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by gpawl 10y ago
And criticizing the President used to be a criminal offense. Would you like the Republican-majority Congress to pass a new Alien and Sedition Act?
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by gpawl 10y ago
What exactly should be illegal? Campaigning? Having an opinion based on how much you are paid to hold it?
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by gpawl 10y ago
voting with the minority is the same as abstaining.
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by gpawl 10y ago
Doesn't matter. When you have cancer, you have to pick: chemo or not.
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by gpawl 10y ago
Is this new? or Alaska? It looks that only Alaska has internet voting beyond corner cases (military and citizens abroad) whose votes don't get counted anyway except in statistically tied races. http://www.ncsl.org/rese
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by gpawl 10y ago
Propaganda efforts are one thing, results are another.
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by gpawl 10y ago
> This current government. > This current government. > both parties are dirty in their own way one of those ways seems more troubling, though.
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by gpawl 10y ago
Money is not interchangeable with free speech. That's a myth promoted by the moneyholders. Free speech law in the US protects content, not form. If government can prevent people from rallying near a party convention, government can pre
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by gpawl 10y ago
Their argument is that Internet privacy is the FTC's job, not the FCC's job. This raises the question: Have they set up the FTC to do this job before taking away responsibility from the FCC?
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by gpawl 10y ago
If your old version was riddled with security flaws, and your priority was to mess with the UI colors, I have no confidence that your new version is less riddled with security flaws
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by gpawl 10y ago
There's no problem with showing a preview of non-secure content. As long as the recipient knows to visit the official secure server for official copies of important information.
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by gpawl 10y ago
Article is written by a competitor threatened by Jetsmarter's business. Also, no mention of netjets.com which has been running a jet-sharing business for 50 years
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by gpawl 10y ago
How can you say "He's very critical of black people" in tht wording with a straight face, after acknowledging that he is black too? The point is that there's a difference between saying "I hate this person and the t
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by gpawl 10y ago
It's a math problem. It doesn't really have anything to do with furniture movers, that's just a hook to fool people that only care about math that has applications. Most modern math falls into this category, and math that app
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by gpawl 10y ago
IRS checks your math and makes sure all the reports (your copy vs employer/bank/vendor copy) match. They won't tell you which deductions you are supposed to take.
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by gpawl 10y ago
It's more a band than a line if there are two available at once
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by gpawl 10y ago
That's a cartoonish misapprehension of Japanese society.
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by gpawl 10y ago
Remember that homosexuality was once officially a mental disease. Remember that being Black was once officially a mental disease. Do you trust the government to decide who is a valid parent?
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by gpawl 10y ago
"resetting your career" isn't any kind of threat when the reset would start higher than their current situation. More likely, there's no way out except resetting your life outside of that town in Wisconsin. And there r
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by gpawl 10y ago
You know who else doesn't allow recursion? NASA. Knowing the exact size of your stack statically is hugely important in safety-critical software. http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
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by gpawl 10y ago
Why does the alumni continue to agree to license their name to a publication that drags down MIT's reputation?
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by gpawl 10y ago
That's not how random works. If odd wandered like that, there would be long time frames where the slots were 'not fun' and would drive people away.
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by gpawl 10y ago
do you have buy kaggle to hire kaggle members?
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by gpawl 10y ago
I think strom meant that beginners don't know to turn on -Wall -Werror and friends
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by gpawl 10y ago
Indeed, the next standard should ban such things, and modern compilers should reject these patterns by default, unless a --legacy_security_unsage flag is set.
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by gpawl 10y ago
How is D holding up against newer upstarts like Go and Rust? It seems that D never really got the love it deserved, perhaps because it didn't have a Google or Mozilla behind it.
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by gpawl 10y ago
You are getting attacked for poor wording. It's reasonable (and there is precedent) for something like a blockchain fork that voids the value of bad coins. You'd need some implementation of majority vote, though (a jury of your pe
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by gpawl 10y ago
The advice is equivalent to "we want your break the rules, but don't get caught". It's encouraging misbehavior while trying to distance from the consequences.
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by gpawl 10y ago
If they get punished MORE for having the policy than for not, that incentivizes having NO policy, which leads to more minor injuries without preventing the major injury. Similar to how no one in industry reads patents (opposite of the inten
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by gpawl 10y ago
Only Convervatism

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