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by failbuffer 3y ago
If you want to sell this idea you at least need to have a name for it.
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by failbuffer 3y ago
^^^ This. A declining population is good for humanity in terms of reducing climate change (among other environmental impacts), addressing resource scarcity, preventing war/disease/famine, and encouraging states to invest more in t
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by failbuffer 3y ago
They're not trying to kill Linux per se, it'll just be collateral damage. Only specially blessed builds of browser and OS will be allowed access to sites that use the new api. It defeats the point of the API if the user can contro
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by failbuffer 3y ago
Presumably the end game is for Google and a few other corporations to control what web browsers you can use to access most of the web. Mozilla may or may not play asking (they did on EME). Linux won't work except maybe for Ubuntu and R
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by failbuffer 3y ago
Eberhard and Tarpenning had the idea to make an EV sports car (rather than the traditional "green" branding that EV's tried to go for), so I think they deserve credit for the "sexy" approach. Musk deserves credit fo
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by failbuffer 3y ago
That rings a bell... I think the civilian craft was a helicopter, but my google-fu ain't finding the incident.
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by failbuffer 3y ago
That's not enough: you should also read the critics and opponents of what you think is true. That is, if you're truly trying to figure out reality and not just seeking psychological security. Remember, the test of a true intellect
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by failbuffer 3y ago
This would require a device to compare the on-board time with an external reference clock of some sort, right?
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by failbuffer 3y ago
While acknowledging its sins, America should ultimately be judged by its triumphs.
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by failbuffer 3y ago
It's not cool they are seemingly terminating a service I've already paid for. I say seemingly because their FAQ pressures you to opt-in to their new mail service as soon as possible and is vague on whether or not GandiMail will re
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by failbuffer 3y ago
Source? Seems like an Elon Musk- or Fusion research proposal-type timeframe
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by failbuffer 3y ago
For the most part yes, but for market arbitrage, the milliseconds saved by communicating thru the planet might be worth figuring out how to oscillate an extremely large weight very rapidly.
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by failbuffer 3y ago
If an art student was able to gain those abilities, would you then argue they couldn't legally create art?
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by failbuffer 3y ago
You're discounting the deterrent effect. Defrauding investors has a huge negative impact on society, to say nothing of bogus blood test results, deceiving regulators, and ruthlessly threatening legal actions against whistleblowers and
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by failbuffer 3y ago
It was a fantastic gamble IMO. Low chance of success, but enormous payoff if it had succeeded. Imagine a commercially viable alternative to iPhone and Android with multiple manufacturers and a completely open platform. Ultimately, I think t
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by failbuffer 3y ago
The government has been pushing for more power since... forever? Since the civil war at least. National security letters. Secret FISA court. Extraordinary rendention. Data taps on all major social media platforms, all telecos, and who knows
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by failbuffer 4y ago
"complexity merchants" - I love this term. It aptly describes beneficiaries of earlier IT fads. Remember UML? Remember WS-*? One could come up with a long list of technologies that were a bonanza for billing consultant hours but n
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by failbuffer 4y ago
Except for the part where Amazon (software) agents break into your home and steal your books.
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by failbuffer 4y ago
Yep, it's a perennial. Naieve entrepreneurs and investors love the romance of these vessles, but they will never carry enough payload fast enough to compete with the vast array of existing options. All they're good for is suckerin
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by failbuffer 4y ago
Also Billy Mitchell of Fyre Festival... wire fraud instead of bilking his concert attendees.
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by failbuffer 4y ago
Fair, but my point was that it /should/ be. That the justice system is content to chew thru thousand of man hours (police, lawyers, prosecution, court officials, etc) instead of just laughing is indicative of the administrative bl
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by failbuffer 4y ago
De minimis non curat lex - the law does not deal in trifles. Unless a multi-millionaire pharmaceutical businessman wants to make life difficult for someone, apparently. It's silly to see the law chewing up so much time and talent for a
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by failbuffer 7y ago
Not per se, no. But there are many overbearing/controlling parents out there. It's easy to imagine scenarios where parental access to GDPR data could be a bad thing (and yet other scenarios where it could be a good thing).
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by failbuffer 8y ago
Yeah, caught this on Fox News tonight, and the hypocrisy of their breathless hand-wringing about the "threat to democracy" really burned me up. Not because they're right wing, but because they coordinate a top-down propaganda
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by failbuffer 11y ago
Wilson reminds me somewhat of right-to-die advocate Dr. Kevorkian, in that the passion of his advocacy eventually led him to cross some bright red lines. Kevorkian assisted several chronically-ill patients with their suicides, and juries re