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by acbabis 10y ago
My bad. It took me several re-reads of your comment to figure out that you were attacking the usage of the word "freedom" and not comparisons between freedoms in China and other countries.
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by acbabis 10y ago
If you are allowed to criticize policy, you have a discrete and specific right that people in other parts of the world do not. My point was that saying "it's all relative" doesn't tell the whole story, though I'm be
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by acbabis 10y ago
> Isn't it all relative? Couldn't a fully libertarian state make some claims about freedom regarding the US that are similar to the claims the US makes regarding China? No, there's a fundamental difference between living i
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by acbabis 10y ago
> Why does everyone try to solve this problem from first principles? Trying to solve the problem from first principles is probably how a lot of the posters came to the conclusion that it wasn't possible. If the problem were possib
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by acbabis 10y ago
Add mandatory auto-fill in the omnibar to the list of grievances. If you do a search for "JavaScript" and then later perform a search for Java by typing "Java[Enter]", it will do a search for "JavaScript" inste
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by acbabis 10y ago
I just downloaded this and made a 1-liner to try it out. Really cool. Worked just fine in FF. Not sure why it didn't do anything in Chrome on Mac. > setInterval(function() { Push.create('Hi') }, 2000);
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by acbabis 10y ago
I'm confused by what it means that the semantics of imports weren't part of the spec yet. Do you mean polyfills like es6-module-loader ( https://github.com/ModuleLoader/es6-module-loader ) were just guessing ho
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by acbabis 10y ago
Does this include native module import/export? I never saw anything to suggest they were even working on that.
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by acbabis 10y ago
They're probably time-lapse photos. The captions don't say that a human observer would be able to see this much.
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by acbabis 10y ago
Agreed. I'd have to say pejorative puns are on-par with scare quotes for signaling lack of substance.
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by acbabis 10y ago
The sad thing is, I would probably buy a Heartbleed CD
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by acbabis 10y ago
"3 crazy changes made local [your town here] mom save 50% on solar panels in just 16 short months. What happens next is incredible"
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by acbabis 10y ago
> The general quality of discourse on any thread seems to drop hugely whenever politics comes up. I'm not so sure about that, especially when compared to other forums. People here often cite specific laws, articles, and papers when
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by acbabis 10y ago
You mean in addition to jury duty, citizens would have legislation duty? Seems legit.
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by acbabis 10y ago
> Good point, and I've seen this stuff referenced before, so perhaps my comment above is a little over-stated. No worries. My main criticism is that the author's position (that big companies aren't relying on JS) was ove
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by acbabis 10y ago
A while back, the frontpage of the Node website had a list of all the companies using Node. Microsoft was one of them
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by acbabis 10y ago
> The truth is, most Fortune 500 shops aren’t basing their businesses on JavaScript and never will I'm not sure what the author means by "basing their businesses on JavaScript" but lots of Fortune 500 companies are using t
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by acbabis 10y ago
Hmmmm, you make a valid point.
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by acbabis 10y ago
What makes you think I care about Henchman #752? His boss is the one who has to suffer the consequences of his stolen fingerprint.
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by acbabis 10y ago
Not saying I disagree, but a layperson paying attention to a sci-fi movie could figure this one out on their own. How often does the protagonist circumvent the fingerprint scanner with a) A piece of tape , or b) the hand of the armed gua
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by acbabis 11y ago
I think prophesi is suggesting it would be fun to use for something non-professional such as a single-player browser game. You could, for example, make it possible to hack the game by hacking the DOM, or unlock godmode by changing your play
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by acbabis 11y ago
Why use photoshop? The browser will make a pixel-perfect forgery with almost zero effort.
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by acbabis 11y ago
The `.lock` function takes two optional parameters: `alertMessage` and `customHandler`. `customHandler` is a callback invoked when a content change is attempted. `alertMessage` is a convenience function that calls `alert`; it could be trivi
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by acbabis 11y ago
If the AI is trained by humans, the AI will have the humans' biases. Such an AI would likely censor politely-worded yet counter-hegemonic views.
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by acbabis 11y ago
IMO, the best way is by rating weighted by time. The top comments are the ones that have a lot of points or were posted very recently. That way, new comments have a chance to get upvoted. A lot of sites (e.g. Reddit, YouTube) do this.
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by acbabis 11y ago
When I read about a topic I'm not very familiar with, I often go to the comments to see other perspectives. If an article leaves me with a nagging suspicion that the author's evidence is weak, that's a strong predictor that I
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by acbabis 11y ago
What do you mean "deleting data from storage doesn't speed up computers?" Deleting old files certainly makes file searches faster.
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by acbabis 11y ago
That's fair. I think it makes more sense to write a function you know is functional and then test for expected output. I'm not sure under what circumstances you wouldn't be sure if your code was functional.
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by acbabis 11y ago
The writer says as much toward the end of their article: > trying to prove that the output changes is the same as trying to prove that the program finishes writing. Thus it is theoretically undecidable.
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by acbabis 11y ago
I think the article is holding self-driving cars to a higher standard than regular cars. > City parking -- lots, street spaces, garages -- are designed with adequate space for people to get in and out of those cars. Driverless cars can b

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