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by leohutson 10y ago
Absolutely, "paper" trails through and walking along rivers and beaches bordered by private property are other interesting examples of where the law and "norms" of the situation are often pretty blurry. That's just
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by leohutson 10y ago
Doesn't even need to be a traffic infringement, most jurisdictions have loose catch-all minor crimes like "disturbing the peace" or "disorderly conduct", with pretty low burdens of proof.
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by leohutson 11y ago
People should perhaps be free to create whatever informal contracts they want between themselves, but there is no "freedom" that entitles them to have their arbitrary contract enforced by the state. When enforcing those contracts
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by leohutson 11y ago
What's the context here though? I had to skim like 5 paragraphs to even know wtf the title meant.
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by leohutson 11y ago
Try opening the Google link in incognito. Or don't, it's not really worth the effort to read such a biased piece.
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by leohutson 11y ago
There's nothing wrong with "content" when it's purely entertainment, but freakonomics falls well into the TED, Malcolm Gladwell, "fake-insight" category, that makes you feel clever about knowing some counter-in
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by leohutson 11y ago
Not quite sure I understand the calling distinction? I guess the article is more about web frameworks, which I have no knowledge of. I had desktop applications in mind, in particular GUI centric frameworks like Qt, which aside from moc is
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by leohutson 11y ago
Frameworks are just a set of libraries that play nice. If you use a bunch of separate libraries from different developers, then you have to write a lot glue code to get data between those libraries. That code is usually slower, as it will i
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by leohutson 11y ago
So you'll just take a guess at your biases and then try to counteract them arbitrarily? I'd like to know how you even begin to judge what ethnicity someone is just by looking at them. Sounds like an extremely fraught game to play.
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by leohutson 11y ago
I would care if my coworkers were bigots, and I would especially care if they were prejudiced against me, how can you effectively work with someone who doesn't respect you? Pretending bigotry doesn't exist is the same thing as pre
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by leohutson 11y ago
How is race or sex aware hiring going to help with eliminating subconscious bias? It reinforces bigotry, because it gives a rationalization for bigots to not respect their minority coworkers, as they can claim that they were not subject to
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by leohutson 11y ago
This happens all the time, scammers calling from India via voip and scaring elderly people into installing malware onto their Windows computers. The police say they can do nothing about it, but this service would be a perfect way to make t
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by leohutson 11y ago
This is a thing already. It's an option as a qt phonon backend in Linux at least, so all qt apps that use it will support any of vlcs codecs.
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by leohutson 11y ago
It's convenient that they can justify the risk to democracy with information we aren't allowed to see. I guess we'll just have to take it on faith
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by leohutson 11y ago
> This type of leaking gives credence to the national security concerns Gives credence to what/whose concerns? What do think Israel would have learnt from this leak? If Israel were spying on US drone video transmissions, and a &quot
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by leohutson 11y ago
It's just subjective and unproductive noise. The strict moderation and categorization is what makes stack exchange useful in general. Why not use a free-form forum like Reddit for that kind of question? Because you know the answers ar
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by leohutson 11y ago
Price fluctuations make bitcoin a non-starter as a savings account anyway. It would be better to store savings in an interest bearing account with a bank or other investments, some of which might include bitcoin and some of it's possib
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by leohutson 11y ago
Facebook doesn't need to do this. They have a huge market share on the real internet, they could simply give more people neutral internet access, and they would still grow. The fact that are attempting this means that they obviously do
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by leohutson 11y ago
Most countries have had films shot in them. Globally, the film industry does seem to have unusually strong sway with politicians though, considering the relatively small amount of money and people involved. With regards to dotcom's ext
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by leohutson 11y ago
The abstract of paper you shared was interesting, but the reason you are being down voted is probably because of the tabloid level of political spin you have forced on it, and the crank-like way that you have tried to make yourself out as a
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by leohutson 11y ago
I was taught to read before school, not in kindergarten, but at home. I feel like it didn't do any harm, and my reading comprehension was top of my class until I entered high school, when I more or less stopped reading for pleasure alt
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by leohutson 11y ago
I'm happy with my zenbook hardware wise, but it still came with a bunch of crap installed. I only use my arch partition, but I think I'll wipe the windows partition it came with and do a fresh install if I get tempted to use windo
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by leohutson 11y ago
People that claim open source has no security value seem to believe that just because you can't catch every vulnerability through public review, you may as well not bother at all. That logic is obviously faulty, I can't imagine th
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by leohutson 11y ago
I was more thinking of stuff that is entirely mine that I just want to dump a copy of onto the web. I don't think it's fair to make contributors assign copyright to me, especially if they are major. I'd probably just keep a p
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by leohutson 11y ago
Dual license your code. You can still supply it to your current employer, and any future employer under a proprietary license.
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by leohutson 11y ago
Yeah, that makes sense to me. I get sick of seeing entitled programmers whining that some library is LGPL or GPL, and saying they aren't going to use it as a consequence. Don't expect the author to be somehow sympathetic that you
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by leohutson 11y ago
Excess isolationism also makes the economy more vulnerable. For example, primary industries are more exposed by gluts in production flooding the market and driving down the value of goods, and shortages of domestically produced goods will o
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by leohutson 11y ago
I agree that to do it properly requires driver and hardware support. However, it's already possible to have fairly granular control over compute resources with CUDA for example, and also to run streams of commands concurrently, so that
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by leohutson 11y ago
I'm actually more concerned by how easy it is to peg the GPU. The operating system does a pretty good job in controlling errant processes in general, but with GPU stuff it's easy to get your computer completely unresponsive. My an
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by leohutson 11y ago
Why? Competitors are the best placed entities, in terms of both resources and motivation, to perform a review. Also, do you want officials to have to review and test one hundred different implementations of a safety critical piece of code,

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