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Well let's not be too quick to diminish the power of Choices. However, I do see what you are saying about:

"This process happens. We make mistakes. That's how we learn what consequences exist to the choices we make. Yes, we make bad choices, but this is frequently, virtually always, because we could not see with perfect clarity what consequences there would be."

And I believe what you are asking for is a more forgiving society?

But, that is hard to come by in a morally oppressed society. Why forgive when it is more economically efficient to not? Forgiveness can sometimes be one hell of an expenditure you know.
you know the kind of solution you come up with when you just realized you made some terrible mistake and adrenaline keeps flowing no matter how much you try to stay calm? this is exactly how this post looks like to me.
Don't get me wrong, you are damned right.
But unfortunately it's nothing new, we saw similar trends in the past with other media and you know what.. people will read your piece, say you are brilliant, then forget about it and keep doing what feel more comfortable to them, which in the end it's just the way they learned to live.
Nodejs, HTML5 and CSS3.. seriously?
Well done catching the problem in its n-th instance, but encouraging people to develop tech skills to avoid something they don't fully understand is not really going to help. unfortunately.
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Funny you're complaining about that comment: This whole piece is one big emotion appeal for class warfare and unionism

"If only Little Johnny's parent's union jobs didn't disappear, then he wouldn't have lived in a broken home, and would have buckled down and gone to college!"

"Why does this group of people, who I know little about as individuals, have it so well?!"

Typical bleeding-heart bull, which is, of course, what this movie is about (and how this author barkers for his friend's movie). "Come one, and all, see how unfair life is in America!"

It's too bad these families both work so hard and barely get by. Maybe they did get screwed over by circumstance. Maybe they shouldn't had assume union jobs were forever. Maybe the lure of a paying job today to help the family kept those kids out of college. Or maybe those kids were fuck ups and didn't take school seriously. I guess I should pay for a ticket to find out if I should feel superior to the family or to the CEOs.

Complaining about how life is unfair will get folks into the art movie theater, but it's not going to provide opportunities for these families to better their lot.
You seem to be reading more into my comment than I put into it. I'm not saying anything more than I find the original assertion that the majority of VPN users use stolen credit cards to be unlikely.
everyone should start spamming themselves and all this will go nowhere quickly.
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I think Github will automatically set redirects for you if you move a repository around.
Thank you, we learned a lot when we launched JustMigrate. Free services cannot guarantee data forever :)
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I wonder if you could train a spam classifier to identify & autorespond (or to randomly just drop/bounce/"help"[1] if you want to automate your current workflow :) ) these messages?

Maybe even a simple regex for <theirdomain>.tld would work.

Probably want to have it after a whitelist-known-contacts step to avoid upside-down-ternetting[2] your friends though.

[1] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl

[2] http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html
I was sure milliard was billion and now you are making me doubt
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It's like saying, "I will not kill you today." The literal meaning is innocent, but the fact that it was stated at all has terrifying implications.
>Then those useless "be a team player and syngerize the verticals while the rubber hits the road" monkey-morons came in and had to fucking siloize everything, just to play a divide-and-conquer game, create the sense that we were incapable of handling "the big picture", and reduce our bargaining power. This distracts us from the fact that those people aren't at all necessary.

So true.

I worked in a largely silo-free environment up until about 2007. New management transformed an effective ~25 person team into half a dozen kingdoms of 30+ each in a little over one year.

I left and discovered just how unique my environment had been prior to the regime change. It's hard for me to imagine how any organization which has gone down this path can hope to reverse it.

It's desirable to both the managers who use it make themselves relevant and an unfortunate majority of workers who take comfort in their pigeon-holes.
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When you're in business or divorce negotiations and your adversary "knows a guy" who can track your movement and communications, you won't fare very well.

Someone who secretly has access to Warren Buffett's movements and communications could get a jump on the market, stealing a little bit from all the honest players.

If you're protesting the government's eminent domain seizure of your home, but you only have enough money to pay the lawyers for another couple of months, the government can just wait you out. They'll be able to figure it out just by looking at the outside of the bill collection notices sent to your home, and the fact that you sent email to several lawyers who are known to work pro bono.

The problem is that the mere existence of this kind of information will draw the corrupt among us like flies to a corpse. I'm not all that concerned about the personal motivations of the people who currently have access to that information, although power does corrupt. I'm more concerned about people who will start working for those agencies because they're intrigued by the possibilities.

If the information must be gathered, then it is essential that it be a really big deal for any analyst to get access to someone's communication metadata and movements. High visibility, court oversight, logging and review, the works.

