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by jff 14y ago
Nicotine and alcohol are legal. An employee of, say, the federal government should not be partaking in illegal drugs. If a person with a security clearance is regularly doing cocaine, at least one person (his source) knows. He is now vulner
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by jff 14y ago
A likely problem when you have the store itself doing the picking and delivering is that they have a significant incentive to pick the worst produce for you--the most bruised apples, the wilted-est lettuce--because it gets it off the shelve
903.
by jff 14y ago
Yes, let's base our business model on a niche fad diet.
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by jff 14y ago
I could also be playing Wolfenstein or one of many, many games in about a minute via Steam.
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by jff 14y ago
There's the Slide Fire linked elsewhere in the thread, which as far as I can tell is just a mechanical bump-fire assist. Bump firing is a Bad Idea, by the way.
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by jff 14y ago
Not really. The point is that in fully automatic mode, you can blow through a backpack full of ammunition in about a minute, probably not hitting anything because the continual fire and your efforts to control the gun are throwing the barre
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by jff 14y ago
The risks far outweigh any possible benefits. Perform the modification. Great. Now you have a weapon which shoots expensive ammunition much more rapidly at worse accuracy, and if you take it to a range, you'll probably get arrested. If you
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by jff 14y ago
Full auto is frankly a stupid feature. It wastes ammunition, it's inaccurate. There is a reason soldiers rarely use fully-auto except in specific circumstances. Bump firing, which is what the Slide Fire does, is even worse because it throws
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by jff 14y ago
"Assault weapon" is a term invented by Brady et al. because they wouldn't be taken seriously if they said "scary black gun". Assault rifle, battle rifle, these terms have meaning. Assault weapon is not a real category.
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by jff 14y ago
The developer often chooses to write highly detailed simulations of, say, realistic glacier movements rather than fix known problems. It's his game, he's beholden to no one, and when he wants to skip the boring bugfixes to work on things he
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by jff 14y ago
Why is this site design giving me such intense deja vu? I swear I've seen a site that looked just like this before. Maybe it's just that all sites look kind of like this these days.
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by jff 14y ago
3) Avoid getting 1 million new users in a day, which could cause a huge load on tech support.
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by jff 14y ago
I think they look pretty sharp. I especially like the blue color, although it definitely stands out a lot--it's just nice to see a product that isn't glossy black or bright white. The best thing, I think, would be for Google to offer insura
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by jff 14y ago
As a sailor, you might be interested in Velocitek's products ( http://www.velocitek.com/ ). I used to work for them, although now I have no connection beyond a friendly interest in seeing them do well. Solid products.
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by jff 14y ago
IIRC ps displays the resident size in KiB, so you're looking at 6 MB for a Go process. Not terrible for a high-level language.
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by jff 14y ago
If he's a HN reader, he's probably assumed that Node is the default choice these days, based on the articles that come up.
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by jff 14y ago
I was saying Chicago's a hellhole, just like all those other hellholes you listed--it's just that the GP mentioned Chicago particularly.
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by jff 14y ago
For Chicago, I'd expect "at the crime scene" to be more common.
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by jff 14y ago
If Professor Mann would ever share any real information on how to make your own Eyetap, or share any of his software, or really tell anybody anything except, "Yeah, I claim I'm doing all this cool stuff, too bad you can't try it ner ner ner
920.
by jff 14y ago
Not if she's a WoW player...
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by jff 14y ago
You could, you know, take it off your head. Or exit the house-hunting application.
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by jff 14y ago
Nobody's ever done a really decent job of the miniaturization before, though. Generally a wearable computer involved an additional enclosure in a backpack or on the belt. The "best" I've seen that's all in one piece is the Golden-i ( http:/
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by jff 14y ago
Lots of people have had the mistaken impressin that Glass magically overlays your entire vision--see all the breathless posts about ad banners being automatically rendered onto your cereal boxes. Seems to me that the video is about your vie
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by jff 14y ago
Don't be a damn idiot. It's in a housing on the same side as the display, it kind of balances at your ear. I've worn a pair, I didn't have to put on some sort of massive backpack.
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by jff 14y ago
i3 + debian stable Debian supremacy.
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by jff 14y ago
I don't think I have ever viewed any content on Posterous. I didn't even know what it does until I started reading these comments. On the other hand, I get sent Tumblr links daily. Multiple times a day. If Posterous is the biggest competito
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by jff 14y ago
You come off like an entitled, smug prick, FYI.
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by jff 14y ago
Exactly. I knew several people in my introductory CS courses who couldn't, say, describe a linked list. There is room for testing basic concepts at courses of this level.
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by jff 14y ago
Excellent username/post combo. What if some students believed that the professor would change his mind and change the rules when he realized what was going on?
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by jff 14y ago
"A couple of Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike) brothers guarded the doors." What would have happened if you had tried to go past these guards? Would they have said, "Oh damn, well, he really wanted to go in, guess we'll all have to take the test"? Or w

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