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by aric 12y ago
I agree in spirit. It's worth including "private" schools in your statement. Depending upon local culture, non-government schools often have curriculums as ignorance-inducing as curriculums of government schools. Encouraging
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by aric 12y ago
Thanks for the follow-up. It's good to know. Cheers, and keep on (organically) keeping!
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by aric 12y ago
Hermit crabs are wondrous and hilarious. I had a couple as pets decades ago. That's before I knew about that industry and how it deprives these creatures of a beautiful, wild existence. The following is worth considering. http:/&
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by aric 12y ago
> The target audience of this device is the amateur, backyard keeper, aspiring, or with little beekeeping experience. To them, the appeal of this device is immediate: honey without work. I'd like to do some beekeeping. This device
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by aric 12y ago
> With GPL you run the risk of excluding people from the ability to participate. Prohibiting actions and thus excluding people is the point of GPL and most licenses. GPL is a cause. I'll keep reiterating that point. To some people
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by aric 12y ago
GPL and copyleft further a cause. It's primarily for increasing user freedom . User freedom isn't developer freedom. It's everyone's freedom, indirectly. You're free to disagree with its agenda. But recognize it as
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by aric 12y ago
That's my first assumption. It's less strenuous and breathy to sustain an um, at least for me. There's a clear parallel to duh (like uh ) usually concerning topics of [obviousness and stupidity] and hmm (like um ) usual
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by aric 12y ago
Warning to users of Asus firmware: In the Administration > Firmware Upgrade tab, never rely on their [Check] version button. It's consistently inaccurate. It's a long-known (and serious) flaw that's been like this since da
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by aric 12y ago
Semantics is contingent upon meaning. Meaning varies and changes. Meaning is defined over time. That's the case with most words. In formatting text, it's as semantic to say that tabs are for "tabulation" and "indent
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by aric 12y ago
This is another game changer. Personally, the portability of C++ is, by far, its own reward. But I'm thrilled for others that C# is finally becoming an option. It's been many months in waiting for Unity users sitting on the fence.
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by aric 12y ago
Funny, I had edited it just before you said that. I know but it's muscle memory in typing Ghana.
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by aric 12y ago
Gandhi didn't receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Snowden is in good company. It's company with the rest of the world at that.
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by aric 12y ago
Like I said, I respect that using the word "primary" is contentious. If that's your only true point, then there's little argument to be had other than a subjective nature of what I consider primary. If your argument exte
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by aric 12y ago
The term "Constitutional right" refers to legal rights derived from and related to the Constitution. Hence, they're termed Constitutional . If you disagree with this term, you disagree with thousands upon thousands of other
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by aric 12y ago
It's just a well-placed pun. Apple's mobile phones use ARM-based processors. https://www.google.com/search?q=arm+processor+apple
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by aric 12y ago
ARMs.
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by aric 12y ago
You're quite right to post it. It confirmed how I remembered it. He was resolute in that sense. To say that an arbitrary person (the implied subject) has a chance of "zero" is to effectively say it's "zero" for
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by aric 12y ago
Colbert: "What are the odds that I'm going to get Ebola?" Sepkowitz: "Zero. Next question." --- Thanks for posting the link. I wouldn't interpret what he said as only directed to Colbert. It's normal for a
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by aric 12y ago
It's wise to prepare. Panicking and being prepared are two very different though overlapping behaviors. The part that 'bugs' ( sorry ) me the most lately is when someone claims certainty about Ebola's chances of spreadin
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by aric 12y ago
They should expand this museum. I want to virtually walk down The Hall of Shame. That KL-7 sim looks like a cool idea. I don't see any source though. Might be fun to create other ones, but browser-based. http://www.cryptomus
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by aric 12y ago
It's a semantic rut, perhaps. It's not necessarily my semantic rut. Off the bat he was arguing down this road as if to suggest that I was implying that "remaining silent" was explicitly spelled out in the Constitution --
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by aric 12y ago
People or certainly some companies might be put off from contributing due to licensing. That might be. However, it shouldn't be understated that a great number of contributors to GCC do so because of its license.
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by aric 12y ago
You're confusing explicit rights with implicit rights built on precedence. Much of what's considered Constitutional rights is not definite and explicit. Likewise, the Constitution doesn't explicitly state that you have a righ
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by aric 12y ago
I'm referring to the right to not self-incriminate. That is the issue at hand. What you said is untrue twice over. It's central to this issue and it does "need" to be invoked. The SCOTUS made some fateful rulings in 20
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by aric 12y ago
"...the courts said the only exception is if defendants expressly tell police they are invoking their Fifth Amendment rights..." The absence of speech should be protected as freedom of speech by the First Amendment. The emphasis
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by aric 12y ago
I wondered why there'd be any hate for my comment even as it's destined to fall into obscurity. Quite alright! :) I appreciate your follow-up. Just a few basic features like that added to HN would make a huge difference.
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by aric 12y ago
There's a trick for those side-by-side stills without a flicker. If able, go cross-eyed focusing between them to converge upon a 'third' image. If you've done stereograms, you'll know. Differences will show up easil
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by aric 12y ago
Dubai's laws are atrocious. It's trivial to become implicated. Severe imprisonment of citizens and unwitting travelers alike is the primary reason to stay out and not support Dubai's economy. Only an illusion of legal moderni
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by aric 12y ago
Binney had the guts to step back and speak out. He could've kept playing ball. THINTHREAD or not, his subsequent actions are worth praise. Credit is given where credit is due. Very little else is out there to encourage people in high p
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by aric 12y ago
You're not hearing about anything major because those who have major exploits aren't about to tell the world. Successful intrusion here means what it usually means: RATing any devices possible; patching those devices themselves; i

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