johnmarius
Re:Mass Hacks of Private Email Aren’t Whistleblowing, They Are at Odds...
on Thursday October 20, 2016 @01:10PM (#12754128)
Could you elaborate on the difference between mafia members and politicians?
Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @08:41AM (#12733807)
"(One wonders how they managed to post to Twitter without internet access.)"
I don't think Assange runs the wikileaks twitter account. So probably he messages them every day and when they don't get a message they know something is wrong.
Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @08:35AM (#12733771)
Suppose someone decides whether he wants to join the military or not. Isn't it important for him to know, that either a moron or a psychopath will decide where to deploy him? That he'll be deployed either because a foreign leader said something mean about the president on twitter or because someone bribed the president?
Re:The cypherpunk revolution
on Monday September 19, 2016 @06:48PM (#12535409)
With Bitcoin there is no central agency that can simply confiscate money with a call. The government would have to torture you for the private key. But there is not even a way to see, let alone prove, how much money you own, as long as you made it anonymously.
Re:The cypherpunk revolution
on Monday September 19, 2016 @06:45PM (#12535397)
Using encrypted communications and bitcoin you can make sure that all your physical interactions are with people you can trust. Dark Net Markets are an example.
Re:George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946)
on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @09:41AM (#12297407)
The womb, her body, is her property. It's unfortunate that the child can't survive outside of it, but that doesn't make throwing it out comparable to Orwell's examples.
Re:Mimesis, Violence, and Facebook: Peter Thiel’s French Connection
on Saturday August 13, 2016 @12:55PM (#12282105)
“Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and who turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.”
But how do these others desire in the first place? Have the first desires begun with imitating animals?
Re:WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's mu...
on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @10:56AM (#12262220)
Some people are in fact motivated by money. Lots of things will begin to make sense to you, if you consider them from that perspective.
Re:WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's mu...
on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @10:52AM (#12262185)
Why don't you start your own? Do you have to become a perfectly neutral angel to run any platform?
Re:WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's mu...
on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @10:38AM (#12262078)
That's the things seen and unseen fallacy. Suppose some parts were buried, you wouldn't know of them.
Re:Everyone is quitting
on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @07:52AM (#12260945)
you mean, amazon is better than whatever other places people could work instead?
The Utilitarian Meme
Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline
on Thursday July 28, 2016 @10:45PM (#12184757)
Is happiness unnecessary? Doesn't it matter what people like? I don't mean the masses, I mean people who evolved to navigate meatspace. Shouldn't designs make people happy?
Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arr...
on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @07:59PM (#12133540)
torrentz.eu
Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arr...
on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @07:58PM (#12133536)
It would be a bus-factor problem if any one person ran all these things. But they're all run by different people, none is essential.
Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:35PM (#12081348)
"But I don't think it is a path to meaning."
No, it's not the path to meaning, but it is one.
Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:30PM (#12081317)
And yet you comment on this, and presumably read the article.
Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:24PM (#12081264)
In what sense can something be said to exist if it's "outside our observable universe, or even outside our universe entirely"?
Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:22PM (#12081255)
It's like saying that it's all just pixels, therefore these words you read don't have any meaning.
Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:16PM (#12081219)
Why?
Re:Ask HN: Is there a torrent client that suggests torrents ...
on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @05:32AM (#11992475)
One could publish such a software anonymously. All the data is already publicly available from trackers.
Re:Ask HN: Is there a torrent client that suggests torrents ...
on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @05:19AM (#11992432)
Seeding IP-protected stuff is already illegal everywhere, yet people do it.
Ask HN: Is there a torrent client that suggests torrents ...
... based on the other torrents that people seed who also seed that torrents you leeched?If many people that seed some movie I leech also seed others, or if the same person that seeds a few movies I leech also seeds others, it seems likely that I'd like those movies too.This would basically be "People who liked this also liked ..." but it would work for everything (I'm not aware of any site...