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by gyardley 14y ago
It's your license, but owning firearms somehow makes you violent? Certainly sounds like an elaborate troll to me. Even if you could somehow iron out the kinks, the end result of your sort of action is a host of additional licenses that bar
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by gyardley 14y ago
In America, police only have to show 'reasonable suspicion' rather than probable cause to search a person and his immediate surroundings for weapons - and if they find something else that's illegal while searching for 'weapons', you're out
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by gyardley 14y ago
GetJar's been trying the third-party / bundled app store schtick for a while, but the money in this corner of the world is in driving application installs through advertising. Here's an example from an industry news site: http://www.gomone
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by gyardley 14y ago
Everyone's being targeted. GetJar is undoubtedly receiving data from millions of phones, not just yours - you only noticed because you're a developer. GetJar has no idea you're a developer, and if they did, they wouldn't care. The 'spy on
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by gyardley 14y ago
Good lord, it's 99.99% likely it's just for some ad targeting, and it's not like they don't disclose it in their privacy policy ( http://www.cuttherope.ie/privacy.html ): We may also employ third-party ad serving and/or analytics technolog
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by gyardley 14y ago
I don't know about your location, but where I live having an offshore account isn't illegal in and of itself. Perhaps I'm concerned about the quality of my country's management. If for that or any other reason, I decide to put some money in
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by gyardley 14y ago
Sounds pretty fair to me. I'm not using an order of magnitude more government services, so why should I pay an order of magnitude more taxes? Yes, yes, I get that a graduated income tax might be necessary to pay for the things our society h
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by gyardley 14y ago
I'm arguing that without these prerequisites, this 'optimization' isn't an optimization at all - it'll be a step backwards, because it'll just end up ripping people off. People certainly should demand reform, but not this particular ref
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by gyardley 14y ago
Yes, TurboTax is being rather transparently venal, but that doesn't mean they're wrong. I doubt the American government is competent enough to get tax calculations right, and I suspect they're hungry enough for revenue to make all their def
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by gyardley 14y ago
... which shows a rather large amount of programming from other countries.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Bizarre - the United States isn't culturally closed at all. It's just got a strong domestic market in cultural goods, so most people can get the goods they want at the quality they want without needing to buy international goods (and especi
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by gyardley 14y ago
Get a lawyer. Yes, no one likes to pay for lawyering, but situations like these require professionals.
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by gyardley 14y ago
The non-standard select lists made this extremely difficult to use on iPhone.
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by gyardley 14y ago
75% of the way to never having to work again? A whole lot of people would take that deal, and they'd be smart to do it. Here's the thing about accumulating money - the more you have, the easier it is. Going from zero to 25% of 'never having
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by gyardley 14y ago
Half-elven ranger. Where's my bag of dice?
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by gyardley 14y ago
Setup and teardown are in the Rails testing guide. http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html#setup-and-teardow...
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by gyardley 14y ago
God yes. Test::Unit is simple, comes baked in, and because it's not some faux-English DSL your brain isn't constantly fighting with itself making stupid and incorrect assumptions about syntax because 'hey, it looks like English'. The worst
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by gyardley 14y ago
You couldn't have proved my point better. This is why we have a federal government - to prevent our government from being run by people who think like this. Presidents have to govern everybody, not just the people they like.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Your advocacy site is confusing 'city' with 'metropolitan area', probably deliberately. Here's some real stats: In 2010, the fifty largest metropolitan statistical areas had a population of 166,033,000 -- 53.8% of the United States' 308,745
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by gyardley 14y ago
I did read the site, and I am exactly right . You just don't understand the point I'm making. Where did the candidates go in the states they did visit? Did they just stick to the cities, or did they go talk to people in small communities?
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by gyardley 14y ago
San Franciscans in aggregate don't have the political will or desire to do what needs to be done. What needs to be done is fairly obvious, since it was already done successfully by Giuliani in NYC - strict enforcement of laws plus draconian
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by gyardley 14y ago
I suppose this is one possible counterculture, but I'm not sure why it's more likely than any of a myriad of other possible countercultures. Why this counterculture, apart from what the author would like to see develop? I mean, I'd person
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by gyardley 14y ago
Yeah, been there and done that. Me: "I didn't live in your state or earn a dime in your state the year you're claiming I owe you thousands of dollars in tax. Shouldn't you have a shred of evidence that I owe you money before you send out a
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by gyardley 14y ago
The US government would have to pay each independent discoverer of the not-yet-released exploit, no? If they said 'no thanks, we've already got that one,' the second discoverer could just turn around and disclose it, making the original pur
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by gyardley 14y ago
Oh look, a way to detect who's using an auto-submission script to try and get karma. Just because raganwald writes it doesn't mean it belongs here.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Plus, if you're new, templates are dangerous. The excitement of saving all that time on 'boilerplate' always turns into twelve hours of flailing around on StackOverflow, totally over your head, for the right way to override some Devise cont
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by gyardley 14y ago
There's not that much of a difference between Google and Bing. Most of us are using Google for historical and cultural reasons - it's what we've used in the past and it's just what people like us do.
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by gyardley 14y ago
I don't know much about hitmen or the case in question, but off the top of my head it doesn't sound like a terrible choice. You can buy a .22 rifle without any sort of record-keeping, they don't cost that much, neither the gun nor the ammo
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by gyardley 14y ago
"Using one-generation measures of social mobility—how much a father’s relative income influences that of his adult son—America does half as well as Nordic countries, and about the same as Britain and Italy, Europe’s least-mobile places."
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by gyardley 14y ago
Hey, it's good when people disagree with me - keeps me from believing my own bullshit. Cheers.

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