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by jonstokes 10y ago
This comments thread is off-track. This is not yet another article about how ARM is poised to eat Intel's lunch, and that cites (worthless) Geekbench scores to make that claim. No, this was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan, who actua
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by jonstokes 10y ago
This is one reason I quit the whole CPU commentating thing. People kept rewriting the same article (with the same comments thread attached!), and I kept rewriting the same responses.
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by jonstokes 10y ago
I read the title and I thought "mark" as in "the target of a scam". I was super excited to read a post about how VCs scam founders but get away with it because they're, well, VCs, and on a VC blog, no less! Imagine
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by jonstokes 10y ago
Sadly, you could also write a very similar article about Japan and Kendo, right down to the "the government promoted it for nationalistic reasons in its heyday, but now it's waning and most of the interest in it is overseas."
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by jonstokes 10y ago
The tinfoil hat crowd was having a field day with this murder before Assange did this, single-handedly moving the "DNC assassination" meme from infowars to outlets like the WaPo. Assange is an anarchist who wants to burn down the
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On the Need for Official Attribution of Russia’s [Alleged] DNC Hack(lawfareblog.com)
1 points by jonstokes 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonstokes 10y ago
True story: I was at a fundraiser in SF in about 2009, and over the course of the evening I found myself chatting about Twitter on two different occasions: once with Bill Maris of Google Ventures, and once with Joi Ito. Bill and I were actu
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by jonstokes 10y ago
Feel free to ignore it. Seriously. I don't really care one way or the other. It's a nested comment in an HN thread, and it's actually presented by me as hearsay. (Whoever you are, I don't really need you to define hearsa
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by jonstokes 10y ago
I'm not going to cite a source because it was a personal friend in a private conversation, and it was off-the-record. I don't want to get anyone in trouble.
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by jonstokes 10y ago
I know someone who is a senior meteorologist for FEMA, and this person takes part in some interdisciplinary disaster planning events based around specific scenarios. He told me that there actually is no FEMA plan for a very large solar stor
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by jonstokes 10y ago
No, it's more of a shared risk/liability via voluntary associations thing.
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by jonstokes 10y ago
Yeah dude, you obviously haven't seen the latest Samantha Bee rant that has been shared all over my feeds as OMG SMACKDOWN. It has it all, including the penis size stuff.
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by jonstokes 10y ago
You are correct. Nobody is getting gunned down by full auto here in the US. Now, some terrorist yahoo may yet change that before I'm done typing this reply, but as of now the number of people who've been killed by civilian full au
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by jonstokes 10y ago
I can see why you might want to say that I proved your point, but I don't think I did. If mag capacity has no effect on round count (and hence body count), then enacting a ban on a commonly available accessory and legislating some elab
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by jonstokes 10y ago
This mag limit obsession /fascinates/ me. Here is why. The people who push this are generally people who also believe that what we really need in the gun debate is hard data. Like, actual data from studies and such. There are no s
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by jonstokes 10y ago
I think you're probably a reasonable guy, and you've gotten your wires crossed, so please go back and read the article again, because nothing in the following paragraph is a response to anything I claimed in the piece or actually
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by jonstokes 10y ago
And I love this ignorant response, because I (the author) voted for a socialist in the Dem primary, and my "network effects"-based shooter control scheme is decentralized and designed to appeal to libertarians.
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by jonstokes 10y ago
Author here: I consider responses like this a win, because if we're going to talk blanket bans then the discussion should really be about whether or not anyone needs a semi-auto weapon. If we moved the gun ban debate from "AR-15&q
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by jonstokes 10y ago
As someone else pointed out about this post elsewhere, there are very few things that any of us actually "need" -- do you need running water and indoor plumbing? Or, to bring it a little closer to home, does anyone really need an
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by jonstokes 10y ago
I'm pretty sure you didn't read the article.
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Why I Need an AR-15(medium.com)
4 points by jonstokes 10y ago|3 comments
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by jonstokes 10y ago
Good to know.
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by jonstokes 10y ago
A mathematician was walking home from campus one day, and as he walked he was pondering a particularly thorny problem. At one point, he snapped out of his reverie and looked around and realized that he had no idea where he was. He saw a you
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Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or on prepaid cards(news9.com)
607 points by jonstokes 10y ago|504 comments
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by jonstokes 10y ago
Then you're left to argue that the US military has pulled its punches on the Taliban, but they're really gonna take the gloves off if they get turned against their fellow citizens. Good luck with that.
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by jonstokes 10y ago
One of the most interesting things about the gun rights community is how strenuously this exact question of "where do you draw the bright line that, once crossed, you'll rise up?" is avoided. You know how that guy took that v
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by jonstokes 10y ago
Dunno why you got downvoted, but that's actually a much more legit objection to the "guns are a last defense against tyranny" argument than "ZOMG DRONEZ". My answer is, I have no idea, and I hope I never find out.
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by jonstokes 10y ago
Yeah, you're right. See, for instance, the way that the West totally put down the Taliban in Afghanistan and pacified the entire country, which is now peaceful to this day. The Taliban were just a bunch of illiterate goat herders with
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by jonstokes 10y ago
This makes sense, and I think (and hope) it's probably right.
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by jonstokes 10y ago
A few years ago I read a good book on the collapse of the USSR (can't remember the title, too lazy to go back and find it right now). One of the major factors that the author identified was glasnost ("transparency"), which I&

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