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1021.
by bdowling 11y ago
The reason that the government wanted the Clipper chip was to make it possible for police agencies to listen in on the encrypted communications of suspected criminals, often ones whose activities would certainly involve the possibility of p
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by bdowling 11y ago
Smart guns are to self-defense and the gun industry what the Clipper chip was to encryption and the communications industry, except the Clipper chip actually worked.
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by bdowling 11y ago
Did you read Your citation? Because it doesn't back up your assertion. It's says that for for first degree relations (brother-sister or parent child) the risk of death or severe defect increases 31.4% over the general risk. It doe
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by bdowling 11y ago
2115? Something tells me it won't be nearly that long.
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by bdowling 11y ago
This is a great reminder that there are things we need to let go of and not let them bother us for the rest of our lives. Whatever decisions we regret, we should remember that they seemed like good ideas at the time. Hindsight isn't al
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by bdowling 11y ago
"The student doesn't get to decide what's important." Never forget that. They can decide if they liked the course or not, if they liked your teaching or not, but they are simply not qualified to make a general judgement
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by bdowling 12y ago
I don't think you should read too much into a statistical matching of your DNA markers with statistical samplings of populations in which individual samples also vary widely. It's the modern version of those occupational survey sy
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by bdowling 12y ago
What's the language that is semantically distant from Lisp, implemented over Lisp?
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by bdowling 12y ago
Not parent, but I agree and can explain my thoughts. If a topic is really new, it's inherently not generally well understood. Therefore the reporting on it is likely to be inaccurate, misleading, and missing some really important bits.
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by bdowling 12y ago
"Head" is very commonly used because it is from the language of revision control systems. CVS, Subversion, Perforce, Git, Mercurial, and probably others all refer to the latest checkin as the "head". It has a specific me
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by bdowling 12y ago
If you are hired as a full-time, salaried employee of a company, the default expectation is that the company is trying to buy ALL of your professional output. They expect that you treat your position not just as a job where you work so many
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by bdowling 12y ago
That's good. Congratulations.
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by bdowling 12y ago
The context of the quote was building the Obamacare web site, healthcare.gov, one which had many public failures including missed deadlines, cost overruns, and poor performance. My initial statement could have more simply stated that Mr. Th
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by bdowling 12y ago
This stuck out: "Whatever you think of the morality of nuclear weapons, building an atomic bomb is a far harder undertaking than building a website." I disagree, Mr. Thiel. In building an atom bomb you have the laws of nature as a
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by bdowling 12y ago
Netflix may be contacting the local police and letting them know about you, this list of information stolen from their systems that you sent them, and how you told them it was for sale. You may hear from the police before you hear from Netf
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by bdowling 12y ago
You won't be enjoying 'the privileges of being "that dependable guy"' in your retirement.
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by bdowling 12y ago
It is significant that this information is coming from the FBI and not the Pentagon, CIA or NSA. It indicates that this will be treated as a domestic criminal issue and not an act of war. Don't expect an overt military response. Also,
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by bdowling 12y ago
Also not the person you are replying to, but I have my own experience with this. Basically the people who leave a failing firm early do better than those who stick around until the money runs out. They find better jobs faster because they&#
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by bdowling 12y ago
https://developer.apple.com/ibeacon/
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by bdowling 12y ago
It doesn't just seem endless, it is endless. You just start and at some point you realize you will never be done.
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by bdowling 12y ago
The iBeacon transmitter may be passive, but the signal is typically passed to an app running on a phone, which can do anything, including post all it's position and time info to a server online. The good news is that it appears to be o