mikewilliams

Recycling will never be profitable, but we can't just keep burying trash and forgetting about it, or maybe we can, I don't know.

I noticed a number of billionaires have made their wealth by automating and banking the difference, the money which otherwise would have gone to the jobs which disappeared. For example J.D.Rockefeller made redundant a number of jobs related to transporting oil and shifted transporting jobs to a lesser amount of jobs related to maintaining his pipelines. Most arguments against automation taking jobs state that new jobs will be created, but is it really creating, if you replace previous jobs with a presumably smaller number.

Findface can't identify you, who are you, why are you walking past my house? I have never seen you before, I'm going to call the police, you're acting strange.

A system where a delegate would have a number of votes they represent, and in which people could choose to cast their own vote, instead of letting their chosen delegate do it?

This would have a few problems, mainly the secrecy of votes, delegates having unequal voting power and people who didn't vote in the elections.

/* fixed nullreferenceexception based on black box crash report */

I was writing a deployment script and had written './setub.sh' instead of './setup.sh'. Of course when testing it on the command line I wrote the latter. It took 3 hours of debugging, for me to finally see the error.

> 911 what's your emergency?

There are some visitors from space in my back yard.

I've read in the past that phone tapping produces an audible echo, is this the case with imsi-catchers as well or has the technology advanced far enough it's not possible to detect being tapped?

Don't forget the image editor.

Hyperlink i.e http://.com How many people will double check the url bar and notice the url is actually http://www.xn--m3haa.com/? Not all of them.

:edit+seems like the three umbrella unicode symbols are not supported on hn, are they supported in e-mails?

As a frequent cyclist, the worst that a pedestrian can do is to try to get out of my way, if I haven't rung the bell; they actually move in my way, since I have already planned my trajectory around them.

In my opinion it was the patronizing tone Alex Haldermann had when presenting his research, that got certain individuals riled up. About the electronic voting itself, it seemed to me that the most relevant problem that he actually discovered was lapses in the operational security during the vote counting process, where certain procedures weren't done correctly or were outright ignored.