gloob

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by gloob 16y ago
Not everyone is American. Not everyone is bound by American law.
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by gloob 16y ago
Then it is whoever is causing the internal pressure that is harming freedom of speech.
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by gloob 16y ago
I'm afraid I might have misunderstood you, but you seem to believe that having a reasonable understanding of compsci counts as premature optimization, and is therefore somewhere between "a waste of time" and "actively harmful". Is that the
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by gloob 16y ago
When buying and selling are regulated, regulators are bought and sold. Surely, in that case, the market will make certain these valuable resources (regulators) are distributed in such a way as to maximize value, yes?
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by gloob 16y ago
Maybe my social circle is just old fashioned, but my friends and family actually care whether I come to their events. That means that they have means other than Facebook to contact me with, since I'm not on the site. Maybe your mom would
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by gloob 16y ago
awk -> I forget what grep -> global/regular expression/print sed -> stream editor perl -> I'll give you this one cat -> concatenate finger -> I'll give you this one man -> manual A large perce
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by gloob 16y ago
The printing press had a big effect, but it didn't fix government, corruption, war, or debt.
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by gloob 16y ago
The TSA isn't. The TSA articles are. They have almost nothing to do with startups, and even less to do with tech. They are the antithesis of intellectually interesting.
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by gloob 16y ago
Flag them. Flag them all.
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by gloob 16y ago
I'm not particularly interested in debating the honesty or lack thereof of the advertising. I just want to say that I'm glad that Apple's innovations will allow us to leave behind the old world where you had to either desperately hope the
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by gloob 16y ago
"I am a citizen, you must hold (if you are the government) or fund (if you are a taxpayer) an election for me to vote in." What's your feeling on that positive right? I've encountered people who argue against democracy, and I've encountere
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by gloob 16y ago
If it's not provided to them...then it's cheating. The idea that students are only allowed to study from materials that are explicitly provided to them seems questionable. I would preface this with a statement of my own ignorance of the
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by gloob 16y ago
In all likelihood I'm just putting my own ignorance on display, but I'd never heard of Move before the Kinect came out. Disclaimer: I'm Canadian. XBox won up here.
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by gloob 16y ago
Given that we have already had two rape jokes in this thread, you might want to reconsider your notions of what people "can" and "cannot" do here. Additionally, I need not "tease out a scenario" where it "might be okay" to make a rape joke.
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by gloob 16y ago
It's considered an insight because a year ago HN was raging with debates over whether Android might be a viable competitor to iOS, or whether it would be stillborn. Now, "everyone knows" Android's going to win.
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by gloob 16y ago
A problem which is only made worse by the desire to apply the word "hacker", "hacking", and variants to everything.
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by gloob 16y ago
If accuracy was the highest priority when choosing the site's name, it would be called "Web Pages Voted on by a Reasonably Polite Community with a Curious Taste for Speculation About What Might Eventually Become News, Rather Than News Itsel
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by gloob 16y ago
Misinterpreted the parent post. Thanks for the correction.
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by gloob 16y ago
designed to calculate a digest of huge amounts of data in as short a time as possible. That's a weakness, not a strength. If you can only calculate 100 hashes per second, it will take a lot longer to crack a password than if you can calc
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by gloob 16y ago
A revolutionary new product that will allow one person to send a char[] to another person.
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by gloob 16y ago
Or sed.
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by gloob 16y ago
I'm glad you've found a new sociological/psychological toy you can use to tell yourself that your discussion partners are too preoccupied with social signalling to actually have a position, but it would still be polite to at least pretend t
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by gloob 16y ago
The amount of man-centuries of work that would at the very least now have to be ported? There are large numbers of Very Important Programs that are still written in some old dialect of Fortran. It's not like the Java 6 JVMs are going to
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by gloob 16y ago
If the iPhone was available on every carrier we would have real numbers. I disagree with the notion that the real numbers are somehow not real, and the real "real numbers" are the result of a "shoulda, coulda, woulda" situation.
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by gloob 16y ago
The post you are replying to does not contain the word "easy" at all, so far as I can discern. I think you might be attacking a straw man.
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by gloob 16y ago
Because the existence or nonexistence of god has nothing whatsoever to do with evolution?
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by gloob 16y ago
Workaround: use any other PDF reader at all.
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by gloob 16y ago
What's the best way to get the laws fixed? "Convince everyone to ignore them" seems like a reasonable first step.
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by gloob 16y ago
Article about politics.
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by gloob 16y ago
The parliamentary system is rather different from the US political system. Notably, there is "the government" and "the opposition", which are usually (but not necessarily) the two largest parties in the parliament. (Disclaimer: I'm Canadia

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