shiven

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by shiven 7y ago
Sure. Agreed. HN needs better discourse. Is there a “Delete Account” feature here? How do I go about deleting my account, including ALL my comments/submissions over the last 10 years. I want to leave absolutely ZERO footprint on HN. As
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by shiven 7y ago
I don’t know which country you live in, but in the United States of America, all this talk of “fairness of law” is a fairytale at best. And no, you can’t convince me otherwise.
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by shiven 7y ago
They need tougher laws & throw these digital attention whores into prison for 2 years. Deny them access to their IG, or all SM, for the entire time. Guaranteed to stop bad behavior.
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by shiven 7y ago
Habeas corpus called & would like to be thawed from deep freeze. The presumption of innocence in American society died a long time ago, with Gitmo, CIA black sites & NSLs. What little was still left, is being killed every day with a
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by shiven 7y ago
In a somewhat similar vein, learning & practicing “deliberate gratitude” saved my sanity. Taking a mindfulness class was what introduced me to the concept, but regular practice of gratitude helped save my mind (and perhaps my life!).
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by shiven 7y ago
This. So much this. FoE is attacked from both sides. Each with their own self-serving justifications.
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by shiven 8y ago
From my point-of-view, two opinion points: 1. I am glad that 737 MAX has been grounded. May it stay that way, globally, until this issue is provably resolved. 2. The entire Boeing chain of management that resulted in these crashes should be
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by shiven 8y ago
It’s thanks to crap like this & the total lack of original innovation on the iPhone platform, that I am seriously considering the Samsung S10, after 8 years of exclusive iPhone use. Post-Jobs Apple is over & done for. They are in “r
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by shiven 8y ago
Going through the images, I shake my head in disbelief. So much of “art” is selling crap to the filthy rich, who have nothing better to do with their time or money. Maybe, I don’t “get” it. To each their own, I guess. There is a business op
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by shiven 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallekhana
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by shiven 8y ago
Once self driving vehicles are the norm, such rules would become default.
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by shiven 8y ago
Prophetic (2013) & very relevant today: https://www.rooshv.com/the-most-insidious-method-of-control-...
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by shiven 8y ago
overpriced Bluetooth speakers What other BT speakers are quantitatively better and cheaper?
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by shiven 8y ago
Vision is an important part of my navigational ability, but I can (very rarely) sense location with eyes closed - eg. with eyes closed on a train/airplane being able to guess where I am on the journey (hard to explain, sorry).
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by shiven 8y ago
I am not sure what to make of this. My spatial sense is immaculate - I can sense direction/orientation extremely well - I have near-perfect recall of "way to destination" - so much so that after having visited any previously
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by shiven 8y ago
Makes sense though. If your herd is being attacked by a pack of wolves, as long as there is someone slower/weaker/dumber than you, they’ll become the target and your likelihood of staying alive goes up. TLDR: don’t be last, second
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by shiven 9y ago
What's your beef with using "a lot of SaaS services, with no on-premises solution"? Why waste money by locking it into on-premises hardware?
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by shiven 9y ago
Have fun trying to get it unfrozen. Why? Is it really that hard getting it unfrozen?
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by shiven 9y ago
Merely sharing a strongly held opinion here. HP is the cancer of modern printing - anyone who crossed paths with their “region locked” printers/cartridges - can attest to that statement.
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by shiven 9y ago
Not touching an HP printer with a barge pole. Fuck you HP.
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by shiven 9y ago
Damn! So, practically, no modern processor (or consumer laptop, or enterprise server) is safe from Spectre? Time to go off the beaten path.
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by shiven 9y ago
I hope they sue the underpants off each officer, their supervisor, the SFPD and the warrant issuing judge - who, in turn, should jail the person(s) providing the wrong IMEI, for perjury and contempt of court.
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by shiven 9y ago
Well, what now? What are these mothers going to do about it?
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by shiven 9y ago
DNA = A blueprint for something that makes me unique , and the only known way to travel through time, into the future — in the most sentient form I know of — as a ”not me, but still me” human.
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by shiven 9y ago
Yeah, well, that’s like, your opinion man. Good thing you don’t get to control who’s genes propagate and who’s don’t. All you can do is prevent your genes from being inherited. And, that is your sole prerogative. Just as spreading my gene
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by shiven 9y ago
Not fear. Just the certainity of death.
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by shiven 9y ago
Not an ideological drive, i.e. not driven primarily by ideology. Driven more by a primitive will for my physicality to survive beyond my physical lifetime.
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by shiven 9y ago
In my opinion, the only opinion that matters to my life, yes, I’m that unique and the world needs my genome. :P
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by shiven 9y ago
Good for you. Me, on the other hand, would like to see my genome multiply and spread on this planet.
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by shiven 9y ago
Actually, it is. It is very much a technical problem. Technology has not yet provided a super-fast, truly decentralized, perfectly uncensorable “Internet for All” solution. If we had that, a lot of this discussion would be moot. Someone in

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