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gringomorcego

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About gringomorcego

Professional armchair lurker.

You can reach me by exhaling weed smoke signals.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #4323044

    Ah, thanks for being okay with making UEFI standard for Macs, so that nerds would be forced to accept it. Fuck you.

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    Comment #4315437

    Awesome! Looks like it needs a little help in regards to Cambodia though: "In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, the US Air Force secretly dropped hundreds of thousands of tons of g…

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    Comment #4303629

    I take issue with your first point about Reddit. I'm not defending Reddit, I'm defending the idea that there is any notion of quality related to the specified forum. The network is…

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    Comment #4294415

    Do you work for the Bureu of Information? http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/google-nsa-secrecy-...

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    Comment #4274218

    Does anyone really think about how our grandchildren will look at these patent issues today? 'Tell us again about the dark times when people were scared to share algorithms and con…

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    Comment #4273541

    Because how are people supposed to know you are making a subjective/qualitative judgement? It's too easy to mislead people, and too many people profit from taking advantage of that…

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    Comment #4272711

    Dude: FUCK YOU If the Lisp people were smart enough to pander their shit properly, things wouldn't be so damn bad. Honestly, I'm up for people claiming it cures cancer or whatever.…

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    Comment #4267064

    If anything I'd bet that the 'fiefdoms' have quit warring as much?

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    Comment #4264758

    http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-apple-go... Until those companies apologize to every existing employee, I have absolutely no loyalty to them. If they can't even…

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    Comment #4249362

    Never fight on the enemy's ground.

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    Comment #4248891

    Ah, wrote before the edit.

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    Comment #4248842

    Seriously, what the hell is the point of even creating something like webgl if a key feature for immersion is kept out? It's like building a car starting with the frame. God speed …

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    Comment #4213615

    I used to have that opinion. Than I realized I'd do anything if it helped me enjoy life more. I mean honestly, when my sleep starts getting shitty I start changing things in my lif…

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    Comment #4205937

    This prisoner's dilemma has one round with different rewards. Also, don't correct people with 'you do realize' because it makes you seem like an asshole.

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    Comment #4205845

    Patents and IP protection are a sovereign prisoner's dilemma. Good luck with that, USA.

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    Comment #4154472

    I thought they were working on it, but they have done a massive amount rewrites?

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    Comment #4154432

    Very interesting. Reading this stuff kind of makes my heart swell up. For anyone who reads cypherpunk stuff knows, this is the techno nomadic dream. No big corp, no real worry abou…

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    Comment #4153044

    Dude, that kind of thinking leads you down to 7 Pounds.

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    Comment #4151558

    Uh, so it's okay for the US to wink wink at Amazon, Paypal and numerous other financial payment providers when Wikileaks comes to play? You sound like a true apologist. This stuff …

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    Comment #4149916

    Hey, as long as they have founder shares, im all for whatever your gung-ho routine entails

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    Comment #4149873

    One depends on a spellchecker?

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    Comment #4149870

    Putting up with that shit is fine when you have founders shares. If you don't, then get ready to clock out and iron the hawaiian shirt. Expecting the engineers to just deal with th…

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    Comment #4149861

    anyone want a dish with ad hominem and a sprinkling of superiority? You're right, moe probably hasn't shipped anything. I haven't either. But that doesn't mean that it's okay for y…