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by mentat 15y ago
The solar panel demo was actually doing something like rendering video, though I believe you're correct that the panel wasn't powering the display device.
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by mentat 15y ago
There are practical concerns in terms of content filtering. By using profanity you're cutting off some section of the internet. Whether that's a concern or whether it should be that way are secondary discussions.
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by mentat 15y ago
Anonymous, the hacker group, is not synonymous with people who are sympathetic is some of their real world actions. The best way to separate the pure anarchic core from people who are just pissed would be to address some of the most obvious
874.
by mentat 15y ago
Funny thing, I thought it was fundamentally about the nature of humans' interaction with history. (Though it also made me more interested in math.)
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by mentat 15y ago
I'm a bit shocked at your statement that there's no message in Anathem. The message I got out of it is to question my assumptions about the flow of history, most specifically about things that "everyone knows are true". For instance, why do
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by mentat 15y ago
It doesn't necessarily matter what the culture of the person who had the idea is. It matters who has the courage to do it. Execution trumps idea.
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by mentat 15y ago
Crashes are happening for many reasons. Are talking and texting the top one? Are they in fact results of other causes? Will raising fines with such low enforcement rates (as far as I've seen) actually have any impact beyond fundraising for
878.
by mentat 15y ago
Actually try to understand and address the grievances? There's a substantial part of the country who feels like they've been left behind and they're not that far from becoming violent. Throwing a bunch of fraud committing bankers in jail fo
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by mentat 15y ago
Anonymous is just a label for people who are fed up with the government. Seeing the posters and the real impact in San Francisco, you can't just call it a "hacker group". At least in some areas they are approaching "movement".
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by mentat 15y ago
Is the goal really to prevent crashes? There is a limit on how much you're going to be able to do about any random societal ill. A friend recently linked Goodhart's Law [1] to me and I think it's relevant in this. What is the goal? To save
881.
by mentat 15y ago
Task Rabbit: http://www.taskrabbit.com/
882.
by mentat 15y ago
If you want no-gui VirtualBox that "just works" try vagrant.
883.
by mentat 15y ago
If you're mostly looking for headless VM, you should check out Vagrant. It makes setup, teardown, and provisioning pretty straightforward.
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by mentat 15y ago
It's not just the wealthy, it's about creating a lifelong addiction to living beyond one's means using debt.
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by mentat 15y ago
"he would do irreparable harm to his fellow humans to prove some ideological point" The harm is already there and possible, he's just forcing the issue. An "Anonymous" with a different agenda. It doesn't help "humanity" to believe that the
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by mentat 15y ago
I think the key feature would be something more along the lines of, "easier to handle pull requests that are required to be structured in specific ways" and "able to see exactly what a pull request will do".
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by mentat 15y ago
Seriously? This should not be on HN. Flagged.
888.
by mentat 15y ago
Assuming you have the only copy of any file that has been exposed on the Internet is unwise. If you got a copy of it over the network using an unsecured protocol then there's a significant chance others did too.
889.
by mentat 15y ago
I have been thinking similarly as have some friends. I think the time for this concept will be very soon.
890.
by mentat 15y ago
The better development team is the one that gets stuff done. That almost always means flexibility.
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by mentat 15y ago
Feeling better is not the same as being better. This distinction is important and unfortunately missed by many in the modern day.
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by mentat 15y ago
Some assertions w/o citation: That's partially because many parents see school as free childcare and don't understand the value of education themselves. This in turn is because parents are (in general) spending more time away from their chi
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by mentat 15y ago
I believe that SELinux was developed in cooperation with federal agencies quite interested in security. While not flawless it's one of the best systems currently available. Claiming that any system that's not flawless is therefore not inter
894.
by mentat 15y ago
Check out The Dosadi Experiment by Frank Herbert.
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by mentat 15y ago
No, that is why it takes a long time to add <random obscure feature that doesn't have business value>.
896.
by mentat 15y ago
Need a freecycle like website for this. I have at least 1 that I would be interested in parting with.
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by mentat 15y ago
I'm unclear on how you're drawing the scope of donors vs "everyone". It's, for all practical purposes, impossible to make a judgment about the moral impact of an action for everyone. There are so many secondary effects of every action that
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by mentat 15y ago
It doesn't look like you're disagreeing except perhaps as to his likelihood to get hired. If this industry really is about hiring anyone who can get the job done regardless of their ethical standpoint, then I'm really in the wrong place.
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by mentat 15y ago
It's by foot length: http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/size_fit/size_conversion_ch... though the largest is 12 1/4".
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DefCon vs Black Hat: Cultural Differences(venturebeat.com)
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