meatysnapper's comments

On: Advanced economies are so sick we need a new way t...

[meatysnapper]

thank you. people take "rule of law" for granted.

On: Advanced economies are so sick we need a new way t...

[meatysnapper]

Exactly right. The US Military (and Israel, for that matter) get a guaranteed minimum income from the US government. Why not the average person on the street?

[jsn117 → meatysnapper]

b/c they aren't doing a job?

On: Sending a potato to near-space

[meatysnapper]

Gerald Bull would be proud.

On: How we became the heaviest drinkers in a century

[meatysnapper]

My ancestors for thousands of years have drank everyday, and they managed not only to survive but reproduce. I think the same goes for every person of European descent. We can drink an awful lot and be fine.

[JoeAltmaier → meatysnapper]

...and yet, I don't imagine they were checking into a kernel source base very often. Maybe they managed to not-chop-off-their-hand while cutting trees.

[pavel_lishin → JoeAltmaier]

Mine managed to put a scientific instrument on Mars.

On: Theranos didn’t work with the huge drug company it...

[meatysnapper]

and that sort of technology has been used by the Navy since how long?

On: CISA passes Senate

[meatysnapper]

both senators from both WA and CA, which are the tech-heavy stastes. No good!

[nindalf → meatysnapper]

Those senators vote on tech issues as they are instructed by tech companies. If they voted this way, I think its reasonable to assume that tech companies lobbied for it.

[cvwright → meatysnapper]

Wow. It's not every day that Oregon gets to show up WA and CA at the same time. :-)

On: CISA passes Senate

[meatysnapper]

who is our Charleton Heston?

[adventured → meatysnapper]

Pierre Omidyar perhaps, to go with the Lessig mention. He has the money and has put some of it where his mouth is.

[Wingman4l7 → meatysnapper]

Lawrence Lessig?

[toomuchtodo → Wingman4l7]

Edward Snowden from afar? Feels like he's involuntarily taken the torch from Aaron Schwartz.

[ryanmarsh → Wingman4l7]

More like John Oliver

On: A Superconductor That Works at -70 °C

[meatysnapper]

We software "engineers" would still find ways to write shitty software to totally negate the benefits.

"Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh"

On: The Okinawa missiles of October 1962

[meatysnapper]

A memorial to people who exercised good judgement and common sense in stressful situations would be great. Maybe we could have a reality show about this, to prove to the rest of the world we aren't just a bunch of slobbering troglodytes.

On: Why Homejoy Failed

[meatysnapper]

I could swear that was a east-coast version of Grindr. Bad branding?