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by cobrausn 14y ago
For what it's worth, the 'xenophobic rural jingos' in and of themselves don't cause a lot of gun crime. The drug trade is the primary source of gun violence in the US.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Be careful not to apply this to generally. American society is not like Norweigan society - we have a higher division between rich / poor, fewer social safety nets, and higher crime rates. Not only that, our prisons (because of how we run
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by cobrausn 14y ago
In 2029, when we are still not able to 'upload our brains' into a computer, I will come back here specifically to call bullshit.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
My wife wanted and picked up a Lenovo Yoga (i5 processor, 4gb RAM, ssd) for Christmas, and though it takes some getting used to, I'm starting to like the thing. I'll also point out that around the holidays it was sold out at every best buy
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by cobrausn 14y ago
This is, for the most part, a solved problem. It does require a really long cable and a person at the control panel though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remotely_operated_underwater_ve...
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by cobrausn 14y ago
And yet this kind of 'shaming' seems to happen in non-southern, non-religious places as well. Stop looking for an easy scapegoat.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
It's a longer read than I have time for (at work), but thanks for the link. I'm curious to see how they resolve the problem of the major upfront cost of R&D that is usually (so far as I know) recouped only via temporary monopoly.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
There are tons of studies showing that IP law hampers innovation and not a single one showing it aids it. What about pharmaceuticals? 'Tech' (as we use the term) isn't the only industry in existence.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
That's not all too different from Democrats who criticize Obama w.r.t. drone warfare, whistle blower prosecution, etc, but vote for him anyhow.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Correct, bolt-action weapons typically do not have magazines. That does not prevent them from being used on rampages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman The lunatic who attacked the school was not trained, but was also attackin
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Besides, from abroad, it very much looks like Americans are more concerned about keeping hold of hard core military weapons in their homes to be used against the odd burglar, than freedom, health, etc. If the U.S. government does decide t
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by cobrausn 14y ago
No it doesn't. There'll be one guy left with one eye. How's the last blind guy going to take out the eye of the last guy left whose still got one eye left? All that guy has to do is run away and hide behind a bush. Ghandi was wrong. It's j
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Like most places in the Northeast, Connecticut has some gun control laws (especially regarding handguns).
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Problematic but absolutely necessary. I'm reminded of a quote from John Carmack from an article where he was advocating FP in C++. In almost all cases, directly mutating blocks of memory is the speed-of-light optimal case, and avoiding th
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by cobrausn 14y ago
An individual game will typically have no permanence to it, but the nature of the game can last a lot longer. In many cases, the games we are playing today originate from older versions that pre-date the 1700s, so if 'permanence' is your q
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by cobrausn 14y ago
You imply architecture and music have meaning and affect people's lives in real ways, yet sports do not. Do I really have to point out what's wrong with this statement? Not to mention it sounds incredibly pretentious. I say this as someon
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Ugh, No. 2 literally made me facepalm. Despite that, I still think that's a problem with the writing, not the directing, though he likely could have changed that line if he felt the need. In regards to No. 1, they were already pretty close
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by cobrausn 14y ago
I agree with the first point. It did deserve to win. In regards to the second point, I think you've been playing too much Black Ops 2.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
In the version we ended up writing, 'operator []' is equivalent to a call to 'Get', which also returns a reference to the mapped value. In the event that key is not mapped, it asserts. If you handle the assert or have disabled runtime ass
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. I normally hate people who just throw quotes up to answer a question, but this one seemed appropriate. I will never live
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by cobrausn 14y ago
If you have details, please share.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
That's what I was saying - if you wish to talk about integrating a scripting language with C in the 21st century, odds are it will be lua, not python.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
I wonder why the author decided integrating with python was a better idea than, say, lua. Seems to me that lua is winning that fight, but that's just my current impression - I don't really have any solid numbers to back that up.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Now let's talk about Eric Holder, Obama, and a dead ATF agent. Something tells me you won't see it the same way.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
And if it were 1,000? 5,000? 25,000? You're still talking epsilon-level percentages here.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
He did make his case - 395 racist tweets out of 120 million voters is practically background noise. You should expect all manner of extreme behavior on a sample size that large.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Then why is there such variety of style, brevity, documentation, and technique among good, experienced programmers?
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by cobrausn 14y ago
There's a difference between 'not expressing interest' and 'actively pursuing the opposing agenda' that I hope is apparent. 2012 Democratic Platform: "We must help state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement work together to comba
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Nevermind that Obama has never expressed any interest in marijuana legalization and has even gone against his own promises in regards to prosecution. But feel free to keep projecting 'progressive values' onto him that aren't there.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
One of the supposed points of patents is that the inventor shares knowledge with the world in exchange for temporary monopoly. If the patent is not enforced (such as in China), then there is no incentive to file. It might be smarter, from

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