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by nmrm 12y ago
Reading the article, I think some of it is more of a "why?" than a "why not?", since the articles are factually correct but are mostly just lists of facts and not really something you couldn't find in any number of
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by nmrm 12y ago
Ah, I misinterpreted your comment. Sorry. > It's relevant to working for a private, for-profit business in the sense that the alternative is often doing an internship for a private company. I still think there's a pretty signif
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by nmrm 12y ago
To the extent that you think objectivism is inconsistent with choosing not to use a product or convincing others not to use a product, I think you've missed the point. In particular, not using Google because you think your privacy is m
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by nmrm 12y ago
To reiterate, how could enlightened ( individual ) self-interest of consumers ever possibly be construed as an assault on liberty (or whatever-the-hell)? edit: Pretty sure not eating McDonald's every day is not an affront to capitalism
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by nmrm 12y ago
The point is that ALTHOUGH Google's recent acquisitions might be problematic from a privacy perspective, painting them as something more sinister is a cheap rhetorical device which, at best, provides an easy straw-man for genuine conce
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by nmrm 12y ago
What the hell are you talking about? The article is about power, not money. Also, there's no suggested course of action. In fact, a legitimate course of action could be "stop using Google's services so that if shit hits the f
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by nmrm 12y ago
No, I didn't edit that post. Also, gress: I don't necessarily disagree with you. But there is a distinction.
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by nmrm 12y ago
I wish you would read what I'm writing instead of what you want me to (not) be writing. >The article never stated that Page was building a private army. You did. Oh come on. It's the entire damn point of the article. Without th
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by nmrm 12y ago
1. Society has lots of problems. Probably mass incarceration is a much larger problem than over-armed local police departments. That doesn't mean we shouldn't address the problem of over-armed local police departments. It also doe
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by nmrm 12y ago
Maybe gradual would've been a more appropriate word. The point is it happened piecemeal over 15 or so years, rather than all at once.
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by nmrm 12y ago
> The author just lays out the facts, then concludes by stating that he is not saying that Page will abuse his power, but simply that he could. Right, and I think emphasizing nutty conspiracy theories distracts from the more important sy
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by nmrm 12y ago
Eh. This article emphasizes the wrong things. Larry Page isn't some super villain building robot armies to take over the world. Any significant harm he/Google might do to the world will likely be via the unintended consequences of
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by nmrm 12y ago
If you're just worried about bugged hardware, why develop a new architecture? Can't you use your own clean room implementation of an existing architecture?
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by nmrm 12y ago
> - Because credit card companies charge 2-4%. And therefore raise the prices for everyone. The author is the CEO of a payment processing company, so distracting from this is pretty much the exclusive reason the article even exists.
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by nmrm 12y ago
> Doesn't sound good. It's overblown hype. Kids should understand multiple algorithms for addition/subtraction/multiplication/division for the same reason that we teach CS undergrads multiple sorting algorithms.
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by nmrm 12y ago
> No longer can teachers be reasonable by allowing you to solve a problem your own way, as long as you show your work and get the right answer. Suppose after a week of lectures on sorting, you ask your students to implement a sorting alg
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by nmrm 12y ago
> is 100% built and owned by private companies. You left off the part where de facto government granted monopolies helped build the capital base and in many cases directly funded infrastructure investments.
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by nmrm 12y ago
> Okay, even if, why does this matter? Lots of suburbanization was motivated by white flight. Anyways, this tangent is so completely unrelated to my original point that we might as well be quibbling over wording.
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by nmrm 12y ago
> If the will of "the people" is to exterminate a minority, and the military carries out that intent, that's not anti-democratic. Well then, I don't care much for your notion of "democracy", and don't p
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by nmrm 12y ago
I think a lot of the research around AOP was doing all this stuff, but with static checking . Which gets less trivial pretty quickly, and the distinctions become necessary. But I agree in spirit.
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by nmrm 12y ago
> seriously, why? Well, you are at KFC. Half the people are putting off the torture for as long as possible, and the other half... well, they're about to willingly eat KFC :-)
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by nmrm 12y ago
The whole time I was reading this all I could think was "man, this reads like a bad advertisement." Then I noticed the disclaimer (horribly placed; I skipped over it the first time because it looked like a caption text for the ban
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by nmrm 12y ago
> Not in the case of Levittown. Okay, even if, why does this matter? Lots of suburbanization was motivated by white flight. > I have no doubt that this benefited whites more than blacks. But it was not rooted in whites trying to get a
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by nmrm 12y ago
Levittown itself arguably embodied the best and worst of the postwar American story; it was a result of the entrepreneurship and ingenuity that has come to define the American spirit, but it also participated in the violent prejudice that
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by nmrm 12y ago
I'll get right on that :-) More seriously, I like lunch meetings. I'd rather get out of work and back to the family an hour earlier than spend it idling with co-workers. And often times, there's really not a good place to mee
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by nmrm 12y ago
I can't even begin to express how ass-backwards this comment is. Genocide of natives and internment not only constitute existential threats to democracy; by the time either of these happens, democracy is already long dead (excluding
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by nmrm 12y ago
The first one isn't so unbelievable is the restaurant is a quasi tourist attraction. The second one seems a bit high, but could be plausible if there are choke points.
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by nmrm 12y ago
Many restaurants, in addition to the dinner crowd, also service a more business-oriented clientele during the day. Wifi might be more necessary for working lunches, which laptops/tablets instead of phones are necessary.
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by nmrm 12y ago
The fact that there are no conclusions about what the restaurant might to do fix the problem is a bit of a let down. At the end of the day, social pressure to put down your damn phone is probably the best solution. But if the restaurant i
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by nmrm 12y ago
> Call me old school but I find lightweight markup to be a hack job. The best way to think of it is that markdown is a replacement for .txt. It's not a typesetting language, it's just a conventional way to structure text docum

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