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by cobrausn 13y ago
Baby steps. First we need a 'dislike' option.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I shouldn't have to drown myself in noise to drown out the rest of you. Your choices are not just 'open plan or cube farm'.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
That's no silver bullet, Pemex being the obvious counter-example. They might have done equally well (or better) with competing companies that were taxed to pay into this fund.
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The Steam Machines play fewer games than your PC, with less functionality(polygon.com)
2 points by cobrausn 13y ago|0 comments
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by cobrausn 13y ago
In the U.S., military members get 30 days a year of paid leave, though weekends count as 'on duty' even if you would not normally work. Of course this can always be overruled by your commander - you can get stuck in a situation (
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by cobrausn 13y ago
The first few lines in the article mention that the bulk of the work was done by Microsoft in digitizing the photos.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
It's never that simple w.r.t. defense tech. A system like this could be used to protect space vessels from incoming high-velocity objects, such as debris.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
The US Navy is actually the one most interested in lasers, because the huge power generation capability of ships lends itself to their use quite nicely. EDIT: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/08/17
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by cobrausn 13y ago
So, how does the HN title policy work with a generated title?
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Oh, you actually watched the videos? Here I was just repeating shit I read somewhere. Yeah, we're done here, believe whatever the fuck you want, I doubt you could understand the context I'm talking about anyway.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Releasing the unedited video doesn't get rid of the fact that he released the edited one for 'maximum impact' that happened to obscure the truth of the situation a bit by omitting context and details. 'Lie by omission&#
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Yeah, it's a great TL;DR that can cause people to hate you for misrepresenting a situation forever. If he had just released the full, unedited video and a shorter unedited snippet of the video, would we still be seeing attacks on his
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by cobrausn 13y ago
So, what I'm seeing is that if he had not tried to extort people by demanding money to remove the photos, his site would not have been illegal?
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by cobrausn 13y ago
You mean other than it being the Capitol?
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Maybe because not everyone wants their spreadsheet with sensitive data on Google's servers. Also, I seriously doubt this thing is up to feature parity with Excel.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
There should rarely be any comments on why x is being incremented unless there is something particularly clever about why. Commentary should be reserved for program blocks where something non-obvious is happening or where something obvious
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Many tyrants live amazing lives as incredibly powerful individuals and die heroes to their people. Unless you believe in some kind of after-death consciousness, it certainly seems a win for the tyrant.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
The victims are the children - the parents should get most of the blame.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
They are only right wing if you subscribe to an extremely simplistic and binary view of politics.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
To play devil's advocate: Let's say my morals aren't bothered by killing members of the Taliban / Al-Qaeda / Enemy Of The Week, as I consider them a bunch of fanatics and a threat to western civilization. As such,
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Not that it does - just that it can . FWIW, I'm no war hawk, I generally consider myself an anti-war veteran.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
So, are you concerned about the betterment of the species or about individual humans? Unfortunately, the two are not always in alignment. As an aside, many astronauts are former soldiers.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
How about for armed robbery and beating the truck driver severely?
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Eyeborg Project(eyeborgproject.com)
4 points by cobrausn 13y ago|0 comments
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Nice straw man, but no - I'm not concerned about the poor who work for a living, they genuinely tend to want to improve their lives and their families lives - that's why they are willing to work 40 hours or more a week for barely
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by cobrausn 13y ago
But by providing them a minimum income, you basically make them into fuel for the economic machine - a consumer with no viable skills. And the vital years for gaining these skills are full of distractions, made all the easier to acquire by
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Considering how cheap consumer electronics and entertainment are these days, I'm genuinely concerned that this 'minimum income' would be high enough to permit many to live in perpetual 'childhood' - cheap food, chea
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by cobrausn 13y ago
The study is interesting, but it was performed in Canada in the 1970s. I would be interested in seeing it performed now in the various 'target markets', with so many more distractions available, especially ones targeted at the te
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by cobrausn 13y ago
My ability to invent and create is limited by my education. If I never got one in the first place because I had my basic needs met, there are quite a few things I could never do that I could now. And 'worth a try' on something t
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by cobrausn 13y ago
And what happens when it decreases the number of people who choose to get an education to seek greater opportunities? After all, the thought of perpetual poverty is a huge motivator. With that gone? Won't we see a higher divide betw

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