bobbydavid

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by bobbydavid 13y ago
Someone did a calculation and decided that the business cost of supporting IE was worth the additional customers. It's not about balls, it's about cost benefit analysis. Us developers just hate IE because it's so different th
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
It's because the distribution of wealth affects what the economy produces. If money is more evenly distributed, you will see more economy cars, microwaves, middle income housing construction, etc. If only a few people are really wealth
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
But his claim, that it is disputable, is quite weak and therefore trvially proves itself. By disputing it, he proves it can be disputed. You are seeking to resolve said dispute, which is also important but not exactly the same thing.
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
Not to get too pedantic, but by inviting him to provide concrete evidence, are you not asking him to dispute it and thus proving his point?
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
Well, oversight might lead to a restriction of unchecked governmental power, which would reduce their ability to combat terrorism.
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
Incidentally, so is salt.
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
Lying may be too strong of a word. The users have pseudonyms; there was no reddit real names policy. It seems reasonable for multiple pseudonyms to be controlled by a single person. Users may have been surprised to find out just how few oth
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
but they don't mention horses either. the method of travel is irrelevant.
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
sorry... high speed rail to nowhere?
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
Have you seen that d3 visualization of the US federal budget? It's pretty interesting. Social security, Defense, and Medicare make up the lion's share of spending. you probably don't use these (except defense, arguably indire
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
I agree but in the same way that the original elite Facebook paved the way for today's Facebook behemoth, I imagine a successful elite e-stitution (c) will legitimize the concept, which will pave the way for something with more univers
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
my wild theory: what if the site in the study was HN!? disclaimer: I have no idea and tldr
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
looks like that page was deleted
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
This has been discussed before, in the context of network security. You can read about efficacy/bandwidth constraints, but basically to provide any strong security you need to spend an overwhelming amount of bandwidth on noise. You mus
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
Human trafficking. Yes, this actually happens, both around the world and in America. The argument I've heard is that a frictionless child pornography market effects an increased financial incentive to traffic children.
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
access. any citizen can go out and listen to public conversations, but we are not all invited to put our e-stethoscopes up to the internet backbone.
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
if you take as given that the NSA has prevented 300 9/11 attacks from occurring, you may feel it is justified. surely you don't believe the premise, but as a thought experiment pretend it were true. would the NSA actions be justif
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
oh god, how many billions did this program cost? I wonder what the dollar figure on cost per capture is, even assuming all 300 were legitimate. of course in reality they could just as easily have been thought crimes. no way to know.
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
Side note: does this mean xkcd's "Time" is un-internet?
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
I've noticed this too, to some extent. and I don't think its purely because of the President's party. TDS writers and Jon used to work hard to hold politicians feet to the fire no matter their party, and in the past few years
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
The extreme demographic subset you described doesn't even include the audience at HN. Surely you realize that the issue of internet privacy is talked about by more people. And why mustn't acabal be a "born-here American"
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
I don't know the details but its not necessarily gerrymandering. if urban areas are 100% democrat while rural areas are 60% republican, you'd see this sort of elections naturally, without any foul play. that's just a natural
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
one thing about the western world, and America especially: we have no cultural memory of what it feels like to have another culture impose their value system upon you. it's therefore easy to see other cultural views as falling into the
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
for all we know, they view infant mortality as a perfectly acceptable form of birth control. this would be an example of culture shock.
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
on an only somewhat related note, I'm much more troubled by the fact that reporting these numbers is currently illegal, than by the fact it's occurring, and I'm surprised more people don't express a similar view. that&#x
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
something to consider, though: your job may not be the best opportunity for this hypothetical candidate we're musing about. for pure programming skill, there is no well-defined "value" for the business, which means you simply
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
to play devil's advocate: consider the extreme absurdity of einstein's theory of relativity, the theory that time may speed up or slow down depending on your velocity.
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
Can someone summarize the video? I am curious to learn more but I don't have 45 minutes to spend on this... Thanks!
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
Practically speaking, context matters in privacy. For instance, if a person invades my privacy to learn my sexual orientation, I would feel violated. But if that person was my boss, I would feel much more violated. For an American like myse
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
Hopefully the data was encrypted while you were moving, since they're listening on the wires too.

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