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by HillRat 10y ago
Evidently at least one lawsuit prompted the drafting of this semi-august publication. Good government means, in part, consistent and reliable application of rules -- even if it's as minute as the distinction between bolts and screws! T
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by HillRat 10y ago
Well, it is what it is -- haute Creole cuisine, its lineage derived from traditional, heavily-sauced French cooking. It's definitely not tailored to modern palates (I certainly don't disagree with you!), but they execute extreme
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by HillRat 10y ago
> I responded to an FBI call for recruits ... and was in their recruitment pipeline for two and a half years. Dude! Just nine more months and they would have completed your SSBI and you could have been forwarded to the next stage! God,
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by HillRat 10y ago
I've seen some of the results of what you guys teach -- you do good work. This is also the first year that I've regularly had senior executives and C-suites (as opposed to tech) ask me about agile as a qualifying or competitive fa
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by HillRat 10y ago
Dave Hickey's fantastic, very ... bracing . He's probably the only lasting thing punk left behind, this guy who writes with verve and insight about the importance of criticizing things, books and music and painting and building
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by HillRat 10y ago
"I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure of the windowpane." Pale Fire really is a joyous tour de force, and it prefigured much of modern literature -- DFW's endless use of footnotes has its source in
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by HillRat 10y ago
>I'd like to see a dialectic about why income inequality increasing is bad, in of itself. One main issue is that income inequality decreases socioeconomic mobility by inflating the cost of scarce goods that improve earnings capabili
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by HillRat 10y ago
>English has become the new lingua franca (still cracks me up to pause and consider that literally), for better or worse. On a completely pedantic note, lingua franca doesn't actually refer to what I think most people associate it
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by HillRat 10y ago
This is surely the weirdest governmental communication ever . I'm fascinated by the idea that someone had to tell the NSC and White House, "NSA wants to rickroll the Russian government using DoJ-owned bitcoins seized from a dark
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by HillRat 10y ago
And this is the stuff the hackers selectively released as a proof-of-work. The fact that NSA is silently letting these attack vectors release into the wild without -- as far as we know -- proactively working to plug the holes they knocked
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by HillRat 10y ago
There is a bit of truth in that. Leaving aside the frankly odious history of Western imperialism in China, it -- along with the historical memory of constant civil war and the aftereffects of Maoism -- has left a kind of pervasive paranoi
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by HillRat 10y ago
You may wish to check out the (free) books Logic, Programming and Prolog ( http://www.ida.liu.se/~ulfni53/lpp/ ) or Learn Prolog Now! ( http://learnprolognow.org ). Personally, I find declarative logic
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by HillRat 10y ago
Feels like someone faking a poor grasp of English -- there are linguistic "tics" in there that to my mind seem indicative of Asian and Slavic languages, but scattered about like chaff. My guess is that they're working to make
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by HillRat 10y ago
When only some people have security, nobody has security. This is the sort of event that should -- though it obviously won't -- lead to a policy debate about the wisdom of locating cyberdefense and cyberwar within the same hallwaus.
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by HillRat 10y ago
Really, though, that's like saying you wished you had bought Beanie Babies, MtG cards, or even tulips before the Dutch mania. Bitcoin isn't an investment vehicle, it's a cypherpunk Pog, and its value is completely dependent o
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by HillRat 10y ago
I was pleased to see "smartbools" as my first result. I believe they're part of C++ 17's effort to extend move semantics to value types.
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by HillRat 10y ago
The EU also funds, e.g., nursing education programmes at ex-polys that aren't likely to survive a post-Brexit funding winter. NHS staffing isn't quite so critical -- NHS is highly reliant on immigration from the Commonwealth more
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by HillRat 10y ago
My experience is that Angular 2 is a great solution for enterprise-style shops who are looking for an all-in framework. With React, you benefit from greater flexibility outside the view layer, but ... well, you also suffer from greater flex
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by HillRat 10y ago
That sounds like something the FTC should be all over.
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Why is the Dallas startup community turning on itself?(dallasnews.com)
1 points by HillRat 10y ago|1 comments
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Inside Russia's AI spytech startup(meduza.io)
13 points by HillRat 10y ago|0 comments
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by HillRat 10y ago
I don't think you're interpreting the parent post properly -- he or she is simply saying that, for some people, maximizing income is a primary goal; for others, income is just a tool for achieving other goals (family, hobbies, tra
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by HillRat 10y ago
This, plus the fact that the DNC is not a government agency and thus classification is not a concern.
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by HillRat 10y ago
I doubt it's anything so pedestrian as tax cuts; Thiel has been quite vocal about his disdain for the democratic system and his desire to see the US run as a quasi-private fiefdom led by a strongman CEO. Since it's hard to find a
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by HillRat 10y ago
What he meant is virtually irrelevant; the crowd understood it -- as one would expect -- as LGBT rights being a distraction from important things (such as, I suppose, the fight against LGBT rights). More directly pertinent to HN, I think, i
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by HillRat 10y ago
I would read Hett's analysis of the fire and subsequent investigation; there's excellent reason to think that van der Lubbe was not acting alone -- or perhaps not even involved in setting the fires themselves -- and plenty of circ
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by HillRat 10y ago
"Anti-marriage equality bandwagon?" Hell, the 2016 platform reportedly endorses conversion therapy .
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by HillRat 10y ago
>In a more free market, insurance wouldn't be tied to specific states - you could buy insurance from any firm in the nation willing to provide it. That's an idea that sounds good but turns out to be a nightmare in practice. You
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by HillRat 10y ago
Is that going to be part of MIT's Platform Studies series? Seems a natural fit.
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by HillRat 10y ago
If I recall correctly (it's been a while since I looked at the Convention and the specific implementation verbiage), aircraft carriers are explicitly verboten , but, as you say, non-riparian states also have a tonnage limit on capitol

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