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The Strategic Consequences of F-22 Termination (2009)(ausairpower.net)
42 points by gcv 13y ago|50 comments
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by gcv 13y ago
Keep it classy, Internet. Keep it classy.
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by gcv 13y ago
Fair point. How about an additional amendment spelling out an alternative method for elections to the legislative branch? Do away with plurality and introduce enumerated preferences?
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by gcv 13y ago
Constitutions are wonderful things, and they can help set the tone of a nation. Yet, everything comes down to the people: the rulers and the public. As long as the rulers behave decently, things work well. When they don't, things fall
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by gcv 13y ago
An amendment eliminating the Electoral College would go a long way towards fixing the problems outlined in TFA. The Constitution is largely very good, but it unintentionally created a de-facto two party system. With the executive branch fre
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by gcv 13y ago
I know, right? We need more staffing for initiatives like healthcare.gov, and honestly, the security organs aren't doing enough. A larger NSA will, undoubtedly, contribute to a more perfect union.
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by gcv 13y ago
A blog post which writes about someone who interviewed with the NSA: http://mathbabe.org/2012/08/25/nsa-mathematicians/ Choice quote: ‘Out of the 6 or 7 people I met, everyone but one person responded al
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by gcv 13y ago
Transcendentalist: You need to take some flying lessons. Seriously. I recommend helicopters. R22s and R44s have wide-open canopies with a magical view. If it's summer and warm, take the right-hand (pilot side) door off (you won't
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by gcv 13y ago
The final version of a contract is certainly PDF, but during negotiations, people must be able to make and track edits. Git has these features covered, but I just can't imagine sending a Markdown contract draft file marked "FOR DI
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by gcv 13y ago
You made your non-tech staff write Markdown files? How did that go? Also, about contracts — .doc/.docx is lingua franca. How did you deal with collaborating with the rest of the world?
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by gcv 13y ago
All well and good — I suspect that OpenPGP is one of the few reliable tools out there for file and email security — but BitTorrent Sync is closed-source. We have no way of knowing that it doesn't automatically provide copies of all dat
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by gcv 13y ago
If you do this, will you still be able to decrypt data encrypted with the old key?
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Modality kills (or how I learned to love emacs and stop swearing at tmux)(evan.tiggerpalace.com)
2 points by gcv 13y ago|0 comments
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by gcv 13y ago
Then the NSA tells you to put backdoors in all that nice crypto you put together, and keep mum about it. If you refuse, it shuts you down, either in court or by force. You think Yahoo execs want to get categorized as "enemy combatants&
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by gcv 13y ago
Why couldn't it have been made to work in either orientation? Backwards compatibility? Apple patents?
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Cypherpunks FAQ (unofficial, circa 1994)(groups.csail.mit.edu)
1 points by gcv 13y ago|0 comments
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by gcv 13y ago
As I said, the browser is a new challenge, and I was referring exactly to the problem of presentation flexibility. However, I'm pretty sure that the boxes-and-glue model can handle flexible viewport and font sizes as inputs from the br
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by gcv 13y ago
In some states, it is illegal for you to record a conversation without the other party's consent. If you are hauled into court, your recording may be (1) used to chain another charge on you, or (2) be inadmissible as exonerating eviden
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by gcv 13y ago
crazygringo is absolutely right. When the committee responsible for CSS started working in the late 1990s, it seems to have lacked any members who knew anything about layout. Certainly, the browser was a new challenge, but automatic layout
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by gcv 13y ago
Lots of good answers on this thread. I think the fundamental underlying reason is that programming is difficult and so poorly understood. A given: all software has bugs. Usually, that doesn't matter — a CRUD app will eventually get deb
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by gcv 13y ago
Amazon carries a surprising amount of expensive merchandise already. I've never seen, e.g., luxury watches at Target: http://www.amazon.com/IWC-IW356502-Portofino-Automatic-Black... — and notice that the only reviewer
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by gcv 13y ago
Also look at the "most helpful" negative review: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3P3KHD7WHGNBM/ref=cm_cr_rdp_pe... The reviewer accuses the 5-star reviewers (not PG and Peter Norvig directly, since that re
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by gcv 13y ago
I don't know about forums, but I suspect that being Facebook friends with a non-US citizen is enough to subject a US citizen to unlimited collection.
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by gcv 13y ago
I didn't know that GB consoles didn't have a flat memory model. That was horrible to program with x86/DOS and must have sucked even more on a tiny hand-held.
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by gcv 13y ago
I see. This isn't clean enough for my tastes. I run Homebrew from a custom directory, not /usr/local, and I want to make GPGMail refer to the gpg binary there. No Mac app installer should ever write anything to /usr&#x2F
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by gcv 13y ago
I tried installing GPGMail stand-alone with a previous version, and it caused Mail.app to crash on start, presumably because /usr/local/bin/gpg was not available.
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by gcv 13y ago
Thanks guys — I was afraid it was something like that. I absolutely hate it when Mac software litters stuff outside of its bundle without even asking the user. Plenty of people figured it out correctly — GitHub.app, for example, installs a
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by gcv 13y ago
The last version of GPGTools I looked at had the irritating habit of always installing its own copy of GPG into /usr/local and not letting me use my own version (e.g., from Homebrew). Is this still the case in version 2? It would
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by gcv 13y ago
Seconding the recommendation for Land of Lisp. It's fun, well-written, and thorough. And has the most fun art I've seen in a programming manual. I read five great books on Common Lisp. Intro level: ANSI Common Lisp (by our very ow
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by gcv 13y ago
The truth about Obama's views has always been right there in his Senate voting record. When he bothered to attend, he consistently voted to do things like extend the Patriot Act.

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