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That's exactly the belief those in power most want you to hold on to. Elections are a cruel joke. Build guillotines.

Agreed about maintenance, but yeah, CA registration is that much more.

I don't know where you get this idea; they talk a lot about the connections between columns and how they reinforce each other.

Cloud rendering is a fantasy for games on flat screens, because the latency is too high. To maintain 'presence' and not get sick in VR, the motion-to-photons latency has to be _con…

Unfortunately, I think you're correct. Anecdote: I used Erlang, over the course of several years, for very-high-level bot behavior and multi-player mission control, where performan…

I don't have time to read through the thread today, but I did before the Rift kickstarter was announced, and my impression has always been that the software-distortion-in-compensat…

Cyberneticists are not ignorant of your viewpoint. You may be right 'ultimately', but you might find your views refined if you actually dug into the arguments. Stafford Beer addres…

De jure, you're right; de facto, we're fucked.

I don't know a lot about chess, but I would try picking several prolific players with what seem to you to be different styles, and training a classifier to identify the player, as …

Sanders would also seek to double the capital gains rate for the richest 2%, and close various loopholes.

Thank you! I looked pretty hard for a OneTab-like extension for FF about a year ago, and couldn't find one. It's the one thing I really miss about Chrome; making my own was on my T…

I don't know what you mean by "major city," but I look in Milwaukee every six months or so. There simply aren't any "independent ISPs" here with remotely comparable speeds or price…

The use of Doom3 in the Kickstarter (I remember feeling like Carmack had given his seal of approval), definitely provides Zenimax with ammo, and I agree, it could be ugly. Like so …

I owned a BeBox and used it as my desktop for several years, til it stopped posting. The use of its relational-database-like filesystem, for email and organizing my music, was such…

I worked in a hospital, and saw similar things, but I think the moral of the story is that huge organizations operate internally more like a feudal oligarchy. They crystallize, reg…

It definitely _looks_ spammy. I think what's absent from this discussion, though, is that these are bands with a 'taper' culture, and the app is only useful for these, niche bands.…

I agree with you in the short term, and disagree in the ideal/long-term. I think we can replace this pachinko machine of representative democracy, not with some one or two dimensio…

Chunkhost has the same specs at the $9 price point as DO, though they claim 2 cpus (obviously could be apples and oranges). It's Xen, like DO and EC2, and they use ECC ram. They al…

https://github.com/rabbitmq/erlando

I don't want to judge you, not knowing how big a yard you have, but as a downtown apartment dweller, dogs barking provide all the annoyance of car alarms, the same inaction, and a …

...and not drive there.

Not everyone has time to know exactly what's supported by every combination of hardware and software they use or might use in the future. Personally, I came under the impression th…