nercht12

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by nercht12 10y ago
Not really. Snowden now stands as an icon to the tech world. He's a face of resistance who, despite of being "out of the game" still stands as a sort of historic monument or banner of defiance of the three-letter-agency'
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What about prioritizing vehicles? Imagine - if all cars drive along in a well-defined path, will we end up with making assassinations easier? That's a stretch (I mean, not like exceptions couldn't be made for POTUS and such), but
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Smart watches don't have any particular niche to capture that other devices don't have. Maybe if they expanded into large screen computers, that would be cool. It'd be nice to have a rolled up monitor on my arm - it'd be
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>> "The music industry is vicious." That hits the nail on the head. Adding to that, it's an issue that goes both ways. For indie artists, it sucks even worse than for small-time programmers, if you can believe that. The
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Eh... I think that's true in part, but I've also met people who really love that flat Metro design. It's hideous in my book, but it's trendy, yes, but that's because some people like it. More so than that, looking a
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I think you mean "non-altruistic", not "selfish". In my book, at least, "selfish" is thinking ONLY of oneself. If you think it'd be nice for your child to enjoy life, why not give them the blessing of exis
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Notably, I wasn't talking about precisely-defined textbook words. If you go back, my original comment is directed at the fact that the Constitution can be liberally interpreted because the meanings of words change, which is due to cult
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In case you haven't read this yet: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html It's old, but still useful.
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Rereading it, I see what you're saying. It's a fine line point. In a way, then, I agree with you, but - let's take an interesting stance - supposing we assume that missiles can be used for good (in some way). I seem to recall
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Please explain to me what the word "know" means. We could debate about it for hours on end. Same with tons of other words. What exactly is "spicy"? Is there such a flavor as "savory"? How far is "close&quo
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It's not that big of a leap. And a text book is actually a poor counter example. Can modern Greeks read ancient Greek? No. Culture degrades language. Gradually, words will mean something else. Consider the word "cool". How ma
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Then what's a "journalist"? Someone who gets paid to go do the research? "Journalist" is derived from "journal" (duh, but important) - bloggers are nothing more than online journalists. The fact that they
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And people give it info for FREE, thoughtlessly.
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> Learning is what makes intelligence possible Intelligence (at least in this case) is being able to take data and draw conclusions from it, but you just can't see such potential when you don't have input. Is a computer not a c
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Seeing as we're limited by the number of protons that can hold themselves together, I'm pretty sure we can discover most things here... at least in theory.
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An Indian call center, of course. XD
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> Ambiguity is a feature of natural languages, it's not a bug. It's because of this ambiguity that you can pass a law and assume other laws will update their meaning accordingly. Which is huge problem. It means that laws can be
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Thank you for deleting my "I think"./sarcasm It was an important qualifier on my statement since I obviously don't know much about you.
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They really should make it the option of the passenger. It removers manufacturer liability. You can always force the passenger to decide before driving, just like forcing Windows upgrades.
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> "This is the opposite of what it should do" ... "As someone who cycles, and who has over 300 cycling websites" Something about self-serving? I think you only feel that way because you don't drive. Other self-se
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Basically, all this boils down to is whether "ends justify the means" or "means justify the ends". In the Catholic case, it would seem to be the latter, but that's only because they're looking at distant ends (
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And use Privacy Badger.
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Maybe in business practice, not necessarily character. Just look at Trump. (Not to pick on him, but I don't find Trump to be practicing the etiquette I would associate with a man in his position. As for Zuckerberg, I'm not saying
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It tells me I need Javascript. Ironic, no?
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No kidding. Just ask the Japanese - They were known for going through their software with a fine-tooth comb before releasing, but they started to realize how far behind the Americans they were (and arguably still are).
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Sorry for the late reply. Tox was loosely organized under the umbrella Tox Foundation. When it was discovered that head and CEO (holding the purse strings) was abusing donation money, the devs split and created uTox. However, the Tox Founda
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What jobs? All the ones I know of are for people with "experience" with XYZ. Pardon if out of the bazillion candidates in this world, biz's can't find that oxymoron of a candidate: the perfect, outgoing socialite whose a
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Neither example is very descriptive and thus not helpful. Using cusswords only puts the other people in an emotional frame of mind, which hinders rational thinking that would otherwise help correct the problem, but I suppose this also depen
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Makes me wonder what would happen if English had a deprecation system like programming. "Prosody @deprecated - to be removed in 2017."
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We live in a capitalistic system (surprise!) - You don't work, you don't eat. So if all tasks are automated, then only big companies make money and everyone else starves. But the big biz will save themselves by going overseas unti

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