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by davvolun 9y ago
> Facebook knows many drug purchases are coordinated openly on college groups How does Facebook know this, if they still have to search them out? > ...once this law is naturally expanded upon. Yeah, I can see that. Slippery slope and
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by davvolun 9y ago
Maybe I'm not being clear... In the absence of clear, well-considered privacy laws (which I'm not the least bit hopeful for, particularly internationally consistent..), Google will have access to this data. As a randomly chosen us
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by davvolun 9y ago
Seriously. TLDR: use guard clauses (when appropriate for readability and cognitive load)
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by davvolun 9y ago
I suppose I should say, "Hanlon's Razor often applies to sentencing, only occasionally to guilt"
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by davvolun 9y ago
That's an interesting corollary... Hanlon's razor applies to sentencing, but not to guilt.
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by davvolun 9y ago
NE-02 sent an electoral vote to Obama in 2008, whereas the other 4 NE votes went to McCain. In 2010, NE-02 was gerrymandered (arguably) and all 5 votes have gone to Romney (2012) and Trump (2016) since then. Admittedly, that's sort of
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by davvolun 9y ago
I'm really not trying to be facetious, > If Google knows that sex traffickers are using gmail to coordinate their sex-trafficking activities, they'd be liable for "knowingly facilitating" sex trafficking Is that not..
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by davvolun 9y ago
I don't know that I'd turn to the software industry for insight on development and maintenance. Things have changed, but AFAIK we still don't have that silver bullet.
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by davvolun 9y ago
Maybe I'm just playing devil's advocate, but is what Obama did significantly different from Union soldiers under Lincoln's orders during the Civil War? The form of warfare has changed dramatically, but wouldn't that be s
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by davvolun 9y ago
I can't really comment fairly here as I've gotten used to Chrome for the last 2+ years, but is there really not an extension in Firefox for this, even if it's not natively supported? Seems surprising to me.
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by davvolun 9y ago
I think the point is moreso, connecting correlation to causation is really, really, really, really hard, even for simple stuff. And sample size doesn't change that, it may even make it harder (see Simpson's Paradox re: 1964 U.S. C
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by davvolun 9y ago
It came off as confrontational to me..., and I don't see the irony (may be poor choice of word on that though, reductio ad absurdum perhaps?) I would think someone working in marketing at American Apparel or some fashion magazine or so
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by davvolun 9y ago
Isn't that the same argument regarding ripping music CDs? If I pay for the musicians, manufacturing and distribution costs to put a CD in stores, etc. Although, I think you're framing it wrong, you're not obligated to give th
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by davvolun 9y ago
When the response during meeting discussion is always "let's take that offline," then it's a waste of time. First off, no one is "online," stupid buzz-speak, but more importantly it's useful for some iss
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by davvolun 9y ago
I've done some scraping work -- one of my rules of thumb is to always assume the worst of their site and try to be as gentle as possible.
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by davvolun 9y ago
A decade's worth of experience vs beginner-level experience could explain the issue. Not saying it does, just that it could.
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by davvolun 9y ago
I don't understand what this comment is referring to. Google's spider respects robots.txt, just block all paths and google will not crawl your site. So too for Bing, Yahoo, Baidu (some complications though, I think), Yandex.... Mo
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by davvolun 9y ago
Braid was one of the three games included in "Indie Game: The Movie." What exactly would Jonathan Blow have needed to do to "market it as an indie", giant glowing arrows on the title screen saying "this is an indie&
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by davvolun 9y ago
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ivy-python Ivy: a lightweight software bus I can't disagree. You can't even easily filter down searching 'ivy python' or similar
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by davvolun 9y ago
You could also install X server and run tests with an entire graphical stack. But if you don't have to....
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by davvolun 9y ago
> There aren't many immigrants there WHAT are you talking about? > Landscaping is mostly white, maids are mostly white, and construction work is mostly white I can't say anything about landscaping or maids, I've neve
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by davvolun 9y ago
I've never seen such a shocking injustice I cared so little about!
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by davvolun 10y ago
Aaaand just found my personal backups at home haven't been running for about a month. ALWAYS CHECK !
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by davvolun 10y ago
Completely unrelated. Having never viewed India Times' website before, can I say, I really like their method of pulling in infographics and backing up their statements. I'd like to see a lot more of that in the States.
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by davvolun 10y ago
Wha, what? vim and emacs aren't about typing speed, they're about action speed. 99% of the reason I love using vim is because I can do exactly what I can do with a combination of mouse and keyboard actions, but without leaving the
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by davvolun 10y ago
Monsters ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters_(2010_film) ) is my response to that. The problem with "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" wasn't that it was low budget, it was that it decided part-w
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by davvolun 10y ago
Not technically correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_H...
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by davvolun 10y ago
Are 'punitive damages' medieval? If Oculus takes anti-consumer measures, then reverses course and consumers jump back on board as if nothing ever happened, why wouldn't they re-enact those measures once they have the leverage
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by davvolun 11y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...
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by davvolun 11y ago
So your patent only matters if you can afford to sue someone stealing your patent? Isn't that swinging too hard the other way?

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