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by hackercomplex 11y ago
> so why aren't we seeing more of the "new" prepper culture cropping up on the other side of the pond? Maybe it's because there's not as much individual land ownership in Europe because there isn't as much l
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
In America firearms aren't considered 'paranoid subjects' because hunting (and fishing) has always been a part of this traditional "wholesome" American culture of which I spoke.. right along with smoking meat, canni
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I wonder though, do we really have a "prepper culture", or is that phrase merely a rebranding, of traditional (pre WWII) American farm/household values ? For example when I talk to my 80 year old grandmother about what it was
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I'll just leave this here.. http://www.freightfarms.com/ it's an example of how the startup ecosystem is attempting to disrupt some of the areas of concern that fuel the 'survival culture'. here's a
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
or in order to protect your household from robbers and thieves. I suspect however that Jefferson would have extended his support for the right to cover ones stagecoach and personal property when traveling down the right of way..
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
Tom Cross is a really interesting professional. he's _decius_ on twitter. I found his presentations at Blackhat and Defcon security conferences to be eye opening aswell.
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
> The ‘individual mandate’ of citizens having the right to firearms, when they’re not part of a state-level Militia, seems to be a recent phenomenon "No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own land or tenements]&qu
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I'll just leave this here.. Electronic Frontiers Forum Presented at Dragon Con 2015 The Second Amendment: A Refreshing Perspective Tom Cross https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0-g-cjxmM
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
This kind of thinking reminds me of Twitter in the early days where one founder was trying to pigeonhole it into being for a particular use case. Twitter began it's life as an SMS play also if my memory serves me correctly. Really it&
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I have a feature request: I loved the idea at first glance but then I was appalled to discover that there's nowhere to register a callback URL for any of these events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webhook To me
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I enjoyed your rant. I think that some of it resonates with what Chomsky has written about the "disciplinarian culture".
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
"chew some valerian root and get more exercise" - Fight Club
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
this is like.. average latency of 600ms.. sounds great when you tell your CEO but it still doesn't really tell the true story about how a huge portion of your customers are waiting 1.2s for their goddamn page to load. Max doesn't
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
Why not learn to use Erlang instead of trying to make Erlang "feel kind of like Ruby" ? As far as LFE goes.. implementing a LISP-1 on top of erlang seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do, but why invent some new funky synta
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I'm much more excited about LFE personally. ( http://lfe.io/ )
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
If you were running rails inside of Torquebox you could make use of the Infinispan Data Grid ( http://infinispan.org/ ) to cache your views. It's underlying linear scalability mechanism is far more mature than Redis Clu
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I would have rather seen Celluloid::IO being used personally but even that has it's quirks.
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
Yes, this is what happens. Also it seems to me that many women have have the habit of interpreting a larger than realistic percentage of interactions as 'flirtatious'. In other words some of the interactions that were deemed as
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I think there's something to the acid/base thing and I think it's connected to inflammation. I recommend a vegan diet. Juice celery, and everything else.. drink it soon after juicing don't put in tha fridge. Juice about
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
imho the best one ever made is called getguru.com. It's brilliant actually but the team there has priced themselves out of the market charging $7/head as a b2b app because they're from and enterprise sales background and the
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I don't get it. Why is this so complicated when we have nginx and consul-template ?
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
> Surely an infinite universe that contained infinite horror would also contain infinite bliss, ecstasy, and love on scales only previously imagined by the Brahmin. I think it scales, but it's not always obvious how to deploy into p
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
oh yea I almost forgot about pop culture. There's the Bond connection to boot. Hell sometimes I theorize that maybe somehow almost the entire artifice of western pop culture was conjured up by Dee and associates in some kind of.. well
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I'm curious, what causes you to be interested in John Dee's work as opposed to say the output of any modern 'spirit channeler' or 'UFO contactee' ? Is Dee's work academically interesting to you simply bec
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
Dee conjuring spirits on Hackernews ? hella creepy bro.