midas007

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by midas007 13y ago
Features aren't free.
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by midas007 13y ago
Yeah, it's usually the inexperienced and the privileged that take on a meritocratic, neat-and-simple worldview. It's the intellectual equivalent of sticking one's head in the sand. "Shit happens" isn't a bumpe
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by midas007 13y ago
The only way is if police are held to account. That there is some sort of oversight committee, separate from the police force, that can fire officers. For example, Mountain View PD has this female police officer that is just plain nutters
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by midas007 13y ago
Exactly. The pattern is: 1. cops do whatever they want 2. they become more and more emboldened 3. something awful happens to an "innocent" person 4. temporary measures are put in place 5. delay 10 6. goto 1
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by midas007 13y ago
Because it's divorced from reality for one.
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by midas007 13y ago
How many police officers have you interacted with?
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by midas007 13y ago
It's called common sense.
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by midas007 13y ago
This article begs the question: Would entering into a marriage to evade GST be against any specific law(s)?
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by midas007 13y ago
Third-party libraries are third-party for a reason. Adding every conceivable library as standard doesn't make sense, unless you're Java, in which case no one cares how much crap you bring along.
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by midas007 13y ago
I still don't understand the logic of how folding up shop was anything but signaling defeat.
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by midas007 13y ago
Most def not the MPAA.
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by midas007 13y ago
Is this a creative fiction short-story?
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by midas007 13y ago
Yup. There's a great misconception by naive people that believe candor begets innocence. Unfortunately, an adversarial legal system instead looks at volunteered information as ammunition.
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by midas007 13y ago
Never talk to the cops. Period. You can't help yourself by proving you have "nothing to hide." The only word emanating from your vocal cords should be "lawyer."
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by midas007 13y ago
Reminiscent of the consolidated.db debacle: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/apr/20/iphone-tra...
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by midas007 13y ago
It's a book ideal that doesn't recognize reality: the fallibility and self-interests of individuals.
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by midas007 13y ago
In the US, Europe and elsewhere, the S.O.P. is "Might makes right" => "We're going to beat the shit out of you if we feel like it, and there's nothing you can do about it. Oh and we're going to rob (whateve
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by midas007 13y ago
"Anything that you wouldn't say to someone face-to-face" + keeping to dinner party topics with people you just met.
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by midas007 13y ago
So a friend that worked at DIA says .gov and .mil gear often contains acid in glass surrounding drives and circuits. (Thermite is just in the movies.) What a security-conscious user really needs is laptop storage that can be quickly destro
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by midas007 13y ago
The regime doesn't respect private property rights (or human ones) consistently, so it's obvious move for an owner and their family to move somewhere that has a more functional legal system and a political class that doesn't
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by midas007 13y ago
IIRC tensors are one of the fundamental prereqs for understanding General Relativity. (Bucketlist topic.)
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by midas007 13y ago
Thanks. Also check out CheatSheet if you're like me and can't remember all these magic keyboard Konami codes. http://www.cheatsheetapp.com/CheatSheet/ (free)
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by midas007 13y ago
With Europe, at least on the enterprise and VC/IB side, you still have to deal with people that will only do business with their official business friends and so lose out on deals because of their own inability to get out of their comf
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by midas007 13y ago
Opera 12 is ancient history. Opera 18 is now basically Chrome without the ability to set a custom search engine as default. Even with sqlite hacks, there's no way to set DDG as default on the stable release versions. (I use FF.)
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by midas007 13y ago
It's surprising there are still people foolish enough to believe Google cared about privacy when their business model depends on monetizing people trading their life's intimate details for services.
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by midas007 13y ago
Yup, KeyRemap4MacBook and PCKeyboardHack are great. I have: - MBP Caps Lock remapped to F19, which opens highlighted URLs in the browser instead - Brightness, Backlight Brightness and Volume mapped to quarter steps - Eject mapped t
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by midas007 13y ago
Perhaps he got an advance preview on that recent Scorsese movie. I had to turn it off after 10 minutes because it jumped the shark with attaboy puerility.
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by midas007 13y ago
I've seen plenty of startup CEOs that add value and some that subtract value. The ones that subtract value just push to meet arbitrary deadlines and don't pitch in. The ones that add value actively remove burdens (go get lunch
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by midas007 13y ago
Faster and more stable Windows and Windows NT 3.1 on period hardware. Awesome.
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by midas007 13y ago
As of 10 Jan, so almost a month. Stable precise LTS boxes will just go ahead and update themselves to .4 but there's no .4 ISOs available officially right now. ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ uname -a Linux ubuntu 3.8.0-29-generic #42~prec

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