GHFigs

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by GHFigs 14y ago
I find myself in the surreal position of wanting to endorse the author's book while bound by the awareness that any such endorsement by definition ought to be viewed with extreme skepticism.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Relying on everybody else being rational is irrational.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Many people are interested in Glass as a heads-up display or wearable computer, not as a camera. "Many" may end up being a very small number, but it stands to reason that it's larger than the number of people that actively desire to record
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Why does the US get to continue uranium enrichment/building of nuclear warheads, but places like Iran are not allowed to do so? 1. The US doesn't build nuclear warheads, and presently doesn't have the capability of replacing the ones it h
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by GHFigs 14y ago
You can't whine and cry once the shit you pull being an asshole is turned on you. Is it your opinion that ignoring seven UN resolutions demanding a halt uranium enrichment activities does not on some level constitute asshole behavior?
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Oh look, I just did some social janitorial work. You called someone on the Internet "wrong" and "rude", which is about as far as you can get from "work" without losing consciousness.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
What's the useful purpose of a private pool?
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by GHFigs 14y ago
"Google says some of its customers are the target of authorized FBI investigations, but we've got to sex it up for Threat Level"
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I agree that some programmers seem to get 'stuck' in a certain way of thinking, but I'm immediately reminded of Seymore Papert, in Mindstorms (1980), describing an ideal state beyond that: "By deliberately learning to imitate mechanical t
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Manning has not been held the conditions you're referring to since April of 2011. If you care about the case, please learn more about it.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
He's not even willing to mention the specific agency involved. This is part of him pleading guilty to these charges, one of which is over "more than one classified memorandum from a government intelligence agency". It's not him personally
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I have a feeling that if Apple wants to get back into servers they'll do it with an ARM-based product sometime in the next two or three years. There's not much room for them in x86, and they've clearly abandoned existing customers. But with
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by GHFigs 14y ago
The 2011 MBP could drive two 2560x1600 displays (chained) through a single port, which requires about the same bandwidth as a single 3840x2160. So I don't think that would be an issue, though obviously the GPU is still a limitation. I appea
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by GHFigs 14y ago
My pet theory[1] is that they'll jump to 4k/QFHD (3840x(2160,2400)) by using the same panels for a desktop Retina Display and as a stand-alone Apple TV. I think this would "shake things up" without having to sell in iPhone/iPad volumes. A d
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I wear glasses, too, but I think of it as a bug when there's something on the lens or when I talk to them. It feels like the very unobtrusiveness that makes them useful. Maybe it's Google's habit of showing off Glass without lenses that mak
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by GHFigs 14y ago
http://bgr.com/2012/07/18/ipad-prototype-photos-court-docume... “My recollection of first seeing it is very hazy, but it was, I’m guessing, some time between 2002 and 2004,” Ive testified. “I remember seeing this and perhaps models simil
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by GHFigs 14y ago
The inevitability of miniaturization notwithstanding, it's slightly challenging to imagine a less obtrusive version of something whose defining property is that it sits on your face. Maybe in five years we'll all be wearing smart-monocles.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Of course, you've supplied the answer yourself, by pointing out that higher standards are expected at trials. But trials aren't the only way people end up in prison anymore. I'm not sure if I understand what you're getting at. Aaron didn'
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by GHFigs 14y ago
he was charged with violating the CFAA and wire fraud Um, yeah. That's exactly the law[1] I am referring to. That's why I linked to it before and why I'll link to it again. Go read it . Because the rest of your comment is just plain igno
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Assuming that what is charged here is true - namely, that the prosecutors brought the case against Swartz because of his philosophical writings on open data The whole point is that it's not true! It's just something HuffPo, et al. are s
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by GHFigs 14y ago
The exact word being tossed around here isn't "established," but "proved." There are degrees of proof. The standard of proof required to press charges is lower than that to actually convict someone in a trial. This is high-school civics c
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I assure you, it's just a misunderstanding. I am not saying or in any way attempting to imply that he attempted to distribute papers. In fact, I will emphatically state that Aaron Swartz was not charged with attempting to distribute the pa
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Your analogy doesn't fit, as Aaron was not charged with something analogous to murder. It would be more akin to attacking, but not killing, Bob after having publicly declared that "It is a moral imperative that we should kill Bob." You migh
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by GHFigs 14y ago
got a bunch of snivelly equivocating about "intent" as a reply As somebody that took time out of his evening to address your prior comment with what I felt was sincerity and (I hoped) clarity, I'm sorry it came across to you as "snivelly
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by GHFigs 14y ago
This is bullshit. Establishing intent is not "targeting" someone. Of all the things to get upset about in this case, this has got to be the least worthy. It is the wrongest of wrong trees to be barking up. He was caught doing 'A'. He had pr
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by GHFigs 14y ago
You can be convicted of a felony for expressing an opinion about how to improve goverment? That's absolutely not what is being said there. He was not being charged because of what he wrote in 2008. He was being charged because of his obse
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by GHFigs 14y ago
The WebKit2 page explains: Chromium WebKit does not directly provide a multiprocess framework, rather, it is optimized for use as a component of a multiprocess application, which does all the proxying and process management itself. The Chr
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I like the part where you quoted me out of context to make me seem unreasonable. I don't know what you mean. I'm trying to show you why people perceive you as having an unreasonable sense of entitlement: it's the things you say that makes
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I don't have, can't get, and don't want a US cable TV subscription. I never said you do, could, or did. I responded to a comment by smtddr. I had no way of knowing you trying to redirect the thread to be about yourself, personally. My rep
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I don't understand. Netflix and Hulu are also subscription services. If it's about the price of a cable subscription, then brown9-2 was exactly right to begin with: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5276396

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