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Re:Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower on Friday January 03, 2014 @10:18PM (#7009830)
Also to be clear I mean the NY times. Nothing wrong with a multi faceted opinion but it's not cool that they don't even point out the evolution of their beliefs. I mean isn't that the point of having an awarded newspaper?

P.s. I think I need a book on remedial grammar

Re:Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower on Thursday January 02, 2014 @08:13AM (#6999416)
Well the krauts had consistency going for them at least

The weak rule the weak the strong conquer the strange

Re:Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower on Thursday January 02, 2014 @07:39AM (#6999329)
Jesus I would rather deal with the Reich than these face fucked flip flops

Also fuck Greenwald and Snowden; their actions show they have no problem crowning themselves as new Robespierres

Re:Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer on Saturday December 21, 2013 @01:21AM (#6945974)
I think Dr. Evil was at the bargaining table
I bet he knew more acronyms than anyone
What if the real money is in B2B and this is simply going to push the expenditure into a special trade communication zone? Are American companies going to be banned from certain expenditures? Is is it possible that people would create a proxy corporation to leverage the service in different areas?

I'm probably acting like an idiot. But I mean I think this just is creating a recipe for crazy lawyers to try some shit on someones dime.

Doesn't this just motivate startups to incorporate somewhere where software patents aren't enforced, like New Zealand?

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/01/business/10-best-places-to-sta...

I mean at the end of the day this lack of timely reform is fundamentally making people look for asymmetric ways to entirely avoid problems. Is that the way society should be driven? I think that is an unstable driver of future events --- a society that cannot reform itself in a timely manner, that cannot properly forecast events and repercussions, is a society that is forgetting it's responsibility for balancing itself.

I really do not like this behavior; it is abhorrent of a society that can be a seer. I mean there is the usual belief that we are all equal and deserve equality --- but that cannot happen as long as we inherit citizenship, wealth and networks. It is a nice belief but simply cannot be rendered in any sort of predictable manner.

This creates a situation. Their are private discussions on the ongoing nature of patents --- but I feel that more than anything people are forgetting that as the point of a corporation is it's superhuman predictable nature, that the further antagonization of new corporations will balance itself not with a mutated form of socialism but with an asymmetric alliance of corporations - one which favors unpredictability and an increased rate of change.

Wealth and the rate of innovation are separate --- and that fiction will reveal itself at a much faster rate if proper steps are not taken in a timely manner.

Re:An Opinion Piece On A Controversial Topic on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:08PM (#6779216)
Explicit self referential media is an interesting memetic spreading tactic.

I used to watch family guy confused as fuck as a kid. What the fuck is up with all these references? If I wanted to be in on the jokes I had to consume more of the same TV media.

Same goes for most pop/rap... in credit referential to others within the same medium. But of course not all music relies on explicit memetic references.

So the question is, why the tactic? I don't know. All I know is that it made me feel ignorant to not consume more mundane TV to feel superior in my ability to get meaningless footnoYes.

Re:Clochure — A Better Clojure on Saturday November 02, 2013 @09:28PM (#6661726)
I completely agree... I think it's ridiculous that it hasn't been switched in an implementation
Re:An interview with Bill Gates on Saturday November 02, 2013 @06:55AM (#6658821)
I take back most of my shit. I guess that's what happens when you are a neckbeard that can't even code.
Re:An interview with Bill Gates on Saturday November 02, 2013 @05:18AM (#6658629)
The country could potentially have their own corporations that produce a tax basis for hospitals. Those hospitals could have a much lower cost of setup.

You want me to pretend that his short time frame narrative matters? I'd be happy to die today I knew it was part of a meaningful step for others to get beyond the limits they were born into. Sadly socialist demagoguery tend to be run by worse fucks.

Re:An interview with Bill Gates on Saturday November 02, 2013 @05:11AM (#6658615)
The country these people are living in should have hospitals. They should be able to affordably produce antibiotics, malaria nets and everything else.

Antibiotics and most other medical products are unnecesarilly burdened by patents and become prohibitevely expensive unless some rich patron grants them something they could buy at a much cheaper price.