Side note: I went to the Austin Restore the Fourth rally today; couple hundred people I'd guess, mostly middle-class-looking. Pleasant energy. It's hard to tell whether that's enough of an indicator to make politicians start wondering about their campaign pocketbooks; I'm not optimistic.
I disagree with nearly everything you just said, but to keep this short I'm only going to mention a couple that don't make any sense to me.

> Not being blown up by terrorists

Please explain this. A few thousand dead Americans would disagree. The USA's epic spying over the last many decades did not stop thousands of people from dying in terrorist attacks. NSA spying does not keep you safe from terrorists; in fact, I think it does the opposite. It creates terrorists.

> Drive hundreds even thousands of miles safely

Driving is one of the least safe activities available to you, largely due to the government's incompetence in keeping safety regulations at a reasonable level. Tens of thousands of people die every year in the USA due to the lack of safety driving on roads. You are not safe when you are driving a car.
No 'milliards de milliards' translates to billions of billions. So that would be 10^18
Considering that many people in these services apply the term terrorist to a lot more people and groups than Al Quaida, I really don't think it's a false equivalency.

The "War on Terror" is absurd because it's stateless and doesn't describe any one single group of people. It's a war on a very loose set of behaviors.

The average person thinks "War on Terror" and they support it because they have the people who brought down the Twin Towers in mind. Whereas people in the NSA, CIA, FBI, police stations across the country, etc, are thinking Occupy Wall Street, PETA, etc.
It's like me telling you that I don't object to you teaching your kids about any particular religion. When the hell did I even enter the equation? It's the implication that the right to protest might even have to be clarified that shows the NSA is either very presumptious about its authority or really is as politically motivated as we all like to think it is.
I have used Samsung ARM Chromebook with crouton for a while now.

I mainly use only two languages for my projects: Python and Scala.

Python works pretty well and performs pretty fast. Also ipython becomes really handy in operating system that has only web browser. No issues here.

But with Scala there are a few significant issues. Main issue is compilation speed. My small pet project (5-6 KLOC) takes 9 minutes to make full rebuild. 9 fucking minutes. This is clearly embarrassing. Another issue is about installing Scala and all that JRE-stuff, which doesn't work out of the box, so i have to tweak and setup it by myself.

So chromebook works pretty well as "on-the-go" laptop for some cases (reading, surfing web, writing a bits of code in scripting languages). I really do enjoy its battery life and simplicity of ChromeOS combined with power of fully-featured linux. But for me chromebook in not the best choice and i have to use mostly my old heavy laptop for development.

P.S. Also i really miss my Emacs in ChromeOS.
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I think the surprising part about this is the following statement: "The DGSE entirely designed the program and no data protection representative is overseeing it." I differentiate between these programs more with "It's not what you collect, it's how you use it." :-)
Google has been relatively "good" to us, the users, so far, and they've even been our allies in some cases(SOPA, ITU).

But make no mistake, when the Internet will start a trend towards fully decentralized/more anonymous services, they will become our enemy, because that will endanger their very way of making a revenue.

If I were a Google boss I'd try to start making money from other business models besides ads as soon as possible, possibly from hardware, like Apple. I think they're already planning this to some extent with Motorola, Google Glass, and even Google Fiber. But they need to hurry up. That trend might arrive sooner than they expect (within 5 years).

Facebook is already dead. They just don't know it yet (it takes a while for the market inertia to stop).
Chrome's open-source. If there's tracking stuff in there, why doesn't somebody fork the code and delete that part?
The issue isn't what your direct personal consequence would be.

The issue is what Snowden called "turnkey tyranny". These tools can easily be seriously abused. When they are, a Democratic regime can collapse. The US democracy is eroding. Civil rights will be lost.

Eventually, they won't even need to carry on with the democracy theater. The indirect consequences for everyone, may be dire.
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I'm not interested in arguing about Google's reasons for linking to us but I just wanted to point out that it was not 217.000 pageviews but rather "users" or "uniques". Pageviews were 2-3 times that number.
Amusingly, as I'm typing this, the author's site is down: http://evbogue.com/
(first issue is going to be delivered tomorrow)
The states were complicit in this: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Additional_amendments_to_the_U...

(Ratified in 1913 during the heyday of the Progressives, popular election of the Senator, turning it into a stuffy mini-House instead of representing the states by virtue of being elected by state legislatures.)
For Rails 4, you don't need to modify script/rails. Might be good to mention in your article.
I don't understand why everyone immediately dismisses the possibility of "life" on planets like Jupiter, Venus, and even the Sun.

