ajamesm

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by ajamesm 10y ago
There are ridesharing apps that integrate with local taxi fleets, too! I heard of Curb and Flywheel, which I'm going to try out soon.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Just 'conspirator'.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
$1M just got them the best PR campaign they could have hoped for.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
On the contrary, you should be thankful these people aren't actively stripping your house of valuables to afford necessities.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Subjectivity, huh? Who can truly say what is "due" in "due process"? Dispense with it!
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by ajamesm 10y ago
"Read my lips -- no new taxes"
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by ajamesm 10y ago
> I don't understand what these protests hope to achieve. They wrote a comprehensive explanation of their goals, and now their cause is on the front page of HN
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by ajamesm 10y ago
I worked at a non-profit that paid pennies on the dollar for their office space, specifically because the building's owner believed in their mission. If they had to pay the full price they probably wouldn't operate. Do you not kn
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by ajamesm 10y ago
I don't think anyone has an objection to honestly studying heritable traits, including those for intelligence, but rather we object to how quickly people cherry-pick individual studies to support ideologies, without paying any heed to
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by ajamesm 10y ago
> A certain ethnic group (Jews, Chinese, etc) does better everywhere they go. How many Jewish populations have been dispersed or annihilated throughout history, and their story lost? Instead of arguing for scientific racism, would you co
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Do either of your black friends know you invoke their race in internet arguments? I've lived in predominantly black neighborhoods and I've stepped over blood trails and crime scene tape to go to work, buddy, if that means credibil
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by ajamesm 10y ago
And you can find any number of analyses that all conclude, "yup, the link is completely spurious". The subject isn't debatable in polite company because it has been refuted so comprehensively that the only reason to still s
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Why do you blame culture, but ignore historical practices like redlining, or the obvious correlation with poverty, or the fact that American black people have had scarcely 50 years of equality under the law? That drugs in black communities
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by ajamesm 10y ago
The problem is so-called "race realists" boiling complex sociological issues down by way of lazy and fallacious thinking, and then not-so-subtly implying that there is a racial basis for intelligence and human worth. The snarky &q
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by ajamesm 10y ago
or, you know, legacy admissions. The way you wrote your post, you'd think the rich are inherently more virtuous and deserving
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Wouldn't it be possible to make the economics of DDoS symmetrical by enforcing repercussions at the ISP level? If 10,000 IPs are syn flooding, all out of one ISP, their peers can stop routing that ISP's traffic until that ISP star
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by ajamesm 10y ago
If 100k lives are at stake, then a $175 permit is the kind of pocket change you can work out after the fact, not a reason to uproot and relocate. The argument is disingenuous on its face.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
I believe that "no permit required" is for the permit office and the legislature to decide... Looking through your comment history, it looks like you have a very strong attachment to Uber! Strong to the point that you have to cre
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by ajamesm 10y ago
'legality' isn't the issue, it was Uber refusing to acquire the associated permitting.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
the Uber permit was a story because it WASN'T safe; it got in the news for running red lights.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
I would object too, but I don't see how that could be confusing moreso than any whiteboard "you get what I mean" pseudocode. The reader's walking in with knowledge of the product-based construction of N-dimensional space
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Those trades are probably black market profits, primarily drugs. Or oligarchs, whose circles haven't been penetrated by journalists. (Or, what, overstock.com?) I imagine Bitcoin would be a lot more popular if it weren't for the
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by ajamesm 10y ago
I'm reading a disagreement in your phrasing, but I think we're saying the same thing: Math notation is the wild west, dressed in the veneer of consistency but indignant at any untoward implication. Programming languages are praise
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Can I just chime in again and say, if your threat model includes an adversary who could compromise the Google Play Store deployment process, then you should be comfortable with validating the SHA hash on your APK binaries. Android is pretty
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by ajamesm 10y ago
I was wondering about the extent of NSLs in that regard. Thanks for clarifying.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
every tech worker who bought a motorcycle to be Hard and Cool just owned my karma with downvotes but you will never be a Hell's Angel
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Did you look at these metrics? They're weak as fuck. Most of them are "there's a platform or chart for this now" which is meaningless and probably intentionally decontextualized. To be clear, it's good that people
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by ajamesm 10y ago
The ACA could barely roll out a website without tragic failure, how have cell phones "dramatically improved" the lives of the poor? They're still subject to as much bureaucracy and denial of basic services as ever. 4G hasn&
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by ajamesm 10y ago
You're right, it's not really the product of some set "G" with itself but hooooo boy a programming/hacker forum is probably the wrong place to be defending the syntax of mathematical notation
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Is this a genuine question, or are you trying to be blasé about employing the Socratic Method on HN?

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