njharman

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by njharman 9y ago
Marriot, and almost all companies, are not demmocraces.
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by njharman 9y ago
Almost as easily as humans.
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by njharman 9y ago
Copyright, in USA, requires a creative component. Facts, randomness, and other stuff lacking any creative expression is not covered by copyright. The bar is ridiculously low as in you can claim copyright on particular formatting or page l
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by njharman 9y ago
People (geeks often) attribute efficiency to evolution's designs. The process really produces just barely good-enough for given environmental pressures/problem domain. Nature is the queen of avoiding pre-optimization and YAGNI.
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by njharman 9y ago
China manages to do both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Prog... https://www.google.com/search?q=china+weapons+development
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by njharman 9y ago
It's been extended, regularly, several times. The recent 1976, 1998 have extended it massively (doubling it) and applying their extensions, retroactively much further back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tom_Be
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by njharman 9y ago
Copyright violation is a crime. Has been since the right to monopolize the public domain was enshrined in law (before copyright, there was only the public domain). It can also be a civil matter. But the JAIL time and $500,000 per infraction
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by njharman 9y ago
Yeah cause criminals only ever use guns that police are allowed to have.
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by njharman 9y ago
According to article SolarCity was also largely responsible for the boom in home solar sales and in building the market and lifting up other solar companies.
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by njharman 9y ago
Doing that would be easy, doing that at a profit is hard. There's a reason windfarms are being built instead of solarpanelfarms.
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by njharman 9y ago
If you don't like him, you should have voted for another candidate.
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by njharman 9y ago
The language is not hard. What's needed is the OA kind of explanation to teach 1. understanding the breadth (pitfalls, hidden gems, whats there) of the "std lib". 2. the ErlangVM / runtime. 3. Esp the OTP/w
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by njharman 9y ago
Users able to modify cod is the opensource model. It doesn't lose its benefits and advantages just because the users are not us(professional devs)
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by njharman 9y ago
> He excused himself to shower. Who gets to go take a shower while FBI agents wait for you downstairs!?
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by njharman 9y ago
> It's not the product, No, it is the product.
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by njharman 9y ago
Shot heard round the world Implies exactly that. If it had nothing to do with activism then 1) activism effort to influence investments failed and 2) this lends no momentum to the movement as it was a coincidence and could be changed tomorr
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by njharman 9y ago
> and figure out how computers could make workers more productive Meh. Why half ass it? Figure out how computers could make workers obsolete. Cause someone else will/is.
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by njharman 9y ago
How do you conclude that intelligence is rare on earth?
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by njharman 9y ago
You seriously can’t think of a use case for an all terrain, all weather robot?
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by njharman 9y ago
The problem isn't that we have numbers. It's that corporations have little incentive to protect them. Right now it's cheaper (i.e. more profitable) to do as little as possible and when/if they get hacked just pay extra o
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by njharman 9y ago
> The "spec" for the unit tests is already there Ah, but the spec is often really poorly defined. That is all sorts of edge cases and uncommon code paths do not work as imagined. And, of course, it is full of bugs. I have foun
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by njharman 9y ago
You all are doing way too much typing gt git status ga git add gdd git diff to develop gdn same but name in only
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by njharman 9y ago
The core is still being made for use in ther MR/VR headsets.
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by njharman 9y ago
50 years ago faking a picture was hard. It won't be long for video to be as easy as still is today.
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by njharman 9y ago
I'm taking (educated) guess, because people involved estimating rewrite where all physicists and not developers. And certainly not developers with 5+ years of experience. Which is minimum I'd trust with archtechting major rewrite.
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by njharman 9y ago
Anti-Adblock or something said > You value our content ... Less than you think. Certainly not as much as my time, attention, and security. Bye.
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by njharman 9y ago
All the Air Force and Navy pilot ones are. The officer corps in both is extremely conservative and traditional. To the point that if you're not married you have difficult time rising to the mid/upper ranks.
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by njharman 9y ago
The man just gave a year of his life. I expect NASA has a strong fairness and mental health reasons to reunite him with his family and loved ones as quickly as possible. Allowing him to spend his 3rd night back on earth at home seems like a
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by njharman 9y ago
"Sounds like cancer doesn't it" Causes me to immediately stop listening and start doubting everything you said and claim, questioning your motive. It is an emotional appeal. Which 1) insults my intelligence, thinking I'm
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Aren't there more people in India? Why is this suprising / news? Did you think global companies weren't global? Did you imagine corporations we're patriotic or loyal in some way? Do you hope free marketism cares about an

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