dalek_cannes

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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Suzukis have them on the left too.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Will something like this work? 1. Voter (physically) visits a station, presents his ID and picks an auth token out of a hat (or some other physical, non-traceable method) -- say a paper scratch card with only a randomly generated number. 2.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
> We produce vastly more, but work as much as ever. Back in the 60s the sentiment was that 21st century Americans might have 10 hour work weeks. Isn't that because we now have a very large semi-parasitical managerial class that we n
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Perhaps it's analogous to CPUs? Perhaps it's better to power down your brain when you're not really using it rather than keeping it running hot at full frequency? The idle mind being the devils workshop and all... Perhaps (an
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Mal. That's "bad", in the Latin.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
In warfare, they say that the same army can behave radically differently under different types of leadership. The philosophy tends to percolate down the hierarchy pretty fast. I'm reminded of how Orson Scott Card said that part of End
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
And Office ribbons. I used to work almost entirely with keyboard shortcuts in the menu/toolbar days for word processing (I used vi for coding). I actually liked the riboons .
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Stack ranking causes employees to compete with each other rather than the company's competitors . It's all downhill from there.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
I agree. Is this a phone that I can: 1. Hold to my ear when a call arrives, without unplugging the video cable to my screen? 2. Wave around without fear of it falling and shattering to bits, taking most of my digital life with it (unless I&
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
There are some levels of pain I would actually prefer over solitary confinement. Consider that more people kill themselves because they can't bear psychological pain than they do because they can't bear physical pain.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
It's almost as if we're going back to directories.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Here's an odd question: For a country whose founding principles say "ALL human beings are endowed with inalienable rights...", why is the outcry only over collecting domestic communications ? Do the rights not apply to forei
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Firstly, Bill Gates is being a philanthropist with the billions he earned by running a lot of other entrepreneurs to the ground. But if he's had a change of heart, then I applaud him, even though it doesn't absolve him of what he
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
"They trust me -- dumb f *s" -- Mark Z. I think that should have been the cue.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
You're right. Point withdrawn.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Considering that Snowden's first revelation was just this June, I think a lot has happened in a few short months. Public opinion takes time to build. This is not a one-time event to be forgotten. This is a crack in the very foundation
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
> "create account, use" You mean create a fake account? Isn't that against TOS? > "use on established test account" Where the instructions are in English, even after changing language? > He was wrong, perio
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
a) Loyalty is a sentiment meant for living beings, not corporations, and b) When a corporation knows you're "loyal", what they really know is that your threshold for leaving is higher than non-loyal employers of the same skil
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
also STL vector in C++?
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
I used to work at a place that tried to reinvent everything from the wheel up, too. Over time I came to realize that avoiding third party libraries and technology stacks was more about long term support and hackability than anything else. U
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Chrome Version 28.0.1500.95 m
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
I never thought I'd see the day when I'll see a sentence with both "Obama" and "change" in it with a "not" in between.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
I did not phrase that properly. I meant: technically in the law books and interpreted as such, but violates the spirit of the law and is unconstitutional. At the risk of beating a dead and buried horse, consider the legal definition of &quo
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
And that's the answer to everyone refusing to call Snowden a whistle blower because he left the country rather than face the legal consequences. The consequences involved were anything but legal.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
The article's more about the patients than the science. I got bored with it so I went and found this, from Carl June himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1sA...
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
But will it bring back hemp? America lost a billion dollar crop when it lost hemp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp#Uses
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
I'm behind a VPN. Is that why it doesn't work in my case? I'm using Chrome (not even incognito).
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Rod-logic! http://www.halcyon.com/nanojbl/NanoConProc/nanocon2.html
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
> If I was a psychologist I would diagnose her with anxiety and possibly depression. > The vagueness is strange. I agree. On my first reading, even I wondered, "why is she trying to solve by quitting a problem that need to be sol
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Second that. Paper and printing should die and will die. One day. But that day is not today because none of the alternatives are ready. Recently I had to work on a project that had a 500-page spec. All my screen space was taken up by co

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