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by bonemachine 13y ago
This country is doomed. Even during the cold war, in all the slapstick portrayals in movies and and sitcoms, you would never see Soviet (or Nazi) border or other guard types acting anywhere near as stupid as the CBP officers in this case.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Lies, damned lies.. and charts with not only non-zero, but mismatched baselines!
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by bonemachine 13y ago
you might want to google ... If that's all you have to say for yourself at this point, then I rest my case.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
See also: Kruger, Henrik. The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence, and International Fascism. Boston: South End Press, 1980. 240 pages. http://trogholm.panshin.net/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGreatHer... Alf
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by bonemachine 13y ago
One of the best use cases is already banned by Google - face recognition. Is it realistic to believe that they can enforce this "ban", in the long term?
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by bonemachine 13y ago
If bribery is the way business is done in China, .. then the anti-bribery regulations serve only to hamstring US businesses. No, they do not "serve only to hamstring US business." They exist to prevent private parties from under
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Being able to "run" it, and the fact that it has a release cycle doesn't mean it's a viable development platform.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
This is just business as usual. No, it's not. It's about attempting to influence a foreign government into doing business with you via corrupt practices. Which makes it subject to regulation by Congress. Which in the SEC&#x
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by bonemachine 13y ago
That plainly is not what the SEC investigation is about. The article makes this very clear. You might want to give it a closer read.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
I don't really see what's wrong since they're exploiting the way the Chinese do business. What's "wrong" is that it appears they may have been in violation of federal anti-bribery statutes. In particular thi
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by bonemachine 13y ago
What are we trying to prove with this witch hunt in China? It isn't a "witch hunt." There's reason to believe it's a violation of federal anti-bribery laws, in the SEC's view. That we are such a pure and la
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by bonemachine 13y ago
It's a question of is this bribery or not. And if so, whether anyone will be held accountable for it.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
How would you know?
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Apologies to anyone who felt distracted or incited. I assure you that wasn't my intention.
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Data Mining on the Side of Angels (CCC'30)(wired.com)
1 points by bonemachine 13y ago|0 comments
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by bonemachine 13y ago
That love really does exist, and will save us all.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Is it really wrong to say that women could be better or worse (in general) at one thing or another? Who knows. But is that something PG actually said? Doesn't quite sound like it, from my reading of the interview excerpt.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
The Geek's wonder drug is Hacking itself. The chemical alternatives are all depressingly poor substitutes.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
There are no data races in purely functional languages because they don’t have mutable variables. Or pesky things like I/O. Or efficient data structures.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
TL;DR I give up -- so if Diane started out, as the article says, by "pre-gaming" i.e. drinking a few shots before the party, and overtly initiating the sexual aspect of their interaction by grabbing Jack's crotch, why is
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by bonemachine 13y ago
If you want to spike traffic, you can always follow the good example of Ron Paul & Associates, and start peppering your articles with random racial, homophobic and other gratuitous provocations. Don't overthink it, and don't
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by bonemachine 13y ago
For starters: that it was a "revolution".
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by bonemachine 13y ago
The point I suspect is not to make them all into little Knuths. It's to make sure they have at least some exposure, so they can decide if this something they want to pursue in a focused way later on -- and, importantly, regardless of
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Coming soon to Google Glass, no doubt.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Can we go back to 1974, please? I'm not sure I like where this is going.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Oh, cmon. Comparing any functional language to Java is just silly. As illustrated by the Fibanocci example.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Generally valid, but it'd be better to qualify that assessment by saying that "some languages are better than others at certain things ." e.g. for a PHP one could fairly state "it's great if you're new to prog
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Well, duh.
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Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova freed from Russian prison(theguardian.com)
2 points by bonemachine 13y ago|0 comments
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Not only does it come a bit late (if legit), it also soft-pedals the abuses against him.

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