chris_mc

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by chris_mc 8y ago
One outcome happens in the next hundred years, another in the next few dozen billion years. I know which one I prefer...
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by chris_mc 8y ago
You're just paying for that through increased prices on the products you buy. You're not beating any system, no one beats the system except for the top .001%.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
That's not the question, the question is "was it morally wrong to drop the nukes?" My position, based on my classes on the rule of law in warfare from a US service academy, is that civilians are an illegal target for the mi
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by chris_mc 8y ago
They're way better than what came before (like PS/2 plugs, those connectors with the dumb screws (DB9 and such), etc.). Edit: I can't post a reply to the comment below me because HN thinks I am posting "too fast",
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Here's a trick I use: most PC ports have the flat plastic (inside) on the top half [0], I have noticed. So, if you look at the USB dongle/stick/cord it will have some small holes punched in either flat side usually. Just look
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by chris_mc 8y ago
>I don't know if the bombings were morally right or wrong and can see the argument both ways. But from at least one drafted soldier's perspective they were a good thing. Soldiers volunteer to fight a war, civilians don't.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
The easiest way is just to let the *coin fad die out and blockchains be relegated to genuine necessary uses and/or the dust pile of history.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Just because murder is bad doesn't mean jaywalking isn't also bad.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
That might be true, but it's still fucked up to not pay them, and you guys are being crass by saying this stuff right now. They're people just like you and I, and the TSA front line employees aren't the problem, it's the
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by chris_mc 8y ago
I don't expect substance from Hacker News capitalists, they're the type of people who buy into the whole "if it's legal, it's ethical" stance of SV tech companies like Google and Facebook. I expect down votes a
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by chris_mc 8y ago
I have an alias for cd which prints any file called '.cd-reminder' in a directory. I make notes like "pull and rebase daily!" in my work repos. I'll post it later from my laptop. It's just an if statement in a
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by chris_mc 8y ago
The thing is, it's not griefing, that's the game. Without this stuff, no one would want to play, it'd be boring.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
I'd like to see all of these features, but within the git repo. Are there solutions where I can use git to sync my issues, boards, etc., then have a local server to display it in my browser?
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Clearly, that didn't work, so it's not very reasonable.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Well, one answer is to use IEEE 1788 interval arithmetic, which will at least give you IEEE 754 high and low bounds for a calculation, rather than one answer that's clearly wrong. Otherwise, some inaccuracy is the trade-off for fast fl
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by chris_mc 8y ago
The problem is that every normal person is just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, so they don't want to raise taxes on themselves in the future. This is not more evident elsewhere than here on HN, where everyone is a possible star
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by chris_mc 8y ago
But you didn't challenge it was the best, which would have required you to submit another method that you think is better and then show evidence.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
No, that's clearly censorship. Climate change had a different contextual meaning than extreme weather. One indicates that the climate is on a path towards something different, the other indicates events outside the norm but no overall
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by chris_mc 8y ago
I didn't see anything in the article stating we shouldn't do other things as well. Of course this article is saying we should not eat meat, that's the point of the article. If the article was called "how to stop global c
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by chris_mc 8y ago
> anti-meat agenda I hate when people say that people with a valid viewpoint/lifestyle (vegetarianism, homosexuality, atheism) has an "agenda", it's disingenuous and biasing. Attack the methods and conclusions of the
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by chris_mc 8y ago
The first thing I want to see on a high-security product web site (literally, the first item I see with my eyes) is a list of the individuals putting their names on the line backing up this security claim and a paragraph of why I should tru
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Japan has a long, long history of tiny restaurants and food carts. Most areas in Tokyo have many times more [0] restaurants than worldwide cities, just for this reason. There might be 20 small 8-seat ramen places in the same alleyway, where
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Imagine if housing was affordable somewhere other than Stockton. Then maybe people would live in SF and the South Bay (aka: "Silicon Valley") rather than huddling together on the BART and Caltrain. If we had housing closer to ou
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Compare the serving sizes and caloric intakes at a USA restaurant with those in Japan, for example, and you'll see why. It's not hard to figure out, we put HFCS and sugar in everything now and people eat 2x as much as they used to
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Do a thing for yourself, not others, and most of the reasons not to do the thing seem to fade away. If I truly want to write another Scheme interpreter for fun I just do it now, instead of thinking "several thousand people have already
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by chris_mc 8y ago
I just sync everything important (laptop, phone) to a couple of cloud providers and an additional home server (so it's in 4-5 places) and figure that at least one of those will be okay. Physical items are kept locked in my desk at work
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by chris_mc 8y ago
I always remember how they used to nickel and dime me about hotels and flights (I couldn't even get the "comfort" seat on two 9 hour flights in a row), however the Director positions and up (about 20 people at my office) used
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by chris_mc 8y ago
This article is literally an advertisement, there is nothing interesting about the story at all.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
I'd like to see a technology explanation (in gory detail, and open sourced would be better) for how you keep the genome data ephemeral and secure and how you comply with HIPAA laws as well as the FDA. This software has features for whi
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by chris_mc 8y ago
I don't even see a name of the creator on this site. Personally, I won't ever submit personal genome data to an anonymous site like this, and no one else should either. Aren't there also legal implications to hosting personal

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