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by nknight 15y ago
I wear what is comfortable precisely because I care about myself. By your logic, dressing in any manner other than shorts and t-shirts would either be communicating that I don't care about myself, or would be a lie. See how ridiculous this
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Foreign investors who do not first research the region and culture they are investing in deserve to be insulted, they've conclusively demonstrated incompetence.
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"Properly"... What is "properly"? How was "properly" determined? What qualifies you to judge whether someone is dressed "properly"?
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They made a choice, why should he be trying to shield them from the consequences of their choice?
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The Symantec (formerly Central Point) offices in Beaverton, Oregon, for one. It's been years since I've seen the inside of it, but at least into the early 00s, even low-seniority QA guys had private offices. Things are relatively cheap when
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That new codebase was iterated on for five years before a viable browser was released, and two more before Firefox 1.0 appeared. The history of the WebKit codebase stretches back as far as Gecko. The earliest KDE HTML work I can definitivel
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> Months after It's March 31. slush's post was on March 1.
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I think the story is the comedic insanity that slices of pizza seem to be inducing in New York. Soon there will follow prank wars and unlikely sitcom plots. Eventually something will set off the Great New York City Pizza Riots of 2012. Bill
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It's not a "point of view", it's what happened. This was quite widely covered. http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-national/tsa-telling-...
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It's not sensational nor a scare tactic. The TSA director explicitly endorsed the same strategies used to groom children for sexual abuse.
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It's never occurred to me to think of Oracle as being a company concerned with any of those things. It seems totally outside their character, everything they do screams "huge, established customers only".
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There's no particular reason a Python-to-Dalvik compiler couldn't be built, though it'd look very different from CPython and likely any other current Python implementation. Given Google's apparent predilections, however, I think a more like
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Hardly. Modest settlement offers to make a problem go away are very common, even when companies don't expect to lose. Also, the difference between "expect to win" and "expect to lose" can be the difference between 49% and 51%. Civil cases t
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Myers made another post[1] discussing that. Stripping away the diplomacy, the answer looks like "probably mostly". Considering the overall circumstances, any other outcome would seem unlikely. EGLIBC only existed because of Drepper's attitu
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They get ~$2.5 billion from mobile, but that's not just Android, so it's an extreme upper limit.
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If you wish to engage in civil debate, you need to add the ability to identify and understand the concepts of context, nuance, and satire to your social toolbox. As it is, you are simply lashing out angrily at what you don't understand, con
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> extremely hostile when you try to get cable card service "whats that? Oh , we'll need a contract from you and a large deposit." That depends heavily on the market. Comcast is internally dysfunctional. Although they've achieved signi
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I gather this is actually a formalization of existing reality. After Drepper left Red Hat late last year and glibc stopped being his day job, his dictatorial control effectively came to an end. Reviewing the list archives, community involve
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No, a lot of our extant problems would not be present under any reasonably sane (not necessarily benevolent) monarch, very likely including some of the more useless security apparatus. We'd just have different problems.
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What power do you think Bruce has to compel them to answer questions? It's up to Congress whether the TSA is forced to answer a question, and Bruce Schneier is not a member of Congress, he was just going to testify before them. He has no sp
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by nknight 15y ago
I'd answer your question, but the fact that you were quoting some obscure song instead of arguing an actual point tells me it would be a waste of time. Go back to reddit.
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You can't have it both ways -- either the quality of font rendering is a matter of preference, or we're "childish assholes" because we refuse to meet some objective standard. Which is it? And if it's the latter, where can I find this object
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> First of all, nobody really cares about you (or anybody else), Well, you've just managed to insult your readers and everyone who will ever care about them, so congratulations on that, you must be very proud. > so nobody will wo
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Is your compensation determined by a standardized test? Why not? How can the world possibly work if we don't use standardized metrics for everything?!
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> There are already cases where people consent to credit and background checks (fairly thorough; talking to neighbors, friends, etc. at length, for 7-10 years). These are voluntary checks for high level security clearances with the gov
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The font rendering dysfunction on Windows is not limited to "custom" fonts, the fonts Microsoft includes with Windows look just as awful. If you think they look good, I submit that you're probably suffering from a bad case of Stockholm synd
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Not having pretty font rendering must be so hard on the poor Windows minority, suffering under the stifling oppression of the Mac OS majority... Oh wait... Seriously, if you want pretty font rendering, complain to Microsoft. The problem i
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I vaguely recall statements to the effect that the SL folks didn't really want a lot of attention. Basically, that they're trying to meet the specific needs of the organizations supporting its maintenance, and are afraid of the demands on t
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They don't need read access, either. This is about an invasion of privacy, not technical capabilities.
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Flags seem to be heavily weighted. A very tiny number of users can easily take an article off the front page, and it doesn't matter if other flag-capable users think it should be there. The flagging mechanism is far too coarse to be treated

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