jbooth

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by jbooth 13y ago
Man, and here I am, just an almost-true-scotsman.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Ah, there's nothing quite like trying to hijack an issue for your preconceived partisan hobby horse. Tell us more about how those of us who believe in investing in public education and transit infrastructure while cutting the military&
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by jbooth 13y ago
Rather than incompetent, it looks brazen to me. They don't do this unless they know they can get away with it, and that makes it scary.
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by jbooth 13y ago
It seems to me (corrections welcome), that medical specialists are way, way more interchangeable than programmers. Each patient has a chart that follows them around through the hospital and each specialist reads the chart, makes their deci
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by jbooth 13y ago
Pretty sure HN is under their radar for the most part.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, that's what I'm disagreeing with. Maven doesn't require an IDE and uses a convention over configuration based approach where it will run against the public repo with zero config. Moreover, it's significantly '
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by jbooth 13y ago
I've gotta take beef with the deployment comment, we use Java at my job and the deployment is quite specifically awesome. There is a single package management system, maven repositories, and multiple build options using that managemen
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, but Austrian economists are a tiny minority, and were much tinier before January 2009. The political/media system gives them 50% weight, not the success, or lack thereof, of their ideas.
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by jbooth 13y ago
The homicide division doesn't prevent murders, they solve them. People generally credit methodology changes under the term 'community policing' for the turn-around. Basically, the idea is that rather than just riding in, cra
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by jbooth 13y ago
There have been like 5,000 articles pointing at spying under Obama in the past week, and a remarkable lack of liberals defending him for it. I'd suggest that you're the one bringing political spin into the equation.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Did you read the first line of my comment where I said I wasn't in favor of actual violent rioting? It's right up there. I've knocked on probably 1,000 doors and made probably 5,000 phone calls for democrats over the last 10
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by jbooth 13y ago
Guys, that was sarcasm. I wasn't claiming that the Austrian students are responsible for UK CCTV policy.
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'm not necessarily wishing for riots with innocent shopkeepers' livelihoods being trashed. But I am saying that the normal democratic methods seem to fail us here -- this is a real "don't blame me, I voted for kodos&quo
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by jbooth 13y ago
Non-destructive ways of doing that, like what? Electing a new President who very believably promises to do the opposite of what the last one did?
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by jbooth 13y ago
Obviously the Austrian student group who filed this lawsuit are total hypocrites based on what the UK does.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Having a first-pass flag for keywords that correlate with skirting the edges of the law is actually completely proper. Not clearing them quickly enough if it turns out they're completely kosher is the problem here.
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by jbooth 13y ago
If funding was at one level, and you decrease it, and the backlog of undone case work increases afterwards, it points to a pretty simple conclusion. I'm talking very specifically about administrative issues here, philosophical musing
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by jbooth 13y ago
I wonder if this was an intended consequence of cutting IRS funding or whether those doing the cutting literally didn't think about it beyond "fuck'em!". And now I'm wondering which scenario is more dissapointing.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Not to mention, even if it is actually that respectable, the FBI really doesn't like hippie protests and have a history of making sure that they don't stay respectable.
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by jbooth 13y ago
This comment's a great example of what he's talking about. You're not even worried about Farmville, you're worried about extremely pedantic grammar corrections that most of us got over by the 3rd grade or so.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Totally impartial stater of QUOTES, actually. 'Facts' implies a journalistic responsibility to call out quotes that are inaccurate, but they very much don't ever do that.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Not to mention that something subjectively (or even almost objectively) fringe or crazy immediately becomes exactly 50% true if one major party endorses the view.
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by jbooth 13y ago
A number of people hold that this is illegal under the 4th amendment and founding principles of our country.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, but the only reasons it was close were political. The individual mandate is well within the bounds of interstate commerce regulation when you compare it to some of your and my examples of existing jurisprudence that aren't polit
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's not new. You've got mandatory flood insurance from a selected group of companies, mandatory osha safety training from a selected group of companies, mandated accounting procedures that must be certified by selected people...
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by jbooth 13y ago
That's a really bad example, given the interstate commerce clause. Pelosi was laughing it off because damn near everybody, including the majority-conservative supreme court, agrees that regulating healthcare is regulation of intersta
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's illegal for the NSA to record it too though, right? It was illegal for the telcos to go along with the first round of warrantless wiretapping, it took an act of congress to make it retroactively legal.
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by jbooth 13y ago
What, their being a terrorist or not is conditional on how many times a day they pray?
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by jbooth 13y ago
Here's how you avert a terrorist attack: 1) Find some idiot talking about how he'd like to blow something up on his phone 2) Approach idiot, try to sell him explosives 3) If he's dumb enough to say "ok" out loud
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by jbooth 13y ago
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/not-intended-to-be-a-fa... I don't think the various departments that have been getting killed on budgets for the last 15 years "magically" became more efficient

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