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That’s true. Skin color is especially meaningful in the US, where privilege, opportunity, education, and many other aspects of life fall mainly along racial lines. In america, race is inextricably tied to skin color. I’m a little disappointed people have such issue acknowledging this. Once you do, you will acknowledge that the success criteria is a defacto racial criteria. Does this mean anyone is trying to be racist? Not necessarily. Is it racist? Yes. Should you care about it? Well, I suppose it’s a little antiquated to care about your country these days. But you should probably give a fuck about why there aren’t a lot of black people at google, because it says a lot about the US and about google—basically, corporations have no qualms about moving into an area, forcing people from their homes, and then not sharing in the profits.

And it says a hell of a lot about Thiel—there’s basically no evidence he isn’t a complete psychopath.

I mean, if you think you can get max diversity of ideas without also pulling people from different cultures, you’ve been around way too many white men.

I mean honestly at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if the koch brothers adopted him.

This is possibly true; i have no clue what these laws entailed. So imagine trying to convince the rest of the country.

Well, I thought we were discussing “any non-violent drug crime”. Obviously i’m for rehabilitaion for users; what would the downside be? Could you educate me?

Hmm, I’m not so sure we should allow people to sell fentanyl pops or cocaine to kids without going to prison. Not arguing against your point broadly, but that’s exactly the type of response that would sink an effort to remove imprisonment for non violent drug crimes.

As I see it, we need both a propaganda campaign pointing out how nuts the drug laws are in addition to some recognizable way of incrementally easing the laws and adjusting to it. That’s the rational thing an individual would do anyway; i am more aware than ever you need to parcel these things into 2 year steps for american power transfers between parties.

To the person who downvoted me, this is distinctly less useful than contributing the conversation in a meaningul manner.

> The only useful feature in Python 3 to me is more liberal use of unpacking.

Unfortunately, this ignores composing software. Your user may use things you don’t. The result: your software won’t get used as a library. That may be fine! More power to you. Just don’t drag anyone else down to 2 with you. :)

Personally, python 2’s print keyword/statement is infuriatingly inconsistent with the rest of the language; the network modules are a mess, organizationally; there’s no async support; the unicode support makes me want to stab my eyes out. I don’t mean to convince you (I’m not very convincing...) just to give an opportunity to hedge your statement with empathy for everyone who did decide to move on. Surely you must have any commentary that doesn’t reduce to “I don’t like change”, right?

Python without py3k is just old software that is end of lifing soon, after all :)

It’s an improvement ideologically, I suppose, but not a practical reduction in economic damage potential. In a very real sense it doesn’t matter it you have quit making something seriously damaging if you need to disable millions or hundreds of millions of devices—ie some automatic update functionality is in itself hugely more helpful than just opening it.

Ideally we would have this suggestion in addition to a stick to ensure people have an incentive to sell relatively secure hardware.

Right, but we’re discussing walmart.com vs amazon.com because walmart.com doesn’t have the crazy low prices that the retail store does. You’re absolutely right you can easily undercut amazon at sam’s club, so (eg) why can’t walmart.com match that undercut?

This isn’t necessarily hard or bad, though. If I take $100 and loan it to my neigbor, the debt appears from nowhere. Heck, theoretically, he could loan it right back under different terms and create more debt. Debt isn’t necessarily bad—the fear is you’re builidng on jenga blocks, not that some guy is going to show up with a wrench.

My understanding is that you also need to license from intel if you have a chip.

Really? Free and open source software—in this case, an unencumbered ISA—seems like an easy parallel to communally managed means of production.

Of course an implementation would be far more useful, as it would be the likely target for lawsuits.

Got a link to read more about boulder?

Currency is just printed debt. What’s your point?

A) this doesn’t require a rogue agent, just an insecure one. B) you just need the same attack to work twice; less extraordinary than an uncorrelated coincidence C) possibly some might have access to both. I think this is unlikely, but again, less unlikely than an uncorrelated coincidence.

Right, but then why buy from walmart if the competitive price is gone (as shown in the original example of online vs retail price)? If it’s just a single region agnostic price plus some location sensitive fee, they’re just another branded ecommerce store beholden to their sellers and distribution for pricing determination. Amazon wins with price, quality, inventory, and selection.

Yea, but it’s a terrible at convincing anyone but you.

Right, but that makes the online component even more confusing. Why would you ever order from walmart.com if they don’t offer those competitive prices? Amazon has plenty of stock, more than walmart can compete with. I can’t buy notebooks from japan from walmart—at least, not of the same quality, variety, and price amazon offers.

> You wouldn’t expect to pay the same in Mountain View as you would in Albequerque.

If this isn’t the appeal of walmart, what is?

> Many are probably trying to fight for the public's security and have for years, with cryptographers earnestly trying to develop secure and efficient algorithms. They are probably at odds with the other forces in the organization that seek to play the espionage game, even if it puts the country at risk.

Directly at odds. I don’t believe you should encourage anyone to trust known espionage. If it’s good advice, someone else will say it too you can trust independently.

Wtf does patriotic have to do with anything but mass manipulation?

These weapons are not designed to be patriotic; they can just as easily hurt anyone.

Militaries have shame?!?!

What the hell are they doing spying on american citizens? The people you’ll attract are the people attracted to abusing said power. Good luck weeding out the creeps; let’s hope only a few die as the result of beuracratic negligence.

> So you work for Lockheed or whatever and get most of the attributes of government employment.

Right, and the profits flow to a couple people who essentially own the contract. It’s essentially modern day aristocracy, except the contracts are more valuable to farm out to peasants than land is.

Let me know when an affordable arm board with ecc support comes along, wholesale or “call for price” not allowed. Because as it stands it might as well be sparc or mips in how accessible the hardware is.

Wait, who am I kidding: mips is still great.

Frankly, I had no idea the humidity was that high in Arizona! Color me impressed.

Honestly I haven’t collected enough sample attempts to be sure. However, not answering unknown phone numbers seems to have worked very well.

Man i should get you to talk to my spam with that magic +5 robot charisma.

Unfortunately, it still won’t prevent my number from being spammed. There is no human to talk to. Any indication you are alive is a confirmation your phone number is worth calling. The only thing you can do to convince them is not answer or somehow communicate a likely disconnection from a human.

Too useless for actually ignoring your phone.

Well “blocking” isn’t the same as “not ringing”, right?