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by kevinpet 14y ago
That's not what someone means when they say "every child has a right to an education". They do not mean "the government cannot prevent you from getting an education". They mean "the government must provide you with an education". No one has
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Does anyone have a pointer to the backstory to this? The response and the discussion here don't make a lot of sense without knowing about what previously happened.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I'd rather spend my time writing software then repairing my old socks. As a bonus, writing software makes me about 100x what repairing my old socks nets me per hour.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
There are no incorporated cities in Hawaii, just the counties. Honolulu (i.e. Oahu) is called "the city and county of Honolulu" and the rest are just "county of ___". (Also learned from Wikipedia that there is fifth county that consists of
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by kevinpet 14y ago
It is fractional indentured servitude. Or if you prefer, a privately collected income tax. Indentured servitude is not and never was slavery. It was a voluntary contract entered into by people who thought it was their best option. I think i
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by kevinpet 14y ago
"Sorry JWZ, but your X screensaver project is actually not an overriding concern driving the evolution of OpenGL ES." Seriously, if you think that's a valid response, then you did not understand his point. Repeating something does not make
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by kevinpet 14y ago
How does the policy not apply? Is Apple being irrational, or is Apple making their best effort to thread the needle between stupid laws?
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Has Apple said this? Or are you just guessing?
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by kevinpet 14y ago
It started out so promising, with good observations that more people need to hear, then degenerated into indentured servitude. If all else fails, how about we try the market? Make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy and let the banks
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by kevinpet 14y ago
It's not necessarily that a curved mirror is always worse, there's value in consistency so that drivers don't have to adjust to different cars. If there isn't a lot of value in picking the "right" answer, it may be beneficial for government
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I think the story here is: company that offers a password vault product thinks it's a good idea to encourage users to enter their passwords in third-party websites.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
This isn't journalism, it's a piece of agitprop. I'm not just saying this because I think their claims are bullshit, but because the article quotes the lawyer for the farmers, but does not quote a Monsanto spokesman or contain the usual "co
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by kevinpet 14y ago
The header isn't called "tracking permission", it's "Do Not Track", an explicit negative. Genius move on MS part though. By making DNT too detrimental for advertisers to implement, they ensure no one will implement it, which means they will
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by kevinpet 14y ago
What does wikipedians against censorship say about him? It seems to argue against censorship. There's a subset of wikipedia editors who seem to be constitutionally unable to differentiate between "censorship" and "discretion". Try this one
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Title makes it sound like he's going to delineate the difference between "infographic" and "non-infographic", but it seems to run into the "real Christians" problem where anything he doesn't like "isn't an infographic". Apparently it's cate
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by kevinpet 14y ago
According to the S-1, most executives did not sell anything, only Zuckerberg, Breyer and Thiel, with most coming from Breyer. VCs and other pre-IPO investors sold about 10-20% of their shares. It appears that 57% of the stock offerred in th
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Thank you for the correction. I suspect I must have read a simplified explanation once and missed that it was simplified.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I wasn't sure it if it was reliable. I remember during the last "ca leaks root cert" fiasco there was talk about how browsers don't implement this securely.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I don't understand the hate for this post. If you're shopping for a car, you're trying to balance factors like comfort, carrying capacity, impressing coworkers, purchase cost, resale value, maintenance costs, and of course, fuel costs. Usin
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by kevinpet 14y ago
This is not a security flaw in Axis, this is a leaked trusted key that could be used to sign any extension (or possibly any other type of signed code). Any code purporting to come from Yahoo is unsafe, probably until Chrome is updated.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Depends on the details, but they may be in different buckets that you can't use to offset each other. Exercising the options is probably ordinary income, which can only be offset to $3k with short term capital losses.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Yes, because I can recognize factors that may reasonably influence whether you should take someone's complaints of harassment at face value, I am clearly advocating rape.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
It does not excuse the behavior, but it may very well be that coworkers who broke off a relationship are more likely to falsely accuse each other of harassment and/or overreact to innocent or trivial incidents. It may not be true in this ca
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I can't read this. If there's a vulnerability in the sequence of events described at the beginning, it needs to be called out more explicitly. If I wanted a mystery, I'd pick up some Agatha Christie.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
They don't want lambda just because they want lambda. They want function collections with filters and transformations, and you can't have that without lambda. When Java 8 lambda syntax arrives, it will be compatible with this and Guava. The
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I hate these government-accounting style stories. The numbers reported in the graph are the percent change in infant mortality relative to the rate of change to meet MDG. Is it just me, or would it be more useful to illustrate an article ab
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I have a Facebook account, I just refuse to login to it unless I want to actually access my Facebook account.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Well, the key feature of a financial bubble is that no one is behaving irrationally at a micro level. Even if you know its a bubble, it may be worth trying to get in now and get out closer to the top. Same thing with building social local m
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I was hoping the two versions would be called "The Prince" and "The Discourses".
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I'm sure the bandsaw mentioned in the SO post would do it quite easily.

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