thulecitizen

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by thulecitizen 6y ago
I misread this as: "I recovered a lost email from my client’s memory". It made me think of the Black Mirror episode 'Crocodile', and I was quite amazed. Then I saw 'email' client... haha
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
Thank you for answering my questions, really insightful!
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
Really? I am curious to know what observations or evidence you base your arguments/predictions on? Do you believe they have an (even better than 'post-Snowden leaks') search-engine like PRISM, but for private networks all aro
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
> Where are the activist blog posts about this? I honestly have no idea. I think it's scary! I wrote this comment on this thread and it got flagged/removed: "Remember, you are the product here. Free means they are working
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
> I will be forced to pay back everything I have pirated There's nothing to 'pay back'. Rentier capitalism has us convinced copying is theft, but only because the propertied classes have created artificial scarcity and hig
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
> staying in Spain felt safer to me than returning to the USA Because of better adherence to social distancing rules? Are you a SWE working remotely?
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
Yay! Sugar water!
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
Ha! Nice find!
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
I just re-edited the above comment - does this new edit answer the question you ask? > You for instance (forgive me getting personal) don't have to engage in high volume trading products using Blackrock Aladdin. You can just get a j
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
> If it wasn't useful, people wouldn't be paying for the services it provides, they're all optional. Honestly, in my opinion this could not be a more misinformed take on the reality of banking. Today there exist no alterna
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
“Alkalinity Thanks largely to the work of Dr. Robert O. Young, the public are becoming more widely aware of the benefits of a high alkaline diet. Most junk foods and heavily processed foods are acidic, causing a stress on the body which inc
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
There are many calls for public banking by people such as Ellen Brown [1], as well organizations such as the MetaCurrency Project [2] and Positive Money [3]. [1] https://ellenbrown.com/what-are-public-banks-and-how-do-they..
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
> The banking industry is the arbiter and credit in our society and decides where money get allocated. Thanks for your comment. In my experience this is the most misunderstood aspect about money. Your comment explained it really well. I
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
Slow carbs instead fast carbs. Consume way less sugar. Eat way more veggies. Honestly if you can afford it, just start shopping at farmers markets and buy local seasonal veggies. > Without context, we may not even be talking about the sa
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
> corporate management is the default union Such a great way of saying it. Also the quote from the original comment: > "We agree with the overwhelming majority of our Team Members that a direct relationship" [lengthy justifi
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
Real food is food that has a high nutritional value and is not a processed food.
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
Inverting this: for many years Burger King and other fast food chains poisoned people with non-nutritious food [1][2]. Now they want a pat on the back for making nutritious food for the first time. "“Consuming these preservatives has b
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
It is so incredibly heartwarming to me to see this thread stay as one of the top submissions/threads as long as it has. Thank you HN community.
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
Awesome similar DWeb projects for those interested/inspired: Ceptr/Holochain: http://developer.holochain.org/ DAT protocol: https://datprotocol.github.io/how-dat-works/
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
I think the only way will be by growing an agent centric web, where companies don't have much power over us to begin with.
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
I think they meant an actual home, not the home directory (I could be mistaken).
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
This sounds similar to Holochain [1], which uses a BitTorrent type DHT for validation. [1] http://developer.holochain.org
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
Sure, it's not like they have complex admin tools, customer service systems and lots of other internal systems...
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
Rent. "…today, a tiny minority of people and corporate interests across the world are accumulating vast wealth and power from rental income, not only from housing and land but from a range of other assets, natural and created. ‘Rentier
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
Yes! A sugary drink that has no nutritional value - which is shit for the human body - is a great product! // sarcasm [1] Jesus, the twisted logic of this current system that encourages excluding-enclosures (proprietary 'reci
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
> You could even argue that being "apolitical" actually means that your political opinion is that the status quo is acceptable I agree with this. I see Cultural Hegemony (domination-justification stories) being very strong in u
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
Maybe those who were violently 'other'-ed or marginalized in our dysfunctional technological society? Those who developed a subsequent unconscious (euro-centric) savior-complex? The harmful ubiquity of the lone genius myth doesn&#
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
> there is strong evidence China was able to maintain access to Nortel's internal networks for over a decade (!!) Who is this China you speak of?
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
It will be so fun if we turn real life into the game of Monopoly. Oh wait...
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by thulecitizen 6y ago
Imagine that, tax money going to the propertied and elite rentier class.[1][2][3] [1] https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-08-03/book-day-corru... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign&#x

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