WildUtah

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by WildUtah 10y ago
Facebook should not a lone scapegoat Actually it was Craigslist. Back before the internet, the single biggest pot of newspaper revenue was classified ads.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Great. That covers the 0.01% of all crackers that live in the USA.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Yes, it's a small but real risk foreigners should consider every time they chose to cross the US border.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
If you know something they want to know and they decide to make you reveal it, then you have the choice of going back home or revealing it. Entering the USA is not a right unless you are a citizen. But you're much more vulnerable if yo
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by WildUtah 10y ago
The government has everything you put on Facebook already. And everything you backed up to Apple or Google photos. And your emails. If there's something else they're interested in, don't carry it over the border.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Actual trained terrorists with experience at an organized training camp aren't going to have any actionable material on a laptop or cell phone. You have to be able to identify the dangerous citizens by other means.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
If your phone is logged in to email or Facebook, they can download the total contents and history of your accounts.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
I've been at it more than 20 years and I'm still delighted to learn new things about the language and the library. And it's under active revision and improvement. There are great new things to learn every few years.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Only more likely now. Scientists don't like being bossed by ignorant bureaucrats.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
The usual result is that no creative applications of the new technology are legal until both patents run out in 20 years. Or that a foreign nation that didn't accept the patents becomes the only center of innovation and the nation that
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by WildUtah 10y ago
If we can slow down biology enough, the AIs will conquer us and keep us as pets. They'll keep us from destroying ourselves with genetic reprogramming the same way we keep dogs from nagging their own wounds: With a cone collar. But this
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Trump can just re-word the XO, get it challenged first in Texas by a pliant patsy, and immediately appeal to the 5th Circuit. Then he'll have a unanimous ruling in his favor in the new circuit.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
The overwhelming majority of us would be pleased if smart people did their work anywhere they find accommodating. Why should it have to be in the USA? Science and tech innovations are quickly shared around the world in the present day. And
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by WildUtah 10y ago
* Universities make much more money off their Masters students, most of whom are international, and pay full tuition (or someone does for them).* It's a scam. The Ph.D. is the real graduate degree in US schools. If you get a MS, people
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by WildUtah 10y ago
When new faster CPUs appear, they add more nops.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
I have my editor set to expand tabs to spaces. It plays havoc with Whitespace programs. Leaves all the comments intact, though.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
If you look at the photos, some on Wikipedia, you can see the spillways are around a bend in the river from the main dam and pass over a high bedrock canyon wall.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
The dam is 922', but the emergency spillway is 901 feet and very, very wide. It's designed to make the dam impossible to overtop. Even the worst case scenario this year would not lead to overtopping the dam.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
3. The emergency spillway is 21 feet lower than the dam crest and very, very wide. It should be impossible for the main dam to overtop from water inflow. But there was some concern during design about tsunami. It's important not to ove
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by WildUtah 10y ago
When you put your dotfiles in a repository online, be sure to commit all the public keys and none of the private ones. Github, like SSH, uses an asymmetric authentication scheme. They even publish everyone's public keys. It's much
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by WildUtah 10y ago
I pick 1960 San Francisco, when it was the home of emerging 1960s culture and twenty year olds with unskilled 3/4 time jobs could buy a house and start a family. (That's the exact same house you need to make $550k to buy today) I
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by WildUtah 10y ago
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Stalled population growth creating widespread improvement in living standards is exactly what Malthus said would happen. He was just skeptical we could stall population growth. But then Malthus lived 100 years before rubber condoms were inv
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by WildUtah 10y ago
The people that said you wouldn't be able to afford an apartment in overcrowded SF were dead-on right. The people who predicted widespread traffic jams were right. The people who said that third world countries needed to cut birthrates
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Ugh. Let's Encrypt will issue you a single certificate for multiple domains on the same server. It's easy to set up, too. It's not just for multiple subdomains like sub1.example.com and sub2.exmaple.com. You can have any unre
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by WildUtah 10y ago
A and b are both well established facts. You are, however, still allowed to leave both the country and Facebook without restriction. For now.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
You can't make a city transit and walking friendly by grafting rail infrastructure over a car-based design. You need to allow development on narrower streets without minimum parking requirements on every lot and you need more populatio
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by WildUtah 10y ago
The landowner problem was much worse in Japan and Europe, but was overcome with cash and persuasion. The US rail construction problem is much more complicated and costly than that. And it applies to urban rail where the right of way is enti
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by WildUtah 10y ago
If you can get the trains to take you directly into the city center, it can often be a better option. That's because Boston and NYC are both navigable without a car. Only one side of the SF-LA link can claim to be close to that ideal
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Anyone can make any case appealable to the Federal Circuit just by throwing in any claim arising under the patent laws. You can add an obviously bogus and unrelated patent claim in initial filings and then drop it in pre-trial and still gua

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