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by cmdkeen 13y ago
The article is pretty trolling with it's wider commentary about political placemen. If anything one of the problems the current government has is that it hasn't been placing those sympathetic to their agenda in wider society. Gov
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Until organised crime infiltrate the government and they start ignoring the law. See the FBI under Hoover. Plus organised crime hardly enables a free and open society. Especially as a free and open society revolves around a viable rule of l
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Because the same data set isn't being given to loads of different companies, it is a unique process. The whole concept is you apply for specific data for a reason, get vetted and then receive the data. At the scale we are talking about
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Not just that - a young America ignored foreign authors copyright in publishing. Film making took off in Southern California in order to escape the Edison company's protection of its film patents. Intellectual property protection becam
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Except the US public debt requires growth to stop a very nasty hard landing when it comes home to roost. The article's assertion that economic freedom is tied to economic growth should cause worry in that regard. Germany and Sweden hav
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
I think the point being made is the blunt nature of the regulation - "entire industries" are being regulated. More regulation doesn't necessarily mean better regulation.
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
The difference is there is no need for a ground occupation. It would be a solely naval (and possibly Air Force) campaign - so the number of potential casualties and time scales is much lower. China's naval power is massively far behind
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
The Soviets and then Russians did a very good series of deals flogging their air defence systems to all sorts of countries. Syria for instance is a prime example - though get involved there was avoided, rightly or wrongly. If Syria and Nort
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Who? You're quoting fancy philosophical terms, so here goes: Aristotle: the sort of war that involves hunting “those human beings who are naturally suited to be ruled but [are] unwilling…[is] by nature just” Plato's Republic had w
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
It isn't just the military presence that drives fundamentalist Islam. "The Great Satan" is evil because of culture - educating children will also be seen part of the same evil - Westernisation. cf Boko Haram - the Nigerian gr
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
No-one is saying that we shouldn't try to educate our potential enemies, especially in places like Afghanistan. I'm just pointing out that your "drop books on them instead" it fatuous and wouldn't work. Provide the
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
"the most basic rules of human life, that have been taught us since we rose from this Earth" That is just fundamentally untrue. The notion that all life is sacred and killing for a living is wrong is a very, very modern notion. Me
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
You do realise the Taliban are specifically opposed to Western education, especially the education of women. You have groups like Boko Haram (literally "Western education is sinful"). Dropping books on villages when the security s
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
No - the alternatives are air-strikes and artillery. Drones have the advantage of loiter time, they can spend ages in situ gathering intelligence and analysing whether to shoot or not. This does generate the mental health problems for the a
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
How does upgrading the video affect latency? Drones already have long latency times, their "flight" which is the bit that requires potentially quick response times is already "AI" controlled. People don't move so qu
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other guy die for his.” Patton All weapons are the weapons of cowards. It isn't fair that almost all the weapons we use in Afghanistan are superior to our enemies, and i
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
The number of professional asset managers who actually invest for periods exceeding a year is surprisingly tiny. The number of firms (especially American) that wouldn't fire someone who didn't consistently meet/beat expectati
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
HFT extracts the value from transactions. It won't extract the value from a company becoming twice as valuable. Invest because you think the company is going to be successful and thus more valuable. The actual amount of stock that is H
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If you're investing over anything approaching the short term then it is exactly like playing at Vegas, except the card counters aren't banned. If you invest , i.e. over 10+ years then HFT doesn't matter other than giving you
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Or use Cyberduck to monitor when files you open with it get saved and it syncs them back. Cyberduck + Textmate is a joy.
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There is a point where the breakdown in social order is going to lead to a much greater problem. If the food and energy systems we rely on to supply cities break down then you'll be looking at problems other than the outbreak causing d
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
1/3 of the game released as shareware compared to today's pay for the game before it is done, sell it at release and keep selling you DLC. At least with Steam the more obnoxious DRM has died a death for many games (Ubisoft I'
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
No, cannabis briefly became a Class C drug which did not make it legal, or even decriminalised. Class C drugs in the UK carry a theoretical penalty of 2 years in prison for possession and 14 for supply and production. Though the sentencing
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Lower mortgage rates. If your mortgage goes from 5% to 4% your monthly discretionary income can increase markedly. If you spend it then, boom, increased consumer demand.
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Plenty of actual snake implementations had the same thing, so it is at least "authentic"!
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Cheers - I actually had a really good conversation in the pub on Friday with some other relatively junior staff, and we all came to a much better understanding of our goals and motivations, and how closely aligned they are. It really drives
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Sadly it's a bit of a crapshoot. The two consultants we have in at the moment are both brilliant, but we've had a shocking one from the same firm previously, who is probably responsible for a lot of our previous problems. The best
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I was rather hoping that near the end of the photos that one would have a zombie shuffling along...
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
You don't even have to get up to experience this - just head into the City of London[1] on a weekend, especially a Sunday. Most of the streets are empty. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London
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At work we have a consultant in at the moment doing technical mentoring. He's gone right back to basics on a lot of stuff, unit testing, TDD, refactoring, pair programming etc. For a while it felt like a waste of time, I didn't ne

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