Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
Well, if it's in their TOS (and on most the sites it probably is), then it probably is okay Just because its hidden in the fine print instead of explicitly disclosed at the point of collecting the email address does not make it &quot
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Lead bans in America varied by state, the end date on that wikipedia page is a misleading number in that leaded gasoline use had been substantially reduced starting many years earlier. There was a major drop in leaded gasoline starting in
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Don't confuse the end result with the intended result. I think it is much more likely that the people making the decisions just don't give a damn. They see the situation from another perspective, one in which they have this reall
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I wouldn't call them intellectuals - more like college students. But I also don't think that applies in the general case, like Al Qaeda in Iraq. Attacks on western soil, like 9/11, it has definitely been stablished has main
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by Amadou 13y ago
Crazy time: liberal friends are now defending the NSA's actions... If Jimmy Carter can't convince them, then they really are lost. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/18/jimmy-carter-edward...
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by Amadou 13y ago
I was a child during the cold war, but I actually could not tell you one thing about any Russian person that I was told during that time, I still remember Sting's song Russians with the rhetorical lyric, "Do the Russians Love th
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by Amadou 13y ago
I would want to know what I was getting in trade for the increased risk of enabling javascript. Your proposed message isn't substantially different from the current message. Noscript users are going to be more savvy than average users
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by Amadou 13y ago
Don't forget that javascript performance on mobile is abysmal. If your use of javascript is much more than light fluff, its going to seriously annoy mobile users. http://sealedabstract.com/rants/mobile-web-apps-ar
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As a noscript user I'd like to see an explanation to why I should enable javascript on your site. If you put a link to an explanatory page along with the "please enable javascript for a better experience" header I think that
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by Amadou 13y ago
FWIW, I think the gun issue is tied to "pandering to the base." I posit that the vast majority of gun killings are drug-trade related. Generally in the form of gang conflicts, like turf battles for distribution areas, maybe some
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by Amadou 13y ago
I think it is worth looking at the results of a similar option in the US - the V-Chip. In theory, a v-chip ought to result in the lifting of basically all broadcast restrictions since parents are now able to exercise their own control over
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by Amadou 13y ago
The modern american term is "hapa" - comes from Hawaii were all kinds of races blended (japanese, chinese, filipino, portugese, hawaiians and whites just for starters). Originally it was "hapa haole" which meant, roughl
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by Amadou 13y ago
Unfortunately I just got hit by 2 projects in a row that passed 3x overage. I quoted 2 weeks to finish, but they both ended up taking over 6. I'm probably not even making minimum wage for the last couple of months. Those are fixed-bi
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Ugh. Yet another example of why you should never meet your heroes...
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Don't forget - when the ghost doesn't attack you claim credit for stopping the ghost.
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Indeed. I think it is somewhat analogous to the US Army blocking access to the Guardian's website because of the classification of the Snowden leaked documents hosted there. Everything follows in a logical order when viewed from one p
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by Amadou 13y ago
While I agree with much of what you wrote, I have to point out that it is impossible to "examine and verify" anywhere near enough of the science that is relevant to our daily lives. That's both a physical impossibility due t
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by Amadou 13y ago
Is there any doubt that if the NSA could store 22 petabytes per day that they would do so? That they are limited by practicality to merely snooping through or scanning 22 petabytes per day rather than storing all of it is I think a real
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The way the administration threw Star Simpson under the bus within hours of her arrest was despicable.
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Too bad they essentially closed their doors, the Peek was great. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peek_%28mobile_Internet_device...
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by Amadou 13y ago
There is no evidence of death threats in that link. Equating them to the leaders of the hitler youth may be an extreme interpretation but is not threatening. My understanding is that the two prosecutors in the Aaron Schwartz case have repor
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by Amadou 13y ago
There are (at least) two ways to look at it: 1) They have no idea how it will be perceived from the "outside looking in." 2) They do know it will look bad, but they believe that it is worth it to protect the reputations of whomeve
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When you believe your cause is so just as to be more important than obeying the law - go ahead do it, and then face the consequences of a fair trial judging your actions. How does this case differ from Snowden's situation? Someone who
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The problem with a positive control system is that he's being watched, intensively. So how do you reset that env variable without someone seeing you do it and thus discovering the server? Once they know the servers, they just need to
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Pointers are easy when everything is working right. It's when there are bugs in code which uses pointers that the weird can kick in and really give you a headache.
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I feel you are being disingenuous. We all have enough long-term memory to discern patterns beyond the short term and classify them as such.
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Intuitive is just a synonym for "similar to previous experiences." Anyone who has regularly exercised or played a sport or even a musical instrument and then stopped knows about use it or lose it we even have a term for it, &quot
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Other than the two-column design and the facebook/twitter/etc flare I don't see much difference. I actually liked the non-mobile page better because the formatting in the article was so much more clear, mostly better indenta
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If one phrase could sum up human (and probably all living creatures') physiology it would be, "Use it or lose it." We are adapted to conserve resources so anything that requires resources to maintain will be reduced if we don
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by Amadou 13y ago
Does it count as "invented" if they don't bring an actual product to market at all? If anything, that sounds like they anti-invented it - no one else can create one without their permission.

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