We have an extremely limited understanding of these places. We barely have an inkling of how elements and compounds behave in such temperatures/pressures/environments, particularly with respect to each other.

Even on Earth, places we consider to be "harsh" environments are often found to be thriving with life.
> Let's give 92% of all of the income that the rich people make to the poor. How much will there be to go around? Not enough by a long shot.

The top 1% of people in the US have about 20% of the income. The US's GNI is about $14T, so that's about $3T for the top 1%. (So an average of about $1M per person; of course that's the mean; the median will be lower, and the threshold for the top 1% lower again.)

The official poverty line in the US is about $23k for a family of four; let's say $6k per person. The number of officially-poor people in the US is about 40M. If we suppose all those people are earning precisely nothing at present, taking them up to the poverty line would therefore cost about $240B, less than 10% of the income of the top 1%.

So ... it seems like giving 92% of the income of the rich to help the poor would help them rather a lot, actually.
I probably lean toward Murray's philosophy but you make a good point. I would express it as people's choices have consequences ... for themselves AND other people If your parents choose not teach you about sex or the benefits of an education, there may be consequences because your lack of knowledge.

I had a kid (unplanned) at barely 19 years old. I could blame the initial situation on lack of information but looking back 18 years later, it's hard to ascribe my life now to anything but how I reacted to that situation.

Life can be a terrible lab for experimentation.
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I fail to see what this has to do with the protest or the 4th Amendment for that matter. Seems to me like you're treating the symptoms but not the cause.
Welfare based on need has never been a significant expense. Social security which rewards based on past income is far more expencive.
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When a website is insecure or abuses your trust, you can sue them, or they lose money. They have every incentive to make the web site honest and secure. If a website steals, someone who's lost money generally knows.

When a voting system is insecure and abuses your trust, someone makes tremendous gains, and nobody may even know. The incentives to rig an election are huge, and the verifiability of an online election is very low.

How do you think paper ballots, for example, hinder progress?
> We know from history that when welfare is entirely down to charity we get a shortfall, a growing underclass, mass criminality, workhouses, inescapable poverty etc etc.

This is not supported by history, in fact you can correlate mass criminality in the US to the start of the mass welfare state of the great society. Crime was much lower during the great depression when there really was a large underclass, and there were far fewer safety nets. There are dozens of poor third world countries that can't afford welfare programs that are far safer than the US.
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Excellent. I thought we were granted the right to protest by God, so at least we know the NSA isn't standing in the way of God. Hopefully they'll let us know if/when that changes and we can assist the NSA in their new set of goals.
Iceland has Scandinavian culture and language, its strongest allies remain Norway and Denmark, especially after the U.S. closed their air base on Iceland.
There's something wrong with someone who doesn't want to get treated like shit? You're not helping your case.

> What's needed is secure code to stop governments from rounding up Syrian and Bahraini dissidents and drilling holes into their knees during interrogation because they were duped into trusting cryptocat while planning their democracy protests.

Oh, get over yourself. We all know the vast majority of online cryptographic transmissions are for child pornography and drug purchases. Don't act like Syrian rebels actually use these technologies when most of them don't even have access to a computer, let alone the knowledge of how to use one.

This is seriously the problem. You sit there and think modern cryptography is something other than a rich white guy's game, as though it's nothing but a Righteous Endeavor, so you get to treat other people like shit. The fact that the paragraph before that one is all about how you're getting drunk at some invite-only German hackathon is proof enough.
I think while there's a valid point in here, it strikes me as kind of harsh towards the larger public, which has never heard of IRC … for a reason. It's a great service, but it's a bit much for the non-technical. Which is why it's essentially stayed around as more of a backchannel than anything else.

Anyway … While there is certainly excitement in the world of the distributed and it's very much worth encouraging, writing an article which essentially calls 90 percent of the public stupid for not knowing HTML seems counterproductive to your ultimate goals.

Also: "If you want to use the Internet in 2013, you need to pick up some tech skills." That sounds like wishful thinking and assumes that the internet is made up of Hacker News or Reddit users. This is a great community, but I'll let you know right now that the wider internet is nothing like this.

If I'm trying to talk to my grandfather online, there's a good chance that he doesn't know a thing about putting together a VPS. But there's a great chance he knows email—a fully distributed system that isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

You want to encourage the world to go distributed? Meet them halfway. Offer up solutions like email, which actually offer up some helpful things for the button-pressers. Because being hostile to the users of the world is counterproductive and will get you nowhere.
This looks quite nifty. Looking forward to it!
You mean that you assumed "tech savvy people" excluded copyright circumventors, while I assumed it did?
Haha, yes. Their "We don't mind if you exercise your rights this time" attitude is unnerving.

