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by lwat 16y ago
My beef with ASP.NET is that it makes it disturbingly easy to write code that doesn't scale well and then is ridiculously hard to scale after the fact. Explain? Example? I don't see how this could possibly be true for .net but not for Rai
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by lwat 16y ago
2.) Someone else has the exact same idea. Nonsense. Absolutely 100% total nonsense. I've published papers in the peer-reviewed research literature where the standard requirement is "new, correct, and significant". Note the "new". And I got
423.
by lwat 16y ago
Tools -> New Incognito Window
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by lwat 16y ago
My browser remembers the login anyway
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by lwat 16y ago
I felt like I got duped into revealing my Facebook account for no reason. The page indicated that I'll 'save time' but as far as I can tell I didn't save any time at all.
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by lwat 16y ago
> The account sign-up process says that Quora can use your Facebook or Twitter identity to save you time — so why did I have to enter my e-mail address and make up a password anyway? This is what annoyed me most when signing up for Quor
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by lwat 16y ago
Actually it was Bank of America that hired Palantir and HBGary Federal to help them defend against the upcoming BoA Wikileaks release.
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by lwat 16y ago
I'm highly skeptical about that dragonfly from the 70s. I think it's a mock-up at best, there's no way they made something useful for surveillance etc the size of a large dragonfly. Not in the 70s. Researchers working on this for decades ca
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by lwat 16y ago
PostGreSQL
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by lwat 16y ago
Only if there's evidence that you destroyed the chip on purpose.
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by lwat 16y ago
Could you give us an example or two?
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by lwat 16y ago
Site is down. Is it hosted on EC2?
433.
by lwat 16y ago
You will not be able to provide links to anything on /b/, all conversations are removed from it in a matter of minutes or hours.
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by lwat 16y ago
Only if you play 'random'
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by lwat 16y ago
The internet is full of scammers and on any reasonably popular forum you'll find them. Let's not turn HN into witch hunting central.
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by lwat 16y ago
How will an eventual ban (after every vehicle has auto-drive presumably) on manual control have any impact on the initial take-up of auto-drive systems? What you're talking about (if it ever happens) will only happen many years after auto-d
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by lwat 16y ago
No, it's like cruise control. If you want to use it, you hit the button. If you want to drive yourself, you don't.
438.
by lwat 16y ago
You don't have to use the autodrive if you don't want to
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by lwat 16y ago
Data is hard. Let's go shopping!
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by lwat 16y ago
What if BMW uses my likeness?
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by lwat 16y ago
Yea I kind of agree. From my perspective it only makes sense to buy if you really plan on living in the place for many years. And I'm too young for that kind of commitment so renting makes the most sense for me.
442.
by lwat 16y ago
And you think all of the engineers at BMW would never consider that particular possibility? What the fuck.
443.
by lwat 16y ago
Yay Hacker News. I come for articles but I stay for the endless sarcasm.
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by lwat 16y ago
That only works for a small number of domains.
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by lwat 16y ago
Like apologizing to Kurzweil?
446.
by lwat 16y ago
I go out of my way and will put up with almost anything to avoid PayPal. Their anti-PayPal message is what got me. So what if PayPal has more features? I hate them!
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by lwat 16y ago
Er... why wouldn't it?
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by lwat 16y ago
The USA has very strict liability laws. Any mistake is likely to mean massive lawsuits in the USA even if the system is significantly safer than human drivers. All these tests are happening in the EU, and the EU is already getting ready to
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by lwat 16y ago
In 10 years they'll be common but not in the USA. Too many legal obstacles to overcome for just one decade.
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by lwat 16y ago
This system is for highway traffic, there's no traffic lights. The maximum number of vehicles in a road train is 5. Obviously it has all kinds of failure recovery systems and in fact some top-end BMWs can already safely pull over to the sid

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