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by berntb 14y ago
To these examples, afaik you can add Italy, Spain and Germany. For UK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevention_of_Terrorism_Acts Edit: This is about RAF in Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction#Trial_manipula... (But c
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by berntb 14y ago
Breivik was a single crazy -- not a set of organized terror groups with thousands of members (and hundreds of millions of dollars in finances) which regularly execute complex simultaneous bombings, etc, etc. That makes the existing alQ 2001
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by berntb 14y ago
ucee054 made the same claim re Breivik a year ago when I posted the same argument -- he didn't answer that same point then either. ucee054 earlier also argued for jewish conpiracy theories, etc. Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40
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by berntb 14y ago
>>killing hundreds of children in one drone strike Hundreds of children? Why? When? How -- where they put in a pile?! >>you are no longer in a position to drone the shit out of entire villages of children and women at your w
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by berntb 14y ago
Yeah, India is weird. But a democracy with that kind of fraction of the population in total poverty (not to mention the corruption) is not going to react like others. France, as someone else noted, is also different. My model do seem to wor
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by berntb 14y ago
Here is an obvious analysis: The idea with terrorism against democracies is to scare the living daylight out of voters in a country. The politicians in those democracies want to win the next election do everything to stop the terror. Afai
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by berntb 14y ago
The crop of interesting languages on top of the JVM is intriguing. My Java experience is very much out-of-date, so I haven't looked at those much.
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by berntb 14y ago
Well, partly. The argument re scripting language + C is that mostly, the run time is in a small part of the code. Measure to find that part (NYTProf etc for Perl), then rewrite it in C. (I.e. inner loops, not reading config files.) The inef
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by berntb 14y ago
>>Calculating "effort" is far more difficult than run-time or complexity characteristics. If it really was impossible to measure development/support speed, then we'd still use hex code with switches on a console. :-) And yeah, kids
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by berntb 14y ago
The feature with scripting languages compared with system languages (C, Java, etc) is that they are fast -- not to run code, but to develop functionality. The article argued that idiomatic Go gave at least as good runtime speedup as a norma
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by berntb 14y ago
Didn't Dyson's son write in the book that part of the reason for the treaty's signing was internal politics to kill a competitor to NASA? 1. Those 0.1-1 dead is from a period of much worse cancer treatments than will be available a few deca
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by berntb 14y ago
You can pack materials so that a failed launch will not create leaks. The real problems for the Orion are political and frying of satellite electronics, iirc.
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by berntb 14y ago
From the wikipedia page you referenced, that was something given to journalists: >> issued to journalists on 3 February 2003 by Alastair Campbell, Blair's Director of Communications and Strategy In short, a PR release had bad qualit
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by berntb 14y ago
If I should suggest a more... thoughtful opinion for an idealist -- how about looking reality in the eye, then trying to organise the world, so it is in the self interest of countries to be nice and tolerant? Start by looking up "the democr
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by berntb 14y ago
My point was that your argument was naive, since you did an analogy between individuals in rule-of-law societies and countries. I pointed out that there is a much better analogy. You have nothing to say about my point, except demanding that
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by berntb 14y ago
>>Now, why do things have to be this way? Are you certain that, even while we the people are perfectly capable of being nice to each other, the countries that represent us must act like immorally self-centered egoists? That is a ver
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by berntb 14y ago
Why don't you give up and map your keyboard to US for programming, like all the rest of us? :-) (It is not so bad to hit both shift keys to get back åäö.) Edit: mpyne -- good thought, but we international users have our national keyboards i
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by berntb 14y ago
I bothered to find this for you, not that I expect you to be grateful -- you probably think that attacking your conspiracy theories is the same as attacking you... It still isn't relevant for China, but a more serious viewpoint on how the I
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by berntb 14y ago
1. There are lots of sources for intelligence services, saying lots of things. It is hard [for them] to select. [Edit: Besides, that was a totally different subject, with a different president administration, > a decade ago.] 2. You wro
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by berntb 14y ago
Thanks for the tip, but nothing will happen until at least the next iPad is released, since my present iPad only has wifi.
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by berntb 14y ago
>> you can be certain of only one thing: some propaganda office somewhere either wrote [the article] or motivated somebody to write it that way. When you wrote that, my first reaction was -- is he part of "the 50 cent army"? 1/2 :-)
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by berntb 14y ago
My plan is: For my next phone, I'll leave iOS and get a garbage feature phone (Symbian, or something). This will be when I get my next iPad, which will have 4G (I'll also need a small iPod for music). I will just suffer adding phone numbers
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by berntb 14y ago
Food protectionism is afaik mostly an EU thing (I've seen arguments that EU is a French hostage on this point, which mostly is negative for the 3rd world). The US has to live with us from the EU. From the EU example, you might note that the
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by berntb 14y ago
Why not this? :-) "python -c 'import os; os.system("mv ... ~/Dropbox/from_comp_x/")' Edit: My point is -- what makes this worth up votes?!
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by berntb 14y ago
I agree with your general point, but your example is doubtful. Gopher existed before WWW and filled the same niche. It wasn't as elegant, but it (or something else) would have grown up without WWW. The reason, in my cynical opinion, why the
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by berntb 14y ago
>>Once criminals recognize the device they will either steal them or smash you in the face to destroy the evidence Such a system for security ought to have video storage inside a hard shell with a high speed 4G link, able to send
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by berntb 14y ago
All I really want is a network connection, an 80 chars wide Emacs terminal in the window and a chording keyboard strapped to my hand. This assumes a small Linux (BSD?) distro installed. The rest is trivial. (Iirc, this is a setup one of Man
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by berntb 14y ago
I made a point. You didn't have an answer, you still have no answer. I made fun of you, because you lacked an answer and instead took single examples from very heterogenous groups (not even correct, you couldn't answer yread). You ignored t
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by berntb 14y ago
You are fully aware of that a relevant counter to my point would have been that the FSA mainly attacked civilians. A single example from such a heterogeneous mix as FSA in a civil war? Sigh... I'd continue with the lack of NATO-backing, b
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by berntb 14y ago
I'm not sure I agree -- from my perspective, the US left seems as crazy as the US right. As a Swede, I follow NY Times and BBC to compare with the Swedish daily media, for the laughs -- it is like laughing at mongloids doing pratfalls. :-(

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