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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "...chopping blades..." Presumably the drones' propulsion systems will have to be ducted fans for just this reason.
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by avn2109 10y ago
It is surprising that nobody in this thread has mentioned what I thought was the most widely-acknowledged argument in favor of firearms ownership in the United States. In my (rural, libertarian-leaning) home state, firearms owners often exp
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by avn2109 10y ago
This usually works OK in practice for small or medium projects, but as Brooks points out in the Mythical Man Month, you are also tripling your estimation error. This can cause a lot of divergence for longer projects.
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by avn2109 10y ago
Indeed, the core use case for an open Siri would be to avoid Apple Maps, e.g. by telling her to "use Google Maps to navigate me to X." They seem to be explicitly forbidding this :(
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by avn2109 10y ago
Part of me wonders if that line was dictated to Siri instead of typed.
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by avn2109 10y ago
When they make you write reviews, the trick is to write a very glowing one, including several perks that you wish you had but don't. e.g. "Great company, love the 20% own-projects time and work-from-home Fridays." This has al
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by avn2109 10y ago
Don't think so, the Americans gave the Aussies the E3 as quid pro quo for fighting with us in Iraq; it's not a bi-directional agreement.
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by avn2109 10y ago
Honest question, why are podcasts not just platform independent .mp3's or Ogg Vorbis audio for the purists? Note that I don't understand how a podcast is different from a radio show that somebody recorded on a computer, so maybe I
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by avn2109 10y ago
"... Unix is not just an operating system, but also a style of approaching problems." [0] http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/returning.html
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by avn2109 10y ago
A lot of the Hmong settled in the American North and West because of the CIA's liason with the Hmong, who was a Montana boy by way of Palo Alto. He thought the Hmong had fought hard against communism and would be massacred by the Viet
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by avn2109 10y ago
I routinely use the Pirate Bay to find torrents of Linux distros that are not even approximately "pirated material." It does have legitimate use cases.
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by avn2109 10y ago
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "Unless you're arguing with someone that will take any missing confidence as sign that you're completely wrong." This is 90% of people.
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by avn2109 10y ago
Note that the "give everyone excellent ratings" strategy is explicitly codified in the standard documentation that is exhaustively and thoroughly studied by every analyst and intern before they ever come near a performance review.
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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "I would really, really doubt this." It has happened plenty of times: http://www.wafb.com/story/1962125/arrests-made-in-tsa-baggag... http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/abc-news-
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by avn2109 10y ago
"Don't hold it like that"
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by avn2109 10y ago
These precedents are interesting, thanks for bringing them up. This gives me an idea for a constituency that might have standing to challenge Davis: Active-duty members of the military flying commercial, on orders, to remote locations acces
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by avn2109 10y ago
If cupping my butt cheeks is not a "search of my person" then I don't know what is.
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by avn2109 10y ago
Yes, by employees of the organization operating that airplane. Notably, the constitution does not prohibit search and seizure performed by airline employees who are unaffiliated with the government.
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by avn2109 10y ago
All those problems you mention are real, but they're not the main problem. The real problem with the TSA is that it's explicitly unconstitutional, since the 4th amendment explicitly prohibits search and seizure without a warrant
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by avn2109 10y ago
A guy I used to work with did this too. He had it tied in with his Git installation so it would listen for certain commit messages/branching actions and automatically modify Jira's state to reflect his work.
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by avn2109 10y ago
Before the Iranian revolution, Iran under the Shah was the USA's staunchest regional ally. And before that, the British and Russians spent centuries wrestling over influence inside Iran. There are sound geopolitical reasons to court Ir
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by avn2109 10y ago
From the article: "And while we're currently not enforcing a timeline to move..." I too was sad to see many of the new developments at Github, but if they were money grubbing like you say, wouldn't they make everyone swi
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by avn2109 10y ago
Just like how a lot of computing was built by the good guys as communication tools/for fun, before the sun and moon were created back in the 1970's, and used by the good guys for several decades before computing fell into the hand
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by avn2109 10y ago
Indeed, it is baffling. Am glad someone else is also confused.
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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "...but not both." What about Chicago. Way cheaper than New York, and has the second best train system in the country.
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My point is that a warrant allowing seizure of evidence does not transfer legal ownership to the the FBI. If the county owned the phone, then fine. It remained the county's, not the FBI's, regardless of any investigative warrants.
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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "...the original plan was that the TSA would set some rules and make the airports comply with them..." The TSA was created solely to transfer liability from the airlines to the government in order to prevent the airlines
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by avn2109 10y ago
My dad grew up under the Soviets, where he learned a thing or two about waste, inefficiency, and systematic corruption. He says the following: "If the government ever gives you the chance to bribe them, do it immediately and with a smi
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by avn2109 10y ago
I have eaten 4000 calories of fat in an afternoon, mostly in cream and butter as part of a giant poundcake trifle [0]. I didn't throw up but I really regretted it all evening. This was at a time when I was very active and eating around

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