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by bloaf 9y ago
The most immediate one to come to mind is that a private ISP can't indict me.
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by bloaf 9y ago
"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable." - G.K. Chesterton
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by bloaf 9y ago
I'm not sure. Yes, there would be more to look at, but the "qualified defender" will have already done some of the work. Assuming QDs are required to turn over info to law enforcement, all LEOs may have to do is verify the
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by bloaf 9y ago
It seems like an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Require a license to be a "qualified defender" and make the corporate license requirements include some sanity checks on infosec practices.
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by bloaf 9y ago
I must have missed it, was there some multi-billions-in-damage quake caused by reinjection? I suspect the lack of consequences will simply be due to the fact that they haven't caused enough damage for it to be worthwhile. The reality
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by bloaf 9y ago
The 5-year headline is hyperbole. You can't just take the average persons' second-most-valuable asset, declare that it is worthless, then require an additional fee for them to use your fancy new podmobiles to get to work (on top
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by bloaf 9y ago
No. I am talking about the physical experience of looking at text on a cell phone screen.
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by bloaf 9y ago
I think people don't want to admit that the reading experience on mobile is mediocre-at-best.
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by bloaf 9y ago
Make a note taking app that doesn't suck. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474609
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by bloaf 9y ago
Make a wikipedia, but for implementations of algorithms written in a literate style.
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by bloaf 9y ago
Bring the Inferno OS to the IoT. Unify all the protocols that are out there by implementing 9P2000 on them.
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by bloaf 9y ago
Make a chemical process modeler that isn't stuck 15 years in the past.
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by bloaf 9y ago
Why not first penalize the farmers who used the stuff? That would make farmers think twice about using untested herbicides. Then, if a farmer does use a Monsanto product and accidentally burns his neighbor, he can be the one who has to
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by bloaf 9y ago
Why do you think it needs to condense to harm plants? Why do you think the melting point matters? Camphor has a melting point of ~350F and still has sufficient vapor pressure to serve as an insect repellent.
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by bloaf 9y ago
Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone* can edit. *People who are not experts in a technical field writing entirely new pages on technical subjects are nobodies, and so do not count as "anyone."
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by bloaf 9y ago
>As the number of contributors grow, and as Wikipedia progressively moves from a no information recorded, to a most information recorded state, we would actually expect contributor growth to fall. This is true, but I also believe Wikiped
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by bloaf 9y ago
I agree to a certain extent, and I think we can see that in the the evolution of video game interfaces. If you look at games like System Shock 2 to Bioshock, you see that the interfaces have evolved in the direction of finding ways of simp
528.
by bloaf 9y ago
I feel like ZUIs never got a fair shake, and could really do well with touchscreens.
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by bloaf 9y ago
It does look like they've cleaned up their install instructions since the last time I checked them. When I tried following their instructions in the past, I was unable to install the kernels I was interested in (Haskell, F#)
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by bloaf 9y ago
More like: bad culture fit, expects a standard library that handles infinite quantities and complex numbers out of the box. Edit: how about (Math.Pow(a+b, 2) - Math.Pow(a,2) - Math.Pow(b,2))/2
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by bloaf 9y ago
QBasic
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by bloaf 9y ago
Mult(A,B) = Exp(Log(A) + Log(B))
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by bloaf 9y ago
Am I stupid or do both of the solutions to the problem "Replace each element of array with product of every other element without using / operator" use the / operator? My solution would involve summing the log() of the v
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by bloaf 9y ago
I've been actively looking for a good tool for personal note taking, and finding lots of things that seem not-quite-right. Plain Text: Pros > Simplest, works everywhere/on everything, scales well (append forever!) Cons > Lea
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by bloaf 9y ago
People not viewing the information we want them to view? Why not make your good information mandatory, and prohibit the bad information! Facebook didn't do anything to democracy; the electorate has always been mostly simple salt-of-th
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by bloaf 9y ago
So I wonder what would happen if the IRS attempted to Eminent Domain-ify the data they needed.
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by bloaf 9y ago
Why not? My issue with districts are that they are not representative, not that they look weird. The only "real" issue with crazy districts is that the administrative costs might be higher (i.e. they might require more polling p
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by bloaf 9y ago
If I had to guess, I would say that there is at least some benefit to having politics be local. That is, it may be better to ask people to choose between a small number of "local" candidates, rather than a large cohort of state-wi
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by bloaf 9y ago
I'm not sure I like the name "Efficiency Gap" but the metric of "require the overall district results be within a certain range of the popular results" seems pretty straightforward to me. I've always thought th
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by bloaf 9y ago
It was text messaging before everyone had a computer in their pockets.

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