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by Dove 13y ago
I don't think it would be satire, exactly. He'd have to be making fun of something specific that someone else said. Hyperbole, maybe? At any rate, that would be encouraging if it were true. I must admit, I do not have a thresho
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by Dove 13y ago
I’ve often thought that the single most devastating cyberattack [would be] simply to simultaneously make every e-mail and text ever sent universally public. . . . . the fabric of society would instantly evaporate,
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by Dove 13y ago
The general public won't install an APK outside of an "App Store" equivalent True as this may be, it's also not as bad as it sounds. Take a look at what Humble Bundle did -- a very lightweight appstore-like thing, wit
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by Dove 13y ago
I'm not impressed. Most press releases have only a handful of paragraphs. I'd believe it was common to go over the topics of "What We're Talking About, What We Deny, What We Affirm, and How It Could Be Better." It
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by Dove 13y ago
I don't buy it. What I quoted above doesn't say anything about US persons or non-US persons, about content or metadata, about this law or that one. It just says, Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information ab
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by Dove 13y ago
I don't think so. Those usually sound like, "We cannot confirm or deny the existence of such a program," or "It is not our policy to comment on national security topics" or "No comment
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by Dove 13y ago
That's moving the goalposts, though. The initial assertion -- that this is a cleverly-worded non-denial -- doesn't hold up with the text. Page is clearly and unambiguously denying that Google supplies any information to the
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by Dove 13y ago
Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the broad type of order that Verizon received—an order that appears to have required them to hand over millions of users’ call records. We were very surprised to learn
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by Dove 13y ago
Wow. That is the hardest I've laughed this week . I loved the part where he referred to the slides to help answer a question.
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by Dove 13y ago
It's not relative to absolute size -- it's relative to the average size of the thing. Baby elephants are cute, even if full-grown dogs, being much smaller, aren't. A tarantula is not so much a small thing as it is a HUGE spider . Tiny
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by Dove 13y ago
Nudity is measurable.
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by Dove 13y ago
By that standard, the guy on the bus who tells me about lasers from outer space that make his legs hurt when he talks about the government . . . he's a fair representative of "most scientists". If you want to take random encounters with peo
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by Dove 13y ago
I think what you're describing is the observer effect[1], not Heisenberg uncertainty[2]. Heisenberg uncertainty is much stronger than not being able to observe a system without disturbing it. It's more like, at a physical level, making the
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by Dove 13y ago
I appreciate that! It wasn't clear to me how public my own level was. My bad reaction is actually from a conversation I had with a couple clients I had sent to the site -- they saw their own "level", I guess, and were rather put off by the
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by Dove 13y ago
They could have. More remarkable to me, though, is that no one's criticizing the transition itself. Everyone is saying, "I liked vWorker better." I guess it isn't that surprising, when I think about it, though. I knew Freelancer existe
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by Dove 13y ago
I was a pretty regular worker on vWorker -- in the top several hundred in terms of income -- and I've been very unhappy with the transition to freelancer. The major issues I've encountered are: * Extreme difficulty communicating with cli
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by Dove 13y ago
It doesn't make sense for people who are bidding for projects, either -- at least, it doesn't make sense for me. It's a childish system, completely out of tune with how I want to present myself professionally. I don't want to Like You On
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by Dove 13y ago
I was a veteran of vWorker, too. I found the site quirky and ugly, but deeply functional. Freelancer seems to be the opposite -- very pretty, professionally aggravating. I jumped ship (to my own network) pretty quickly after the transiti
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by Dove 13y ago
The early access preview ( http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html ) is definitely prettier than Eclipse. Not that that's a high bar to clear. It also seems to be less stable, which is a high bar to clear. ;) Yeah, I kn
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by Dove 13y ago
This isn't new, but it was news to me. Thanks to DGCA ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5712250 ).
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Venting Anger Makes People More Aggressive(www-personal.umich.edu)
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by Dove 13y ago
Wow - that's a valuable article all on its own.
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by Dove 13y ago
My coworkers used to call these "straw horses". Like straw men, but attacking them is supposed to take you somewhere.
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by Dove 14y ago
it is most likely because bacteria and fungus can get no nutritional value from it. Here are two other reasons bacteria might not be able to eat something you can eat: 1. They can't stand the chemical environment -- pH, poisons, salinity.
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by Dove 14y ago
I think flying cars in science fiction of the 50's were a result of the exploding aerospace industry. We went from the very first powered flight in 1903 to the moon in 1969. Airplanes and rockets must have felt very much like computers
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by Dove 14y ago
When Left 4 Dead first came out, one of the features they were proud of was a radial mouse menu of chat commands. You could make your character say "Heal me!" or "Tank!" or really any of about 27 things. I think it was intended so players
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by Dove 14y ago
I think the shapes would make more sense if they represented "do re me" instead of "ABC". The latter might be helpful to students, but the former is genuinely helpful to singers. And in fact, it's been done before: http://en.wikipedia.or
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by Dove 14y ago
Well, per http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/dod_dictionary/ , a code word is A word that has been assigned a classification and a classified meaning to safeguard intentions and information regarding a classified plan or operatio
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by Dove 14y ago
That was my reaction, too. It has seemed to me historically that Sam Harris' grasp on what "religious" people are like is . . . tenuous. I guess that isn't really surprising, given that he isn't one, but people seem to inexplicably conside
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by Dove 14y ago
Wikipedia has some links to studies collecting statistics on that. Though it's important to note that you're asking the wrong question; if I recall correctly, in something like 90% of defensive gun uses, no shots need to be fired. The thr

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