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by clavalle 12y ago
>the drones are executing people in countries the US is not at war with. Because we are not fighting a state. We are cooperating with these countries not fighting them. They don't have the resources (or the resources are unrelia
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by clavalle 12y ago
Because they are also hiding it from the enemy. If you know the rules, you can exploit the rules.
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by clavalle 12y ago
You must have a much clearer idea as to what 'combat situation' and 'targeted executions outside of war' means than me. Is it acceptable to bomb a tent of generals planning a campaign in the middle of a war?
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by clavalle 12y ago
>Note that I'm talking about executions, not killing as part of warfare. I'd be curious to see where you, personally, would draw the line. Is it not warfare to kill someone that is plotting on harming civilians as a primary mea
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by clavalle 12y ago
Characterizing the killing of people who actively plan attacks on civilians for their own political ends as 'assassination' seems misplaced. These are killers with an agenda. It is quite literally kill or be killed.
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by clavalle 12y ago
How does one get on a kill list? I could be wrong but I'd tend to believe it is because they are a clear threat and not because one has poor choice in friends or makes suspicious trips to unusual destinations.
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by clavalle 12y ago
I couldn't agree more. Is this the new Apple? Style and sales numbers over substance? Seems like the first signs of rot.
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by clavalle 12y ago
>an API often requires more creativity than the implementation. Sure, the implementation is also difficult to do well, but making that implementation usable by others is no less a creative task. "Difficult to do well" and &quot
729.
by clavalle 12y ago
> I'd like to see cogent arguments as to why copyright as it currently exists should apply to all other code but not API. For the same reason a textbook publisher shouldn't be able to copyright the table of contents of a calcul
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by clavalle 13y ago
This is one area where Texas comes through for employees. Non-competes are almost unenforceable here and if he didn't actually write anything that was used with their equipment or during normal work hours at the office he's likel
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by clavalle 13y ago
Most exclusion clauses are narrow -- limited to work you do in line with your companies current or imminent business interests or done with their equipment. When they are not they are unenforceable in most states, especially Texas which do
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by clavalle 13y ago
I find it hard to imagine that an industry veteran like Carmack would write code for another company while employed with another and proving some bit of proprietary advice was incorporated into the product would be difficult. My guess is th
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by clavalle 13y ago
>The proprietary technology and know-how Mr. Carmack developed when he was a ZeniMax employee, and used by Oculus, are owned by ZeniMax. John Carmack's 'know-how' is owned by ZeniMax? Absurd.
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by clavalle 13y ago
I wish I could reply to your last comment directly. HNs comment system is sometimes beyond my understanding. I make the better vs. faster distinction because, if merely faster, the creative works and solutions to problems such an intellige
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by clavalle 13y ago
> encoding alone could be considered 'super intelligence' in the sense that it would easily out-think you and I. >But it wouldn't take too many improvements to get orders of magnitude past our slower-than-a-speeding-bul
736.
by clavalle 13y ago
Let's say I accept that higher, human-like, intelligence is reproducible. It still doesn't follow that beyond that is some sort of yet in-conceived 'super intelligence'; that intelligent machines can outstrip humanity i
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by clavalle 13y ago
I am surprised AT&T left the comment section open in their Public Policy Blog that this Comcast response links to: http://www.attpublicpolicy.com/consumers-2/who-should-pay-fo... They get raked over the coals (and
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by clavalle 13y ago
When they sell me the service, they don't sell it as possibly 1 Gbit/s. They sell me 1 Gbit/s. If they can't deliver, it is time to adjust that promise when I purchase the service.
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by clavalle 13y ago
An independent third party investigation into the matter seems like a pretty solid response. What other steps would you suggest they have taken that would have constituted a satisfactory response?
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by clavalle 13y ago
"If the documentation is clear, concise, and easy to understand it is out of date." -- Me This is a corollary of the much more general law: "All documentation is out of date."
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by clavalle 13y ago
I really don't know. I need to research more into what it means to have a collapse of state. Also whether a state of superposition is one that a system can return to or if once a system has collapsed if it stays that way. And if a sy
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by clavalle 13y ago
I was thinking, initially, that the 'player characters' where just previously entangled systems. Anytime anything that has previously decohered interacts with a system still in quantum superposition a new 'player character&#
743.
by clavalle 13y ago
Sure (as far as my layman's understanding of quantum physics goes). So, you have independent physical system (say, a photon). Before it interacts it exists in quantum superposition. It has the potential to exist in any possible confi
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by clavalle 13y ago
Does it seem to anyone else that quantum entanglement and decoherance is the universes way of doing the least amount of computation possible? Like the universe is lazily loaded?
745.
by clavalle 13y ago
What have you done outside of kickstarter to promote the project? I think that is key. The kickstarter is just the hub of a marketing push. Have you pointed anyone on any forums, social media or blogs to your kickstarter?
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by clavalle 13y ago
Ok. Do we get a discovery process where we can sift through all of the correspondence and information they had in the run up to the Iraq war? No? It will be released 25 years after the fact /if/ they are not ordered to remained
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by clavalle 13y ago
Seems like saavy and motivation are both key ingredients for 'lucky timing'.
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by clavalle 13y ago
>...convinced that the techie crowd got ahead from its own savvy and motivation.. As opposed to what?
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by clavalle 13y ago
It is a huge mistake to ignore people who are in the wrong. If their ideas gain traction because they are given an unchallenged platform that could lead to bad policy that is hard to reverse. Gently explaining they are wrong is only sligh
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by clavalle 13y ago
There are still people out there arguing that slavery might be an ok system. That landowners or taxpayers should be the only ones with the right to vote. That the slaughter of other peoples is the natural way of things and has some benefi

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