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by laureny 13y ago
The burden of proof is on the person who's making the claim: if flying is a right, then surely being turned down from flying should be reason enough to call the ACLU and sue the government for discriminating against you, right?
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by laureny 13y ago
> Traveling is a right, regardless of what power any government exerts to claim otherwise. A right in the US is what's defined in the Constitution. Flying is not one.
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by laureny 13y ago
> Is taking a train a privilege, not a right? Driving? A bus? Yes to all. If you're not quite sure how to determine if something is a privilege, just see if it's mentioned in the Constitution. For example, the "pursuit of
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by laureny 13y ago
> I give up. The terrorists have won. Or maybe you could recognize that flying is a privilege, not a right, and that you have other options if you want to make a stand in your beliefs, such as picking a different airline, going to your d
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by laureny 13y ago
Python again, sadly. I understand the appeal but I'd really like to see such an app written in a faster language.
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by laureny 13y ago
Why is it so hard for the Chrome team to realize how harmful it is to see passwords in clear text without any effort on the part of the intruder. Baffling to me really, especially coming from Google. They are going to turn around on this, I
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by laureny 13y ago
> The 360 was likely the last product of theirs I will ever buy. This kind of categorical statement always baffles me. How can you be so sure that they will never, ever release a product you might want? You can't, so maybe you'
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by laureny 13y ago
And Microsoft revolutionized the PC industry, which has led to the generation of billions of dollars of wealth for millions of users on the entire planet. You don't seem to be very fair in evaluating the merits of tech industries by fo
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by laureny 13y ago
> Microsoft has been a stain on the last decade of the computing industry. Wrong decade. Microsoft has made a lot of positive changes these past ten years. If anything, I'm betting that we are going to uncover some pretty dirty busi
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> Does anyone still use Facebook? 1.1 billion people. Which makes you part of the majority on the planet that doesn't use it. Does that make you feel good or were you going for the hipster angle?
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by laureny 13y ago
> Microsoft's approach was different: let others innovate, then we'll dominate. XBox, Surface and ergonomic keyboards would beg to differ. Not mentioning the countless other innovations that didn't become as popular as the
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by laureny 13y ago
> Microsoft is now primarily an enterprise software company. You're forgetting the XBox a bit too quickly.
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> Tyranny does not happen overnight, and it's helped along by people like you who scoff and say "oh, it's not that bad really" until it's too late. I'm pointing out a logical mistake in someone's reason
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> > I don't think this is that oppressive. > > Yeah, well, it didn't happen to you, did it? Correct, and that's exactly what makes it not oppressive: the fact that it doesn't happen to random people pulled
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by laureny 13y ago
> Call me a troll but you should check your moral compass. Do not argue for the torture, psychological or physical, of others if you cannot hack or attempt to at least once. That's a weird line of reasoning. For example, according t
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by laureny 13y ago
> "Most fake bombs missed by screeners" Seems like the screening is working, then. > Missed loaded guns: This statistic is meaningless without the number of times where they caught loaded guns. And once we have these numbers
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by laureny 13y ago
> It's profiling. No, it's not. He was picked because he set off explosive detectors. Repeatedly. The racial opinions of the person asking the questions doesn't change the fact that this is not racial profiling.
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by laureny 13y ago
> It is not a "lottery" when the TSA and their goons are profiling people based on race In this story, they were profiling based on the fact that the person set off explosive detectors. Repeatedly. The fact that he was later qu
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by laureny 13y ago
> She laughed and said that no, I did not understand what it was to have secret police following you about and all these other sorts of issues. She's right, and like her, I have found it next to impossible to explain this to America
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by laureny 13y ago
You should turn that scroll bar back on.
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by laureny 13y ago
They are becoming the new Apple.
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> Most of us would probably stop programming if we had his never ending flow of income. As far as I'm concerned, quite the opposite. I would keep coding but this time, without anyone telling me what to do.
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by laureny 13y ago
> type safety is in practice incompatible with VM-supported hot code upgrade. That's not true. First, it's very easy to hot reload changes that have been made to the code that are backward compatible. The JVM spec describes in
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by laureny 13y ago
The phrasing "Switch on" is terrible: are you telling me that the switch is currently "on" or that clicking it will turn it on?
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by laureny 13y ago
Doesn't the fact that Snowden was using Lavabit lend credence to the allegation that he has been leaking information? If you're just a regular joe who, one day, realizes that what he's working on is bad for the public and dec
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by laureny 13y ago
Of all the "Javascript.next" languages I hear on a regular basis, it seems to me Microsoft's Typescript is the one most likely to become successful, if only because every time I read an article about it, most of the comments
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by laureny 13y ago
Regardless of the technical merits of the approach, are there that many people who care about protecting their Twitter account that badly? I would understand a bank thinking very hard about this problem, or an email service (most bank accou
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by laureny 13y ago
I was hoping for a few concrete examples of where comonads can be useful. I have found the need for monads fairly often in my code but I've never found any reason to use a comonad.
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by laureny 13y ago
> These guys just don't get it. DF can be SOOOOO much better, Maybe. Or maybe it would lose its soul and become yet another pretty game with boring back stories. I'm torn about that, but I can't help notice that the reason
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by laureny 13y ago
Try FTL. It's the most modern reincarnation of the rogue-like genre and it's close to perfect in everything it does in that area.

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