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by jtc331 14y ago
The irony is that their argumentation in court is identical to that of the Bush DOJ.
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He also signed into law a further restriction of the 1st amendment; it's now legal for the secret service to a.) be sent to guard any arbitrary person and b.) to arrest anyone demonstrating (like just holding a sign) within a specific dis
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by jtc331 14y ago
Just something to chew on: I think you've set up a false dichotomy. It is also possible that the problem is not deregulated campaign finance but rather the increasing shift away from a constitutional republic form of government to a democra
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Clearly you didn't read the article. Asking the court to require compliance would have meant that they would have filed a response to the telecom's suit and made the claim that the NSL was warranted and that the suit should be thrown out. I
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I think that that's exactly what it is. I've come to believe that every application needs a state machine that contains the shared logic and state that everything could possibly need to interact with.
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The problem lies not in who's hearing the case, but in the fact that the burden of negating evidence is on the prosecuted rather than the burden of positive evidence on the prosecutor.
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The people already do vote for such representatives.
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Except that in both Australia and the UK the gun murder rates were already incredibly low before their respective gun bans. Their bans didn't actually lead to less violence than before their bans; in fact, violence actually increased po
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The Atlantic: Why 'If We Can Just Save One Child ...' Is a Bad Argument(theatlantic.com)
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FB apparently now deploying inline replies
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It's not so much that no one would buy if they couldn't get a loan so much as it is that the availability of the loan causes prices to rise because demand goes up relative to supply.
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Given the fact that you are losing value on savings due to the central bank increasing the supply of money, you also have to take into the account the amount of time it took you to save up the 100K. You may very well actually saved 100K to
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The libertarian philosophical response would be that people only have the two basic rights to life and property. And one person cannot take away those rights from another. The government then exists solely to limit behavior strictly only in
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That's exactly the point of the 2nd Amendment. In fact, it goes further. The point of the preamble (the part of about the necessity of a militia) isn't there to say that the right to keep and bear arms is necessary so that the state can hav
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by jtc331 14y ago
I'm guessing that articles like this are what's he's talking about: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Globa...
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The Day Yahoo Decided I Liked Reading About Child Murder(theatlantic.com)
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"Exactly which maven and luminary of computer science has advocated the use of PHP?" I didn't say that they were luminaries per se. Programmers telling non-programmers that PHP is OK for them is what I'm referring to. That would match the a
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by jtc331 15y ago
You've set up a false dichotomy between "polite ignorance" and mean-spirited correction. I don't think that the OP is suggesting that Yehuda shouldn't have corrected the presenter, but that he should have done it in polite way, i.e. "Have y
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Exactly. I don't actually agree that low barrier to entry is a good thing. Languages should be easy for people who've learned them, not necessarily easy for newbies. That's the real idea with the principle of least surprise. It shouldn't su
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The thing is we need to stop advising people to use it in the first place. That's what we're advocating. That is, we're not telling people to stop after they've gone into McDonalds, we're decrying the fact that so-called health experts are
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It's just that the people who disagree generally aren't really programmars, they're designers turned quasi-web-developers. The community does them a disservice by pointing them at a giant pile of crap and saying "Go use this. You'll be fine
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The situation I described (have a house, car, smartphones, cable TV, etc.) could hardly be described as poor IMHO. And compared to the truly poor (either around the world or in our country in previous centuries) I'd argue they do indeed qua
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But the poor are getting exorbitantly richer too. The so-called poor in our society pay $100+ a month for cable, have cell phones with data plans for all their 10+-year-old kids etc. And these are the people that get welfare for food and li
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Ron and Rand Paul are two of the very few politicians who consistently vote the same way and keep their word. This makes them amazing if you love them, terrible if you disagree. I for one agree, so it makes me happy that they appear to be p
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Agreed. This is pure link bait.
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These sound like designers turned quasi-developers rather than serious programmers. I don't know anyone that actually understands real software development that would make this claim.
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"The idea to use undefined behavior for optimization is really terrible. Somehow they forget this is engineering project, not in researching. Breaking existing code costs a lot of time and money." Saying that using undefined behavior for op
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"On the contrary, you can do something safely with such a pointer - compare it with another pointer. If the value of 'alloca(0)' is _unspecified_, then this comparison is legal, and its result, while not specified, must be consistent." Whil
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Show HN: Gem for multipart w/ alt. content types & attachments in ActionMailer3(github.com)
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/Counting/ delimiters isn't necessarily any easier for our brains than measuring indentation. However, it is (at least for me) much easier for your eyes to line up two delimiters then a keyword/function call/literal/whatever and the end of

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