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by jbapple 10y ago
Do you mean the the President could have told the CIA to assassinate Anwar al-Awlaki even if Holder disapproved? If so, then we agree that President could have done that. Eric Holder could have spoken out against it in private, and, after t
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by jbapple 10y ago
Eric Holder said that it met the constitutional bar of "due process" for a Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen living abroad, to be assassinated by the executive branch as long as they talked about it a bit beforehand. I am doubtful tha
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by jbapple 10y ago
> Making the military more smoothly administered does not necessarily correlate with an increase in horrors of war. Certainly making enlistment harder will decrease the number of troops (absent a draft) which has a non-zero probability o
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by jbapple 10y ago
> For a lot of people, the military is one of the best job options How do you weigh that against the risk of injury, death, or PTSD, as well as the civlian casualties of US wars? To be specific - do you believe Iraq Body Count or the Lan
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by jbapple 10y ago
> Without getting into weeds too much, there's lots of good work happening to make it easy to join the federal government or enlist in the military. Why is it good to make it easy to enlist in the military?
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by jbapple 10y ago
Question number two asked "is there any evidence". Your response number two explains, "we believe". Is there any evidence which backs up your belief?
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by jbapple 10y ago
> If you don't accept this, and continue to insist any human can marry (or should be able to marry) any other human, you're making things up that are not reflected in real legal or philosophical systems. What is a "real ph
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by jbapple 10y ago
If Dan is correct that companies often do not keep their best developers happy, what might account for Joel believing the opposite?
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by jbapple 10y ago
This arrest happened in late August, it seems. Has SCOTUS set limits on how long prisoners can be held secretly?
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by jbapple 10y ago
What constitutes a "secret arrest", as mentioned in this article? Jose Padilla was arrested and initially held without notice to his family or attorney. Is that what this arrest is like? What proportion of the arrests in the US ar
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by jbapple 10y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4c27ss/im_pieter_hint...
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by jbapple 10y ago
Have you benchmarked MPSC-per-core and SPSC-per-pair-of-cores against any of the three concurrent queues in the article?
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by jbapple 10y ago
> Guccifer2 is a cover for APT-28/APT-29 (GRU). How do you know? The NYT keeps using the passive voice ("believed to be tied to the Russian intelligence") or saying that some unnamed "American intelligence officials&q
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by jbapple 10y ago
A big contributor to the GFC was pension funds ("dumb money") buying CDOs with rates that were way too low for the risks. Do I need to be worried about the same thing for cat bonds?
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by jbapple 10y ago
I don't understand the difference between this data structure [0] and buffered B-trees, as described in "Lower Bounds for External Memory Dictionaries", by Gerth Stølting Brodal and Rolf Fagerberg [1], or in "On External
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by jbapple 10y ago
> Come to think of it, when you're issued a state ID/driver's licence, that should also be considered your registration to vote, provided you've reached voting age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by jbapple 10y ago
You can read the oral arguments in the Supreme Court case that struck down the preclearance part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr... Under that rule, the fe
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by jbapple 10y ago
I do not think the author doesn't know that section 1201 was designed to help companies create access control. The author of the blog post is talking about not just the purpose of the law, but also the effect, which he or she believes
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by jbapple 10y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing
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by jbapple 10y ago
> A16Z should really have thought twice about what such a blatantly anti-employee piece would do to their reputation. Does A16Z care about their reputation among the laboring class, or only among the ownership class?
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by jbapple 10y ago
Note that the comparative experiments in the original Bloom filter paper are very sensitive to the implementation details of the other Bloom filters they are comparing to. For instance, in the implementation of blocked Bloom filters, they g
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by jbapple 10y ago
Oh, and the original op-ed by John Yoo? It came out a 18 months ago, less than a week after the torture report came out. It wasn't about federal records preservation.
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by jbapple 10y ago
This comment by vaadu is copy-and-paste from an op-ed in the LA Times by John Yoo, one of the authors of the torture memos: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-yoo-torture-feins... Furthermore, whether the
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by jbapple 10y ago
> Could you please explain why the foreign investment is a problem? I'm not sure, but I get the impression that the concern is partly about non-resident populations. Non-residents buying homes as investments or as a hedge against co
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by jbapple 10y ago
> the point we make in the book is that few employees expect or want lifetime employment at a single company This might be a function of broken promotion processes. Perhaps, in a world in which employees believed that they could advance
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by jbapple 11y ago
The article says, "The recent attacks have pushed many Europeans to favor greater powers for law enforcement over privacy," but the only direct evidence for this claim is quotes from high-level government employees. I don't k
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by jbapple 11y ago
> I assume it means the agreement you sign forces you to use binding arbitration in place of suing MBNA I've heard that called a "arbitration clause", but never a "non-arbitration clause", as the person I was res
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by jbapple 11y ago
> They use these non-arbitration clauses, and they are always right. What do the clauses look like? What does it mean that they are "always right"? What is the consequence of this rightness?
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by jbapple 11y ago
What is the actual space overhead of this structure, and how did you measure it?
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by jbapple 11y ago
> "Although hashtable is very fast with O(1) time complexity, but there is always about ~25% table entries are unused, because the hash-table load factor is .75. And this htree is suitable for memory-bounded cases." Do you know

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