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by cobrausn 13y ago
This seems pretty unreal. Is there a way to donate to this kid's defense fund? You know, I'm really starting to hate prosecutors with a passion. I used to (a long time ago) buy into the TV crime show narrative of slimy defense l
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by cobrausn 13y ago
The wedding wasn't where the stories said it was (private land not a public park), there were no endangered species that were put at risk, and only one reporter out of 100 stories that ran bothered to call them for comment, so it'
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Well, I got the chance to be surprised regarding things like DNA samples. I'm not worried about targeted surveillance as much as I am broad-spectrum storing of everything anybody ever does on the internet for later lookup. If they had
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by cobrausn 13y ago
As I said in the last part, if this is just an early leak of a document in the works that will soon be official, it's a bit different than fraud. However, there is surely a difference between releasing templates for official documents
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by cobrausn 13y ago
If this is a fraudulent letter, then it isn't a leak - it's just fraud. It would be like me stealing some official letterhead and 'leaking' an official pardon for Timothy McVeigh (as a purely random example, please do n
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by cobrausn 13y ago
You generally have to be bigger (or at least more powerful) than the other kid to be a bully. We've seen how a lot of nations acts when they are the bigger kid, and the US isn't really much different, it seems. Is anyone surpris
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I have some anecdotal evidence to suggest otherwise, but that's somewhat irrelevant. Perhaps electrical engineering was a bad choice. A business degree then? Used to be a good path into middle and upper management, is now a requirem
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Wait, did I just get racially profiled?
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by cobrausn 13y ago
It's not that simple. Your degree in electrical engineering might not get you a job depending upon a number of factors, where once it was considered a sure thing.
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'Patent trolls' could meet their match in the crowd(bbc.co.uk)
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I've been drinking red wine quite a bit ever since I met my wife 8 years ago (her family is Italian). I can finally, after this long, begin to taste the various flavor differences and describe them in a meaningful way. I've had e
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I'll agree with that (four year military veteran here). You serve your country by striving to make it better. I guess to me patriotism isn't telling everyone else how much better you are than other countries, it's constantly
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Our own self-interests have pushed the state of science and technology forward quite a bit in the world, I say to you over the internet. He said nothing about motivations, only end result.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
If you think being in the military is just about being 'paid to kill and be killed', you have a childlike sense of morality.
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Why the NSA is Dangerous(bgreinhart.wordpress.com)
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Status update: The NY State Senate appears to be unconvinced. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/348157673944014848
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by cobrausn 13y ago
None of your arguments tell me why this kind of relationship should be enforced by law, only why you might want to buy from a dealer and not a manufacturer directly.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Feel free to restate it in such a way that it isn't so easily missed.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Last I checked, bills get introduced by representatives, not auto dealers.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Thanks for finding that. At the time I posted this, he hadn't linked the bill.
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NY auto dealers trying to shut down Tesla Motors in NY(twitter.com)
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I am straight, white, formerly republican, and find all of those things apalling when they happen. I didn't need to get burned by the fire to recognize that it burns.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
The Atlantic is kinda kidding themselves if they think merely bringing on Democratic judges would make it more 'balanced'. Both parties seem hostile to privacy rights right now (or at least, the primary movers of each party do).
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Of course, your examples shouldn’t just be brief two-line snippets. As Rich Bowen of the Apache project puts it, “One correct, functional, tested, commented example trumps a page of prose, every time.” If HN allowed signatures, that quote
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Considering the number of job postings I've seen where they want N+ years of experience, I'd say it's easier to find that in C++ than Ada if they do that.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
The F-35 has multiple variants, one of which is a STOVL (Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing) aircraft with a vertical flight system. The amount of code necessary to deal with that is likely a large part of the difference in LOC, not to men
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Linking your ability to see a doctor for a reasonable fee to your ability to find a decent employer strikes me as a monumentally short-sighted decision (if one was ever really made) on our part.
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The Xbox One Just Got Way Worse, And It's Our Fault(gizmodo.com)
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Steam actually may enable digital game sharing - if you aren't playing your game, you would be able to share it with a friend who could play it while you are not (similar to how a physical game copy would work). But you would have to
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I was actually not expecting a complete reversal, just a loosening of restrictions (something like 2 week check-ins, like Steam does). Both of the new machines (Xbox One, PS4) still allow third party publisher DRM (such as EA's 'P

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