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by anextio 12y ago
Indeed. There are many better examples of post-war soft power projection through economic meddling that this case could be compared to. Not the nazis. They are far on the other side of the economic meddling coin.
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by anextio 12y ago
It's clear from the memo that the FCC considers security risks to be exempt from this requirement. It sounds like the AP being on your network is what constitutes the security risk. I doubt the FCC would have a problem with a network a
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by anextio 12y ago
> the fact that this doesn't happen seems to imply that people who use their services don't really care about their WiFi blocking. This projection of supply-and-demand is uncalled for, I think. Maybe it would be valid if a) the
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by anextio 12y ago
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, Timeline is a news app that appears to publish articles with historical context and an innovative UI. Why would you compare them? Apples and oranges, imho.
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by anextio 12y ago
The point is that these are not just brain teasers, these are just distilled examples of problems with which the brain often chooses a short-cut algorithm. The implication is that analogues of these situations happen all the time, and your
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by anextio 12y ago
I think you need to look at the fact that a lot of people are considering BI solely because of expected advances in automation. If we're looking at a situation where a vast, vast amount of the value created in the economy is pumped in
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by anextio 12y ago
A combination of the aggressors and the system they were able to exploit.
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by anextio 12y ago
Ah yes, I think we might actually be somewhat on the same page, at least in terms of our exploration of these things.
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by anextio 12y ago
> Almost everyone, liberal or conservative, builds their arguments around the idea that there's some mythical golden age that we need to go back to. Except for most conceptions of socialism/communism (talk of proto-communist hu
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by anextio 12y ago
Arrow's Impossibility Theorem only applies in cases where ranked preference is the only information in the vote. The "people", not being an individual or an AI or whatever, has a more complex preference vector than a ranked l
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by anextio 12y ago
Take a look at this: https://intelligence.org/files/CEV.pdf But also, what in particular makes you think that experiencing human emotions are fundamentally required in order to optimize for human values? A different mi
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by anextio 12y ago
The sun rotates on its equator once every 25 days.
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by anextio 12y ago
> Turing made great contributions, and had a great mind. But we did not need him, or any other particular individual. > What do you think would have happened if Turing had never been born? And yet, he was born, and he did contribute,
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by anextio 12y ago
Other art forms have been subject to feminist and other criticism for a long time. Only recently has attention been turned to video games, as the genre is so new. The reaction from a minority in the video games community seems to view this
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by anextio 12y ago
This app-nap functionality is available in OS X too so long as the app implements the correct APIs, which many do. This was introduced in 10.8 as part of their performance effort I believe. This is seen in OS X when an app window appears gr
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by anextio 12y ago
It's not just the monetary cost. Every time first responders of any kind are deployed there is an inherent risk to their lives. First responders have to drive fast to get to their destination quickly. SWAT teams are heavily armed and a
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by anextio 12y ago
New phones are also not tied to the x86 platform, and generally run software that has been optimized from the start for performance. There are other considerations too. Phone usage patterns are way different to computer usage patterns. The
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by anextio 13y ago
Objective-C programmers have been using refcounting at scale for at least 2 decades. No problems here.
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by anextio 13y ago
USCIS is generally very wary about L-1 abuse. The US company would need a full staff and board of directors. i.e. Both sides of the equation have to be real companies doing real things who have a legitimate need to occasionally bring employ
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by anextio 13y ago
As others have said, if you've already convinced the user to run untrusted unsandboxed code then it doesn't matter whether it installs an iTunes plugin to do its dirty business. I have an even easier to implement attack - a menu b
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by anextio 13y ago
> Also they have several system architectures and complete API rewrites over the years that mean their client-base rewriting the entire universe every time they move the goalposts. There have only been two instances of that: 68k to PPC a
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by anextio 13y ago
Just tried it, yes it does.
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by anextio 13y ago
Because objc_msgSend exists outside of the normal ABI and calling convention. If you were to write it in C then unless you tore out the ASM generated by the compiler manually you'd have calls to objc_msgSend in the call stack in betwee
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by anextio 13y ago
No, the bus is owned by a third party contractor. That does not count as Google's workplace.
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by anextio 13y ago
That's not even true.
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by anextio 13y ago
And what do you have to back up that assertion? From the outside it looks like your comment could easily be translated as "women need to know their place", but with fancier words to make it look philosophical. > "humans ar
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by anextio 13y ago
It takes more than a few paragraphs to sum up the pathological problems in neuroscience research. Studies like the one in the article give us data points, but nowhere to draw any conclusions from. Conclusions in things like this are very of
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by anextio 13y ago
Are you really disregarding, with scare quotes and a smiley, an entire field of study to which many thousands have contributed papers, books, and research? It's this attitude that leads to the sexism in our industry. Seeing this kind o
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by anextio 13y ago
They are bundled with the devices in the EU.
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by anextio 13y ago
> Are e-cigarettes regulated by a governmental agency to ensure that they only include listed ingredients? No, but they should be. No one is arguing that quality control isn't important. The problem is that the debate is being marre

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