jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
Any chance they could get you for downloading copyrighted emails without a license?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Computer printers enabling home publishing might make it harder to enforce libel laws, but a shift in enforcement difficulty need not require new laws. If I invented a new sort of zip-lock baggy that was completely impermeable to smell, tha
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by jlgreco 13y ago
This story has the stench of meltdown on it. Like when Jack Thompson slowly lost his sanity, when Charles Carreon lost his marbles when dealing with The Oatmeal, or basically the entire Rightshaven situation... I have the strong suspicion
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> How is that different than working for the Gambinos? The Gambino crime family is actually an organization or group in the traditional sense. "Anonymous" is more analogous to "The Mafia". A useful term if you are
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by jlgreco 13y ago
No, I think it is you that does not understand: > "The actual group of Anonymous [...]" There is no such thing. Not in any traditional sense. Talking about "Anonymous, the group" is like talking about "Kil
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It looks like bash does use readline, though it's not dynamically linked with it (at least on my system). Kind of seems like bash and readline are intertwined more than I thought; the git repo for bash has a distribution of readline i
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Forceps also have the risk of injuring the baby in other ways. Part of Sylvester Stallone's face is paralyzed because of forceps used during his delivery.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
At work I use Windows->Putty->Linux->tmux , at home I use Linux->urxvt->ssh->Linux->tmux and Linux->uxrvt->tmux . When working on a Linux machine directly, I also use a tiling window manager.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Well, he was definitely anti-Semitic. I'd say that at least in the strictest sense he was a Nazi apologist, as he was also a holocaust denier (standard "it's all exaggerated" rhetoric). I don't think he bought int
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You can set readline's editing mode to vi so that anything that uses readline will then have vi-style bindings. Very useful, particularly when combined with rlwrap for those few programs that don't have readline support. Zsh does
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Not categorically. I've had the displeasure of meeting a holocaust denier that was pretty into Occupy shit, anti-corporatism, and communal living (I think the common thread there was the "Bankers are Jewish" stereotype. We&
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I actually do use that, but ctrl-a/ctrl-x is still something I rarely find myself using more than a few times a week. Still a great plugin though.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Many (perhaps even most) people can be talked into the later Kohlberg states of moral development. This is basically what tends happens in the lead up to a category of laws being rejected by society and eventually dispensed with.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The only thing ctrl-A is used for by me besides screen (or rather, tmux after I remapped it), is incrementing a number in vim. Not really a big deal.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Hospital rooms with built-in autoclaves would give horror movies a lot more material to work with...
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Hmm, that seems strange, but on the other hand felony murder makes sense to me so I'm not sure why I should find this strange. My intuition on what punishments should be dolled out for extreme crimes is probably a little wonky.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Is hiring a hitman who successfully kills somebody the same crime as successfully killing somebody yourself? I understand not increasing the punishment of certain types of crimes so that we don't create incentives to escalate (for exa
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by jlgreco 13y ago
What if we view sentencing not as punishment or revenge, but rather as something that we do for the safety of society? It isn't clear to me that an attempted murderer is less dangerous to society than a successful murderer (unless we
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by jlgreco 13y ago
"The brothers went to great length to keep the secret. When they arrived at the home of a woman in labour, two people had to carry a massive box with gilded carvings into the house. The pregnant patient was blindfolded so as not to re
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Do attempted murder charges typically have a less extreme penalty than actual murder charges? It is my impression that is the case, but I can't find much that actually supports that notion. This is a concern to me because it doesn&#x2
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Even taking a real adult porn star and dressing her up as a child is illegal. Is it really? Isn't "catholic schoolgirl" stereotypically one of the most popular 'fetishes', right up there with "pizza del
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by jlgreco 13y ago
What's next, asking if serial killing would be as popular as it is if it were not for action movies?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Exactly. An ICBM getting something up there and moving sideways fast is doing the same thing as a launch vehicle getting something up there and moving sideways fast. ICBM technology is rocket technology, rocket technology is ICBM technolo
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I think you can say that, to various extents, for all forms of "intuition". The only reason I can intuitively bang through basic arithmetic is because I spent plenty of time as a child studying it, and doing it over and over ag
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The military's interest in rockets was not limited to lobbing warheads, they took a very early interest in using rockets to put things into orbit. The first US satellite, the Explorer 1, was kicked off by the Army and the first stage o
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Obviously their actions are calculated, unless you pull in some notion of a non-materialist brain (some sort of strange "dualism" for which there is no evidence), everything they do is calculated in the strict sense. Saying tha
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Alternatively: people upvote and downvote based on how valuable, accurate, or well thought out a comment is.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Letting the public know that the machines do not work as described should have the effect of reducing the machines effectiveness as torture devices. The public should not fear the machines, and the public, knowing that the machines cannot b
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by jlgreco 13y ago
In a bind , you can get that $100-200/mo much lower. Perhaps they can offer a system where partial battery payments will get you reduced usage.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
First production helicopter with an ejection seat (the rotors have explosive bolts), which is pretty interesting I think.

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