MichaelSalib

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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
I don't think photo ID's are an effective certificate for proving identity. So why are we even talking about them? Photo IDs are the solution being discussed here, not some theoretical has-yet-to-be-invented technology that is i
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
And currently, some form of ID is needed. That's just not true. I vote without showing any ID at all.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Why do we keep excusing people from having a basic mechanism to prove who they say they are? Given that bored teenagers in search of beer can easily forge IDs, what makes you think current photo ID cards are an effective certificate for p
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
It was my father in law, not me. And of course they were bigots. That's the point: there are a lot of bigots in the US. He thought it wasn't worth the effort to report them, and frankly, I kind of agree. Who wants to spend years f
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
We know that voter id requirements are based in voter suppression because those requirements are targeted to preventing an attack that is economically infeasible and they don't even effectively mitigate the attack. Look at my other com
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Indeed. My father in law was denied an ID when he moved to a different state. He is a US citizen of Pakistani origin, and the DMV staff refused to issue him a drivers' license because they were convinced that the was not a US citizen.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Sure, you could maybe read a name...and then you have to show up later in front of the same election worker who checked you in earlier. Don't you think they'd recognize you? When I vote, I have to make eye contact and speak with f
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Let's say I show up at the polling place and try to vote in someone else's name. If they've already voted, then I'm in deep trouble. In fact, my polling place often has a police officer hanging out on election day. If th
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
If you can get exactly the same benefit, then why pay the cost of overriding behavior of the integer type and dealing with hidden black magic that makes your program harder to reason about?
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
I feel the same way that hamburgler does. For me at least, you java calendar code looks horrible. I'm thinking something more like date.today() - timedelta(days=2)
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
I learned to drive in the mid 90s and it was repeatedly hammered into my skull that drunk driving is extremely dangerous. That included in school testing on a table showing impairment as a function of weight and number of drinks. This was a
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Sure. Have your entire kit powered by a AA batteries. Any connection to the outside world should be either radio-only (wifi/bluetooth) or optical. That way, there's no electrical path that can carry current from a device that&#x27
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Object relational mappers. Or think of anything that in the java world you'd do with an XML file and an external build process, like SOAP APIs or parser generators.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
You're right. My mistake. I like automata and I think regexes are good for some things, but I definitely agree about the crappy syntax. When working in CL, I loved Edi Weitz' CLPPCRE package which allowed you to specify regexes us
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
An engineering culture obsessed with never innovating. Do you know what happens when an Orbital engineer wants to verify that a satellite will have enough battery power throughout its lifetime even given eclipses? They copy an excel spreads
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
I didn't forget: the (o.lstrip(0) or '0') expression does that. Actually, that should be o.lstrip('0')...
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Competitors like Orbital deserve very little publicity. I know something about engineering practices at Orbital (my spouse used to work there) and they're just not comparable to SpaceX at all.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Maybe something like this: def is_ipv4_addr(s): try: octets = s.split('.') assert len(octets) == 4 for o in octets: assert 0 <= int(o.lstrip(0) or '0') < 256 except
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
I'm kind of amazed that this comment is the one that gets downvoted to hell. I'm not complaining, just surprised.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Which law does it violate? I mean, I think Gitmo is monstrously unjust. But there are lots of injustices that are perfectly legal. I also think how the US treats its many many prisoners is monstrously unjust.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
why are they still treated as if they are, shackled even when alone and watching television? Because the government is stupid and evil and because treating the detainees fairly is politically impossible. Everytime an idiot congressman vis
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
as if that's what anyone wants I don't think anyone wants that, but I do think some people haven't thought through the consequences of their policies. Aren't you the ass who came up with "green lanternism"?
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
threatening to resign if congress won't bend on this jacquesm, I want you to change your position. If you don't do that, I'm going to give you $100,000. There, that should be effective. I'm sure you'll change your
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Do you mean have the US Navy take the detainees with them? If so, then the question is: where? You can't take them into the US because Congress has made that illegal. You can't take them into other countries because those countrie
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
If the detainees home countries refuse to take them now, why would they suddenly agree when Cuba offers? I mean, at least the US can do some horsetrading on this issue (which it seems to have), but Cuba is much poorer and has a lot less to
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
I think the US government should offer most of the detainees visas to come and live in the US and should offer them financial compensation for unjust imprisonment. That is politically impossible, so I think the government should continue wo
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
No problem jacques. Just to be clear though, you still haven't been able to explain even one legal effective option the President has for closing Gitmo.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
I've never met anyone who programmed in C because they were too dumb to learn anything else I have. They were too dumb to understand that they were writing unsafe C code because they weren't skilled enough to write safe C code.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Because those countries generally don't want them back. Or because they don't want to go back. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_detainees_at_Guantanamo_... for an example The US government has ruled th
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
There are options, Obama chose to pursue none of those. Of course there are options. The President could simply have ordered the military to start executing members of opposition leaders' families until they complied. He's the c

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