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"Politicians have even come to power and taken command over player groups that sometimes number more than 10,000 real human players."

 

Still find EVE Online to be the most fascinating MMO game/simulation/experiment: http://www.pcgamer.com/how-eve-onlines-greatest-military-leader-once-fooled-the-entire-galaxy/

 

More info and links regarding the Newcastle type-2 diabetes reversal: http://www.humansarenotbroken.com/reversing-type-2-diabetes-the-university-of-newcastle-research-wit...

 

Apparently, researchers in Newcastle have found a way to completely *reverse* type 2 diabetes: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/reversal.htm

 
 

Good thing Joel Fry died in GoT before the new season of Plebs started airing. Back to shouting Julian Bashir when Alexander Siddig appears.

 

Dirty little secret: whenever I think of the next GoT season, I just fire up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1apVRDupYY to distract myself from waiting.

 

When you talk or write about "the 1%", you should realize that with an income anywhere north of $34K/year, you *are* the global 1%.

 

One of my favorite characteristics of IPFS-backed package management is decent offline/LAN support.

 
 
 

Official motto: "Colombia, the only risk is wanting to stay"

*extends stay for another 10 days after having had extended 3 times in a row*

 

To be clear: I don't think losing the ability to unpublish is bad, but a company's complete control over what is published under your name.

 

"we’re extremely cognizant that developers feel a sense of ownership over their code". You and your feelings. http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141905368000/changes-to-npms-unpublish-policy

 

"By publishing a package you now cede control over your code to npm, Inc.. This is to prevent you from pulling an Azer when you no longer like npm, Inc."

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141905368000/changes-to-npms-unpublish-policy

 
 

Your 1M transactions/second blockchain solution is useless, if it relies on trust. The point is zero-trust consensus. http://www.coindesk.com/behind-scenes-launch-new-blockchain-consortium/

 

Best journalism taxes can buy: "whoever sits on their data or hides behind privacy laws is complicit [in terror]". https://www.tagesschau.de/kommentar/becker-117.html

 

Also, you have no right to people telling you to f*** off in a polite way, when you send them that as a first response.

 

"our trademark lawyers are going to be banging on your door and taking down your accounts" is hardly "trying to be reasonable" to OSS devs.

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