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by bigbubba 6y ago
In simple scenarios with two actors perhaps, but I don't think that holds true for complex scenarios with multiple participants. Somebody who steals the best from everybody and is always one generation behind the state of the art in e
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It probably has something to do with Israel being very popular with wide swaths of the American public (particularly evangelical Christians), to such an extent that it's not terribly uncommon to hear American politicians praise Israel
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by bigbubba 6y ago
For the Danes to trust spies requires willful naïveté, no? I wouldn't be surprised to hear key Danish politicians got bribed or blackmailed into being so credulous in the first place.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It's not often you read headlines about the NSA actually doing what they're meant to do. I'm glad to hear they still find time for real work, not just spying on everybody's dick pics.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think the scope of your consideration is a bit narrow. Lockheed Martin probably isn't very interested in stealing technology from Sukhoi to clone and put in their own jets. However it seems quite likely that Lockheed has an interes
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by bigbubba 6y ago
They're the kidneys, responsible for filtering out the crap. And without kidneys, Facebook would die.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
No need for the snark. The part that was puzzling me is clarified by the courts evidently not being involved yet.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The movie Jurassic Park has impressive visuals but is almost completely lacking the social commentary the book has about [bio]tech startups evading regulators and 'moving fast and breaking things.' The movie also turns the park
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Okay, then we agree the comment I responded to presented a false dichotomy.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The article says Disney has ignored his legal representatives. I don't know how that's possible, but it's what the article says.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Even if you think customers shouldn't be given a choice, there is still no excuse for not informing the users of the situation. Apple is not a victim here.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Yeah, it makes zero sense that Disney could buy something that wasn't for sale in the first place (the rights to the books without any contractual obligations attached, which Lucasfilm did not own and therefore could not sell.)
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Please fix the title of this submission. I know the rule/guideline, but dropping the # renders the title bizarre.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Are these really the two options? What about displaying a plainly worded message that explains the situation to the owner, then gives them the choice? Or would that be too confusing and scary for Apple customers?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I use nov.el in Emacs. I think it looks quite nice, but YMMV.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Have you chosen the most heinous crime you can think of for this goofy analogy, in hopes the immorality of murder would tarnish Tim Sweeney by association?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I don't know what you mean by 'you don't have to.' The claim above is that there is a difference between learning how to program and having an onlyfans account. Your response was to say the difference is that the lat
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Turning that into a career seems like a moonshot, making it comparable to other "achieve celebrity" plans young adults may have (become a movie star, become a famous youtuber, become a famous rockstar, etc) I think in general
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Trump is culpable for much, but technically the conflict in Yemen started before he was president. The claim above still seems accurate, though I think we can safely say such a claim is damning with faint praise.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It is 'more rational' for an American president to avoid war with NK and leave it as something for his successors to deal with. Kicking the can down the road is easier than a war where potentially a few million South Koreans get
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Despite everything that's happened, that still makes me first think of the Mexican beer.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think they meant to draw attention to the implementation of `yes` to showcase crustiness the C stdlib imposes on even a trivial program. But of course GNU is kind of notorious in this regard. Compare their `yes` to OpenBSD's. It&#x
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I guess, but I think somebody using dired would be using Emacs anyway, and dired is unlikely to be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
There's bstr, I've come across that a few times.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The heavy coiled cable on my sennheiser headphones has killed the sound jacks on two laptops, I believe due to the strain the weight of the cable puts on the jack when the cable is unsupported. I expect a slim headphone cable wouldn't
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Maybe it's because I use a 5GHz wifi network, but I've never had issues with my Bluetooth headphones disconnecting when I walk to another room. I seem to get maybe 50 feet out of it, give or take a few?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I suppose I've not tried it in any sort of extreme scenario, but it's not clear to me what dired would be slow at. Functions like copy-file are implemented in C.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Yes but if the average price of the clean energy is sufficiently high, brief periods of free clean energy may not be enough to offset that.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I don't think it's that simple. What does your aluminum smelting plant do when the power isn't free, sit there unproductively? Or purchase electricity when it's expensive? Either will cost you money. Maybe you can st
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It's not just about control rods. Naval reactors also ramp up fast, which allows you to ramp them down more often without incurring long ramp-up periods. They're very good reactors, and the USN has a better safety record for run

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