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by SolarNet 9y ago
Some macs do use ECC memory (specifically some of the most popular varieties, like the Mac Pro) which is probably why you saw lower numbers on bit squatted domains.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Ranking systems help solve this. For example in games. Even in 5v5 games better players will eventually get to the top, because they will cause more games to be won in aggregate over their career. Similarly, systems of apprenticeship, and r
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by SolarNet 9y ago
There are branches of libertarianism that believe resources should not be sold by governments, but rather as commons. Some of them also believe in private property which is always annoying.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Do you believe in private property?
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by SolarNet 9y ago
> > It would be really nice to compose objects hierarchally: for example, if I had a widget class composed of several different renderable Rectangles, I want to be able to automatically generate the rendering code for my widget based
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by SolarNet 9y ago
AKA consistent.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Again, you are thinking patents or trademarks. My house may look the same, but it's been built by different people, different electricians, on different land. It probably has a different internal structure, different materials, and sli
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by SolarNet 9y ago
> On the other hand my using some technology does not prevent anyone else from doing the same. Yes, however, for the same reason people can own summer homes they don't use for half a year and retain that exclusivity - even though it
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by SolarNet 9y ago
It's a pain point with the entire design of federated services. On the other hand, the pain point with the monolithic services design of Facebook is I can't even talk to people on other services so... I'd rather be able to em
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by SolarNet 9y ago
By that logic we should get rid of property, since the property holder has a monopoly on the property. I would put "(i.e. opposite of a free market)" sarcastically, but I'm being serious. Go read an economics text book on the
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I mean, my view on the switching nodes thing is. It's not like you can just switch emails. Sure you can install a shim in there to forward everything, but there is no way to actually switch it. And that is the design GNU social uses.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Jury members, to be poignant about it, are not trusted to be objective. They are peers of the defendant. Historically they were the proletariat, and hence uneducated, base, and instinctive. Judges are supposed to be people who can be truste
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by SolarNet 9y ago
You can give up many of your constitutional rights to other people or corporations. Like privacy. They could ask him for a password and he would either tell them or be fired. Though not all Google employees sign this, just the Project X exp
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by SolarNet 9y ago
It's often by self-selected committee. All the judges (or their aides) get in a room and they divvy up the cases among themselves. There is often some other things that effect that too (like "on call" judges who handle variou
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by SolarNet 10y ago
But the money that funds PACs can come from commercial activities. If all a company has to do is create a PAC, and PACs don't need to be truthful, it seems to me commercial speech is protected.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Then super PACs are what again?
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Which is also a reason we should stop destroying the environment. There is a wealth of knowledge out there we have yet to acquire. If you ran a deep-learning algorithm using an entire planet for 3 billion years, the results would be conside
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Actually it's called rent-seeking and many capitalists would also call it bad (namely stemming from the failures of the patent system).
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Honestly that enhances the narrative. Just be like "data isn't like our idealized view of water" and "even water requires different pipes in different circumstances".
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Linux is advertised all the time on a site called Hacker News. This isn’t only "hacking" in the innocent "innovative coding" sense of the word. The participants in this particular forum regularly discuss computer intrusi
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Except there is opposing intent of him disabling the software of people implying they use it for illegal purposes. And there is an explanation that moves his advertisement there from intent to negligence.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Because it's come up recently and congress voted it down and the courts dismissed it. It's established case law and congressional law that supports his case strongly. This software is used for self-defense. If you install it on yo
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by SolarNet 10y ago
I'm not OP, but there are a few I could see some mentioned in the OP's post in passing. * The common lisp condition system [3, 0] is a way better way to do errors. * Tune-able compilers [1] allow you to make better trade offs than
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Or deeply personal like a journal.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
My guess would be that they suspect him of producing child porn, and they want the those files so they can add it to the list of hashes (they know there were hashes of child porn sent to his computer, but they don't know which hashes&#
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Most of them aren't as insane.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
That's difficult when a large company like Google or Microsoft use the tools as part of their development process to make their software more secure. These are organizations with a very large megaphone if the CIA did that to their empl
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Also, it's easier to build a circular roof than an entire dome.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
> You don't know that. No we don't. But we do know the other people in the office made jokes about the manager telling the author to cover up. I think they might have shared a "Don't feel bad, she told me to cover up
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by SolarNet 10y ago
At this point (danbruc correctly covered the first part of my point) you have basically reinvented an arbitrary precision library by storing the numerator, denominator and then having a utility function to choose the exact behavior of the r

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