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by ebcode 5y ago
> You cannot pretend a celebrity pontificating into a camera that is broadcasting to 100's of millions of people is the same thing as someone's personal weblog that no one ever reads. I'd say it's getting harder and h
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by ebcode 5y ago
"The problem here isn’t our privacy laws, but that the government is failing cybersecurity 101." -- Ron Wyden
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by ebcode 6y ago
Until it is.
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The Cat Is Out of the Bag: Orientalism, Anti-Blackness [pdf](sophia.stkate.edu)
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by ebcode 6y ago
All rights are imaginary.
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Speaking Truth to Power(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ebcode 6y ago
I think that can be adequately explained by this entry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-mover_advantage .
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by ebcode 6y ago
> Now if we could have platforms that didn’t reward shallow engagements maybe we could get somewhere. ... and that is precisely why I find HN (despite its flaws) to be one of the most interesting places for discourse. The aggressive mode
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Cornel West: “Speaking Truth to Power” (2018)(youtube.com)
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by ebcode 6y ago
So... web browsers? I think it's important to distinguish between applications and protocols. Successful applications based on decentralized networks seem to be a mix of both application code and protocol. So in discussing email, we ar
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by ebcode 6y ago
-- researching this a bit now, the one thing I've found is the Intel Larrabee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture) , cancelled and transmogrified into the xeon phi. still haven't found a
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by ebcode 6y ago
> In other words, whenever you hear about a CPU with a "massive amount of cores" -- think "could make a great GPU", or "could make a great GPU with the right adjustments" -- from this point forward! Before d
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by ebcode 6y ago
thanks for that
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by ebcode 6y ago
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
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by ebcode 6y ago
Nice post. It's a brilliant example of lateral (outside-the-box) thinking. It sounds plausible, reasonable, even. But the real issue is this: "... we lack the will ...". I have similar thoughts like this, that people in power
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by ebcode 6y ago
>>Now, nine or more years out of date in computer technology, I am still using laptops with mostly USB 2.0 ports and internal SATA SSD's. I'm also using old laptops (T500s) so that I can replace Intel's firmware with li
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by ebcode 6y ago
It’s possible that the Supreme Court will decide this in the negative. https://www.zdnet.com/article/supreme-court-takes-on-google-...
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by ebcode 6y ago
Yet non-Americans do seem to enjoy being prosecuted for breaking USA laws. Looks like the USA has unilaterally decided that it is now the One World Government we've all been dying for. We should also prosecute China for breaking our fe
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by ebcode 6y ago
evolution
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Policing Is Irrelevant for Public Safety(zcomm.org)
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by ebcode 6y ago
I would recommend Madness and Civilization from the same author, in a similar vein. Similar to prisons, society needs hospitals to house the sick, so that the "sane" ones have somewhere they can point to and say, "Those are t
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by ebcode 6y ago
The success he's referring to could be the success of Elon's vision, rather than Elon himself.
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by ebcode 6y ago
I would suggest that the mere fact of this article being on the front page of HN implies that "we" are not ignoring these warnings. I think it's easy to feel like you feel, and I do (sometimes), but right now I'm trying
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by ebcode 6y ago
sharing this because I thought it was very interesting that firefighters in CA affected the legislation to prevent cell towers from being installed on fire department facilities. >> (3) The small cell is not located on a fire departme
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Firefighters Fighting Fires and Now Cell Towers (2019)(mdsafetech.org)
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What Sneckdowns Say About Safe Street Design (2017)(citylab.com)
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by ebcode 6y ago
try posting during 9am-7pm Pacific time
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by ebcode 6y ago
For me it's been seeing the clear skies.
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by ebcode 6y ago
The singular of data is "datum", for those out there wondering.
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by ebcode 6y ago
>> The lack of drainage caused unpleasant living conditions, and standing water harbored pathogens that caused numerous epidemics including typhoid fever and dysentery, which blighted Chicago six years in a row, culminating in the 185

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