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by declan 13y ago
Nobody is saying that gun violence doesn't exist (though I wonder how much is limited to inner cities in areas none of us want to live in if we have a choice). But we're talking at cross purposes. The first post talked about viole
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by declan 13y ago
Which is only, what, 99% of hospitals?
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by declan 13y ago
You seem to be mistaken on both counts. First, a federal law called EMTALA requires hospitals to provide emergency treatment regardless of citizenship or ability to pay. Second, there is more violence in the UK (about 2.5x-3x times as much
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by declan 13y ago
Perhaps a better way to think about this is: pro-stasis and anti-stasis mentality? Remember that liberals, who in theory are in favor of progress, were behind the Clipper Chip (Bill Clinton's first major tech initiative), banning &quot
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by declan 13y ago
But what's their source? Do they have that on-the-record from the good Sen. Manchin himself, or just an unnamed source speculating? Or their own speculation?
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Actually, no. More like an attempt is inevitable.
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by declan 13y ago
Tweeted! https://twitter.com/declanm/status/438796925844717568
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by declan 13y ago
No, that's incorrect. The Federal Reserve System is an unusual hybrid unlike NASA or any other government agency I can think of. NASA doesn't have Boeing or Raytheon as "member agencies" or as owners of regional space ad
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by declan 13y ago
Note that Chuck Schumer, who National Journal says* was the most liberal senator in 2013 (well, it was a three-way tie) also has signed letters with Manchin to DOJ complaining that Bitcoin is "untraceable" and demanding a crackdow
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by declan 13y ago
No, Sen. Manchin is not up for re-election in this election cycle. His term expires in January 2017, with an election in November 2016: http://www.periodicalpress.senate.gov/reelection-2016/ Of course he's up for
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Sen. Manchin demands complete US ban on Bitcoin(news.cnet.com)
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The operator of a crawler doesn't need to sign an agreement for the prohibition to be enforceable. See eBay v. Bidder's Edge. This was 14 years ago, folks.
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by declan 13y ago
Yep, you're right. PRISM is a process through which NSA obtains legal orders to demand information from companies through a federal law known as FAA 702. I tried to set the record straight on this last summer: http://news.cn
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by declan 13y ago
Prism is as precisely as "voluntary" as the cops showing up with a search warrant at 5am and asking you nicely to open up "voluntarily", because, well, they have a nice 5.11 MiniRam Breaching Tool 50091 and your door loo
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by declan 13y ago
You are correct that Bruce mentioned, in passing, that it may not be a good idea for the NSA to collect "data on foreign citizens indiscriminately." It's of course possible and perhaps reasonable to argue that Yemen has a far
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by declan 13y ago
From some of his other posts I'm 99% sure that he used Python.
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by declan 13y ago
Agreed -- and Jim has done a lot more critical thinking about our political system than just about anyone else I know.
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Avoid OS X apps linked against buggy SSL: Mail, iCloud, Safari, App Store(plus.google.com)
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If the NSA were only "acquir[ing] the mobile phone records of Yemen" and nothing else, Edward Snowden would not have risked everything by leaking thousands of documents and we would not be having this discussion today. Put another
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by declan 13y ago
I think if you view marriage as "just sitting around," this is not the type of romantic relationship that describes what typical founders likely seek out. To answer your point more directly, one difference is that a marriage tends
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by declan 13y ago
Elie Bursztein leads Google's anti-abuse research, and recently mentioned on Google+ that he moved his personal web site to GAE: http://www.elie.net/ I can load his GAE-hosted web site in ~300ms, and there's a use
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by declan 13y ago
>"Imagine having an entire fleet of sensors all over the world gathering data all the time. Traffic data, weather data, etc." What you've described is already, in part, reality. Android phones already gather traffic data f
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by declan 13y ago
Not in terms of workforce. Google has 47K employees: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=GOOG+Profile A large percentage of those are overseas, and the remainder are concentrated in Mountain View (yes, I'm aware of sa
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by declan 13y ago
Not only foreign competition, but domestic competition as well. This is how successful cartels operate. A reasonable amount of lawyering is filling out forms that a 30-year veteran paralegal could do better than someone who just graduated f
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Is it time for a GeekPAC? (2002)(news.cnet.com)
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Can you give us a list of "representatives who will invoke the change you want?" Are there any? You are correct, though, that following the DC pattern of "follow this script while calling your congresscritters" is insuff
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by declan 13y ago
Yep. The thing is, though, that a lot of Republican primary voters support the Tea Party's message of lower taxes, limited government, and a return to constitutional norms -- to the extent that they're willing to toss out an inc
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by declan 13y ago
Billions of dollars are taken from so-called Highway Trust Fund, paid for by your gas taxes, to fund public transport. Cite: http://reason.com/archives/2012/02/14/house-aims-to-stop-hig... >>Every
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by declan 13y ago
Another way to look at "sprawl" is: Enough space to have privacy, enough space to pursue your own interests, enough space to have the kids enjoy the backyard as opposed to a 4'x3' balcony on the 20th floor of an apartmen
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Update three hours later: An editor at Fast Company responded and said they'll add a note to the story. https://twitter.com/JessHullinger/status/426050602984935424

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