njharman

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by njharman 10y ago
Asking for 0.1 Bitcoin is very definitely not greed. It is the definition of symbolic.
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by njharman 10y ago
The title is making the assumption that the future of AI isn't glorified radio clock. Also, what's definition of "future". Academic research paper or project? Or, something deployed and used by millions. I tend towards t
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by njharman 10y ago
Things don't need to be "protected" to be free. Free is the natural legal state. There has to be laws passed to grant monopolies. Hence why copyright, patent, etc are laws. And "ideas" aren't a protected form
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by njharman 10y ago
Peers doesn't mean people "like" you, with your same knowledge. It means people with the same level of authority as you, which these days is none at all. Members of your society with no vested interests other than justice. It
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by njharman 10y ago
We deserve Trump. We deserve every fucked up thing that happens. We deserve this because we did heed the warnings, we did not stop expansion of powers, we were complacent. It's too late to be angry now.
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by njharman 10y ago
Hours I've spent dealing with security breeches (on Linux) - a few, false alarms. Hours I've spent dicking with selinux - too many before disabling it. OTOH I've been admining *nix from before Linux existed.
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by njharman 10y ago
Dude! I had so forgot about making those 1px by however long/high images, over and over as size of things changed. CSS/HTML is a complicated mess. But anyone who thinks it used to be better needs to take off the rose tint glasses.
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by njharman 10y ago
You are ignorant. http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A995 India 159m, USA 265m registered vehicles. India is the 6th largest producer of vehicles.
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by njharman 10y ago
Limited liability has nothing to do with personhood. Which is very recent and very specific. Personhood is not any of the things you listed, those are features of basic corporation without personhood. Corporations worked fine for several hu
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by njharman 10y ago
> People should be compensated for the value they produce. Why? That is an opinion, not a fact. My opinion is that people unconditionally deserve shelter, food, healthcare, education, and liberty. As efficiency increased we could have
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by njharman 10y ago
Why? What is so great about profit? I would be very glad to give up profit for no scarcity.
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by njharman 10y ago
Without PR, there is no public interest, no funding, and no astronauts in flight needing protection. Why do you think there is big announcement, press event if not for PR?
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by njharman 10y ago
1) it was looked at and took too much effort. 2) Performance and GIL are things people who don't actually use Python complain about. In practice they are non-issues or have workable solutions.
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by njharman 10y ago
There's decompilers and deassemblers. Code is not hidden or protected by being transformed into a binary executable format. Companies that believe/rely on that are disillusioned, not paranoid.
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by njharman 10y ago
Most of #2 sounds fascinating and not anti-social to me at all. Except, very few parents are gonna send a car and forgo helicoptering over their kids. Isn't having kid unattended in car illegal most places?
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by njharman 10y ago
Thinking that "secure" is a boolean is fundamental misunderstanding of security.
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by njharman 10y ago
print function is so superior than print statement. I use to (long ago like v1.5 or 2.0) create stupid little functions that put print into a function (also raise and some other statements cause it's super fucking annoying that some la
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by njharman 10y ago
The contortions Montgomery County have gone through and way they implemented it is poor. In other Jurisdictions, CA for instance, they've passed new law/ruling that running red lights is same level of misdemeanor as parking ticket
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by njharman 10y ago
Is this really news, not known? I did it and so did most people I knew back in college (the ones who didn't were too heavy drug users). It was one of many sources for "minor money". Which when you have NO money, is pretty gre
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by njharman 10y ago
Why? Telepathy seems like a nightmare or curse. Esp if it comes quickly. As in without millions of years of evolution to adapt socially to it.
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by njharman 10y ago
Lily is a swan. Lily is white. Bernhard is green. Greg is a swan. What color is Greg? Answer: white How the hell is that logical? Greg may be white, he may be black or any other color. You could guess Greg is likely white. The correct answ
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by njharman 10y ago
Most admins would consider having network infrastructure's firmware change outside of their control a bug/misfeature. Not to mention most devices would require reboot to apply change. And to be able to remotely change the code run
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by njharman 10y ago
hug (like Falcon) has way lot of "magic". It seems to be a trend (at least in python webdev world). I have mixed feelings about this. Hug appears to be one of those things that is great when all you're doing is very simple bu
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by njharman 10y ago
> I can't think of any other corporation that so blatantly acts in the manner of, "we don't like that law, we're going to ignore it or flaunt it". Then you aren't thinking hard enough. A couple recent ones V
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by njharman 10y ago
In my experience, modern Americans rarely go around eating weeds from the wilderness / side of highway. Lack of fatalities is not surprising.
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by njharman 10y ago
Sure, across all investments. Pro-tip don't invest in all investments. Real life markets are very clearly not perfectly efficient. Nor is stock price a perfect reflection of available information. Many/most/all? stock is pr
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by njharman 10y ago
That is disingenuously retarded and trollish. You seriously can't fathom that knowing financials, track record, ceo, products, pending deals, etc. etc. gives you more information than random chance? How do you make any informed choice
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by njharman 10y ago
That's an utterly ridiculous comparison. Companies / stock prices are not a normal, random distribution like roulette results. There are masses of information available on companies / stock market. Assuming roulette wheel is
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by njharman 10y ago
China reportedly has literacy rate of 96.4%. As a successful software dev of 20+ years, I don't expect to leave any mark on history. What I create is obsolete and hopefully replaced in matter of years.
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by njharman 10y ago
> approximately 200,000 people inhabited the British colonies in North America Step back and notice the subtle institutionalized marginalization of that statement. That the native population is not counted as "people". No footn

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