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by mokus 13y ago
Yes, I most definitely agree that anyone out joyriding and shooting up civilians is a criminal, and it's outrageous that we haven't seen any action against them. I just don't think that that makes Manning any less of a crimi
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by mokus 13y ago
If Manning were aware of particular abuses, why didn't he release documents only about those particular abuses? If he wasn't, why did he release anything? This sounds like a case of "I know the evidence is in there somewher
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by mokus 13y ago
Yea, that much is clear. And the AnandTech article (which probably should be the one on the HN front page if it hasn't popped up there since I last looked) is clearer about some of the things they ran to establish that 480 MHz is the
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by mokus 13y ago
The fact that they found a code path that ensures particular programs get the full hardware speed does not mean that no other code path enables that performance level. I'm asking whether it is established that there is no other way th
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by mokus 13y ago
If the higher clock speeds are truly never used for anything but benchmarks then that's downright dishonest. But is that established to be the case? Perhaps those speeds are available for extremely heavy loads under specific circumst
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by mokus 13y ago
I don't think they are saying they don't know what the "mistakes" were - rather, that to reveal what they were would be to reveal classified information. And publishing a fixed version would reveal what the mistakes wer
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by mokus 13y ago
This really sounds like hair splitting to me. Along the lines of saying "well, your software patent is for a program that is stored on a GMR disk platter. Mine's stored in NAND flash, and that's never been done before!&quot
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by mokus 13y ago
After reading and digesting rayiner's (and others') points elsewhere on this thread I realize the most likely approach the prosecution would take is to assert (c): c) "You have signaled that you received an NSL and are theref
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by mokus 13y ago
Does it make any difference that at the time the communication was committed to, the gag order was not in effect?
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by mokus 13y ago
True. I like to believe that there are so many holes in those things that it's only a matter of time before they're struck down anyway, and any particular attack against them only has a small chance of ever even making it to cour
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by mokus 13y ago
If it's obviously a sham (like your yarmulke example) then sure - it shouldn't fly. They'd be right to point out "that isn't even your religion, and we have evidence X, Y, Z that proves it." But if a person pr
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by mokus 13y ago
What concerns me most about this whole situation isn't even the surveillance, though I think that's pretty abhorrent. It's the fact that something so stupendous has been done without any kind of public debate - despite the f
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by mokus 13y ago
I'd love to have the opportunity to try it, but I'm not in a position where I'm likely to ever get an NSL in the first place.
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by mokus 13y ago
Agreed. We need a "catch-22" amendment, explicitly forbidding secret laws.
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by mokus 13y ago
If nothing else, a warrant canary would let you try an interesting defense. With the right participants, you can set things up so that if you receive an NSL then either: a) you are able to signal that you did, or b) they compel you to lie
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by mokus 13y ago
If that is the case, it seems like a very risky move. If I were so ordered, for example, I would immediately seek to challenge it on the basis of the first amendment. Not the free speech part - the free exercise of religion part. My reli
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by mokus 13y ago
The two a priori conditions can also be viewed as 4 possible worlds by branching on the outcome of the (unobserved because it hasn't happened yet or, if you prefer, after it happens but before you observe it) coin toss: P(a)P(heads|a)
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by mokus 14y ago
> Like NaN, it can be hard to track down where things went wrong. Unlike NaN, you have the freedom to not use it when you don't want it.
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by mokus 14y ago
That's exactly the point. You didn't pay for it until you gave them their 12/24 months of service fees (or early-termination fee).
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by mokus 14y ago
The same happens to me, but I think it has the opposite of the intended effect. The "brain hack" does indeed work better at capturing my attention, but it just makes it all the more sickening to me and creates a strong negative association
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by mokus 14y ago
Whether any particular tutorial is good or not, it's almost automatic that people (especially in the Haskell community) question whether we needed /yet another/, because there are already so many and most of them are not that great. IMO the
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by mokus 14y ago
Agreed. Just a couple days ago I was having a discussion with someone about how Haskell's type system is able to quarantine effects (he's a long time C++ and Python user who wanted some help seeing how a type system could possibly do that).
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by mokus 14y ago
I've long felt that very-short names like "x" and "i" should be treated like pronouns in English. They should only be used when the scope is fairly limited and there shouldn't be too many in use at once. There are probably other sensible
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by mokus 14y ago
> People don't actually own them. Of course they do. If I buy a new house or car, I don't have to pay the full price up front, but when I have finished paying for it I absolutely do own it. Subsidized phones are essentially loans. You
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by mokus 14y ago
Interesting. 2003 - Safari launches. 2013 - a salvo of blogs is fired. I'm thinking either an NDA just expired or a lot of folks are feeling nostalgic about the 10 year anniversary.
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by mokus 14y ago
Serious question - how do you stop the trolls from running that extension too?
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by mokus 14y ago
Another good rule of thumb is that if you're ever in a position where you feel the need to assert that something is "obvious", it probably isn't. All too often people try to end a debate by asserting that some point (from which their positi
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by mokus 14y ago
I haven't had problems with G+ specifically, but I did have to delete my gmail account (which I only created so I could access the android app store) because it was impossible to have a gmail address without it being my "primary" address fo
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by mokus 14y ago
Could anyone explain to me why some of the rows don't add up to 10k attempted connections? For example, looking at the raw data for Haskell and java, and adding up connections, disconnects, crashes, and timeouts doesn't give anywhere near 1
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by mokus 14y ago
As was shown during prohibition in the US. The challenge isn't changing the culture by legislation, that's easy. The challenge is changing it in a particular desired way.

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