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   by zachrose 13y ago

   "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -- Clay Shirky http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2010/04/the_shirky_pr...
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   Why Backbone-Relational Sucks?(to-string.com)

   1 points by zachrose 13y ago|1 comments
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   by zachrose 13y ago

   IIRC, half of the year's drowning deaths in Finland I occur during the solstice, which is happening this very instant.
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   by zachrose 13y ago

   We're talking about anonymity, not secrecy.
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   by zachrose 13y ago

   Use separate hardware on public wifi. Take the battery out when you're done.
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   by zachrose 13y ago

   Here's a place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny National security most likely qualifies as "compelling state interest" in general, but it's not the only thing the government ne
7. 757.▲
   by zachrose 13y ago

   As discussed in a previous HN thread, the courts might still see this as a notice that a warrant has been served, despite it being "said through not saying." Has rsync.net had the opportunity to see these arguments play out?
8. 758.▲
   by zachrose 13y ago

   Yeah the value of a BTC could increase, but it could also stay the same or even decrease, somehow. I'm not sure on the economic theory of this, but the people who pay are basically saying, in X months I will value this device more than
9. 759.▲
   by zachrose 13y ago

   Or it could be an API for issuing FISA warrants and collecting the requested data. (The NSA may very well be doing both.)
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    by zachrose 13y ago

    Or rms, perhaps?
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    by zachrose 13y ago

    I find the framing of Snowden's actions as "unilateral" to be suspect. He's a whistleblower at the NSA, not a union organizer at a trucking company. What else would he do, see if any of his colleagues want to join him fi
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    by zachrose 13y ago

    Entertaining the idea that QR codes should be deformable onto curvilinear surfaces, couldn't this be done by the QR reader, so that it's more "readable" to a person that it is a QR code?
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    by zachrose 13y ago

    I imagine F.T. Marinetti dressed in business casual, standing at a whiteboard and talking with his team.
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    by zachrose 13y ago

    Reminds me of this piece by John Pavlus: "The assumption driving these kinds of design speculations is that if you embed the interface–the control surface for a technology–into our own bodily envelope, that interface will ‘disappear’: the t
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    by zachrose 13y ago

    What if enterprise IT built software like an F1 racing team?
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    by zachrose 13y ago

    Please just proxy a remote ssh session on a locked down terminal to my web browser!
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    AMD is not the Answer(tomdale.net)

    1 points by zachrose 13y ago|0 comments
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    by zachrose 13y ago

    "Our assessment of where [a functional ICBM] exists in [the lifetime of North Korean development program] is something that would remain classified," [The Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] said. What strategic advantage do we have
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    by zachrose 13y ago

    Sorry, all. I've taken the "submit" function of HN to get to the discussion about a URL. Surely this has been on HN before?
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    Components (2012)(tjholowaychuk.com)

    1 points by zachrose 13y ago|1 comments
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    by zachrose 14y ago

    So publishing content is anonymous, but ultimately SFT is responsible for hosting? Will they, for example, stop hosting your content if the MPAA/RIAA make copyright claims?
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    by zachrose 14y ago

    The Tumblr "dashboard" (feed) is pretty good. Also, collections and news on Are.na.
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    by zachrose 14y ago

    Nothing close to, say, J.D. Salinger though.
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    by zachrose 14y ago

    But WheresGeorge tracks $1 bills, which probably turn over in a business's cash register and get returned to random people as change more often than they go back to the bank.
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    by zachrose 14y ago

    Ok, this is only tangentially related, but does anyone know why it's "background-repeat: no-repeat" instead of "none"? Or why it's "text-wrap: none" but "white-space: nowrap" or "white-space: pre-wrap"?
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    by zachrose 14y ago

    Depends on the human! (One end of the spectrum is a DSL customized to the concepts and patterns of domain experts.)
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    by zachrose 14y ago

    I use CoffeeScript as an alternative syntax, on a similar level of the tooling stack as auto-completion in a text editor.
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    Gestural Abstractions: Alexander Provan on Touch Screens(artforum.com)

    1 points by zachrose 14y ago|0 comments
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    by zachrose 14y ago

    > "It is a tool that does suck up dust to make what you walk on in a home tidy." This is essentially the idea behind Natural Semantic Metalanguage[1], Andrzej Bogusławski's theory of cross-cultural semantics from the 70s. [1] http://e
30. 780.▲
    by zachrose 14y ago

    I was interested in what the author had to say about the experience of "dying," so I got what I paid for.