xenobioticants

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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Considering that bringing the resources to Earth would still require landing rights, I'd imagine such a cartel would be easy to break by the world's governments.
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Actually, reading up on this: http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol4/spacelaw.htm... shows that if you mine it, you own the ore but not the site. Although you are right that as long as there's n
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
After reading up on this: http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol4/spacelaw.htm... It seems that the current US position (who will probably be the first to start large scale mining) is that the resourc
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Those things are equivalent, only in the first case you do it retroactively instead of proactively. Hell, if gene modification becomes advanced enough you could even let people with hereditary diseases just reproduce and 'edit' th
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
That automatically means no company can lay claim to stuff in space. When you read that Denmark, Russia, Norway etc. are laying claim to the North Pole (and more importantly, the oil underneath it), it pretty much means they are laying clai
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
> Signal is unusual because it combines cutting edge cryptography with consumer friendliness and is actually successful. You do realize that since last year WhatsApp actually uses the Signal protocol?
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
What I've never understood about this: the Outer Space Treaty says "The treaty also states that the exploration of outer space shall be done to benefit all countries and shall be free for exploration and use by all the States. Th
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Or just keep Javascript on but install JS Blocker 5 and choose what scripts run. It quite amazed me how much sites try to fingerprint your browser, especially with canvas fingerprinting.
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
... that'll probably be as popular as ogg-vorbis. Compression algorithms simply don't benefit that much from outside scrutiny (like encryption does), so without major corporate backing, (open) standards are very unlikely to succee
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
People are angry that they pretty much took the 2015 Macbook Pro 13" base model and popped $300 on the price, and in the process gimped it compared to its more expensive versions.
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Eugenics are not evil and would rid the world of many terrible, terrible hereditary diseases. However, the way to get it out of humanity should be done by the 'soft' way, not with violence.
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
That's only for America (and maybe Australia/NZ? I wouldn't know at least). Most houses in Europe are solid brick on the outside, and solid concrete walls on the inside. Not something you remodel in a day.
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
There's 'sweet, a promotion, I can finally afford that nice car' "greed" and then there's 'lets destroy 6000 people their jobs to make the shareholders happy so I can get a $1.000.000 bonus' greed.
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
If you inserted a CD, iTunes instantly offered to rip it for you, fully automatically. Didn't even need to fiddle with settings, it was literally just pressing 'ok'. I'd say of the technically challenged there was a subs
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
> leverage people's current ipod music investment into the iphone. Yeah, no. Before streaming by and far the most amount of people didn't buy music in iTunes. They either torrented it or (if technically challenged) simply bough
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Didn't work out for Kodak, Blackberry or Microsoft. It's a very bad sign for tech companies.
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Nope. A large part is being at the right place in time (and location), which is pure luck.
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Here you go: # Privacy: don’t send search queries to Apple # Safari defaults write com.apple.Safari UniversalSearchEnabled -bool false defaults write com.apple.Safari SuppressSearchSuggestions -bool true # Spotlight defaults w
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Hasn't worked since Yosemite.
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
I think he meant bad as in this: http://geoff.greer.fm/vim/ . 400 lines of code to wait for keyboard input.. sweet Jesus. Thankfully Neovim exists now. Granted, that's a VIM example, but I can't imagine Emacs
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
> What I'd really like is to be able to tip articles, posts, apps, and websites. For articles, this already exists (at least in The Netherlands). It's called Blendle and lets you 'buy' separate articles instead of ne
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
But you can't compare Macbooks to $500 laptops. You need to compare them to ultrabooks like the XPS 13, where you'll see that the gap isn't so big.
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Aka every Apple presentation ever. Those are filled to the brim with hyperbole ('magical', 'courageous', etc.) yet everyone somehow considers them the golden standard.
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Was just about to say this. Whereas 3D Touch/Force Touch/Taptic (why does Apple have to use 3 names for the same thing...) is used a decent amount on the iPhone and Apple Watch, I've never really used Force Touch beyond quick
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
No idea, but Overgrive feels as fast on Linux as the Google Drive client on OS X does for me. Its also 5x cheaper, although the site is decidedly less professional (which actually comforts me in a strange way because that means its probably
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
> 3.) Dont let cheap idiots bring on carry on baggage and take up 200 ppl's time trying to jam it into an overhead bin People with less money than you = idiots. Nice sentiment to have ????
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
In case people are looking for a Google Drive client that feels pretty well put together, I'd recommend Overgrive: https://www.thefanclub.co.za/overgrive
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Truth, its especially commendable that most of their projects keep soldiering on well past EOL.
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Considering NASA has a budget thats 3-4x that of ESA, I'd be a little less quick to judge if I were you.
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Yes, but most of the mainland countries have multi-party systems. Hell, the parliament of the Netherlands at one point consisted of 16(!) parties.

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