downer70

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by downer70 8y ago
It used to be possible. I had college professors that did it for decades from the 60's until the mid-90's, when computers started killing off previously imaginable ways of life.
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by downer70 11y ago
Acting, or according to your context merely "betting" against an adversary is fine, but this assumes the capacity to act against an adversary, and that the actions taken will be big enough to have an effect. You can't realist
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by downer70 11y ago
One could also refrigerate contained gases.
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by downer70 11y ago
Not all people carry the same degree of influence over a market. Not all people act according to or within the rules of a market. Not all human behavior can be scoped to a form of market activity. What would the bald destruction of a market
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by downer70 11y ago
The point being that it assuredly is trivial, but also potentially a gaping hole left open across a wide array of software. In these sorts of situations, as with the Y2K bug, the problem is more often the product of social circumstances tha
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by downer70 11y ago
Or maybe human behavior and personality consistently resists the enforcment of technical rules, and watches for, and then willfully denies attempts to restrain behavior it (subsets of the collective population) instinctively desires to enga
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by downer70 11y ago
Or more likely, the flowery language is just so much feel-good journalism, paired with the whimsy of a film editing audio technician enthralled by his own doings.
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by downer70 11y ago
Bah! Cargo cult is a much more nuanced concept. That primitive peoples would blindly imitate in pantomime, the behaviors of an industrialized society, disembodied from the original roots of said behaviors is a deeply shocking outcome. There
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by downer70 11y ago
Fair enough, maybe the development team for this particular component is much larger than I'm imagining. Maybe I'm being naive about the head count at work behind the scenes on a project like this. It's not really good news e
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by downer70 11y ago
It honestly doesn't matter which company is pioneering these technologies. I simply no longer look forward to the future that awaits. "Scores": { "Anger": 0.0, "Contempt": 0.0, &quo
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by downer70 11y ago
Pffft! Yeah right! Like you've ever met a developer who would risk the extreme likelihood of platform incompatibilities across a disparate menagerie of hardware platforms and mobile devices, instead of simply base64ing some images and