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by mc808 11y ago
It's not very nice to shoo someone away from discussion and then continue the discussion yourself. > Clinton is definitely not eligible to serve as President This has never been established. The 22nd Amendment prevents him from be
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by mc808 11y ago
Presidents aren't immune to the law. But it's theoretically possible that she would be convicted and impeached, and then pardoned by Vice President Bill Clinton after he takes office.
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by mc808 11y ago
If the license allows you to freely read, modify, and distribute the source, it's open source. If we add "upstream welcomes your contributions" as another criterion, that would disqualify a lot of open source projects includi
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by mc808 11y ago
Looks like Contributing.md was updated 35 minutes ago to "BotBuilder is currently accepting contributions in the form of bug fixes and new features ..." (Significant contributions still require a CLA/CYA, but that's not
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by mc808 11y ago
Is there a way to verify that OpenBSD controls that Bitcoin address?
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by mc808 11y ago
Yoda speak, it is confusing like. Most people think "if the variable is not null" rather than "if null, the variable is not". It's easy enough to adapt to the style if it's used consistently throughout a code b
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by mc808 11y ago
s/101/181/ Still up, and it does prompt for a password. But he said the Chinese had been trying to get in for 2 weeks and failed, so it's probably not something obvious.
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by mc808 11y ago
> False positives can still be very harmful to patients (surgery, medication, lifestyle changes, etc) so they must be taken into account as well. Well yes, I wasn't suggesting jumping into treatment before verifying with the expensi
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by mc808 11y ago
To clarify, by "false positive" I mean showing abnormal results when it shouldn't. For example, if the cheap test is usually accurate, but when it's wrong it erroneously shows dangerously high cholesterol, then a more ex
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by mc808 11y ago
If some of the tests consistently err towards a false positive but are less invasive and cost 80% less, that sounds like an acceptable trade-off for those tests. The patients with abnormal results would have to follow up with a different te
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by mc808 11y ago
That's called a pull quote, which is pretty common in publishing, but it's usually not done inline right after the text being quoted. That's definitely distracting.
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by mc808 11y ago
> Now people will start wondering if a module with millions of installs in the last month is still going to exist tomorrow. That's a smart thing for people to wonder when there is a very real possibility that it won't. I'm
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by mc808 11y ago
I was going to say it only takes about 30 seconds to fork and change the license if you want to. Then I decided to check if someone had already done so. Yep. https://github.com/ivegotasthma/coreutils/commit/4c
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by mc808 11y ago
Funny how everyone assumes this is a hoax, i.e. people didn't really want this name. I think it would be a fine name. And for the more traditional/ceremonious types, maybe it will inspire them to pay attention and get involved nex
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by mc808 11y ago
One of the most touted features is "your JavaScript is already valid TypeScript" (or pretty close), so I think they will keep the defaults so that JS developers can just change the .js to .ts and be up and running with as little f
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by mc808 11y ago
Ads are fine in the right context. For example, I don't mind seeing ads on Craigslist. Or an ad for a blogger's book or consulting services in the sidebar of a thoughtful blog post. But not , for example, affiliate links for a pr
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by mc808 11y ago
UBI just lifts the wealth distribution curve up a bit so the long tail approaches something above zero. You could also call it a "tax prebate" as in the FairTax proposal if that's more palatable. The poorest poor are going to
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by mc808 11y ago
It's been estimated that if the universe were a computer, it could have performed no more than 10^120 operations on 10^90 bits of data so far (based on the size, age, and total energy of the known universe). http://arxiv.org
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by mc808 11y ago
No, I swear, your baby is adorable!
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by mc808 11y ago
The first image that came to mind was the "here is the church, here is the steeple..."[0] hand game that I had otherwise forgotten about for the last 30 years. I wonder what that implies (assuming there's validity to the exer
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by mc808 11y ago
Naturally we want to be able to enforce the law. We should also remember the 20th century and how quickly "they" seized control of Germany, Italy, Japan, China, Korea, the Soviet republics, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Li
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by mc808 11y ago
> Now that information is all locked away behind encryption. Moreover, more and more of that persistent information is casual communication that historically would have been securely erased by the whispering winds of time. No judge can g
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by mc808 11y ago
Correction: If you don't like it, then don't use it for as long as your attempts to raise awareness and propose improvements continue to fail. But don't give up.
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by mc808 11y ago
To really stretch the analogy, there are also millions (perhaps billions) of short-lived, abandoned software projects that never grew into something big and reliable. They're less interesting because it's usually pretty obvious wh
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by mc808 11y ago
I'm not really interested in those particulars but offered it as possible rationale that isn't there for academic publishing. I don't think patents (or copyrights) should be granted for publicly funded research at all, as it&
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by mc808 11y ago
Some portion of the other 70% is going toward legal fees to protect "their" intellectual property, developing new ways to monetize the windfall, lobbying to obstruct copyright reform, running lower-margin businesses unrelated to a
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by mc808 11y ago
That too, although a case could potentially be made that licensing of university-owned patents reduces the need for tax subsidies. E.g. the University of Wisconsin recently won a $234 million judgment against Apple just as their state fundi
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by mc808 11y ago
Would you be so kind as to cite the source of this quote? Nothing is coming up on Google or Bing.
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by mc808 11y ago
If actuaries can collectively predict the future, then term life insurance premiums should show a strong trend down as we approach the point where longevity increases significantly (adjusting for income, inflation, etc). From a few seconds
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by mc808 11y ago
Looks like "find" is yet another command with the Examples section at the very bottom. I suppose that's the convention or something, but sometimes I do run into a man page with the examples at the top, and it takes a lot of e

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