njharman

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by njharman 11y ago
So, get police to come out for X when you haven't done X. Then do X and police should ignore it cause last time they had evidence of X it turned out to be wrong? Police should always investigate. They should have history of previ
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by njharman 11y ago
I think you can count yourself lucky if they bother knocking...
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by njharman 11y ago
Former "owners" after selling stock. And if people building and running company don't want to own it anymore...
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by njharman 11y ago
> I feel like Google specifically are failing to wade through the sea of noise, and as a result it's becoming less and less useful. A problem is "useful to google" means serving you all those sites trying to sell you stuff
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by njharman 11y ago
yeah, but we don't double check the calling/return of every builtin and we don't double check our double check, recurse. There can be bugs in the OS, or network driver. Life happens. At some point you have to assume somethin
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by njharman 11y ago
That's not contemporary. Elevator pitches have been a thing for long time. Those companies , at least first three, didn't start out with complex apps. On top of all that, internet software companies exist in market, where custome
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by njharman 11y ago
George Carlin explained this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMwXR-1oajE
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by njharman 11y ago
China would retaliate or threaten to. If, in your scenario, you imagine China would be join in with "rest of world" then your scenario is about as likely/realistic as NK saying "sorry, jk, our bad" and surrendering
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by njharman 11y ago
I think most middle class people would think $300+ for a meal is wildly extravagant. And would think a $300 gift for "a friend" is on high end of gifts.
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by njharman 11y ago
I'm saying Python is already installed in places that would require a lot of effort to port and compile C vs just running some.py file. "python some.py" is (in some cases) vastly easier than porting/compiling/signin
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by njharman 11y ago
One of them is. And ability to interpret Python is requirement for any python program to be able to run. Being able to build and deploy a c lib is not. So, someone has made python run on Foo platform, lets say a watch. If I have a pure py
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by njharman 11y ago
Pure Python is the difference. It runs anywhere python runs. Same can't be said for a compiled C program. It's maybe not a "big" why, or one you care about.
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by njharman 11y ago
Waves are different around atolls than continental shelfs. The closer to land the larger the wave would get.
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by njharman 11y ago
> I'm not comfortable with the idea of everyone having far-field microphones in their homes. That's the problem with progress and technology. It will happen regardless of how comfortable you are with it. In fact, if it helps th
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by njharman 11y ago
bubblesort?
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by njharman 11y ago
I would buy one, if $10-16k, and it went 40-50mph and was street legal. I'd ride it to work. Hell I'd ride it everywhere.
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by njharman 11y ago
> resupplies Telling your robot to carry this shit over there is great way to resupply. Compared to having soldiers (or contractors) get blown up driving trucks around.
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by njharman 11y ago
If they own more than 80% of wealth then paying over 80% of the taxes is exactly fair.
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by njharman 11y ago
Maybe another process is to really do blow up "the well" but all the uses of explosions I've heard about was to put out the fire (burning oil) by starving its oxygen. So, workers could then go in and cap the well.
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by njharman 11y ago
and there is a diffrence between killing to survive and the cruelty that most (USA) food animals endure in factory farms.
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by njharman 11y ago
I really hate that our legal system has, to a large degree, decided to a very, very narrow and very literal implementation of the Bill or Rights rather than going with the Spirit of the law. Civil asset forfeiture as practiced by the govern
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by njharman 11y ago
Cut out the middle man and just pay people directly.
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by njharman 11y ago
> I pick up the phone, to call a company, it is usually because they already did something wrong, and I need help with that immediately. That is a very narrow case. Others I've personally used - place order - schedule appt, m
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by njharman 11y ago
because most people are not explorers. They want a packaged tour. Most people presented with a blinking ftp or gopher or even browser address prompt, stare and blink right back. At a total loss what to do, at a loss to even figure out what
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by njharman 11y ago
This is "sell a lifestyle / experience" model like Starbucks and to some degree Apple. A model, although very successful, I abhor. It purports that you can "buy" happiness. It targets those so affluent and/or s
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by njharman 11y ago
Same was true back when computers were programmed with toggle switches. I'm glad early engineers stuck with them instead of just going back to slide-rules, logarithm books, and doing it by hand.
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by njharman 11y ago
Thanks for answer. So were is the line drawn? Is a book shop liable for the content of the news papers they choose sell? Am I liable for a visible, slanderous headline from newspaper I carry on subway? If network chooses to prioritize traf
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by njharman 11y ago
I'm curious, is a TV station liable for content of Syndicated shows, or commercials or all the other content it did not produce but choose to show? Are newspapers liable for the quotes they print? I thought not, and that is why they al
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by njharman 11y ago
I was always way more annoyed having to remove/add parans when I swapped a logging, Exception, or write to a print. It was a glaring inconsistency.
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by njharman 11y ago
dict type stdlib have various ways to persist, if needed.

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