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by maire 8y ago
I was also going to bring up the Dark Forest - but it doesn't answer the question of the Cylon Spawn. The Cylon Spawn can be visible without revealing the source of the spawn (which was the issue in the Dark Forest).
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by maire 8y ago
There used to be an organization called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility CPSR. It grew out of Xerox Parc. I just looked at their web site and they don't seem as active anymore.
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by maire 8y ago
This is too bad. There used to be a much greater cross pollination between the sciences and humanities. One of the most interesting discussion about the 1st (not 2nd) law of thermodynamics came from one of my philosophy classes.
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by maire 8y ago
These are all old books. The modern trend seems to be gender is an afterthought. The main character in the Ancillary series has difficulty distinguishing men from women.
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by maire 8y ago
There is a difference between urban sprawl and wilderness. Wilderness is good, urban sprawl is bad. We should focus on high density housing around transit hubs and then build more transit hubs. We should focus on livability of the high dens
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by maire 8y ago
This is just a tiny nit - but slavery was actually sanctioned at the federal level through the Fugitive Slave Law. This was one of the events that led to the Civil War - since the northern states suddenly had to enforce southern slave laws.
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by maire 8y ago
I am saying the opposite. I suspect we are on the same side even if we have an opposite opinion. I care more about California right now than I care about federal politics - which is currently toxic. California is currently strong enough to
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by maire 8y ago
I grew up in Northern California. The original movements to split the state came from the water wars in the early and mid 20th century. In the early 20th century the Los Angeles water district took water from Owens Valley under suspicious c
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by maire 8y ago
I am suspicious of this statistic since it is only a measure of racial purity. At some point we need to give up on this measure since it originally meant just a drop of blood is enough to be non-white. During slave days 15/16 white was
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by maire 8y ago
So - prior art is no longer good enough? I was at Xerox when they were fighting a patent on their ideas. At that point in time all you had to do was prove prior art on the idea. Xerox used their notes during software development plus the co
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by maire 8y ago
California has water issues - that is why they were seriously considering composting toilets.
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by maire 8y ago
I don't know. The county was reviewing composting toilets in 2013. I don't know the outcome.
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by maire 8y ago
The site prep was normal for any house. The biggest change was in septic system requirements. Septic systems cost three times as much as they did a few years ago because we have to have an active system with a fan and they have to have life
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by maire 8y ago
We just built a "hybrid" house in Santa Cruz county. We picked the default design and stuck to it. We had to make a few changes to get through the planning department. The biggest issue was not at the building level - but rather e
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by maire 8y ago
I talked to the flex team a couple of years ago - and they did not think this was possible. I wonder how complete it is. At the time they said though Actionscript claims to be ECMAScript it is far from Javascript in very fundamental concept
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by maire 8y ago
RE> I believe Flex is either the second or third most successful project at Apache in terms of downloads. How can that be given that Adobe is killing the flash runtime?
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by maire 8y ago
This all boils down to your attitude toward your job. In my generation most first jobs were in the service industry. Later we all migrated to jobs suited to our talents. I am an introvert - and interacting with strangers is painful for an i
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by maire 8y ago
Apple always took location privacy seriously. I remember an interview between Steve Jobs and Walt Mossberg years ago on this subject. I looked it up again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39iKLwlUqBo
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by maire 8y ago
I have been curious about the case for bitcoin. A short time ago all currency was on the gold standard. Then it was loosely based on the underlying productivity of the country that issued the currency. Then it was loosely based on the under
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by maire 8y ago
I am not a teacher but I did volunteer in my children's classroom when they were young. I do understand what you mean by the range in comprehension. I am not counting the other things a parent does to enhance a child's learning ex
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by maire 8y ago
Ideally, parents shouldn't spend any time on their children's homework. I can understand answering occasional questions and giving encouragement but nothing more. Children learn by figuring out homework on their own. Otherwise, wh
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by maire 9y ago
I agree with your argument but you should stop using grandma as an example of a non technical user. I am a grandma.
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by maire 9y ago
Most of the people who use facebook are not technically proficient so they will not have your understanding of what they are giving up when they use FB. This was brought home to me when my sister called in a panic when the FB news broke. Ev
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by maire 9y ago
Ursula Le Guin was the daughter of anthropologists Alfred L. Kroeber and Theodora Kroeber. Her parents are best known for documenting the life of Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe. Kroaber Hall on the UC Berkeley campus was named afte
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by maire 9y ago
Hi ABCLAW, I just reread the document, and I think you are referring to page 36. I think Oracle is trying to get around the Sega vs Nintendo case which does protect the API. I believe the Oracle argument is tenuous since you still need to i
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by maire 9y ago
Hi ABCLAW, I read page 17 and it is clearly written by someone that doesn't understand software. My non-lawyer reading of the justification implies that polymorphism violates copyright law - which is an even deeper issue. This would de
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by maire 9y ago
RE> Nature of the Copyrighted Work: Dealt with previously In my entire career you could not copyright an API. There is good reason for this. If you wanted to do business with certain entities, the implementation had to be multisource. Th