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by joesmo 11y ago
What are the chances that this will not be passed by congress? Is there enough animosity that might stop this? I'm really hoping for some serious partisan bickering and ridiculous Obama hate here or is this treaty so horrible (yes it i
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by joesmo 11y ago
I still don't see what exactly is lost. Something concrete and detectable. Yes, people who go into the office don't have others to hang out with. That's not a loss. The article's really stretching the idea of loss.
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by joesmo 11y ago
"Mayors, police chiefs and state attorneys general said the lack of data is contributing to a dangerous trend in which police officers spurn aggressive tactics for fear of becoming the next officer to be caught on camera in a compromis
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by joesmo 11y ago
It's also ridiculous that these same people benefit greatly from a growing economy that's directly influenced by (and these days also partially propped up by) the boom in tech while deriding it like it's some kind of negative
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by joesmo 11y ago
Judge: "So, harm reduction focused on the user is missing the point." I think the judge is missing the point here, the point being an understanding of harm reduction and apparently, surprisingly the effects of drugs on society. No
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by joesmo 11y ago
No one's claiming the current situation is equal or worse, just that it's heading in the same direction. And that, is hard to deny. I have heard many people who lived under communism say that, including myself.
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by joesmo 11y ago
"If you find it uncomfortable that lending institutions and insurance companies might act in the most rational, efficient manner, consider whether you're really comfortable with capitalism." Basing credit scores off of other
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by joesmo 11y ago
So would Facebook be asking people to share credit scores constantly? How do they plan to get said credit scores? As far as I know, no one can legally access my credit report without my permission. For people with multiple accounts, which F
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by joesmo 11y ago
If you have business support (10% of total a month / $100 minimum I think) or better that is how it works, except you have to wait hours sometimes and it's very slow to work with the Amazon reps. Also, always make requests urgent,
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by joesmo 11y ago
"Edit n: seperate and unrelated, system does not seem to restart well. Eiter hangs or takes ages." This is nothing new for OS X. Mavericks and the last couple of versions cannot restart / shut down properly. I'm sure App
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by joesmo 11y ago
"When your employer goes belly up, in SF, you have to fight off job offers. That's not going to be the case elsewhere." In my experience, this is not going to be the case in almost every major city and in some areas not near
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by joesmo 11y ago
Any bill that proposes any type of mandatory sentencing should be defeated, regardless of the activities it tries to criminalize. That's simply not justice. Ideally, the bill's sponsor should be voted out of office ... and stricke
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by joesmo 11y ago
The US is most certainly not at the forefront of defending human rights if by that you mean actual action to stop abuses rather than mere lip service. Our prison system is an atrocious human rights disaster. Our justice system is effectivel
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by joesmo 11y ago
Great article, but the reason these changes cannot currently work in the US is because we haven't finished with our traumatic event--our version of the Holocaust--yet. That's why there is no talk about 'human dignity.' I
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by joesmo 11y ago
I think it's because Kotlin and Scala infer types so it's more convenient to write it afterwards, as needed, hopefully not to often.
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by joesmo 11y ago
I agree. Last time I used it in mid 2014, it was unusable. I spent more time trying to fix and work around its bugs than I would have building a VM from scratch, so eventually I gave up and went back to my plain VM. It's great for tryi
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by joesmo 11y ago
"Opensourcing is not a replacement for QA practices." I'm not suggesting it is, simply that public oversight (open source) is the only way to ensure trust of a secure system. The system itself still has to be secure and requi
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by joesmo 11y ago
Obviously open sourcing the software is the only solution and everyone here knows that. Software security isn't a new problem, it's a many decades old problem with simple, effective procedures that can lead to proper solutions. Im
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by joesmo 11y ago
My generation is probably your generation. Talk about arrogance--you should look at yourself. So I assume you'd have no problem if your date pulled our his/her phone and completely ignored you? If your boss called you over and spe
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by joesmo 11y ago
The 'we' refers to the international community of which the US is the biggest--but not the only--influencer. I don't see what US bases have to do with the US condemning the atrocities in the middle east, especially in a post-
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by joesmo 11y ago
And doing it in a one-on-one conversation is not just rude, but puts you into the asshole category.
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by joesmo 11y ago
It might not be a bad idea to stop trading with them and publicly condemn certain things about their society, especially their treatment of women. I assume this will happen as soon as we're no longer dependent on the region for fuel an
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by joesmo 11y ago
We have cross-organization Slack users in our company slack channels and I also have multiple 'organizations', so fragmentation is sometimes an issue.
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by joesmo 11y ago
If you pay ahead of time, you're getting a one year license with one year's worth of updates and a perpetual license. This is exactly the way it works now.
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by joesmo 11y ago
With the perpetual license, this isn't really that different than the old model for people buying one year at a time. For me, it addresses the main issues I had with the previous plan (IDE no longer working after you stop payment or wi
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by joesmo 11y ago
Invest money in buying politicians (lobbying) and you'll get a ton of government contracts. What's that? Startups don't have money to waste buying politicians? Gee, I wonder why they can't get these big contracts that co
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by joesmo 11y ago
I guarantee it'd be examined by at least a few VW owners who are interested, not to mention researchers and the government regulators themselves. Especially after this fiasco.
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by joesmo 11y ago
I don't, but I also don't want to release all the code for my app upon distribution simply because it employs a copyleft library. EDIT: copyleft library that I've modified.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Very well thought out. Yes, recommending one type of license for all open source projects is naive. Frameworks and libraries need a different type of license than 'application' type projects. If it's not a MIT/BSD or som
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by joesmo 11y ago
Listen to this guy and @wycats. This has been my experience also. Flat structures are horrible.

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