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by joshAg 14y ago
Korematsu. and executive order 9066.
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by joshAg 14y ago
Is it not possible to realize the lesser of two evils while still calling out the lesser evil on its faults?
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by joshAg 14y ago
perhaps it might be better to have doctors prescribe for a specific issue (eg: needs something for allergies) and then leave it up to the pharmacist to decide which specific pill and dosage level as opposed to prescribing the specific pill
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by joshAg 14y ago
Berkeley's eecs department does this. Almost none of the classes have required textbooks, and the prof make sure to mention this on the first lecture so you still have time to return them if you've bought them. They still list the textbooks
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by joshAg 14y ago
Heh, Morgan Stanley ran into this when the were trying to stay afloat after the 2008 crash: > At this point, under any other circumstances, the $9 billion would be wired electronically from one bank to the other. But there were a few pr
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by joshAg 14y ago
did you take that as part of a pharmD. or MD?
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by joshAg 14y ago
At a bytecode level, everything including and above assembler is syntactic sugar. I don't think there's any theoretical reason for the bytecode or the bytecode assembler language to need to change. Just like there's no reason lisp and c can
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by joshAg 14y ago
Can someone who knows more explain how java will do gpgpu? Is it going to make the jvm runnable on a gpu, or are they going to do something like compiling jvm byte-code to C/++/assembler code that will handle all the memory management it ta
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by joshAg 14y ago
I played a few words of scrabble on some version of the surface a few years ago (i think spring 2011), and it could handle 4 people using all ten fingers at once. when did you use the surface?
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by joshAg 14y ago
But how would that work if you are some poor Joe Schmoe who discovers the next billion dollar idea? How does he manage to pay for the patent before going to market? Perhaps a better option would be a hybrid of the current system and what yo
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by joshAg 14y ago
You should use that a lot with lisp (or rather use it for projects that require you use it a lot). The secret sauce of lisp is that code is data. Instead of using hacks like c's function pointers, lisp lets you pass code around as easily as
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by joshAg 14y ago
yes. reddit.com is a community site made up of sub-communities called subreddits. Subreddits have a path of /r/<community name>.
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by joshAg 14y ago
Interesting that all of these except for one are consumer companies and startups. To me it seems like more of just a list of starups with consumer buzz than top tech companies. And why are only pre-ipo companies considered? What about Intel
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by joshAg 14y ago
area 51 isn't blocked from gps or google maps: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=area+51 and https://maps.google.com/maps?q=nellis%20afb
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by joshAg 14y ago
Fine, let me change my response so it is less speculative. what evidence do you have that the program ended in 2011? Since most information about these classified programs comes from documents that are unclassified well after the program ha
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by joshAg 14y ago
How is that at odds with what I said? While you provided more details than I did, it doesn't disagree that the US military has hired people to post comments on sites to further its PR goals. However, the project is probably didn't end in 20
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by joshAg 14y ago
Almost certainly. Companies can afford to do exactly this on sites like reddit and amazon. The US military has admitted to having a program to do exactly this. Part of the reason is because posting comments on certain web pages is not a hig
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by joshAg 14y ago
you write "Return to Sender" on the outside of the envelope and stick it back in the mailbox (really). or, if you live in a complex with a separate outgoing mailbox, then put it there.
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by joshAg 14y ago
does australia not have "return to sender"? That seems to work well for the little amount of junk mail that I get.
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by joshAg 14y ago
I don't think you're old and grumpy; I graduated in 2011, and was just as shocked as you.
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by joshAg 14y ago
how well has that worked out with drugs? with alcohol in the 1920s? with the RIAA and MPAAs fight against torrenting?
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by joshAg 14y ago
Criminalize the purposeful making of such data, but legalize possession of all data. think of it like this: it is legal to posses or make video footage of a murder. but it is still illegal to kill someone for the purpose of making such a fi
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by joshAg 14y ago
agreed. Honestly, I'd be more worried about a laywer than anyone else because the lawyer only needs to convince himself and is always willing to work this case pro bono. "What we didn't know about <him> was that he was a retired law
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by joshAg 14y ago
> It basically means that a random person with enough resources can tie me down with a bogus lawsuit even if I have a legally-sound contract that is supposed to protect me. yes, that's pretty much the state of things in the US. Anyone c
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by joshAg 14y ago
I can't believe this didn't at least include cupertino, let alone the rest of the san jose suburbs.
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by joshAg 14y ago
Heck, I'd even settle for a much less than good coding style, as long as it's consistent throughout a project.
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by joshAg 14y ago
clearly, this person has never had to write code within a many-hundred thousand line perl library. There are certain parts of the spec I dislike, but I thank god everyday I have to look at a new file, because it allows me to focus on what a
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by joshAg 14y ago
I took the course with papdomitrou (one of the authors), and he didn't supplement the book at all (his lectures were literally just the book in spoken word form, down to the jokes). I really liked the book and lecture, though, since I thoug
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by joshAg 14y ago
OED has the source if you have access to it, which I don't or I would provide it here.
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by joshAg 14y ago
That series would seem to have the highest probability of happening, but I hope they move away from numerical episode numbering and toward just movie Titles like "Star Wars Heir to the Empire" because titles like "Star Wars Episode 6.625 Wr

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