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Ask HN: Legal barriers to starting an anonymous ISP?
3 points by blintson 17y ago|4 comments
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The federal government should fund everything through inflation
2 points by blintson 17y ago|2 comments
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by blintson 17y ago
Anybody who's exceptionally good at anything is an outlier.
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by blintson 17y ago
I don't think anything high schools say should have any impact on admissions at all. 70 - 90% of my grades in high school were homework. I tested out of 2 years of math and 3 years of Japanese by studying the curriculum and learning everyt
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by blintson 17y ago
plaintiff's website: http://www.i4i.com/ "Custom editing xml files." Microsoft is barred from selling versions of word that can open and edit .docx or .xml files.
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by blintson 17y ago
The text I posted isn't showing up for some reason. If this is a double post sorry about that.: Everybody here knows if the leaks from the treaty are real ACTA will be a very bad thing. Since negotiations are supposed to conclude in January
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Tell HN: ACTA negotiations to conclude in 2010(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by blintson 17y ago|1 comments
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by blintson 17y ago
Python would just be an empty white square as seen by everybody. Lisp would be nothing but parentheses as seen by outsiders. Lisp-fanboys would see everything else as rube-goldberg machines.
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by blintson 17y ago
FTA: Thorium DOESN'T GENERATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS MATERIAL. I remember seeing a Ford prototype from the 50's of a car designed to run on nuclear power. With good thorium reactors that could be a real thing. Imagine only having to refill your "t
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by blintson 17y ago
Considering the success and effects of WOW, flash games, and many other time wasters I think the real question should be: Ask yourself will this stop my users from getting laid?
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by blintson 17y ago
tl;dr: Let's tax carbon emissions and give the money to old people. Date: 2/11/2003 I recommend downvoting this; it's a fluff piece written by the president of a lobbyist group that wants a cap & trade carbon credit system.
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Ask HN: What are the advantages of C-style synxtax?
3 points by blintson 17y ago|2 comments
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by blintson 17y ago
This is the best news I've heard in a long time. I want to do something to help their case if I can. To any lawyers on HN: are there any aspects of this case that are likely to be amenable to crowd-sourcing/coding/anything I could do?
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by blintson 17y ago
A different window manager is a different system to 90% of consumers. Is there any reason a company can't run a proprietary WM ontop of the linux kernel? If there isn't, are there or have there been any companies that do so?
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by blintson 17y ago
They'll just make encryption illegal. And record everything everybody does all the time. They never stop. Their objective is to take everything they can. As soon as this is passed they'll look into making even more restrictive laws. It will
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by blintson 17y ago
Then what? It's better than complaining on a website where everybody agrees with you. I'm going to do something. We've got to do something. The situation's bad enough as it is.
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by blintson 17y ago
Bitching about it accomplishes nothing. I doubt there's anybody here who thinks this is a good thing, and even if there were, that sort of language persuades nobody. The smart thing to do is to write your congressman, and get people togethe
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by blintson 17y ago
Does anybody else think this is really, really funny? The Skype founders sold their company for billions of dollars and didn't sell the technology . It's kinda cool that it's two guys dicking with a massive corporation instead of the other
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by blintson 17y ago
Edit: Maybe it makes sense to hire a marketer or five? Also, lots of eye candy. 1. The longer we wait the more elisp is gonna be out there and the more painful continuing to maintain existing elisp, and the eventual transition will be. Nobo
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Ask HN: How much would you give to a non-profit to rewrite emacs in scheme?
3 points by blintson 17y ago|3 comments
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by blintson 17y ago
It's turtles all the way down! The next step would be Why do people think people think lisp programmers write slow programs?
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Ask HN: Why does Lisp need to be slower than c?
5 points by blintson 17y ago|9 comments
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by blintson 17y ago
I'm worried about that. What can I do to prevent that?
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Ask HN: Keep cookies from multiple sites seperate
1 points by blintson 17y ago|3 comments
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by blintson 17y ago
They don't need to do anything to solve the fat people problem. Just remove all crop subsidies and the problem will eventually solve itself. It's more expensive to eat healthy because the crops used in making unhealthy foods are heavily sub
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by blintson 17y ago
??? An algorithm that executes in O(n) time executes in O(n) whether the computer is silicon, DNA, mechanical, vacuum tubes, or whatever else you build a Turing machine in. I think "computer", to most people almost always refers to the phys
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Poll: Change the name of computer science to informatics?
2 points by blintson 17y ago|12 comments
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by blintson 17y ago
Yes, computer-science -> informatics
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by blintson 17y ago
No, don't change
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Ask HN: Learn a programming language in a foreign language
2 points by blintson 17y ago|2 comments

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