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by cyrus_ 14y ago
Cute, but definitely not real. Here is the actual statement they released: http://www.ea.com/news/we-can-do-better
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
Idris is explicitly billed as a programming language. You can do pretty sophisticated programming in Coq too (Coq can be reasonably straightforwardly compiled down to Ocaml, Haskell and some other languages.)
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
Those rich Valley workers, with help, are funding the core tech development and manufacturing capacity that will lead to lower prices for the rest of the world. The government didn't need to give tax credits for PCs because they directly fu
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
This also has other benefits: * Supported by most widely-used fonts. * Easy to pronounce, one syllable * Has mainstream connotations (bitcoins sounds like a nerd thing) * Could use the lowercase phi for a more granular denominatio
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
So to clarify, you are stating that U.S. citizens should lose all right to due process the minute they step off U.S. soil? Or do you believe that any citizen deemed an enemy combatant can be killed by the executive on U.S. soil as well?
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
This is the code referenced in the video: http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
But "some libraries need bigger routers. Ok. which ones?" would cost much less (especially given that the answer would have been none of them.)
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
Before a hundred channels of cable TV, most TV entertainment was pretty unchallenging because they needed to please everyone. Modern TV can carve deeper niches because there are more channels. I don't know if it's gotten more challenging in
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
Relevant quote from David Foster Wallace: If you, the writer, succumb to the idea that the audience is too stupid, then there are two pitfalls. Number one is the avant-garde pitfall, where you have the idea that you’re writing for other wri
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
Here is an editorial from a couple of years ago by a couple of professors echoing this idea: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/opinion/24conley.html
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
There are many, many more people with access to sensitive/classified information in the executive branch. Increasing the size of congress by an order of magnitude will not meaningfully impact that number.
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
> research.microsoft.com MSR is a different beast from Microsoft itself.
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
You can use Bluetooth keyboards with iOS.
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
Based on Twitter chatter, Anonymous is indeed gathering supporters in Britain outside the Ecuadorian embassy as we speak.
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
I use http://www.checkvist.com/ , fully keyboard-driven interface with all sorts of perks. Haven't compared it directly to Workflowy, just putting it out there. No affiliation.
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
Seems that this may hinge on what "place of business" and "mailed" can be construed to mean with an online business. MegaUpload's primary "place of business" is the internet. So maybe all the government has to do is email MegaUpload a copy?
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
"in the United States"
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
Many of the unit tests would have to be written in a simply-typed language like Haskell too -- the author notes that only a handful of tests could be entirely eliminated due by the rewrite. Probably worth further study.
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
Actually, he's not being charged with anything yet. The warrant is simply to require him to come to Sweden for questioning, after which time the prosecutor will decide whether to charge him with any crime. At the moment, he has only been ac
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by cyrus_ 14y ago
I'm guessing that building a self-driving car is a much harder problem than a self-driving airplane, and we seem to be making substantial progress on the car front.
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Help Me With My App and Restore My Faith in the American Dream(ihardlyknewer.tumblr.com)
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
Here is a presentation from the author: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5548517/PyPedia.pdf .
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
Popularly accessible art can be funded by things like KS, or simply by the market more generally. Art that is not (currently) popularly accessible -- stuff that is either at the frontiers, or is making a contribution that is not immediately
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
This is almost PR mastery. PR mastery would be saying that the blogger is correct before listing the facts about how insanely long you have to leave the car unplugged for the battery to become inoperable, and detailing what steps Tesla is t
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
SSNs of the deceased are no longer considered private.
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
This trumps all the other privacy arguments. If the government wants to read your email, it need not access it at the endpoints -- it already has access to it in transmission over the compromised backbone. You would need to encrypt your ema
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
The nonprofit that is behind the B corporation initiative has this to say about legal liability: Will the B Corp legal framework create additional liability for our Board of Directors and officers? It is the opinion of our attorneys that
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
There is indeed additional legal risk -- shareholders (but not other stakeholders) can sue for not taking actions that "benefit humanity" as measured by a required independent audit. However, this is balanced by the legal protection offered
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
The popular hospitality exchange Couchsurfing recently incorporated as a B corporation as well (they were a non-profit before.) http://www.couchsurfing.org/about.html
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
Well, your money still ends up in the MPAA's hands to be used for nefarious purposes. I don't think the MPAA will stop no matter how successful online video services are, because they could always be making more, in their minds, if they onl

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