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by davorb 11y ago
> They got a warrant. I understand that they got a warrant for the server, but can it really be so broad so that it gives them the legal right to hack into any computer that visits the site?
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by davorb 11y ago
Do you offer any sort of anonymization?
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by davorb 11y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm not from the US), but I cannot for the life of me see how it could be legal for the FBI to break into people's computers. When you have a police force that sees itself as above the law, then you h
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by davorb 11y ago
Try mirroring his body language next time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_(psychology)
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by davorb 11y ago
Isn't it just a different word entirely? (English is also my second language) > Sheeple (a portmanteau of "sheep" and "people") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheeple
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by davorb 11y ago
> AMD on Linux is infamously slow This has actually changed during the past year, and the open-source drivers are now actually quite good.
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by davorb 11y ago
> I am not sure where I read it, but in presume the number of prevented attack is in the thousands. Then why don't we have thousands of prosecuted and convicted terrorists in our jails?
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by davorb 11y ago
> Using a not very popular programming language can actually make it harder for you to hire people. The type of people who go about learning OCaml are arguably on the whole more competent and passionate than your average run of the mill
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by davorb 11y ago
I would recommend doing the exercises in ielm (press M-x and type ielm), instead of lisp-interaction-mode.
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by davorb 11y ago
It's really hard to compare American equipment to most of the Soviet equipment that the US has fought against. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_variants_of_Soviet_mili...
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by davorb 11y ago
> I know someone who found out she had a gene that causes an early and very aggressive cancer and now can take pre-emptive measures that quite likely will save her life. Do you mind if I ask what service she used for this?
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by davorb 11y ago
> Taler ensures that governments can easily track their citizen's income So exactly why would I want to use this?
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by davorb 11y ago
> Neither is it done in Common Lisp. LOOP is something that imho very controversial. I don't think it's fair to say that its use is idiomatic.
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by davorb 11y ago
Aren't those just P-strings with a semicolon? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_%28computer_science%29#...
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by davorb 11y ago
Don't forget LISP machines! I think they might be the perfect example of what he was referring to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
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by davorb 11y ago
I moved from FreeBSD on a server two days ago , because it lacked Docker-support. Kicking myself in the foot right now...
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by davorb 11y ago
> one distinct IR per each pass is normal Source?
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by davorb 11y ago
Congratulations, but I still won't be putting my data in the US.
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by davorb 11y ago
I used to think that it was fine, but then I started working with LISP and SLIME, and the difference between that and what's available in the Ruby-world is striking.
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by davorb 11y ago
> Manhattan is about 40 That's insane. Copenhagen is at 80.
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by davorb 11y ago
Let's say you were working on a plugin and spent I don't know how many thousands of man-hours developing it. Now let's say that the creator of ST was hit by a car. You would be fucked.
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by davorb 11y ago
One of the problems with this trade deal is that most of our representatives -- the people who are supposed to write legislation -- aren't even allowed to know any more about it than we are. Not only that, the text will stay secret for
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by davorb 11y ago
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2014/06/13/costly-stadium-leav...
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by davorb 11y ago
I'd actually like to see someone do a Nim vs Rust. We've seen plenty of rust vs go and rust vs c++.
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by davorb 11y ago
> All I care about is that stuff just works for as many years as possible, gets security updates and does not break I would go with FreeBSD or Debian.
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by davorb 12y ago
So you are against all other forms of basic research as well? You don't think we should have built the LHC either?
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by davorb 12y ago
There was a guy that placed a bust of himself in a University library in Sweden. The bust is still there. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
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by davorb 12y ago
I've been reading a lot of Aleksa Šantić for the past few years, but I haven't seen any translations to English that really do him justice (not that I've been looking for them). Last night, returning from the warm hamam
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by davorb 12y ago
Can you recommend a good English-language collection of his works? The poem you wrote was amazing.
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by davorb 12y ago
Just throwing a shout out to Unicomp, in case anyone is looking for new a IBM Model M-type keyboard, with bulking spring switches. They're also working on a new ten-keyless model that should be out "soon"... http:/&#x2F

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