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by bdisraeli 10y ago
This is totally wrong. Previous Supreme Court decisions, especially Gonzales v. Raich, have set a pretty clear precedent that the Federal Government has the authority to criminalize drugs even when their use is legal in a particular state.
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by bdisraeli 11y ago
The US can't default because it prints the currency it's debt is denominated in.
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by bdisraeli 11y ago
Is that with the 'Infinity' screen or whatever they called it? I just got the 1080p one and don't use scaling. I had a Yoga with a hidpi screen and agree that a bunch of programs just don't work at all with scaling in Li
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by bdisraeli 11y ago
I have an XPS 13 and run Linux on it. The drivers for the touchpad were very rough with the version of Ubuntu it shipped with, but updating to a Kernel version > 4 fixed all my problems.
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by bdisraeli 11y ago
It would be difficult (maybe impossible?) to do given the US's Federal system of dividing powers between State governments and the National government. The Federal Department of Justice investigates, but the only power they have is to
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by bdisraeli 11y ago
If you're interested in other things IPRA 'investigates', some people have FOIA'ed Chicago police misconduct complaints and created visualizations based on the data[1]. [1] http://invisible.institute/poli
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by bdisraeli 11y ago
There is no national body that oversees police, but Chicago has the Independent Police Review Authority. However IPRA rarely upholds complaints against police (it's staffed by ex-cops and other people connected to the police), and rece
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by bdisraeli 11y ago
Unless I'm totally missing the point of the instant search feature, this is definitely something you can do in Emacs[1], and something I believe I've seen co-workers do in Sublime. [1] https://github.com/syohex&#x2
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by bdisraeli 11y ago
Also the person in charge of lighting on a film set.
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by bdisraeli 11y ago
Cider (for Clojure) and Ensime (for Scala) give you excellent support for auto-completion, documentation, and refactoring in Emacs. It's definitely possible, so it probably just depends on how popular Emacs/Vim are in your languag
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by bdisraeli 11y ago
Russia was also one of the least industrialized countries in Europe in 1900 and had about 27 Million people killed in the Second World War vs about 400 Thousand Americans. This is not a valid comparison.
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by bdisraeli 11y ago
If companies don't want to use code licensed under the GPL, they're probably welcome to pay the original the author for a separate license.
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by bdisraeli 11y ago
Yes it's a client for the WhatsApp API, presumably reverse engineered from the what the official app does.
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by bdisraeli 12y ago
No Google forked Webkit into Blink[1] about two years ago. [1] http://www.chromium.org/blink
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by bdisraeli 12y ago
Why would private regulators be more efficient? Regulation will always seem inefficient no matter the nature of the regulating agency because it has different goals (ensuring safety and efficacy) vs making a profit for shareholders. Public
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by bdisraeli 12y ago
That email contains no evidence to back its claims.
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by bdisraeli 12y ago
Most states have their own FOIA laws. [1] [1] http://www.nfoic.org/state-freedom-of-information-laws
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by bdisraeli 12y ago
Why can't the rich have express-ways and make the poor drive dirt roads?
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by bdisraeli 12y ago
MBTI doesn't have tons of issues. It's entirely unscientific.[1] [1] http://www.indiana.edu/~jobtalk/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/deve...
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by bdisraeli 12y ago
The American invasion if Iraq, whose planning and execution Condeleeza Rice was involved in was clearly a violation of the UN charter, which prohibits aggressive action by one nation against another without the authorization of the UN Secur
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by bdisraeli 13y ago
You can use CORS [1] on browsers that support it. [2] You really should use it if at all possible given your application's constraints, so you don't have to abuse GET requests and can use a JSON parser. [1] http://en.m.
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by bdisraeli 13y ago
It ia not thorny. Discriminating on the basis of race is immoral. Period. You cannot determine someone's character or how they fit into an establishment's 'vibe' simply based on the color of their skin.
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by bdisraeli 13y ago
For a and b you should check our core.match [1] and core.typed [2]. One of the best parts of using lisps is that things that are features of other languages can be implemented as libraries. Not to say Scala probably isn't great too, bu
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by bdisraeli 13y ago
I really couldn't imagine that Yahoo would be liable for copyright infringement on user submitted content. Assuming they have a process for Porn Companies to submit DMCA Takedown notices, it seems Yahoo and Tumblr would be protected fr
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by bdisraeli 13y ago
Most people in the prison system are there for non-violent offenses. [1] In Chicago, blacks were arrested (before decriminalisation last year) for cannabis consumption at a rate of 15 persons for every 1 white person despite similar rates o
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by bdisraeli 14y ago
HTTPS Everywhere[1]. Using SSL certificates helps prevent man-in-the-middle attacks[2], such as this. Comcast wouldn't be able to read any of your traffic and insert js without spoofing SSL certificates. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webst
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by bdisraeli 14y ago
Why would it matter if they shut it down? With Google Takeout[1] Google has proven to be be pretty good about making sure users can move their data out of Google's services. So you use Keep it ends up being good[2], but then 1 year from now
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by bdisraeli 14y ago
I agree that it's unfortunate that there isn't be a Firefox on iOS, but it's a problem with Apple and their App Store rules and not with Mozilla. We have to remember that Mozilla is a non-profit foundation with a specific manifesto[1] that
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by bdisraeli 14y ago
Not all Smartphone users are iPhone users.[1] I use Firefox for Android as my primary mobile browser and am mostly pretty happy with it (I stay on the Beta channel so occasionally there are stability problems). In addition, Mozilla will so
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by bdisraeli 14y ago
I don't think piracy is the reason for including always-on DRM. Console makers are trying to kill the used game market in this generation. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/01/examining-sonys-intern...

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