GeorgeOrr

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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
Niether. It will probably improve our lives in many ways, make them worse in many others. Complicate some things and simplify others. In other words like every other technology. Also like every other technology that has come out way in the
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
Every generation goes through the "kids these days" phase, everything new isn't as good as it was "back in my day." Add to this, as the author points out, a neo-ludism around the technology being used and the affec
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
I'm sure those wise people you mentioned would also be wise enough to see through a false choice like that. Good thing for us all that it isn't an either/or. Fortunately some people can work on the good and needed. And some
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
Think of all the great innovations that have come from people who realized that doing hard stuff is hard so don't try.
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Anonymous hack group plans to out anonymous hate group(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by GeorgeOrr 11y ago|0 comments
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
As Warren Buffet said: "In the short term the market is a popularity contest; in the long term it is a weighing machine." So to answer the question posed, if you are trying to make money off guesses about who wins the popularity c
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Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science(medium.com)
2 points by GeorgeOrr 11y ago|1 comments
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
I think the author of this article kind of missed the points being made by Hoffman. For instance, he asks: "But how did the icon come to look like a snake in the first place?" Sort of presupposes that it does look like a "re
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
This same case involved, in addition to Wikimedia, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, PEN American Center (a writers group), Global Fund for Women, The Nation Magazine, The Ruthe
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
The article details the gymnastics required, required only of gay couples, to approximate those rights. And after all the gymnastics, they and only they had to endure, they ended up with approximation of what heterosexuals were able to acco
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
Not that long ago people tried to argue that marriage equality wasn't needed to protect basic rights of individuals involved. They just needed to use contracts/adoption/etc. This is a great article to remind us how bogus tha
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
Very Interesting response to this from Tim O'reilly: https://medium.com/@timoreilly/getting-over-taxis-79849b3a42...
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
I can only be a sample size of one, but I've lived in countries where tipping is the norm and in countries where it's non-existent. My own experience is that service is more average when tipping isn't an issue. That is it&#x
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
I may have misread. But what I took from it was the assertion that because of how hyperlinks work, the act of following them to sites we have no relationship creates the needs for ads. I took that as a moral case, but you are right, he nev
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
Your business model is not my moral obligation.
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
I have to wonder how much this was influenced by Snowden's revelations about the extent to which the NSA was vacuuming up data. It must have been on the EU courts mind.
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
Wouldn't it be funny if they nudge it off its current course, onto a collision course with us? No, actually not that funny.
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
One thing I can't find, given this goes back to EU rules would pulling out of France be enough? I hope so, because if it's EU wide or could be EU wide I have no idea what they would do.
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
This sort of thing has to be remembered next time you hear that prosecutors need broadly worded statutes to have the tools to go after the bad guys. When people bring up criticisms of laws as over-broad, I often hear that prosecutorial disc
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
I'm not sure how that relates to the point being made. The insecurity comes from someone already having physical control of your machine, and if you had alowed saving of your master password (which Lastpass and anyone sane encourages a
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Movie Studios Pull Injunction Demand in MovieTube Lawsuit(hollywoodreporter.com)
1 points by GeorgeOrr 11y ago|0 comments
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Content Volatility of Scientific Topics in Wikipedia: A Cautionary Tale(journals.plos.org)
11 points by GeorgeOrr 11y ago|0 comments
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Wuala, the Secure P2P Cloud Storage Service, to Shut Down(techcrunch.com)
5 points by GeorgeOrr 11y ago|0 comments
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Report: Windows 10's Mandatory Updates Are Breaking Data Caps(escapistmagazine.com)
4 points by GeorgeOrr 11y ago|0 comments
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Police Training Is Seriously Lacking in Actual Science(wired.com)
2 points by GeorgeOrr 11y ago|0 comments
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
FWIW, !image will use googles image search. I have a similar reaction to maps, and for that !maps does the trick.
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
Not that I want to give them ideas, but couldn't people put a bunch of fake information on those forms. Isn't that sort of like setting up an official place to do swatting?
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
The short answer is not all the results. There are many sources. Here's a link with more details. https://duck.co/help/results/sources
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
Am I the only one who actualy finds DuckDuckGo's search results overall better? The main reason, I believe, is that Google's personalized search seems to get in the way. Add to that the ! commands in DDG, and the fact that they ar
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by GeorgeOrr 11y ago
Isn't it becoming apparent that the sensational nature of the original article is turning out to be one long click bait?

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