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by zentiggr 6y ago
Exactly. Propaganda and misdirection has been a constant for a few thousand years. The harder lesson is learning to catch yourself and see past it before getting manipulated. The hardest lesson is not knee jerking and giving those who want
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I think you're ignoring an approximately 5,000 year history of humans using propaganda, misinformation, and outright lies to manipulate each other. Nothing new here except perhaps a little broader perception of the level of misinforma
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Well, here you go, Zoom disruptors - they just tied a lead weight around their neck, time to go to and eat their lunch.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Perfect quote, Hiro :)
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Actually, having read the Engadget end of things, I can see exactly what the professor is saying in his blog post. The potential energy capture from any rain-related technique is trivial, negligible is a better word. The article sounds com
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by zentiggr 7y ago
I think I'm leaning toward limited liability enables amoral/unethical behavior. I really would be open to considering extending corporate liability not just to the officers but to shareholders as well. E.g., if a company is found
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Look at VASSAL - it's primarily been used for wargaming but modules can be made with lots of different mechanics, and the more recent abilities to build automated rule behavior get better and better.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
For those with a more wargaming lean, VASSAL is an amazing toolkit. Full Java app, and modules for hundreds of games all the way back to the original version of Tactics from AH. I've personally done a bit of improvements on Fifth Front
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Shareholding is not required to generate wealth, and it does encourage the disconnect between business activity and responsibility for results. Politicians will generally follow what the money wants. Making those with a financial stake in t
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by zentiggr 7y ago
They listened to the tribal leaders, or their god-king, or their feudal lord, or whomever else held the reins in whichever time period. Until corporations came in and turned money and shareholders into the misguided controllers. Maybe the D
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by zentiggr 7y ago
So shareholders are the problem. Let's abolish them and see what else interferes with good ethical choices and fix that and keep going. That's how things get better.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
So shareholders are the problem. Gotcha.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
So if Facebook pulls out of Vietnam, their economy is likely to suffer because of their own internal politics. Sounds like another excellent reason to leave the country and refuse to support the regime until actual democracy is in place. (O
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Either reason is a poor excuse to continue to provide service in any country that uses political pressure to modify content. FB and anyone else requested to remove politically motivated content should leave the country until that practice i
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by zentiggr 7y ago
> It's also a really convenient place to get news, because since all news sources are government approved then there's no fake news to worry about. (and by fake news I mean sensationalist stuff, not anything serious relating to
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by zentiggr 7y ago
> "Normal people" "Normal people's pension programs" Thank you for targeting precisely the guilty parties driving the buybacks and 'dividend pumping'... We have met the enemy and they are us... I swear
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Until homo sapiens evolves past tribal effects, those sorts of things will continue happening. Lamentable but symptomatic.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
The "accept the money and keep quiet" part? Yep, very gray.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Fair enough... Hence also why Google have plenty of Apps users etc even though they have a long track record of dropping even popular products at their whim. Thanks for reminding me that it really is to each their own, and good luck to you
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Apparently I'm an outlier then, I got used to it in under a week, and swear by it. If my wife and I stay up late and get short hours on machine, or nap in the living room instead of upstairs and on machine, I know it the next day. 5
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Does anyone remember the arbitrary actions GitHub has taken in the past few months and all the "maybe it's time to start leaving GitHub if you want to avoid getting your repositories permanently deleted?" Or is HN just as sus
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by zentiggr 7y ago
GeOS would have been much more responsive...
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by zentiggr 7y ago
At least Libre Writer has sane ways to anchor a picture to a paragraph / section / page. I've lost my 100 hours trying to get Word to consistently place images in technical docs, only to wind up fighting some of the most un
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by zentiggr 7y ago
You can still open Control Panel in Win10 and get the prior behavior, almost. I just Start menu search for it and done.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
But they all have timestamps, right? Newest is current, and then you have a time history of prior work.... (How it was explained to me once... that person swore they were worked to the bone to keep everything updated but they were SO ineffi
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by zentiggr 7y ago
The one feature I love about Outlook is that the inbox can be sorted by Received time, ascending. And the list focus defaults to the most recent entry. Every SMS and email client that has 'most recent on top' as the only view driv
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by zentiggr 7y ago
VScode seems like the MVP of IDEs to add support to. I'd go for community IDEA
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by zentiggr 7y ago
I remember hearing the variant that ran "The first 20% of the program takes 80% of the time, the remaining 80% takes the other 80%."
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by zentiggr 7y ago
If there's any likelihood of others being added to an extended email conversation, it should have started in a messaging client where the new people can scroll back through the entire history. Email is either a one-off group mail, or a
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by zentiggr 7y ago
That's called discovery, once the suit is filed alleging it happened.

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