Patents can be a tax on those who are unlucky. I think certain things deserve patents. But the company he represents taxes any linux device as a microsoft device.

I agree people should be healthy. But you know what? Maybe they should be able to make their own fucking choices in their own fucking hospital on their own fucking dime.

He is a cunt for being afraid of competition and supporting autonomy. That is a sign of the weak and those who are unable to deal with truly dynamic problems that come from actual competition.

In all honesty I understand his position. But for him to vocalize it as though he doesn't see the poor billions as potential competitors? Too fucking bad. He can have his own beliefs but fuck spreading a narrative.

Re:An interview with Bill Gates on Saturday November 02, 2013 @04:35AM (#6658563)
Why, so they can't create companies to support their countr's GDP to become independent of your pity aid?

What a monopolistic cunt. Make microsoft quit taxing android phones for a windows license before you act like you have a high ground beyond your 22 hidden patents.

What a rich shitmark.

Re:Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps? on Thursday October 31, 2013 @12:41PM (#6647855)
should've called it lazarus
Re:Why Isn’t Programming Futuristic? on Thursday October 24, 2013 @02:37AM (#6603708)
caaddr! cdaddr! cddadr!

those are the first lines from the macbeth witches if my memory serves correctly.

Re:Typed Clojure by Example on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @04:20PM (#6594664)
does typed clojure support dependent types? I would assume like cl it's powerful enough to.
Re:The way government does tech is outdated and risky on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @04:18PM (#6594646)
maybe watson should handle procurment
Re:Learn Haskell Fast and Hard on Monday October 21, 2013 @06:56AM (#6584618)
a monad is like a taco salad.
Re:Facebook Is Losing Teens on Sunday October 20, 2013 @12:18AM (#6578919)
I take issue with that statement, I think this is very representative of HN.
Re:D-Wave Computer's Solution Raises More Questions on Saturday October 19, 2013 @05:48AM (#6575905)
do people not understand that this is just fake it til you make it? it doesn't matter if it's an emulator if they are paying the right people and working on it. do you think reddit just hoped it would get better at posting as bots? that's ridiculous.
Re:Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round on Thursday October 17, 2013 @09:39PM (#6569280)
Yeah but you don't want people knowing you don't have the monads to handle their http requests.
Re:Sleep Flushes Toxins from the Brain on Thursday October 17, 2013 @09:38PM (#6569275)
I always wondered about how split-brain theory would work into this...

I mean there are stories of people with half their brain removed who are fully functional (I think? I can't find a source atm).

I wonder what would happen if half your brain could be on/off and switch?

Also you'd think that any mutation optimizing for time awake would have decimated the other creatures? I don't get how evolution has conquered everything but sleep.

Re:Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @05:23AM (#6558733)
If you are looking for the future of http server stuff look no further than: http://mew.org/~kazu/proj/mighttpd/en/
Re:Codex Seraphinianus: A new edition of the strangest book on Saturday October 12, 2013 @11:43AM (#6539072)
It's weird... a lot of the stuff around this talks about Borges' story but it's a total misinterpretation. He was talking about memetics and the need for us to bring our fictions into reality through drastic means that blend it with our history.

This is different. Also, can anyone tell if J.P. Harding posted his/her translation anywhere? http://www.codexseraphinianus.org/

Re:Why Microsoft Word must die on Saturday October 12, 2013 @05:19AM (#6538008)
How much ram do you have? Not an excuse for their programmers though.
Re:Jewish Nobel Laureates on Saturday October 12, 2013 @12:55AM (#6537375)
my b
Re:Jewish Nobel Laureates on Friday October 11, 2013 @11:47PM (#6537170)
Interestingly all Abrahamic religions begin with a warning about the tree of knowledge...

I still can't believe what a fucked up parable that is.

Re:A Confederacy of Quacks: The War Against Antidepressants on Friday October 11, 2013 @02:39AM (#6531731)
Here is an interesting source that contradicts the tone of this article:

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=185157

Re:What I've been up to for the past year on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @03:05AM (#6519806)
If you are smart you will sell a $5 a month atccount for unlimited streaming/downloading. And distribute the funds to the artists based on viewership.

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