Taylorious

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by Taylorious 13y ago
Perhaps people are under the impression that I am pro-death penalty because of my posts here. I am pro-death penalty in theory/philosophy, but I am not for it in the real world. Simply for practical reasons (cost of appeals process, an
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by Taylorious 13y ago
Statistics matter. Not everyone on death row is innocent. How many people on death row kill other inmates? EDIT: I meant to say how many people serving life sentences. But I suppose it applies to people on death row who never actually get p
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by Taylorious 13y ago
Someone innocent being sentenced to death is a tragedy. However, there are innocent people who get charged with life sentences or many decades, and they end up dying in prison from natural causes, murder, suicide, etc. Even if you get rid o
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by Taylorious 13y ago
Foul play is almost always a possibility if you over analyze things and don't have a lot evidence. If someone randomly kills them self by jumping off a bridge and no one sees it happen, there is no suicide note, or any other signs, the
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by Taylorious 13y ago
It's not a hard fall when it's cushioned with millions of dollars.
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by Taylorious 13y ago
It makes sense that public universities would become more expensive (because of state funding being cut), but what explains private universities raising their tuition so much? http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id
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by Taylorious 13y ago
I live in a medical marijuana state, but I think alcohol is still more of a controlling factor. However, I think weed is replacing it in the younger generation. This is especially true for the "just out of college" population. In
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by Taylorious 13y ago
I agree. I read A Brave New World as a kid, but being relatively young (22) it wasn't that long ago (maybe 7 years ago?) and it was post 9/11. It blew my mind how closely the culture of the society in the book resembled society to
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by Taylorious 13y ago
Why is it a testament to Jobs? I doubt he wrote even a single line of code any of Apples OSs. Did he design the UIs or did he hire someone and then just approve what THEY worked on and designed? I hate how people talk about Apple and give J
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by Taylorious 13y ago
I think the massive piles of money coming in may have been a contributing factor...
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by Taylorious 13y ago
More Context: It looks like he was wearing it at devcon to help recruit hackers. I wonder how that worked out for him. http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/27/technology/defcon-nsa/index....
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by Taylorious 13y ago
Just because congress secretly approved it doesn't make it legal. If congress secretly approved gulags where prisoners are worked to death like in North Korea, it wouldn't be legal just because congress said it was.
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by Taylorious 13y ago
That doesn't mean they aren't attempting to parse this massive data set. PRISM could be test run for all we know.
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by Taylorious 13y ago
As a Michigan resident I second this. I don't support his politics really, but he is the perfect example of what a politician is supposed to do for his constituents. I often visit his FB page to see what he has been up to. He always ha
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by Taylorious 13y ago
Well he did allude to all of the insane things he supposedly had access to like operative names, safe houses, etc. even saying something to the extend of bring the NSA down in an afternoon. If I was going to have deadman's switch, it w
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by Taylorious 13y ago
Why are people focusing so much on the salary? Besides, for all we know that 122k is his base salary he got serious bonuses, stock options, etc and so he valued his annual earnings at close to 200k.
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by Taylorious 13y ago
It's a colloquial term for sleazy lawyer. Specifically, it's a lawyer who seeks out people who were injured, so that they can be that person's lawyer and sue whoever was responsible.
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by Taylorious 13y ago
I think it has more to do with the particular company. Namely, a company that brags about how original their designs/products and is very sue happy towards anyone who imitates them in the slightest. On top of that, they have a lot of f
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by Taylorious 13y ago
I would attribute dropping out of HS/college more to laziness, apathy, or not wanting to be part of the traditional system, not anything related to intelligence. Its not because I know a lot of intelligent HS dropouts, but because I kn
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by Taylorious 13y ago
In regards to his salary, isn't it possible that the 122k is his base salary? Perhaps he gets significant bonuses, stock options, etc. to the point where he and others would round up to "around 200K." It sounds like they are
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by Taylorious 13y ago
Or NPR, The NYT etc. aren't as good a sources of news as you think, and you just haven't noticed until they covered a story in your domain that you are passionate about. I used to listen to NPR everyday. In my opinion they are one
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by Taylorious 13y ago
I've noticed this too. It's funny because the gaming community tends to be very polarized into fanboy groups for each console. It sort of weird right now because it seems like almost everyone is super pro Playstation. It's li
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by Taylorious 13y ago
Ahhh that's the event I couldn't think of. Yes the Aaron Swartz totally took over HN for a while.
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by Taylorious 13y ago
I'm not saying its terrible that HN is in an uproar over this, its just that I haven't seen HN this dominated by one topic since Steve Jobs died. There does seem to be a major lack of information on the issue though and unfortunat
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by Taylorious 13y ago
This whole story has had a baffling effect on HN. For the last few days 4/5ths of everything on the frontpage has been related to the NSA. I'm not saying that its not an important issue, but Christ do we need to have every blogger
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by Taylorious 13y ago
I laughed at how incredibly shifty the General is when he "answers."
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by Taylorious 13y ago
I'm sure many weak and cowardly people from the American Revolution said the same thing. It may seem hopeless but people (not just Americans) need to stand up put their governments in check. We live in a very unique time and have unique cha
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by Taylorious 13y ago
Hi I'm Firefox and I'm trying to be just like Chrome. Maybe if I try hard enough I will eventually be indistinguishable from Chrome and then I can just give up and let Google push me out of the browser scene entirely.
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by Taylorious 13y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely check it out. Although, I have trouble reading those types of books (and articles) because they tend to be a bittersweet experience. On the one hand I feel like it is sort of like a sin to be wil
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by Taylorious 13y ago
I don't normally upvote non-tech things on HN, but that was one of the most fascinating articles I have read in awhile. I started to idly read it, but immediately become engrossed.

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