Crito

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721.
by Crito 12y ago
Can be, usually is, and should be . As engineers, we should always consider the potential ramifications of technology that we create. Now, we should not necessarily refuse to develop an idea because it could be abused, but we should alw
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by Crito 12y ago
Can I, as a consumer that hypothetically owns one of these, control the software that is running on it?
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by Crito 12y ago
I am pretty sure that is relatively new, and that previously [dead] was used.
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by Crito 12y ago
I doubt many people at all are making exactly $65k. However I also doubt that many CS grads at all are making significantly less than $65k. Those that are making appreciably less than that are almost certainly not working in the field, or
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by Crito 12y ago
No. Absolutely not. The Antares flight used refurb-Russian engines, and Antares could not be used for manned flight anyways. Even if Antares was flying great, the US would still depend on Russia for rides to the ISS. If the Russians wa
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by Crito 12y ago
Feel free to substitute "KKK" with "campaign to ban interracial marriage" in my above comment. Frankly I think the later is even worse anyway; the KKK only wishes they still had enough political influence to pas
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by Crito 12y ago
You would not judge a CEO for publicly admitting to being a racist? I do not believe you. I think that you are lying, either to us or to yourself. Calling something "Ideology" is not a "get out of criticism free" c
728.
by Crito 12y ago
To most Americans, $1k is not a "minor" amount of money. Furthermore, the exact amount of money that he donated is fairly irrelevant anyway. The donation, no matter it's magnitude, serves to illustrate what he believes. If
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by Crito 12y ago
Actually, exploiting the poor is one thing that Tim Cook and Mother Teresa could find common ground on.
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by Crito 12y ago
I get the impression that that is not actually his name. ;) I believe this is his twitter account: https://twitter.com/SgtHowardPayne
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by Crito 12y ago
At this point they'd have to start worrying about bulky clothing as well. It was hot outside in this instance, but in cooler weather/climates you'd need to go full TSA-mode on everybody entering the building. That's pra
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by Crito 12y ago
> "Problem #0: Security did not search his bag on entry, thus allowing him to bring rapelling equipment to a software sales meeting." Realistically, what sort of security guard would actually stop him when they found the clim
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by Crito 12y ago
I wonder if it could have survived the explosion. I suppose it would not have been activated for launch though.
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by Crito 12y ago
> "Challenger and Columbia were both spectacular failures, and both were the result of dysfunctional corporate culture at NASA." Feynman's Appendix F should be required reading for every sort of engineer: http:/&
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by Crito 12y ago
The debris field would have been over the Atlantic, had the rocket made it that far. However it failed while it was still over the launchpad, fell out of the sky, and exploded when it fell onto the launchpad.
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by Crito 12y ago
> "there was NO accidents during manned-space take-off in Russian/Soviet flights." Soyuz T-10-1 burned on the launch pad, although the launch escape system saved the lives of the cosmonauts on board. http://en
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by Crito 12y ago
Sort of. COTS was supposed to be the development costs, CRS was supposed to be the launches. Orbital got $288 Million for development of Antares/Cygnus from COTS. From wikipedia: > "COTS is related but separate from the Comm
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by Crito 12y ago
NASA's CRS contract with Orbital is for 8 flights for $1.9 Billion. Today's flight was supposed to be number 3 of 8. It remains to be seen if they will be able to complete the rest of their contract. The cause of the accident wi
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by Crito 12y ago
Black budgets alone are enough to make them a rogue agent for all practical intents and purposes. How do you audit an organization like the CIA without the CIA's cooperation? In order to audit the CIA you must first trust the CIA, but
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by Crito 12y ago
> "decades long conspiracies and liaise with every nefarious group in the world!" I made no such claim. There is much that the CIA is not involved with. Clearly you have zero interest in civil discourse, so take your strawm
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by Crito 12y ago
Mother of all selection biases. We only know their failures. Their victories, by definition, are unknown to us. In what possible scenario could we ever hope to learn the full extent of their crimes? Intelligence agencies burn their recor
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by Crito 12y ago
The CIA working with cartels abroad is not mere rumor. There is substantial evidence that this takes place. Unfortunately, nobody in this world has the combination of power, opportunity, and desire to take the CIA down for its crimes. The
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by Crito 12y ago
And the mob survived the end of alcohol prohibition in the US. It nevertheless weakened them.
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by Crito 12y ago
User friendliness and simplicity are completely orthogonal. For instance, Microsoft Word is very user friendly, yet it is an immensely complex piece of software. I value simplicity over user friendliness. Despite git having several usabili
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by Crito 12y ago
Git is simpler. If you understand the (very trivial) data model, then you understand what actions are possible, which actions are simple/complex or heavy/cheap, how to compose solutions for more complicated usecases, and how to r
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by Crito 12y ago
> "Mr. Eustace cut himself loose from the balloon with the aid of a small explosive device and plummeted toward the earth at a speeds that peaked at more than 800 miles per hour, setting off a small sonic boom heard by observers on
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by Crito 12y ago
Many small businesses like that have issues with homeless people camping directly outside their business, harassing their customers asking for food. When people buy food for them, it encourages them to stick around and keep it up. As you
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by Crito 12y ago
> "I definitely like your argument that all of those old books were written as a life rulebook, but it got kinda carried away after and I think we're due for update, like bible 2.0 or something." I like the idea of a rel
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by Crito 12y ago
I am interested in which Christian variants are less popular with younger generations than others. That data is presented, but poorly.
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by Crito 12y ago
I see what they've done there with the color coding (all variants on Christian being blue) but that is totally unreadable. I'm not colorblind but the only way I can identify what is being shown is by counting the stripes and lege

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