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by charonn0 12y ago
Thank you. I was wondering what all the fuss was.
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by charonn0 12y ago
Non-trivial, but hardly novel.
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by charonn0 12y ago
This. Islamic terrorists (or any other variety) have never presented an existential threat to the United States. Moreover, we aggrandize those very terrorists by making the claim.
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by charonn0 12y ago
It's an optional Youtube setting. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/174084?hl=en
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by charonn0 12y ago
That paragraph deeply annoys me.
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by charonn0 12y ago
It got the reference, but didn't answer my question: > "what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" > "Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British comedy film written and performed by the comedy gro
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by charonn0 12y ago
If they're private organizations, then they have no lawful authority to use force.
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by charonn0 12y ago
I was going to argue with you, but then I realized I agreed. It's now impossible to know whether the evidence presented to a jury was legally acquired, creating (in my mind) an automatic reasonable doubt.
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by charonn0 12y ago
Aren't these the job of a human editor? (or is this the reason why my e-newspapers have so many copy editing errors?)
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by charonn0 12y ago
> a way of representing the underlying data in which writers and editors can designate certain paragraphs or sentences or phrases as more important than others Doesn't HTML do this? <h1> is more important than <h2>, etc.
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by charonn0 12y ago
It's been down for me since yesterday afternoon.
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by charonn0 12y ago
Is Youtube actually profitable?
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by charonn0 12y ago
> So if we are in favour of meritocracies, we should also be in favour of anything that helps us measure merit more accurately. This obvious propaganda glosses over the problem of deciding what is and is not meritorious, and who does the
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by charonn0 12y ago
There is so much potential in applying version control to legal and legislative documents. Imagine being able to git blame a bill in Congress.
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by charonn0 12y ago
If I understand this right (I'm not an electrical engineer) a hypothetical memristor-based computer would not need discrete RAM and disk storage nor would it have a fixed processing power. Rather, the chip of memristors would simultane
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by charonn0 12y ago
Responses to POST requests are only cacheable when they include explicit freshness information[1], which is not the case with the linked test page. [1]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4.3.3
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by charonn0 12y ago
> Firefox passes if I click OK in a funny dialog. 308 preserves the HTTP verb[1], and the form on that page uses POST. POST is not idempotent[2], which means using it more than once with the same parameters may not yield the same output.
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by charonn0 12y ago
That one bothers me too. Just like I can't sign away my obligation not to commit a crime, they can't sign away their obligation to uphold the law.
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by charonn0 12y ago
IANAL but I think the alternative for Credite Suisse is to stop doing business with the US and US-based companies.
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by charonn0 12y ago
Yes, and that's the problem: HSBC avoided criminal charges. [0]: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageo...
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by charonn0 12y ago
> The only references to Comcast traffic shaping I can find are related to BitTorrent. Isn't that enough?
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by charonn0 12y ago
If I've already got NoScript, ABP, and Ghostery will this addon make any difference?
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by charonn0 13y ago
Yeah! ---- Certain statements in this communication regarding the alleged superfluity of disclaimers, including any statements regarding the expected length of such disclaimers, benefits and synergies of the disclaimers, future opportunitie
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by charonn0 13y ago
"Microsoft's forgotten subdomain" or words to that effect.
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by charonn0 13y ago
What's the benefit? It seems like you've gone though a lot of trouble re-implementing features of the browser but without any obvious advantage in doing so.
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by charonn0 13y ago
> two years If that's how we're measuring things, then closed source isn't going to win either, e.g. [1]. [1]: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9146820/Microsoft_con...
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by charonn0 13y ago
Dealers and users aren't the only one's the Federal government will destroy. Dispensaries and even their landlords , doing things that are explicitly legal under state laws, run the risk of losing everything and/or going to
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by charonn0 13y ago
It's always easier to oppress the man who believes he stands alone.
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by charonn0 13y ago
So, they basically invented an acoustic coupler?
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by charonn0 13y ago
He's the Speaker of the House (i.e. the presiding officer.) He sets the schedule for votes, so he can kill a bill by failing to schedule it for one.

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