cornchips

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by cornchips 10y ago
No. "I try to stay much less emotionally attached to the end-result". This is the mindset that drives most of military, police and totalitarian policy. You don't drop a bomb or violate the constitution without a bit of emotio
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by cornchips 10y ago
Agree. We would have dramatically less surveillance programs, automated enforcement and bombs if there wasn't as many people ready to blindly write the software for them. We should be thinking hard about what we are building and how it
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by cornchips 10y ago
Want to see something really scary??? Here's his house: https://www.google.com/maps/place/7+Harvard+Rd,+Glen+Burnie,...
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by cornchips 10y ago
Any large company should openly defy such an order. What will they do??? Fine, court, shut down the company? If that happened would the public not outcry?
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by cornchips 10y ago
(b) logarithmic Good question to pose.
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by cornchips 10y ago
Formerly: Google Apps for Your Domain, Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, and Google Apps for Work... A turd by any other name is still a turd. This name is definitely poor; people will have trouble with "suite", short of eng
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by cornchips 10y ago
As much of a rational atheist skeptic you may think you are, I believe you are twisting words. They actually conclude the episode with "I don't know". If anything he was calling out those manipulating "green" for th
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by cornchips 10y ago
What's inconsistent about them?
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by cornchips 10y ago
Argh! Has anyone else turned this off and had it turn on again by "itself"?
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by cornchips 10y ago
Good stuff. > On top of that, Illinois is one of the few states that do not tax retirement income, compounding the problem. (Which makes sense, cause retirees vote, but I digress) Taxed for a lifetime and taxes until death.. Given the cu
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by cornchips 10y ago
Objectivism Shrugged :-)
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by cornchips 10y ago
At least a justified suit can be brought before them, no?
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Ask HN: Add clauses to licenses to handle software misuse by state actors?
2 points by cornchips 10y ago|4 comments
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by cornchips 10y ago
How to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana: - First of all you force him to drop the banana - then, second, you eat the banana, thus disarming him. - You have now rendered him ’elpless. http://rump2010.cr.yp.to&#x2F
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by cornchips 10y ago
any -> much Referring to the source code of some of the major components. Any python source was stripped of comments, which is surely interesting, but not as interesting as the source of the binaries.
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by cornchips 10y ago
Go to jail or write code...
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by cornchips 10y ago
Doesn't seem like any source code... Except Python.. Also, i wonder if computer scientists feel anything like the scientists after creating and deploying the atomic bomb... "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
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by cornchips 10y ago
Got me thinking: As an argument, 1201 is an ecological threat and single point of failure. Most copyright media is a petroleum byproduct...
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by cornchips 10y ago
I already use cgroups to limit chrome, though i believe this has little effect when things are leaking. Would prefer official notifications like "this website/extension is bloated garbage" or "warning jquery! amateurs ah
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by cornchips 10y ago
source/more info?
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by cornchips 10y ago
Owning a business related and supposedly selling to law enforcement while being employed by the force... Conflict of interest, anyone?
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by cornchips 10y ago
Yeah, people outside of Chicago tend to associate themselves with the big city... What they should really be saying is the "uncultured area of Bumblefuck around Chicago". That ERAD won't be of any use in Austin or Englewood a
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by cornchips 10y ago
Yes, evil. As is Sergeant Rob Hain (of Chicago) who uploaded this... "Sheriff's Deputy Ron Hain improperly detained Marsh after issuing him a warning and continued questioning him when he should have been free to leave, Barsanti r
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by cornchips 10y ago
I want to play... :-) What is willful? e.g. in the case of 2000 moms at a conference or a hotel/building with excessive wifi/etc. Would some of those fall under "willful interference"? Especially as willful and maliciou
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by cornchips 10y ago
I would agree. It seems Google Now has been pushing election updates for the last few months... The first few I received would only show Democrat results, though I never chose any party... Just got one today (or so), but it was more "b
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by cornchips 10y ago
As the plant kingdom is diverse, there is no yes/no. Though you can say this is a general problem in common soil. You can imagine jungle/pond plants are more tolerant of wetness, but not of the possible pests... The ecosystem of a
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by cornchips 10y ago
"drones don't kill people, people kill people" - AUVSI, in the future
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by cornchips 10y ago
Plants will die without air to the soil/roots. Many plants require wet/dry cycles. You should start seeing fungus gnats in a week or so.
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by cornchips 10y ago
Add: - Get hacked - Kill under order
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by cornchips 10y ago
LOL... What voice prints? What conspiracy to commit murder? Was there any planning or intention? You do know that conspiracy must follow intent to commit the offense? To shorten things up: "Although a person may simply contemplate comm

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