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by xevb3k 8y ago
And should they ensure that encryption always has backdoors to enable this too?
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by xevb3k 8y ago
It’s worth reading the article, it’s actually not bad! The key quote is probably: “This is precisely the area that the researchers, from Imperial College in the UK, targeted with their gene drive system. Males that carry one or two copies o
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I thought 20,000 seemed way to low, given the human population of Barcelona is 1.6 million. 200,000 still seems low. I wonder what fraction of the rat population lives outside the sewers.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I didn’t say it wasn’t. I noted the reasons why it might appear dystopian, and why other activities that could improve safety may also appear less than desirable.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Anything? For me, there are things that might improve outcomes, but would be unacceptable. For example, drugs that help with information retention. Mandatory memory enhancing brain implants. Drugs that adjust motivation/focus. Wires at
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Could someone spell this out for me, I don’t really understand how speech is chilled here.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
What is the purpose of this comment? Most people, at any income level, would not find value in this book. The fraction of people who find value in the book maybe correlated with income. There are a large number of people who might benefit f
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by xevb3k 8y ago
You repeatedly call me “dude” and “bro”. You assume many people can afford a $40 book. To me you pretty much typify what’s wrong with modern tech culture, a total lack of empathy or understanding that there is a world outside of that which
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Your definition of “many” is <5% of people, got it.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
“If you wouldn't have bought it anyways, why is it worth your time stealing and reading it?” This is literally the same thing as getting a book from a library. The exact same argument applies. Throwing Latin around doesn’t progress a d
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Over 80% of the world population lives on less than $10/day. The percentage of the world population who can afford this book is very small. Maybe 10%, 5%? Other than repeating this obviously wrong statement, would you like to provide s
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Libraries, the same arguments apply to libraries. Which by your logic are not morally justified.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
The arguments you make could equally well be applied to libraries. Libraries “steal” money from authors by making books more freely available, in largely the same way that piracy does. They also make books available to people who otherwise
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Of course there is. But that’s neither what you said, nor the topic being discussed. What you said is more than a select few could afford a $40 book. The topic being discussed is, the morality of charging so much/piracy. Good work plug
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by xevb3k 8y ago
When I grew up, we never ate at a restaurant... just would have been an extravagant expense. My parents probably earned <15000USD combined. This book would have been far too expensive to consider. This is in the western world... imagine
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I’m pretty fed up of seeing the “noodle bib” image recycled constantly. It’s actually just a shower cap/hat to stop soap getting in kids eyes that’s quite common in Japan. Somebody just put it on their face... I guess as a joke in this
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I feel like there’s so much to say about this comment, that I don’t even know where to start. So firstly I agree, $40 seems like a lot. I personally couldn’t justify it at the moment. Particularly when the reproduction cost is nearly zero.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
For Angels but what about seed funding? YCombinator/Other incubators?
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by xevb3k 8y ago
My instinct tells me that this is a much better outcome for founders and many employees than “unicorns”. It’s possibly not as good an outcome for investors, and they might actually view this as a bad exit. Am I wrong? Would most investors b
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by xevb3k 8y ago
If you had near continuous location information for a license plate it would be relatively simple to use it to narrow it down to a small group of people. I’d imagine it would be relatively easy to figure out where someone works and/or
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Interestingly (because the parent is about Schneier). IIRC Schneier argues against this. The argument is that even if everybody has access to all information, only a small group is able to exploit that access effectively. So, you still end
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I don’t know, but if you figure it out let me know! I think you’re burnt out for sure. Ideally, you need some downtime to recover. The problem, I’d guess, is that it’s financially not feasible for you to get any. I just want to say you’re d
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by xevb3k 8y ago
We should be able to trust our elected officials to do the right thing. And if we can’t, we need to fix our democratic systems so we can. It’s not sustainable for a population to continually apply political pressure on each and every issue.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I’ve not seen an idea suggested that solves all the issues Skype does in one package, and doesn’t add other baggage. To be fair, Skype also appears to be trying to add a lot of baggage too.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
People have given up believing that these laws are created for their benefit... I think this breakdown in trust is partly to blame for the current state of the US (and UK) political systems. Fixing the issues you list, are part of regaining
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Page opens to geoip set language with no obvious way to change it... so I gave up.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
So far, it’s clear from the replies there isn’t really an alternative with a similar feature set. I guess this is why Skype persists (anyone what to start up an alternative? :)).
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by xevb3k 8y ago
What’s a good alternative, that has native apps for Mac/Windows/iOS/Android, and isn’t attached to a social network? (Ideally with the ability of callout, buy a phone number etc)
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by xevb3k 8y ago
The rental price quoted above (500USD/month) is probably near the average price I’ve paid to buy a car... I hope subscription is kind of less than this otherwise it seems like pretty bad news for the average consumer.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Oh my, that’s wonderful. Yes when I was younger I would have absolutely refused (it is ridiculous). Now I’m old and cynical and think everything is insane anyway I’d sing it with all my heart... most places are insane, but few are this ente

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