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Alien star system buzzed the Sun(bbc.com)
167 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|64 comments
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Aleynikov definitely violated New York trade secret law. That's not what the court found. Otherwise the charges wouldn't have been dropped. It sounds like you're conflating the issue of whether he violated the "spirit&
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
One desert night on a Marine base outside Basra, I chatted with an Egyptian interpreter hired by the US military. Knowing that Cairene Arabic is vastly different from that of Southern Iraq, I asked him if he had any trouble understanding
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
I would dispute the value of the code. The code he took wasn't part of the "secret sauce". It didn't contain any of the logic for actually making High-speed trades. On what basis, may we ask? The only statements from t
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
I'm just fine with Aleynikov's conviction being overturned. Again, the charges against him seemed ambitious. "Ambitious" is a bit charitable, in this context. "Patently vacuous" -- to an extent that suggested
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
If someone steals a million dollar painting from a private gallery, Except that you're starting with a false premise: the offenses for which Aleynikov was initially charged -- theft of trade secrets, and transportation of stolen prop
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The War Against Tor: Russia Takes Aim at Popular Web Anonymizer(rferl.org)
3 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|0 comments
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
What gets me about this whole flap is that I just don't see anything particularly interesting or innovative in the UX design for that page CB Insights is so fiercely proud of. So it's a heatmap combined with slider -- how origina
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We dream about drones, said 13-year-old Yemeni before his death in a CIA strike(theguardian.com)
3 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|0 comments
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Articles like this must be why Putin wants to build his own "regional electronic encyclopedia."
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
The erratic (and at times outright maniacal) behavior of their CEO had something to do with their downfall also, from what I've read.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Which is, of course, hardly a comparable proscription. Nor is it widely adhered to, in colloquial usage.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
That's not what I was saying. Nor is it implied by what I was saying.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Don't you mean "the kind who use proper spelling"? No. Both "who" and "that" may be used to anchor relative clauses with human antecedents. To quote [1]: Most writers use 'that' and 'wh
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Seriously are $250,000 signing bonuses and 60% pay increases common in the valley. What level employee is this for. The kind that use proper spelling and punctuation, perhaps?
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
I suspect people without kids or other similar obligations tend to work more in any industry or location; it's not specific to the Bay Area. They might work "more", but that doesn't mean that their actual output is a
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Nathan Myhrvold former CTO at Microsoft had this to say about the differences: So if the ousted dilettante[1] head of a struggling division of some fading megacorp says it, it must be true? [1] See, for example, his positions on patent tr
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
There are also natural ways to keep your own T level high, like healthy food Specifics? Evidence?
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
I still find the supposition that Facebook was supposed to defy a court order hilarious. Yes, I understand it's a court order from Turkey, not America, but you can't just flagrantly break the law in other countries simply because
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
The censorship here is the responsibility of the Turkish government, not Facebook. Sounds like a blanket rationalization that can be applied to virtually any kind of corporate-powered environmental or human rights abuse at the hands of de
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
The last time? This past weekend. Before that? Every other weekend or so. I don't own a smartphone, and I make a point of staying offline most weekends unless I have a major email backlog to deal with, or something specific to look
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I track my boyfriend's movements because I want to trust him more, not less(independent.co.uk)
9 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|12 comments
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Has it become so taboo to be single that you have to pay to hide it? Apparently yes, sadly. Even so, I can't imagine this app could possible be worth the time (let alone the cost). Especially when simply lying to people (who aren&#x
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Argentine leader convinced special prosecutor's death was no suicide(bbc.com)
2 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|0 comments
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
I had to explain that we basically don't work at all on Friday afternoons because we're too busy drinking, This also sounds like a major bummer -- aside from the fact that does smacks (way too heavily) of bro culture, it's
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Right. But at no point was I saying that Python ought to have a ternary op, or that it doesn't have an analogous construct.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Then he asked me to do it one more time. I wasn't familiar with the python syntax for if-else shortcut (e.g., x = 100 if y is True else 0) and so couldn't rewrite it to his liking. This lack of familiarity with this python trick
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Mystery clouds death of Argentine prosecutor set to testify(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|0 comments
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Washington DC's Public Library Will Teach People How to Avoid the NSA(motherboard.vice.com)
3 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|0 comments
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
It essentially denies there's any such thing as property rights. Which is precisely the point.

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