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by ballard 13y ago
Lessig / rootstrikers are working on the meta issue of campaign financing. Direct crowdfunding is part of it, the other part is holding reps accountable for their votes.
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by ballard 13y ago
Call it what you like and I'll call it what I like. This is Hacker News after all. As such, there's an implied value of individual expression, if not anarchy, associated.
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by ballard 13y ago
It was a repugnant act. Lawsuits may follow.
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by ballard 13y ago
There's likely global (but unprovable given nature of social science) precedent for this and similar in most every culture where fidelity and virginity were absolute sacred values. Another practice for example, rural villagers in Sout
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by ballard 13y ago
Definitely not, Russian moves confirm it. Any idea if the partial reunification will happen?
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by ballard 13y ago
Yeah, they only take plutonium and heroin. Might be sketchy.
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by ballard 13y ago
Separating movie portrayals and actual mindset... Wouldn't the MIC over-emphasize Russian reliability whereas the rank-and-file tend to underestimate it? Further, wouldn't RU do more or less the same, substituting design bureaus?
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by ballard 13y ago
Yup. It's purely badass value.
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by ballard 13y ago
I can vouch for this. A friend has a mig that's going to a museum, and they're gonna restore it to museum cond. FYI never tell or show anyone you own a jet in storage or it will be likely robbed of flight / nav gear. High s
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by ballard 13y ago
A serial bus of unique identifier switches (1wire or similar) connecting all the keys with a single loop could be cheaper at scale and solve NKRO. Possibly work on many vastly different (a few buttons to hundreds) product lines with the sa
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by ballard 13y ago
Makes me want to bust out my Northgate keyboard w fn keys on the left and top, two full keypads, Reboot button and detachable coil cable. Weighs almost as much as an IBM kbd.
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by ballard 13y ago
It's a balance between making a cool app and making a living. The zines are another part of building the cool and business too.
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by ballard 13y ago
Epicdollar startup of the future is: wallpaper color displays, Philip K. Dick-style. Top planetary database says this is the closest approximation: http://www.eink.com/display_products_triton.html No more steaming wallboard
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by ballard 13y ago
Did she lie about that too or was she using GnuTLS?
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by ballard 13y ago
LOL. :) The meta: know what you really want. Sex, companionship or kids: select up to two adjacent goals. Pick all 3 if you have a second condo and a burner phone.
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by ballard 13y ago
Unfortunately, the one you got lied about her picture. :)
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by ballard 13y ago
Much less likely if that's the advertised goal. It's better to go about group activities people enjoy, and not let dating become their all-consuming goal.
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by ballard 13y ago
It's a miracle Felix Denis got rich off those considering it's a double-ended marketplace (ads, mag buyers) and that UK lads mags competition is brutality incarnate.
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by ballard 13y ago
The proper name is "Man Jose."
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by ballard 13y ago
Paradox of Choice on both sides could make it seem there are no options when there are millions of them (or at least thousands of viable ones).
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by ballard 13y ago
It's the "elsewhere is valuable" "logic." Protip for men: Davis, CA not during summer has the highest concentration of unmarried, college educated, single women of any college town in the US, outside the Boston metr
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by ballard 13y ago
GoldDigginProTip: The moneyed men are all in Los Altos, except their newer model wives are young and hot.
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by ballard 13y ago
"It's like Great Expectations but with airplanes." Any service that takes money from people by preying upon their dreams is inherently evil. This doesn't solve dating because it's unsolvable on purpose. Unplanned
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by ballard 13y ago
To be clear, which Capital C Church? There was more than one religious flock within Christianity.
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by ballard 13y ago
These are the same areas that unfortunately still have honor killings. Regardless, cultural judgements are not an absolute truth, and so other ways, no matter how extreme or foreign, can be tolerated. The frontier that can be helped is h
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by ballard 13y ago
I've run it a zillion times. That's not the point, and that doesn't solve the problem. The point is per goroutine configurable stack sizes.
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by ballard 13y ago
Even fewer know what TLBs do.
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by ballard 13y ago
How is any of that relevant? The discussion is about carrier grade messaging maximizing connection density per server, not connecting a watch to a pair of sunglasses.
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by ballard 13y ago
How much minimum overhead (kernel and userland) per socket is there with a single process watching as many sockets as reliable via select/epoll/kqueue? Say a setup in C for simplicity's sake. Would be an interesting experim
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by ballard 13y ago
Interesting. Definitely important when I get around to finishing a mosquitto (mqtt) client/server framework. For anyone that isn't familiar, mqtt is used on a massive scale for telemetry data and log shipping. This makes it gr

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