bmm6o

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by bmm6o 11y ago
The false dichotomy is that if one opposes one group one can't oppose the other. Or that if there are several bad things, drawing attention to one means approving another.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
> But I guess it's alright to have liars, crooks and wannabe-tyrants in there? You probably know it, but that's a lazy false dilemma.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
No, but that is at the high end of what is even possible in the scenario I was describing, and is meant to contrast with "far beyond moderate amounts" of parent. Parent seems to think that excessive drinking is the only kind, and
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by bmm6o 11y ago
There's a huge swath of the industry where it doesn't make sense to release any faster than a few times a year. Think Office applications, RDBMS products, email servers, accounting apps, etc, etc. Even the fastest cadence apps (l
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by bmm6o 11y ago
I don't know anything about your situation, but it really depends on what else is going on in your life. If you work a full day (or a little longer) go to the gym or participate in a hobby after work, drive home, cook and eat dinner,
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by bmm6o 11y ago
You should have mentioned that you were extrapolating from a sample size of 1.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
I read that and I roll my eyes about how SF startup-focused it is, but to me it says it's an impressionable kid who reads too much Tech Crunch. What specifically makes you not want to hire him?
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by bmm6o 12y ago
> nothing says that [...] actually has to live on the stack. This might be possible in theory but I've never seen it in practice.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Even in cases like that it's uncommon for the object to actually take up a lot of stack space. Since member variable's sizes have to be known at compile time it only applies to fixed-size (or parametrized) buffers.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Also be aware that many employers offer flex-spending accounts for healthcare, which allows you to pay for certain health-related expenses with pre-tax money. There can be downsides (e.g. "use it or lose it"), but for planned pro
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Maybe it's just the people I know, but I can't remember the last time someone played music from their phone without headphones. The only time I do it is by accident.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
You're right. You should distrust any argument Norquist makes about taxation - you'll find that they are either wrong (as in this case) or strawmen. His actual goal is to defund government and you should assume anything he does
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Not to pile on, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar If the behavior can be expressed using previously existing syntax, then a construction is syntactic sugar. This is not true in this case. (sorry if yo
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by bmm6o 12y ago
"Or flip a biased coin twice" - TFA argues that there is no such thing. > That's why cypherpunks each bring their own coin and XOR the heads I'm not sure what part of the article you are referring to here, but this
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by bmm6o 12y ago
That's what I was thinking, but TFA is too thin on details to draw any conclusions. Like your example about a candidate having a better second offer and asking Reddit to bump theirs - I guess that counts as negotiation, but is that th
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I wonder how they expect it to work out in practice. Are they increasing the amount of their offers to compensate for this, or are they just planning to accept that better negotiators will go elsewhere (for more money).
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I think you're reading too much into the statement. "the more cycling is encouraged and taken up, the safer it becomes" doesn't read to me to be excluding infrastructure changes like you describe, and I think the author
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by bmm6o 12y ago
do with a while (0) executes the body one time. This trick is used to package several statements into one, so it can be used in places like: if (foo) BN_CONSTTIME_SWAP(0);
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by bmm6o 12y ago
"Prague's Cemetery" has its moments. It's better than "Queen Loana", but that's not saying much. I wouldn't recommend either.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Can anyone recommend this book? I really admire Eco, but I've found his most recent novels to be generally disappointing.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
The issue isn't whether every case should go to trial. A plea bargain is an exchange of (forgoing) a trial for a reduced charge or sentence. The undesirable outcome (for pretty much everyone but the prosecutor) is that an innocent
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Not sure what you're implying. Is ThreatPost supposed to be anti-Apple?
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by bmm6o 12y ago
It's a small sample, but every instance I'm aware of has worked out in favor of the rights holder. Are you saying that infringed companies don't usually pursue the matter, or that they do and are unsuccessful?
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by bmm6o 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting#Current_use_b... Australia is the country most like the US on the list. I don't know enough about the Central American countries on the list to judge their internal
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by bmm6o 12y ago
You typically view your licensing schemes as keeping honest customers honest. Also, violating licensing terms like that is not something that any serious company does. All it takes is one disgruntled employee to blow the whistle on your h
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by bmm6o 12y ago
It would seem insane, except that one of the main purposes of the Proposition was to de-fund government. If you weren't around at the time, "drown government in the bathtub" might not ring a bell.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
The case would also have been simpler if KPC was run like a real company that understood that it can be found liable for the discriminatory actions of its employees and the atmosphere that follows.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
This is an interesting move. Security work seems like the quintessential outsourced role - what does Apple know about hiring, training and maintaining a quality security force? It seems like a distraction from making hardware and software
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I would agree with you for a vulnerability like Heartbleed, where the attack was against the site itself. This is an attack against the users of these sites, so users need to know which sites are vulnerable. Also, attackers are far more c
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by bmm6o 12y ago
It loads for me, though the content seems to be pulled in via js.

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