imglorp

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by imglorp 10y ago
One problem there is riders. Bills are a big mishmash of everybody's favorite pork and loophole fests instead of being a nice isolated single story commit. This leads to no end of treachery later. For one thing, it means you can smea
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by imglorp 10y ago
As attractive are kx's claimed numbers, you'd need to be a highly motivated company to embrace it. The single character for everything culture is impenetrable and unreadable, thus very high bar for maintenance at the organization
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by imglorp 10y ago
I think this is the most likely answer. Once handed an NSL, you either have to quit the project or hurt people; or maybe even less than two options.
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by imglorp 11y ago
The feds could also do some easy, central infrastructure things that would reduce school and local govt funding needs in the first place. If the schools or localities want to buy their own, great. Three examples: 1. It seems every school u
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by imglorp 11y ago
I'd gladly micropay for everything decent I read. Just don't torment me with malspamvertising. edit - on reflection, it's about the parasitic middlmen as usual. micropayments directly to sites and authors skirts that whole s
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by imglorp 11y ago
Sarcasm noted, but think back to 1991. We had a half dozen mostly incompatible desktop OS's and around a dozen Unix-like variants (mac, pc, amiga, cpm, etc), mostly with proprietary hardware (hpux, aix, sun, apollo, dg, dec, etc). The
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by imglorp 11y ago
There are congressional intelligence oversight committees, who I'd like to think are aware of these things. More likely, there's a little golf club agreement now and then between some corporation or lobbying group and government
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by imglorp 11y ago
True. On the other hand, suppose we had a 100pct trustworthy marketplace (unlike now). Wouldn't that spur investment and boost the markets? The only thing we get with the current system is rich wall street execs.
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by imglorp 11y ago
What attacks could a president perform? An R congress will plant their heels. Even attempting to clean up malfeasance and nepotism at the SEC, "the President does not possess the power to fire the appointed Commissioners, a provision
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by imglorp 11y ago
It was definitely fairly common for middle class in my neighborhood (60's, 70's US) to have a cook or a maid, at least for special occasions or maybe a few times a week. We also had diaper service, dry cleaner, milk, and Charles C
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by imglorp 11y ago
Also, a hardware Easter egg, some Macs had a bunch of signatures inside their cases. Of course, you need a foot long hex wrench to get inside to see. http://www.cultofmac.com/122408/signed-by-steve-jobs-co-sign...
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by imglorp 11y ago
Yup that's fine. If the ROV kicks up any silt, shut it down and go for lunch. Nobody's air is running out so you have extra time.
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by imglorp 11y ago
There are wire guided torpedoes and missiles that carry a spool with them and pay it out as they travel. Presumably this is a good thing because it can't be intercepted and jammed. Anyway, that missile carries 4200m of wire, which wo
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by imglorp 11y ago
> every conviction of a corporation [...] will have an impact on innocent third parties" Well there's your problem right there! Leave the corporations alone, along with most of the innocent shareholders and employees. Charge o
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by imglorp 11y ago
Oh, come now. Such a statement can't be taken out of context of conversation. Looking up to the parents, it reads like this: "Says it all, doesn't it?" -- implication of something fishy "What does it s
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by imglorp 11y ago
It is the appearance of impropriety, straight out of any corporate anti-bribery ethics training. In this case, it appears they offered a cushy job to a government official in exchange for favorable regulatory treatment, leading a very lucr
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by imglorp 11y ago
I don't think that's true. It might at least be accurate to say there's an end to open comment sections and other abuse magnets. Anybody can still make a site in a few minutes on a number of places, they just aren't goi
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by imglorp 11y ago
Good point. In the IPFS docs, I get the impression that IPNS is a placeholder for a capable naming system. They needed something but it wasn't a core technology.
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by imglorp 11y ago
Some of Trump's ideas are pretty far left also. For example, he proposed taxing vehicles imported from Mexico by semi-American companies like Ford. That's not exactly the free trade GOP party line. http://www.detroitne
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by imglorp 11y ago
Yeah I guess I should have qualified that. Nontechnical, paying passengers are easily wowed by glass cockpits and hidden workings. They're also wowed by a flashy web UI without knowing what's inside.
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by imglorp 11y ago
There's also a little confidence imparted by a smooth, modern UI. While super dependable, proven, spacecraft, the current Soyuz ferries are closer to U-boats inside: purely functional, clunky, and claustrophobic with exposed plumbing,
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by imglorp 11y ago
On a related note, an agricultural high school near me has a field dedicated to solar panels, that powers most of the school buildings. The students are learning how to farm photons alongside corn. http://solarbuildermag.com&#x2
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by imglorp 11y ago
Beautifully functional. Here's another purely functional ship, the Wilga, formed by its mission: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wilga+pzl&t=ffsb&iax=1&ia=images
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by imglorp 11y ago
It so happens Google has the perfect means at its disposal for de-anonymizing large swaths of such data: trillions of user location records, calendar appointments, emails, and texts. It's not too hard to put all that together to match
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by imglorp 11y ago
I would argue the Intel FDIV bug was one. This stuff gets simulated and synthesized at length, using Cadence, Synopsys and other tools before it sees tapeout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
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by imglorp 11y ago
Check out http://nodered.org/
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by imglorp 11y ago
They're trying to get the more profitable ones in front of consumers. So a flat search is not in their interest.
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by imglorp 11y ago
Yeah, we knew as soon as they said it. Any product feature like that would most likely need to be known to a number of teams such as marketing, engineering, production, documentation, compliance, supply chain, QA, tooling, support, or whate
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by imglorp 11y ago
Here in the West, we elect our criminals, who use corrupt procurement, bribery, and other frictions to suck many trillions from our GDP. Not to worry, though: the debt payments on this kind of policy will shortly eclipse the thefts and leg
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by imglorp 11y ago
Blockchains kinda stink for broadcast because you can't store tons of actual data on them, just a hash of your data. They're very good for an irrevocable log of small facts. What does work is if you can find a bunch of servers or

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