RyanMcGreal

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   by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

   Bradley Manning is not a criminal. He's a prisoner of conscience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_conscience
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   by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

   > The push to change the law came after it emerged last year that the GCSB illegally spied on Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom before armed police raided his Auckland mansion as part of a US-led probe into online piracy. > At the time Key
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   by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

   > I also designed my own cardboard Transformers that would actually transform! Heh. I used to make paper Transformers that transformed. They were at least as fun as the real toys, and a lot more portable. I may even still have them somew
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   by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

   Essentially, the article accuses AI researchers of searching for their lost keys under streetlamps. Fair enough, but I wonder if the best use of AI research is to get computers to solve problems that a person could easily solve. I thought t
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   by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

   Hmm. That's unfortunate. Their content is generally interesting - it's too bad they're willing to discredit it with manipulative social engineering.
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   by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

   Honestly curious: why do some commentators seem to hold The Atlantic in disdain?
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   by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

   Looks like you're reasoning at level four: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg's_stages_of_m...
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   by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

   There was a good HN discussion when spark was first released: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3237478 Several people ported it to other languages. Here was my humble effort: https://gist.github.com/quan
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   by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

   Dear PBS: I don't want to localize my PBS experience. I just want to read the article. :P
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    My understanding is that the server should respond with 401 Unauthorized when someone is attempting to access a resource that requires authentication. What is the case for using 403 instead?
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    Ironically, you have essentially structured your comment as a traditional essay: * First paragraph introduces the topic and states your thesis. * Second paragraph expands on the thesis. * Third paragraph makes arguments in support of the th
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    The CIA has spent years denying that it created a file on Noam Chomsky, but an FOI request has now uncovered an FBI document referencing the CIA file. The CIA file was destroyed at some point, and it is not clear whether that was done in ac
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    Sidenote: it looks like the people behind qz.com fixed the 'feature' whereby scrolling up past the top of an article would replace it with the previous article. This has made reading articles on that site less aggravating.
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    That was a surprisingly petulant and inaccurate summary of the article.
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    Damascus is currently like Tatooine: 36 degrees C and fair.
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    Sigh. It was a joke, in reference to the abysmal quality of YouTube comments.
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    Nothing changed.
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    I don't mean to suggest there's nothing people can do. However, it's facile and unhelpful to suggest that this is a simple engineering problem. The reason campaign finance is hard to fix is that the people who have the power
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    Most liberal democracies do have protections equivalent to the First Amendment. For example, here's the list of Fundamental Freedoms under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: > 2. Everyone has the following fundamental free
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a little over 2,200 words and is clear and concise. http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-15.html The Bill of Rights, on the other hand, is so terse that deba
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    What makes the American Constitution exceptional is not its content but the fact that it was written in the late 18th century. In the intervening two centuries, several other industrialized liberal democracies have adopted constitutions tha
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    I sanity-checked the service with some common unisex names. Here are the results I got: Unisex: Robin, Alex Female: Kelsey, Carol Male: Leslie, Jodi, Jody, Frankie, Kelly, Marion, Casey, Jamie, Jordan, Mackenzie Null: Pat, Taylor, Dale
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    Why Home-Cooking From Total Strangers May Be the Future of Food(theatlanticcities.com)

    1 points by RyanMcGreal 13y ago|0 comments
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    Mea culpa. I was just trying to make a joke.
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    I agree that easy, broadly-accessible secure communication is an important problem to solve, but it does not address the (arguably larger) problem of eroded social trust. A low-trust society just doesn't work very well, and no amount o
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    The problem with "Real change starts at X" statements is that they necessarily handwave around the circularity of the problems we face. We can't get better policies until we elect better parties, but we can't elect bette
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    Maybe he can start by helping with their website database...
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    How human-readable is the compiled javascript?
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    The median US wage has been stagnant or falling since the 1970s.
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    by RyanMcGreal 13y ago

    Left to its own devices, the labour market is a Zipf distribution. If you want a large middle class, you need policy to create it.