorship. If you don't like the military contractors, protest them and vote for change instead of trying to use it to rationalize China's censorship campa
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by wybiral 8y ago
Get your message out to your peers. Write your representatives. And vote on representatives who plans to change whatever it is that you're indirectly complaining about. Otherwise it sounds like you're talking vaguely about what I
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by wybiral 8y ago
> The president isn't "our leader." Yes, exactly. Because this isn't an authoritarian dictatorship. We have democracy. We vote in representatives. We discuss policies with peers and campaign for people who represent c
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by wybiral 8y ago
I regularly support the idea impeaching our leader in public and participate in a democratic process of electing representatives to enact policies that I want to see change. EDIT: As a matter of fact, we just had a Muslim congress-woman ope
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by wybiral 8y ago
> Angry mobs can execute people too, and did so frequently in the US not so long ago. Yes, that's why we have government and law in an attempt to protect you from things like that. So the fact that some other government or law is in

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