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by jdc 11y ago
Well in business, you can give your kid the company, and if any employees protest you just tell them "this is not a democracy" so that's not the best comparison.
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by jdc 11y ago
Declaring the associates of some dead spree killers your enemies is not an especially empowering position (but perhaps required in case of nationalist ideology). What I see are some nasty folks overseas who I'd rather wield less influe
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by jdc 11y ago
Can you give an example of such a case?
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Quantifying and Reducing Kernel Attack Surface (2014) [pdf](kernsec.org)
7 points by jdc 11y ago|0 comments
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by jdc 11y ago
"Prices fall"
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by jdc 11y ago
One big problem with using these stats as a morality vector is that they are not adjusted for population growth.
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by jdc 11y ago
I'd look into ITA: http://www.itasoftware.com
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by jdc 11y ago
See also: https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?3958-Scriptin...
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by jdc 11y ago
The media seems to do this rather frequently -- they report on other people's opinions, sometimes claiming "outrage" on their behalf, while offering scant evidence or analysis. Not impressed.
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by jdc 11y ago
Why would Intel switch to ARM?
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by jdc 11y ago
Not the only factor, but the Saudis have funneled a great deal of oil money into spreading Wahhabism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_propagation_of_c...
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McNamara fallacy(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by jdc 11y ago|0 comments
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by jdc 11y ago
Could it be that the ancients didn't have the same drive to propagate novel technologies and saw different ways of improving the human condition?
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by jdc 11y ago
I would be interested in reading said documented evidence.
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by jdc 11y ago
If the end-user's router has firmware with AQM, would that solve the buffer bloat?
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TPP Text Confirms Massive Loss to Canadian Public Domain(michaelgeist.ca)
364 points by jdc 11y ago|119 comments
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by jdc 11y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't mind being able to write something like QT for the web.
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by jdc 11y ago
Beyond the unpleasant experience of using it, what is actually wrong with it?
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by jdc 11y ago
I agree that there is a mess, but what kind of mess is it? What about it makes it a mess? Is perhaps because the JS interpreter is embedded (the DOM calls it)? Is it that the DOM is poorly suited for what we used to call "rich" in
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by jdc 11y ago
It's bad because it increases human suffering, and it's unfair to harm someone who can't fight back.
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by jdc 11y ago
For an entertaining, if somewhat cynical, view of the animal metaphor for leadership: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/03/12/the-art-of-agile-leader... (animal metaphor @ 1/3 into the article)
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by jdc 11y ago
Please show me the evidence for confinement incentivising good behavior.
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by jdc 11y ago
It seems to me the justice system heavily over-relies on negative feedback, even where its application has been repeatedly proven to be ineffective.
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by jdc 11y ago
Too late to edit now, but it turns out the articles were actually published four days ago.
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by jdc 11y ago
Coincidentally, the Economist published two articles on Bitcoin two days ago, one of which was featured on the front page print edition (which I just got in the mail today). http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21
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by jdc 11y ago
The state has filled the power vacuum left by the church and thus taken on the role of social welfare provider.
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by jdc 11y ago
I doubt the pro-Republic view folds quite so easily.
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by jdc 11y ago
The moat metaphor is common way to talk about a business's competitive advantage. In this case I'm talking about improving or at least not actively impeding web application data interchange, and maybe even exposing smaller, more g
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by jdc 11y ago
I get a similar feeling, but I think it's more just pro-status quo.
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by jdc 11y ago
Fill your moats.

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