Actually, it's pretty funny. What's the other option (besides not even acknowledging the demonstrations, which is the most sensical, I think)? Saying, "We strongly object to protests"? I would love to see them say something like that. It's almost like they think we care what they think of us, or maybe they are so delusional that they think they have the authority to call off a protest.

Or maybe they're getting at "We don't mind if you protest; while you do that, we'll carry on as usual. Your efforts are futile." That's not so funny.
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He is missing an important point here that is well illustrated by his coffee metaphor: I don't go to Starbucks, but I don't make my espresso drinks at home either -- I go to smaller coffee shops for two things: convenience, which he acknowledges, and what he ignores -- specialized expertise.

I could spend time learning how to make a good latte or mocha at home, but right now I don't want to; I have better things to do. And in the short term, what I could manage by myself probably won't be as good what I get poured at the small shop down the street.

Similarly, everyone who wants to write online could learn all the web tech, but using Medium is, yes, easier, but also probably results in a higher quality product (in both presentation and especially distribution) than what they will manage on their own in the short term. There is expertise that's gone into Medium that many writers don't have or want to acquire (yet).

Sure censorship can be an issue, but I don't believe that these skills are becoming impossible to pick up when they become needed, as he seems to imply. Use Medium or Svbtle or whatever while they work and move off when they actually become a problem, or simple when your time and interests change enough that you actually want to pick up web development (or espresso brewing) expertise.
First of all, they are playing Zynga games. It's not exactly a mission-critical application.

Secondly, do you really think that each of us has a responsibility to put unpaid time and energy into providing TLC for every misdirected email we receive?
I think there needs to be a strong balance. For example, I think the "centralization" of EU has been great for unifying citizens across the continent, unifying trade, making it easy to travel and work in other countries, and perhaps the most important aspect - stopping European wars.

So far it seems like a pretty democratic system, and the laws tend to be much better, and with a lot more common sense than the ones being passed in US right now. But I'd be really wary about making it anymore centralized than it is.
?? Ecuador and Bolivia don't even have common borders....
> A year ago (late 2011/2012) I got very interested in this centralized/distributed problem. I’d been traveling around the world. First I went down to Mexico, and saw how free it is down there. I went back up to San Francisco, and I sold my iPhone in the Mission.

I don't understand the logical link between those sentences. What does he mean when he writes "[I] saw how free it is down there." and why did it lead him to sell his iPhone ?
Greenland now is autonomous (more and more).
How can you make sure that the password is never sent to the server?

It could be encrypted with their own password, encrypted as a url to a css file, etc.
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google says

10^18 bytes in petabytes = 888.17 petabytes

or basically a million terabytes if you round up.

basically 3 million 1TB hard drives in raid 5 (1M x 3). you can probably fit a 500 1TB 2.5" drives into a single rack if you really try, and 2,000 racks can fit easily into warehouse-sized facility. (grid of 100 x 20 racks)
One thing I'd like to add to that:

If you have wealthy/powerful/connected friends and relatives, they can and will shield you from the consequences of your actions. Rich people make bad choices all the time. Drunk driving for example--how many times have you heard in the news about politicians and business leaders getting DUIs? But they hire expensive lawyers and get off scot free.

If you're poor and have poor friends or no friends, you're going to bear the full brunt of the consequences for every single bad decision you make. When you get in legal trouble, you can't hire a lawyer to protect your rights and interests. You don't have powerful parents who can pay the right person to "make it go away."

On the one hand, I firmly believe in what PG said about, if there are two explanations and one of them gives you an excuse to be lazy, it's probably the other one.

But, the whole choice / consequences meme rings hollow, it's a way for the wealthy to justify whatever awful things they may have done in order to get rich (or that they may have simply been born into it), while talking down to the poor and blaming them for the structural causes of poverty.

It's not just that the poor don't know the consequences of their actions, it's also that they don't have connections with people who can help them deflect the consequences of their actions.
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I have had good luck getting up and running using HighCharts.
Doesn't that make it very hard for the private sector to recruit low-end employees?
Things you should consider: The cost and return on investment.
It could be if you didn't have to pay for XBox live to connect to the net. However, if you're not a (social) gamer, XBox live offers no benefit over a straight internet connection and costs $60/year.

As soon as my year is up, I'm moving back to a PC for streaming Netflix, and if I'm doing that, the PC might as well play all my local media as well so the XBox is going to be a games-only platform.