billskills

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by billskills 10y ago
You mean like a prediction market? Yes, hundreds.
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by billskills 10y ago
Two-spirit !== homosexual Also, Maya !== North American First Nations
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by billskills 10y ago
It's funny that you would pick boinc (a rotten mashup of C and PHP with no formal spec) as your exemplar of a distributed system.
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by billskills 10y ago
It's really very simple. If the evidence is not ignored, it's an incentive for illegal searches. > if he finds a a photo of you and a corpse it shouldn't be ignored just because search was unreasonable. You could not be mo
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by billskills 10y ago
It's a wry/sarcastic idiom, like calling the Atlantic Ocean "the pond". Nobody actually thinks the Atlantic Ocean is a pond.
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by billskills 10y ago
You're just guessing. Hint: look up the fourth amendment.
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by billskills 10y ago
No, this is an important example of the protections afforded by the system, along with things like having access to the evidence being used against you. Secret tribunals and wiretaps might have worked for the Gestapo, but this is America, d
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by billskills 10y ago
Unless by "dwarf" you mean "less than 10% more" and by "myriad" you mean "exactly one", I invite you to join those of us who live in the real world. You don't have to like Amtrak, but there'
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by billskills 10y ago
vzw actually is a different company, which is partly owned by vz. Fba/fgte are practically separate companies too. I worked for fba (former bell Atlantic) for years and can attest, it's no place for capable doers. It's unbeli
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by billskills 10y ago
Most good audio software is for Mac. Maybe Windows, but then Windows.
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by billskills 10y ago
That is quite interesting. I built a hackintosh in 2011 after a lot of research (hoping to use it to produce music if possible) and the only thing that gave me significant trouble was the audio. Would you care to share your setup?