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by mseebach 9y ago
If you're involved in a complicated legal case, and you're not 100% sure what you're doing, no speaking to the press at all is your first preference, by a wide margin, and only speaking to the press in carefully considered, s
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by mseebach 9y ago
How do you know you love your spouse? (Or mother or whomever else you might say you love)?
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by mseebach 9y ago
Belief, even acceptance, isn't interchangeable with certainty. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen". There are plenty of things you accept and believe without evidence. The world,
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by mseebach 9y ago
Whether it's positive is irrelevant for the purposes of this discussion. It's there, so not confidently stating a 100% certainty in the existence of God is not something Christians just do as a matter of being Christians. For th
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by mseebach 9y ago
At least in Christianity, doubt is a major component of the faith structure. Generally, the more thoughtful believers will recognise that the concept of God is something that exists outside the realm of things humans can assign probabilitie
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by mseebach 9y ago
That $10B is a high number, certainly, but it's historically high. It's worth keeping context in mind here: this profit is earned on 446B passenger miles. Every time you fly a mile on AA, they profit a whopping 2.2 cents, and that
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by mseebach 9y ago
But why? Passenger transport is already well catered for and extremely low margin. Also, passengers are annoying and generally not cardboard wrapped. They require seats and toilets and cabin attendants and pretzels and infant flotation devi
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by mseebach 9y ago
And here we are approaching the crux of the issue. Building a new line so it's fully automatic is relatively straightforward. Re-engineering an existing line to make it automatic (without shutting it down for months, which understandab
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by mseebach 9y ago
If you ask them to describe the world with their own vocabularies, then yes, those things are "the internet". But if you take away the rest of the internet, these users will absolutely notice, even if they might struggle to correc
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by mseebach 9y ago
The timestamp is usually a direct link, I've used it to share a video a few times.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I was going to say something like this, except without the assumption that what we have today would exist. For all the concerns about walled gardens, I can still link to a Facebook post in a Slack message and vice versa. The hypothetical no
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by mseebach 9y ago
Already in the first few lines of the article, there's a reference to a post-1998 date, so I started wondering about the veracity of the (1998). There's no clear reference to the original publication date, buy plenty of references
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by mseebach 9y ago
I'm sorry if that was unclear, but I explicitly prefer IntelliJ Idea over either Vim or Emacs. I'm sure you can write Java in either, but, no, certainly not willing to give up on the auto-stuff.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Vim seems to be default installed on most Linux distributions, and Emacs isn't. If your work takes you across Linux servers, you're 99% sure to be "a Vim user" (in some capacity), regardless of what your daily programmin
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by mseebach 9y ago
OWS was easily the most visible public protest in decades, going on for two months. Not sure that example exactly supports your thesis.
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by mseebach 9y ago
> Certain companies have all of the power then make a minor miscalculation on the future of technology It happens all the time, in matters big and small. A company takes a bet on something, it fails, and afterwards people (even on the in
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by mseebach 9y ago
> Intel thought we used too many CPUs?!..... Before your firm can buy a ton of Intel CPUs and make money for Intel, it needs to be profitable. It doesn't make sense for their VC arm to give you money to buy CPUs, then fail to sell y
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by mseebach 9y ago
Step 0 is to correctly identify the threat model. If you're just hiding an affair from your spouse, any old smartphone on a prepaid contract will do.
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by mseebach 9y ago
At least for that purpose (can't argue with the aesthetics of a fountain pen), there is a large selection of "post-ballpoint" pens that keeps the ink flowing with no effort. The Pilot V5 and Uni-Ball Eye are both ubiquitous c
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by mseebach 9y ago
> which means "run together. Why it got to mean competition in Italian I don't know That seems obvious? To compete, you have to "run" (perform whatever activity you compete in) "together" (same activity, sam
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by mseebach 9y ago
Well, data that the Police is keen to share with as much of the public as possible, as quickly as possible. It hardly seems out of the realm of the reasonable to use Amazon for something like that.
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by mseebach 9y ago
> Der Bers, take that! (I hope your social listening catches this) You probably might want to, like, spell their name even remotely correctly for that to happen.
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by mseebach 9y ago
> though I may begrudgingly agree with various critics that suggest he really doesn't do endings very well (REAMDE and Anathem are much, much better on this front). It seems his "formula" is that the first 90% of the book
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yeah, that's the point. If Kotlin remains popular, it might make the top ten in 10-15 years.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The world outside the bleeding edge of tech is a really, really big place. Also, software, once written, has a way of sticking around for a long time. Ruby has been around for almost 20 years and decidedly hip for more than a decade, an
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by mseebach 9y ago
Have some growth mindset :) > France operates two stations in Antarctica: Dumont d’Urville Station, in Adelie Land, and the French-Italian joint Concordia Station. Dumont d’Urville was built in 1956 on Petrel Island where it houses a ma
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by mseebach 9y ago
I was thinking about this in terms of building a product. Even with that, a clock generally runs for months, even years, on a single battery. Not exactly phone territory, but might be feasible on the ESP8266, depending on how the oscillator
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by mseebach 9y ago
In the UK, CAP devices are common, that allow you to complete a PIN-verified numeric challenge response. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Authentication_Program
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by mseebach 9y ago
There are any number of steps they could take to dramatically decrease the counterfeiting problem, chief among them to make sure the customer can choose which supplier the goods to fulfill the order comes from. I think Amazon is making a be
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by mseebach 9y ago
DCF77 also tells you what time it is, AC can only keep whatever time's been set in sync. The equivalent would be to include a 50-cent crystal oscillator instead. On a only barely related note, I've been playing with the idea of im

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