SeanDav

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by SeanDav 13y ago
NZ makes some great laws (this is one of them) but it makes a few dodgy ones as well - like trying to give Chimpanzees human rights. Sorry I brought that one up but is one of those laws that has always just made me say - "What the fuuuuuc..
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by SeanDav 13y ago
> It's written into our Constitution Of course it is. Other things like free speech etc that are also in the constitution are being run over because it suits the government and Hollywood, yet the right to bear arms has barely been touc
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by SeanDav 13y ago
I too can read faster than most people can talk, but I have the opposite view to you. If it is a technical subject and the lecturer is good then I get far more from a lecture than a book, in the same amount of time . Kahn lectures are an e
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by SeanDav 13y ago
>Europe's not some corruption-free idealistic utopia I never said it was. Just in general Europe is driven more by what is good for the people, not what is good necessarily for big business. How else do you explain the gun laws of USA
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by SeanDav 13y ago
In Europe many of the laws tend to try to follow good moral principles. In the USA it would likely be the same if Big Business didn't have such a massive influence on law making.
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by SeanDav 13y ago
According to the OP the interview process went quite smoothly. Since this appears to not be typical YC style I would think that this shows something else at play here. It seems to be a matter of perception. They sound like a rather alternat
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by SeanDav 13y ago
How do I find these? I don't see any Google+ links on gwern.net.
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by SeanDav 13y ago
I came here to post pretty much the same thing. If you believed the commercial success of all the solar panel breakthroughs we have been hearing about, then by now every solar panel would be the size of a postage stamp, be generating 12 KW
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Probably voicing an opinion in this thread might get you investigated at some point in the future....
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Right, so that was your opinion. Nothing wrong with having an opinion but on HN we try to back our opinions with real world data, otherwise it becomes just a case of he-said, she-said. Have you ever considered that the suitability or otherw
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by SeanDav 13y ago
You are doing a lot of hand waving, with very little backup. Where are your credible sources that class based OO is so much better than prototype based OO? Personally I find prototype based OO very powerful and easy to use, but you won't ca
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by SeanDav 13y ago
In defence of ColinWright, it was partly due to his quick comment, upvote and crosslink that got this story onto the front page. Otherwise it might have floundered and never reached the front page, which would possibly have meant a whole fl
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by SeanDav 13y ago
I am surprised to see this happening in the USA, I thought that UK had the title sewn up for "Unbelievably Stupid Jobsworths"
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Not working on Firefox. Tested and working on latest versions of Chrome, Opera and IE8 for Windows XP. Edit: Removing HN cookies (3 of them) made Firefox work again for me.
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Ask HN: Why can't I login to HN via Firefox?
150 points by SeanDav 13y ago|101 comments
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by SeanDav 14y ago
ouch, that is cruel, but strangely relevant...
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by SeanDav 14y ago
How can you not see a potential conflict of interest here? The OP is the founder of a website which encourages you to download various software from their site. Ninite could potentially allow users to bypass the OP's site, which could clear
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Spyware used by governments poses as Firefox, and Mozilla is angry(arstechnica.com)
12 points by SeanDav 14y ago|1 comments
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Perhaps you should have disclosed your own interests before criticizing Ninite....
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Please expand further. I would be very interested in what you base this comment on and examples of better versions for these.
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Sounds like Berkeley are making a huge mistake and losing sight of what a University is there for. They seem to have moved to a more practical approach than theoretical approach. This is the type of approach that is more appropriate to a Te
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by SeanDav 14y ago
If you look at http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg180ztgSzm1g10zm2g... there certainly seems that a case can be made that the Cyprus fiasco had a huge effect on the value of Bitcoins.
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Might Bitcoin's pros also be cons?(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by SeanDav 14y ago|1 comments
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I doubt you would have felt the same way if Github had announced they were making free repositories available, but only to male developers...
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Nuts pulled from shelves for having no nut-allergy warning(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by SeanDav 14y ago|0 comments
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I get as much value from the comments as the stories themselves so: - HN (still the king for quality of comments as well as generally interesting links) - Reddit (some sub-reddits are very interesting, especially domain specific ones) - Sta
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Why I Let My Students Cheat On Their Exam(zocalopublicsquare.org)
267 points by SeanDav 14y ago|90 comments
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Having to pay 171 million in restitution is pretty much a life sentence don't you think? I don't think anyone here is saying there should have been no punishment or consequences, but do you seriously think his sentence is proportional to hi
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I wondered what everyone was talking about here, then realized that since I have noscript installed, I was looking at the site with no javascript - and it was perfectly readable. Once I activated javascript I saw what the fuss was about. So
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Sounds like you are in full agreement that a young guy that received no monetary reward should be punished for the rest of life for a program he wrote in 10 hours. Also you seem to be in complete agreement that the prosecutors got it right

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