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A list of privacy software packages for major platforms(pack.resetthenet.org)
1 points by Uhhrrr 12y ago|0 comments
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
"Girlfriend" doesn't mean "female friend", so it's not equivalent to "black friend". Rather, it means "person I'm in a relationship with". And people you're in a relationship with
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
Greenwald et al haven't finished their run yet, and have done a good job of keeping the story in the news. A second leaker probably wouldn't change the trajectory of the story right now. They may want to stay and see if things cha
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
You probably really meant to go here: https://news.ycombinator.com/apply
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
Reminds me of Kim Stanley Robinson's usage of Moholes for ore mining and energy production in his Mars trilogy: http://kimstanleyrobinson.info/w/index.php5?title=Mohole
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Funcgo: A compiler that converts Functional Go into Clojure(github.com)
10 points by Uhhrrr 12y ago|0 comments
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AskSamA: Did You Get To Ask Obama About Surveillance?
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by Uhhrrr 12y ago
You have your boss's phone number, right? As a matter of decorum you should at least do it over the phone. If they're hard to get hold of, then email something like, "Is there a good time to call you today?" or (only sli
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
Yeah, but the creation of more is pretty much a given.
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
There was an article in the NYT Sunday Magazine yesterday which had VP Biden being put on the hot seat by gay marriage supporters[1]; I would hope that the NSA's mass data collection practices, which are much less controversial (they a
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
Is this a joke or a prank? Because otherwise, ick. EDIT: If the event winds up being a 2 hour barrage of questions about the NSA, it might be redeemed.
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
"grok"? Not in common enough usage though, and not sounding nearly as pretty.
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
I have no love for Castro (maybe some contempt), but I think Marquez here is approximately as culpable as Shostakovich, which is to say not. He was a writer, not a reporter, and if we try to pull an artist down to the level of politics it&#
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
Some of them certainly were Communists. I don't have a great nonpartisan link ready at hand, but here is wikipedia: "Many of those who were imprisoned, lost their jobs or were questioned by committees did in fact have a past or pr
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&cha...
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
It literally says "How start", but does not literally say "how to start". "How start" could also be "How [would it] start". Don't let MSNBC do your thinking for you! >Arming and supporting the
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
Eh, there's no way that Rumsfeld memo is "How to start a war". Note that the first reason depends on Saddam attacking the Kurds - not very actionable for the US!
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
I think you meant to post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3PwG4UoJ0Y
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
The name expresses the intent very well, does it not?
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
Indeed, if the CueCat had had specific ties to online grocers' shopping carts, there would be nothing new about Dash.
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
Hm, how about, "How can metric X be gamed?", then?
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
http://www.klocwork.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/dilb... >if you come up with such a metric and have a developer who can't figure out a way to game it, perhaps you want to consider le
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
Per Yegge's post about Amazon's use of interfaces everywhere internally ( https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX ), he/Amazon is probably the prime user.
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
I have to imagine hotornot.com figured out how to deal with a few more than 1.
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
So far the best heuristic I've found is to not let smaller blocks get trapped behind bigger ones.
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
"Reverse Polish notation" - was this originally Hungarian notation before some layer of "fact checking" ruined it? I have no idea how one would program using RPN.
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
It's like Uber for ground-attack aircraft!
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
Possible branding problem: Cortana the Halo character goes insane after seven years.
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
Hm, and what is the runtime written in?
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by Uhhrrr 13y ago
To sell it to others a little more than you did: Folks, if you like that story you may well like Greg Egan's novel 'Permutation City'.

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