Afforess

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by Afforess 12y ago
If you missed it or can't watch, Boeing and SpaceX both received contracts for commercial crew missions to the international space station. Boeing will receive a contract for $4.2 billion for development of its CST-100 capsule, and Spa
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by Afforess 12y ago
All of the world religions disagree with you.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Let's just say not all of us believe in Utilitarian theories of Ethics.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Those two ideas are not even closely related.
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by Afforess 12y ago
My password is on the list (afforess@gmail.com). I used a unique password for my Google account that I have never ever used for anything else. So I don't see how this leak could be anything but a leak from Google's servers. I have
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by Afforess 12y ago
I've written Firefox extensions, and I gave up on the official Mozilla extension store. It is far easier to host the extension xpi yourself and provide the update configuration in your extension manifest for your own webserver. This le
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by Afforess 12y ago
I dunno about you, but I have 18.13 GB of free storage with Dropbox. It wasn't particularly hard to achieve, either.
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by Afforess 12y ago
> So trying 5 times should assure 1 success That's NOT how probability works. Just because you have a 50-50 chance of flipping heads does not mean it only takes two try's to get heads. On AVERAGE it does.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Summary for those too lazy to get past the NYT paywall: > The company said it would add alerts to tell people about activities that could be signs of a break-in. > Customers will receive push notifications when someone tries to chang
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by Afforess 12y ago
I never assigned blame.
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by Afforess 12y ago
I love how the security researcher, and not the website with the sloppy code, is at fault according to you. You live in a strange world, my friend. Responsible disclosure doesn't really exist, bugs may be used anywhere, any time, and i
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by Afforess 12y ago
Agreed. The people here decrying this as near-bribery or unethical don't understand economics. If the 1.25B tax break causes a net gain in tax receipts due to the expansion of the economy, then the deal is a net positive for everyone,
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by Afforess 12y ago
I didn't call him a name, I said he is a menace. He could be a otherwise intelligent phd holding user. But right now he is waving a preverbal gun around clueless to the danger he is causing. Menace isn't an insult.
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by Afforess 12y ago
You are so misinformed as to be a public menace. Edit: to downvoters, menace means one who causes peril. How is my usage incorrect? The parent is spreading incorrect facts and encouraging internet fast lanes. That is perilous.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Maybe I lack vision - but I don't see how any of the problems of the white collar and working poor can be solved by Silicon Valley. It would be impossible for a startup to work with the government in processing Veterns claims, for exam
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by Afforess 12y ago
Good. It seems bizarre that something as ordinary as a trip in a car needs extensive regulations. Obsolete laws should be challenged.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Just lay still for 20 minutes and let your mind wander without distractions Just. I've never been able to do that. I'm always thinking, even when I am exhausted. (Usually then, about how exhausted I am.)
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by Afforess 12y ago
Bahahah.... Any site using captchas for anti-bot security is already broken. There are plenty of web services to solve captchas for fractions of pennies. Don't use captchas. Text-based captchas have been broken since 2010 at least.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Yes... Legislating gender-neutral advertising for children's toy is clearly the solution for the tech sector gender gap. Give me a break. That is a violation of the first amendment. I don't "get" why anyone cares about t
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by Afforess 12y ago
Money is not free speech, regardless of what the Supreme Court says.
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by Afforess 12y ago
I was curious myself. I dug up the original proposal to create sjavac, which is here: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/139
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by Afforess 12y ago
Analogies are not meant to be perfect representations of an argument, but rather a facsimile that helps the reader compare and contrast. Your complaints are mostly irrelevant.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Analogies are not meant to be perfect representations of an argument, but rather a facsimile that helps the reader compare and contrast. Your nitpick is therefore irrelevant.
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by Afforess 12y ago
CGP Grey went through the analogy of horses and the history of technology to emphasize the line of thinking that the invention of new technology will lead to the creation of new jobs is a fallacy and false. In the past, new technological
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by Afforess 12y ago
Even assuming that there is treasure (in the form of gold, gems, etc) the money spent attempting to recover them must be nearly equal or exceed the monetary value of the treasure by now.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Here is a direct quote from the conclusions of the findings: Our concern is that the practical aspects work for individuals, so we do not want to set expectations which cannot be met. Going beyond the idea of a search engine, if informatio
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by Afforess 12y ago
Because "The right to be forgotten" is just doublespeak for censorship. Politicians are using it to hide an unsavory past. Businesses will use it to cover up past wrongdoings. I'm not just exaggerating, this is already happen
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by Afforess 12y ago
Maybe not: http://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/28ys30/this_is_my...
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by Afforess 12y ago
Most of the time big firms exist because only large businesses can deal with the immense regulations in their field. Big business loves regulations because it actually decreases the competition. See: healthcare, finance, insurance.
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by Afforess 12y ago
I hate to be the one to inform you 99% of Americans don't actually care about the middle east.

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