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by iguana 13y ago
I believe that evil only exists in fairy tales. There are better words to describe the immoral actions of others, including Hitler.
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by iguana 13y ago
I highly doubt the motivation of the past and current administration are "evil". I highly doubt that Bush or Obama wanted a massive surveillance state and a "minority report" type of future. The problem is that righteous
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by iguana 13y ago
Inanimate objects can't be evil. Guns don't cause crime, cars don't cause accidents, and nuclear weapons don't kill people: their (usually) negligent operators do.
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by iguana 13y ago
I strongly agree with #1. If you really don't want to live in a society with insect-sized drones doing, well, whatever they want, you're not going to have much choice in a couple of decades (at most). #2 would be nearly impossible
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by iguana 13y ago
False equivalence and a slippery slope. How did you get from "big RC helicopter with video camera" to nuclear weapons?
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by iguana 13y ago
I've done a bit of googling on this myself, and all I can find is that evidence could be thrown out in a criminal case based entirely on aerial footage, but that is rarely the only evidence provided. You likely don't own the airsp
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by iguana 13y ago
...wear a hat? :) You have no expectation of privacy in public. Otherwise, the paparazzi would be out of a job.
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by iguana 13y ago
All it will do is make life difficult for autonomous vehicle startups, while the incumbent drone manufacturers will continue to design, produce, and sell drones to the FBI, for a massively lucrative markup. Edit: just saw your edit. Technol
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by iguana 13y ago
Don't ascribe malice to what can be adequately explained by righteous and shortsighted self-preservation.
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by iguana 13y ago
What makes you think we can legislate our way out of this?
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by iguana 13y ago
Drones, like guns and cars, are just tools, and themselves not inherently evil. I don't see a problem with the FBI using unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance, so long as they do it within the confines of the law (and not some prep
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by iguana 13y ago
I found it rather sensitive, urging against indiscriminate killing, and using the right tool for the job.
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by iguana 13y ago
Someone needs to write a JavaScript implementation of this!
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by iguana 13y ago
If they can decrypt some SSL (maybe low bit) it is likely a very intense process that requires vast hardware resources, so even if they can do it, it is not likely it is being done for all traffic, but could be applied to some traffic.
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by iguana 13y ago
I hesitated signing it for a good 5 minutes because I didn't want my name on the list of subversives, but then realized that since they monitor everything, I was already on the list. Oh well, I'll let you guys know how good the fo
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by iguana 13y ago
There are some things that the people may want to do, but that the government should still not do. This is why we're a republic, and not a democracy: to prevent the tyranny of the majority. The idea is that a constitution limits the po
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by iguana 13y ago
The political fallout of this makes me want to laugh, but the reality of the situation makes me want to cry.
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by iguana 13y ago
“In the long tail of history just following orders is wrong. That’s the key thing that really matters.” Jacob Appelbaum hit the nail on the head.
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by iguana 13y ago
1. Gigabit ethernet is listed. 2. Thunderbolt to ethernet adapter, just like on mbp retina.
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by iguana 13y ago
Very few engineering managers are in the position to have significant no-hire piles these days.
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by iguana 13y ago
That won't even buy an exploded meth lab in the bay area.
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by iguana 13y ago
It isn't greed, it is market opportunity. So long as they're cheaper to mine than they can be sold for, someone will exploit the opportunity. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Once the ASICs replace the other mining systems, the c
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by iguana 13y ago
TL;DR: get off my lawn!!!
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by iguana 13y ago
The correct way to deal with recruiters, especially if you're currently doing freelance work: find the name of the company, insist that you're not interested in the role, then contact the company directly. Also, don't call it freelancing, c
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by iguana 13y ago
Your environment is not secure. The solution for this type of problem (keeping secrets out of source control) is to create a deployment-specific configuration file that is not kept in source control. It can be created out of a generic versi
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by iguana 13y ago
How long does it take to make something like this? Is the 3D shape defined in an external program, and then transformed to CSS constructs, or is this done by hand?
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by iguana 13y ago
Excellent points. Is there a MySQL-like solution on GAE as well?
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by iguana 13y ago
Where are you getting the notion that unit tests and parameterized SQL are difficult or not commonly used in PHP? You don't have to use those things, but they are there if you want them, just like they are in other languages. Neither Python
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by iguana 13y ago
Someone will ask how many Bitcoins this computer can mine any minute now!
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by iguana 13y ago
His definition of properly is nothing but an ever moving goal post of software snobbery.

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