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by fixxer 13y ago
Good.
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Stand with Rand(randpaul2016.com)
3 points by fixxer 13y ago|0 comments
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by fixxer 13y ago
"nature will find a way" brilliant statement. thank you.
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by fixxer 13y ago
There are many great bargain wines out there, true. But, I would not call all wine bullshit. Those $300-$400 bottles are, IMO, complete bullshit compared to most $100 bottles, which are in turn bullshit compared to many $50 bottles (I'
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by fixxer 13y ago
It gets really fun when the incompetent ones get promoted and start dictating how the competent ones are supposed to work. (Sigh...)
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by fixxer 13y ago
I agree in principle. There might be some blow-back with regard to metadata that they can now legally (under their definition) track. Let's do the math to see if that would even be possible: * 144 billion emails per day in the U.
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by fixxer 13y ago
We hope. The alternative is a bunch of Dr. Strangeloves are running things.
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by fixxer 13y ago
When I read these statements (this one, the NSA press statement earlier, etc.), I honestly wonder if anyone on the side of government actually does get the irony.
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by fixxer 13y ago
Of course they are in bed together. Heard of these guys? http://www.iqt.org/ Clarification Edit: "They" = SV & government, not FB specifically.
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by fixxer 13y ago
One of the problems with all this crap is being able to draw clear lines between conspiracy and bureaucracy. I don't believe there is a secret group trying to build the IT infrastructure to subvert democracy and throw us into re-educat
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by fixxer 13y ago
They are just trying to keep us safe. ;) Personally, I'd rather be vulnerable to a few nuts than vulnerable to the system.
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by fixxer 13y ago
I wish someone would compile a list of all petitions which have reached critical mass and map the administration's responses. Would love to see exactly how "effective" this little charade has been since inception.
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by fixxer 13y ago
What really gets me about this, beyond the tragedy itself, is the amount of bullshit I have had to go through to get IRB approval for completely insignificant projects (monitoring decibel levels in public spaces, for example, which is NOT e
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by fixxer 13y ago
When I was in college, we always heard rumors of CIA doing this and NSA doing that... with the exception of the few NSA mathematicians who took sabbaticals in our math department, I generally assumed it was BS. (They were really nice guys,
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by fixxer 13y ago
You statement is perfectly valid. Scala was in my mind when I wrote my comment. I wish I found Scala as easy to use as I do Go. I do not enjoy the syntax, nor do I consider running on top of the JVM a selling point. I came from a Java, but
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by fixxer 13y ago
Can you cite your source regarding the NSA operated Tor exit? I do not mean this to be snarky -- if you have a legitimate source other than hearsay, I'd love to see it.
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by fixxer 13y ago
A very astute statement that deserves more respect. The IRS can and should claim what is theirs under the tax laws they operate. However, I do not see a practical enforcement strategy.
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by fixxer 13y ago
I totally get it. I'm only talking about me. I'm sure this community is generally capable of rolling their own LinkedIn.
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by fixxer 13y ago
This had me rolling!
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by fixxer 13y ago
More than a few other choices (Go...), not to mention alternatives still on the JVM. Nobody ever got fired for building with Java.
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by fixxer 13y ago
I'm done with LinkedIn. I've been on the fence about it for a year now. I get more recruiter spam than value. I'm also a bit too old for the schadenfreude that accompanies news of my overpaid friends getting canned. I'm
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by fixxer 13y ago
Really? All evidence to the contrary.
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by fixxer 13y ago
Get a room you two. EDIT: On a more serious note, isn't crypto both science and engineering? We have the theoretical aspects, etc... Then we have the practical aspects of implementing these systems in production within an ecosystem tha
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by fixxer 13y ago
While I understand the theft deterrent part, I have some concerns that such a "kill switch" could create a vulnerability that could bite us in the butt. I presume Madigan and her compadres are thinking of a central control through
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Illinois pushes for smartphone "kill switch" to deter thefts(nbcchicago.com)
1 points by fixxer 13y ago|1 comments
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by fixxer 13y ago
Awesome curriculum. Now if only the price was awesome...
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by fixxer 13y ago
Here is another candidate (posted earlier): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5856795
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by fixxer 13y ago
MAD works.
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by fixxer 13y ago
Honestly, I'm at a loss for words. I feel like I'm stuck in a life imitating art moment (with Orwell painting the picture).
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Booz Allen is hiring(careers.boozallen.com)
2 points by fixxer 13y ago|0 comments

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