Fatboyrunning

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by Fatboyrunning 3y ago
Let's say you're charged. They seize your phone and pull photographs, text messages, messenger logs, maps data, etc. The messages are inculpatory. What do you want to say? That the extraction method is unreliable, that the Police
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by Fatboyrunning 3y ago
The absence of real applications incorporating this stuff is damning. Where are the killer apps?
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by Fatboyrunning 3y ago
After visiting Venice a week ago I say do whatever it takes! Save the city! It's a floating wonderland, even though its a bit stinky.
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by Fatboyrunning 3y ago
People already have unhealthy parasocial relationships with influencers. It seems clear that people (lonely/depressed people especially) will overdose on this sort of thing once it is developed, commercialised, and less bleeding edge.
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by Fatboyrunning 3y ago
Had HN been around when personal computing dropped, I imagine that we could have made some attempt at a steel man argument justifying such a purpose. Even if that argument was 'hobbyists', there was something to be said. With Quan
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by Fatboyrunning 3y ago
Well done. There is something like this in 'A Fire Upon the Deep' by Vernor Vinge; his intergalactic societies translate their alien languages - and incompatible methods of expression - using an application similar to this one. Ve
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by Fatboyrunning 3y ago
What a great idea! Are you inclined to make a guide? If so, my old-school wife and myself would be grateful. Otherwise, I will enjoy the fun of figuring it out for myself some day.
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by Fatboyrunning 3y ago
Is anyone working on an RPG in light of this? Please?
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by Fatboyrunning 3y ago
Sorry but I am not going to pay for this before trying it out on my content. Surely there can be a test function within the website which allows me to see what a user would experience?
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by Fatboyrunning 4y ago
Where can I buy one?
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by Fatboyrunning 5y ago
The sale of drugs to non-addicts just doesn't scale. Startups selling psychedelics want repeat customers. Terence McKenna said he would take magic mushrooms less than once per year. I don't know what John Hopkins advises, but I wo
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by Fatboyrunning 5y ago
Cool article! If you haven't come across Doug Engelbart yet, I highly recommend it. He invented the mouse (yes, that mouse), and was a staunch believer in chorded keyboards. I'll admit, though, I don't really get it.
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by Fatboyrunning 5y ago
Hi, could you please recommend a product you have found worked well?
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by Fatboyrunning 5y ago
If you have an Audible subscription, you may have noticed the same behaviour there. Large numbers of books labelled as 'free with your membership', which likely only cost Amazon the price of delivering the files. Which makes sense
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by Fatboyrunning 5y ago
Maybe it's like SHA256. You change a single pixel in an image, for example, and you get a completely different result.
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by Fatboyrunning 5y ago
Amazon's support likely comes because they've identified an opportunity to profit from distribution. Just another chapter of hypocrisy in the history of drug dealing. Great news though.
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by Fatboyrunning 6y ago
Can I build apps for this?
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NZ Courts to determine extradition of Kim Dotcom, Mega Upload founder, next week(twitter.com)
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by Fatboyrunning 6y ago
I would use this, today, if it were in Auckland. Chicken and egg problem - what I'm saying is hold on :)